The Mitchells: 8 Month Old Today!!

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

8 Month Old Today!!

Can you believe it...Ella is 8 Months Old!!! When we weighed her last week she was exactly 20 lbs and 27 1/2 inches long...she's in like the 80th percentile for both...eating is NOT a problem!!

Thank you for all of your prayers and support over the past 8 months, God has shown himself faithful in so many ways.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Andrea,

I'm from your CP Babycenter board, and I wanted to tell you how much you have touched my heart. Ella is just BEAUTIFUL and God is going to do amazing things through that little girl!

I'd love to chat more (my Ellie has a lot in common with Ella), so if/when you've got a few minutes, send me a line at chrystiekroekerboggs@yahoo.com.; 8:49 AM
Jodie Keeter said...: Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to YOU-UUUUU, Happy BIRTHDAY dear Ella girl.... Happy BIRTHDAY to You!!!!! You are so beautiful, Ella! We love you! ~The Keeter Family; 10:26 PM

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Ella's Story

Elizabeth "Ella" Hope Mitchell was born on May 10, 2006 at 3:45pm...by 5am the following morning the whole world turned upside down. The doctors came in to inform us that while Ella had been resting in the Newborn Nursery, she began to have irregular breathing and seizures. It was touch and go for the next 3 days. We were told several times that she probably would not make it alive through the ordeal. She had contracted Group Beta Strep which had resulted in meningitis. Due to the seizures and the infection we had no idea what the long-term effects would be. After Ella spent a long and trying month in the NICU we came home to see where the effects of her illness had left us all.

A few months later, almost a year, we had an official long-term diagnosis...Ella has Cerebral Palsy. She is a happy and loving child. She struggles with physical delays, cognitive delays and all sorts of things that have come and go.

2-eye surgeries to correct lazy eye
3-EEG's to check for siezures
5-MRI/MRV/MRA to check actual brain damage
3-CT scans for brain stuff
1-G-button/feeding tube surgically put in (and then Ella removed herself)
10 (approx)-Swallow Studies
1-Scoliosis Study
2-Kidney Reflux tests
2-Upper GI tests
1-24 hr reflux test
8-hearing tests
countless UTI tests
seemingly a million developmental tests
a hand splint
bath chair
adaptive stroller/wheelchair
stander
gait trainer
AFO's

ha, not to mention all of the therapist...currently: OT 2X/week, PT 3X/week (2 land, 1 horse), ST 3X/week (2 oral motor, 1 speech), develomental 1X/week, vision 2x/month, and we are about to start ACCDAT camp.

As of 4/8/2009.