The Mitchells: Hospital Friends

Sunday, April 08, 2007

Hospital Friends

I wanted to say thanks to all the people who came by and visited us!! Thanks to our crazy families (Mitchells and Roughtons) for coming by to see us RIGHT after surgery. Thanks to the Poages for lunch DURING surgery!! Thank you to the Weathersbees for the sweet Easter bunny and card. Thanks to Julie Mendivil for coming by so I wouldn't go crazy and bringing a basket of goodies. Thanks to the Hooper/Crockers for coming by with Avery to check on us. Avery was in the hospital to get tubes in her ears...it was a day of tubes for our girls...born 2 days apart and tubes a day apart...hopefully they will give us a break from now on. Here are some pictures of Avery and Ella.

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Anonymous said...: Hello! My name is Danny Biddy and my wife is Dana. I am pastor of Old River Baptist Church (www.oldriverbaptist.com)

We attended college with Prissy and heard about your site through her. Just want you to know you have our prayers.

Blessings your way,
Danny and Dana Biddy; 3:20 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.