The Mitchells: Look at Me NOW!!

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Look at Me NOW!!

Ella decided to sit up all on her own at therapy yesterday...she sat like this for over 2 mins STRAIGHT!!

10 comments:

Andrea "The H family" said...: So amazing. Isn't it just a miracle?! I remember when our Luke did this. I cried.
She's precious!; 10:27 AM
Taylor said...: That is so amazing! She is such a little miracle!; 11:41 AM
Unknown said...: Praise the Lord!; 11:58 AM
Unknown said...: She is amazing!; 1:00 PM
Anonymous said...: way to go you beautiful girl!!! gram margrave; 5:47 PM
The Bratchers said...: How wonderful to see Ella sitting up by herself and it being her idea. What a wonderful miracle you and Joe have in your midst. Faith in God can move mountains and let little sweet girls sit up! What a true testament to faithfulness in the Lord, and to you and Joe, as well as all her therapists! God bless each of you!
Congrats,

Karen B;); 7:55 PM
Maggie said...: Yeah...she looks amazing!! I hear that Avery gets to come over this weekend and play with her little friend!! You need to give a girl a call back...I would LOVE to get together next week when I am off!!!; 8:24 AM
Anonymous said...: I know you hate to hear "I told you so", but I have always believed that God answers your prayers and there have been so many praying for her healing that I just could not believe He would deny our request. This is just the beginning, my love. I know she is going to continue to be the miracle we have always known her to be.
-Mimi; 10:20 AM
Debbie said...: Andrea, you are so good about sharing with us! Thank you. By the way, I ditto Mimi! Love you, Deb; 3:09 PM
Leigh said...: That's awesome! Way to go Ella.; 6:42 PM

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.