The Mitchells: We have a date!!

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

We have a date!!

We are scheduled to induce on January 22nd at 7:30am! We'll give you updates as we go, but look for pictures of William 2 weeks from today!

7 comments:

Kristyn said...: My brother's birthday as well! Looking forward to seeing pictures. Thanks for the Christmas Card too!; 1:13 PM
Anonymous said...: Let us know details - would love to come see you guys in the hospital if you are up to visitors!; 2:40 PM
The Bratchers said...: Yeah. we are so happy for you guys... Best of luck you both are wonderful parents and babies are such bundles of joy...
God bless you all....

Love,
Karen B:); 7:34 PM
Anonymous said...: Yay! It is SO great to know that our babies will be within two weeks of one another, even closer than that b/c I think I have a few more days in me =); 8:23 PM
Sean and Heather said...: Congrats!!!! I also wanted to let you know that Sean and I are starting the adoption process. Will you please let Stephanie and some of the others from Sunday School know? I hope and pray that this delivery is wonderful and that you, Joe and little Ella have a wonderful and blessed year!!!; 10:10 AM
* ~ *Jessica* ~ * said...: How great! Can't wait to see pictures of Will :) Best of luck Andrea!; 1:39 PM
Maggie said...: Yeah! I can't wait to meet the little Cowboy!!; 7:15 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.