The Mitchells: Louisiana Girl in Town!!

Friday, May 01, 2009

Louisiana Girl in Town!!

Jenifer, Maggie and I all met some of their other friend for lunch at Chuy's. I met Jen through Mags and we were all preggers with our first girls together (Jen had Kaitlynn in February, then I had Ella in May and Maggie had Avery 2 days after that). Then Jen and I had our second kids (her Brooke and my Will) within 2 weeks of each other. We have stayed friends, eventhough Jenifer left us and moved back to Louisiana. Here are Ella and Kaitlynn playing...next time we'll get all 3 of the girls together!!

3 comments:

Courtney said...: I am so glad you girls got to meet up again. Why can't someone be prego with me?????? no fair!! All by myself....; 1:53 PM
Maggie said...: Aww...those are PRECIOUS of the girls together!!! So glad I got to see you and ever more happy that you got to spend time w/ Jen!!; 7:42 AM
Anonymous said...: Thank you so much for having us over for a visit! I could literally just LOVE on Ella all day....she is an amazing child! And Will is so stinking cute! He was so tired poor baby, I could see it....I almost napped with him, haha! Thank you again, I look forward to coming to visit again...and not get lost, hehe =); 8:42 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.