Cayden ~ Yearly visit to Shriners Hospital!

The road to Shriners Hospital in Montreal each year

is always about the hotels we are going to stay overnight in...

Bri drives to my house after work and then we leave for Canada

right away!  Its about a 9 hour drive.  We drive 4 1/2 that night then stop

at a hotel...  Number one requirement?

IT MUST HAVE A POOL!

Cayden and Mya LOVE swimming!

Mr. Flexible!

Miss Adorable!

These two have so much fun together!

We wake the next morning early and hit the road!

We arrive in Montreal and stay at La Tour Belevedere Hotel.

Across the street is a movie theater and we love to see movies!

We saw How To Train Your Dragon 2 this year!

We wake early~

No Breakfast for anyone since Cayden can't eat...

No worries, we survive!

A real life Shriner comes to pick us up for the van ride to 

the hospital!  It is always the same sweet man~ who is so kind and sweet

with both Cayden and Mya!

While Bri registers, Cayden and Mya go right for the game console!

The fish tank is always a highlight!

Cayden looks for the frog tank up on the high counter!

While Cayden has blood work, X-rays and Scans, Mya and I play cards~

she beats me EVERY TIME!

While waiting for the results and Dr. meeting, Cayden likes cards too!

I can't beat him either!

Mya gets my camera... Here's what Shriners Hospital looks like to her~

A Selfie...

She is so fun!

After Cayden is all done at Shriners, we get a ride back to the hotel and we

check out and head for home.

We always stop for the night 1/2 way again to SWIM!

The report was good! 

We learned...

 Cayden has grown 2 1/2 inches

25 Percentile for Height

50 percentile for Weight

Last year his bone density was up 9%~

This year there was no change in density. 

Spine looked 100% better~ straighter!

Dr. G asked if he was being seen by a Dentist who specializes in 

Dentinogenesis Imperfecta~ and indeed he is in the care of a Dr. from 

Indiana.

No compression fractures in the spine.

They discussed the future surgery to Cayden's feet~ at about 8 or 9 years old.

Cayden went through some Physical and Occupational Therapy~

He is SO STRONG!

***They HAVE identified the Mutated Gene that may have 

caused Cayden's OI. ***

Samples from Bri and Cyle are being work up now to see if either of them

carry the same mutated gene.  It won't change anything to know which gene

 is causing  Cayden's OI, but Bri and Cyle want to know for Cayden's future decisions and

for future research into OI~

All in All a good appointment!

I am so proud of Cayden!

We may have learned a bit of French while we were there!

Au revoir!

Happy Birthdays~ Tegan and Kelley

"Remember when you go into the world to keep your eyes and ears wide open.

 And be kind.

Love one another.

Take care of each other.

 Tell the truth. 

Always do your best. 

Listen to the big people and the little people. 

Explore new paths and have fun.

 Know that you are loved like crazy. 

Give thanks for all your blessings. 

Above all else, 

LOVE

 and you will do wonderful things in this world."~ Rebecca Puig

              


                 Happy Birthday to Tegan and Kelley

  It is LOVE!

Off to Heaven he flew...

Jack "Skip" Kinser

Grandpa

We can take comfort in knowing he is OK~

watching over all those he loves so very much.

And then... THIS HAPPENED!

Our Sarah Rose took a tumble off her bike 

on the gravel driveway at her house.

The knee was looking bad and Beckie decided to take

her to the local hospital to have it cleaned out and possible stitches.

They took an x-ray, cleaned it up and put in a few stitches.

All on a Saturday night.

By Sunday afternoon, Sarah was in a lot of pain.  She had trouble walking on her leg, and

she was running a fever.  Beckie kept her home on Monday and went to the pediatricians office

only to be told to get in the car and go directly to Fairview ER and have

an orthopedic Doctor look at Sarah's knee.  BAD INFECTION~

But our girl was such a trooper~

Dr took another x-ray and came in to report 

that not only was there a FRACTURE in her knee, there were 12

pieces of stone still in the wound.

Sarah was sent to Cleveland Clinic by ambulance to be under the care

of Infectious Disease Doctors as well as an orthopedic doc.

Off she went...

Once at the Cleveland Clinic, it was decided she needed surgery to clean the wound

and have a "vac" attached to suck the infection out.  The doctors could not believe

the small hospital had closed the wound in the first place.

Here she is, still smiling, after surgery on Tuesday morning.

She was told she would have to stay at least one week, on antibiotics and would

have to have another surgery on the following Saturday to remove the vac.

She was so sad to have to miss her last week of school.

Sarah is one very dedicated and serious student.

Her teacher sent her a pup...

knowing how our girl loves dogs!

Her classmates all made cards!

Her room was decorated with LOVE~

Notice the PARTY in her hair... 

A joke for Meme~ would I notice her whacky hairdo?

I LOVED it!

Friends and family sent her some fun gifts too!

Molly loved visiting her sister!

A sweet therapy dog came by for a visit too!

I made sure Sarah had some great reading material!

All the staff and Doctors were so great to Sarah!

Dr Ballock, who happened to be Cayden ortho doc was the one assigned

to do Sarah's surgery~ we all knew we were in the BEST hands!

By Weds, Sarah was up in a chair~ enjoying a little craft 

therapy!  Art is another of her favorite things!

Wheelchair rides to the roof provided a welcome change of 

scenery!

Even Nurses not assigned to her room would come in and say

how sweet she was and that they wished she were their patient!!

Each day she was feeling better and better~

happy to be off pain meds that made her 

"not feel like" herself!

Then came Friday and approval to get up and do some 

hopping around on crutches!

Someone had to drag the vac along behind her tho!

Sarah was happy to dress in her own clothes too!

Once she had surgery to remove the vac on Sat, she was ready to go HOME!

Infectious Disease Drs. wanted her to stay the weekend but

Dr. Ballock said "NO WAY,  Sarah can go home on oral 

antibiotics!!  She was so glad he got his way and she went home!!

After a week at home, she went camping with her Mommy and she slipped and ripped

her stitches open~  YIKES

Oberlin Hospital did not want to restitch, after hearing the story of her infection but

again Dr. Ballock comes thru.  Beckie called his cell and he told them to re stitch and they did.

Not as well as Dr. Ballock stitches... as you can see in this sweet collage Sarah put together

after she got home!!

Top picture... Original injury.

Left bottom... Dr. Ballocks work after 2nd surgery to remove vac

Right bottom... Oberlin Er stitches... not so pretty!

Sarah had those stitches in for 3 more weeks~

She went to see Dr. Ballock and Infectious Disease Dr. once a week

during those 3 weeks.

Finally by June 24th stitches and Dr. visits were done!

What an ordeal it was.

The first hospital will certainly not be seeing any payment

for services rendered... as both other hospitals could not 

believe they closed that wound with stones still inside~ they stated that 

had they taken another x-ray before sending her home they would have seen

the mess still in there!   Sarah was lucky that the infection did not go into the bone~

Beckie will not be going back to that hospital ER~

even tho it's close to her home.

I am just glad my Rosie girl is all better~

Gone Fishing!

Cyle and Cayden are quite the fishermen!

Mya likes it too!

These two make me so happy~

In her own little world...

They now have the BASS BUSTER boat ...

Look out fish!

Budding Artists!

Molly and Sarah....

Always

AWARD

WINNING

ARTISTS!

MOLLY

SARAH

Happy Birthday Papa!

The drive home from Florida was long~ the kids were so good tho! We got to Van Wert in the morning so I stayed a bit and took a good nap then headed home!  Dave kept asking what time I would be home~ I found out why when I walked into my bathroom!

He had a hot bubble bath ready for me to relax in!

Wine and candles lit too!

What a guy!

It was so nice to be pampered~

I love my husband so much!

A few days later it was his birthday~

Molly and her Papa!

Notes and cards~

written with such love!

Molly is always writing notes~

She is so sweet!

Sarah decorated Papa's cake with a golf club and ball on tee!

Happy 57th Dave!

We all love you beyond words!