Surgery X 2

We've known since the end of May that Kimmie would need surgery. Finally we have some of the details finalized.

Surgery #1 is scheduled for October 6. This is an exploratory surgery to look at the bottom of her spinal cord and determine if it is "tethered". If it is, then the neurosurgeon will "release" the spinal cord. She's had two "tethered spinal cord release" surgeries already, one at age 7 and one at age 13. Hopefully this will be the last, especially since her growth should be complete.

Surgery #2 is to be scheduled about 6 weeks after the first surgery. That will put it around the third week of November, the week before Thanksgiving. We don't have a definite date yet. This surgery is for the scoliosis.

Poor little girl sat on Daddy's lap and sobbed while we talked to the doctor today. Heartbreaking.

When she wasn't sobbing she was hugging the doctor. When he was leaving the room he declared himself to be stocked up on hugs for about a year.

--Mom