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Kimmie's scoliosis surgery was 5 weeks ago today. Overall she is doing well. We've been out and about the last week trying to build up her strength. This has been interesting. We usually avoid the malls this close to Christmas, but we've actually been to two malls in the last 8 days.

Today, however, our outing was to the doctor, pediatrician. Shortly after the surgery Kimmie began reaching back and poking at the top end of her incision, the only place she could reach. We have discouraged this, but it did not stop Kimmie from poking anyway. (If you know Kimmie, you know that she's going to do what she's going to do and there isn't much we can do to stop her.) At first just the end of the incision looked irritated, but now there's about 3 or 4 inches that look bad.

The doctor put her on an oral antibiotic and a topical antibiotic. They are testing a sample to see what type of infection it is. Hopefully it is just a simple infection from her poking at it and not the more serious MRSA staph infection.

Sleep continues to be challenging. The last two nights she has not gone to sleep until about 5:00 am. She's acting pretty tired today, probably because we have gotten her up about 9:00 am both days after she stayed up almost all night. She is not on any pain medicine now, but she doesn't seem to be in pain when she is awake. She is not aggitated or irritable, she is simply awake. She is still on the muscle spasm medicine, but that helped her sleep after the first surgery. ? .

Kimmie is eating again. We hope to see her arms and legs fill out soon.

She is excited about Christmas, or, more specifically, opening presents. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas.

--Mom