4-Months Post-Surgery

Tomorrow it will be four months since Kimmie's scoliosis surgery.

I would like to be able to say we are all fully recovered and everyone is doing great. Unfortunately, that's not entirely the case--for the most part, that is true.

Kimmie's back is straight. Her shoulder blades are almost in the correct positions now. She's only missed one day of school since the beginning of January.

However, she continues to be up in the night, often several times a night. Or one of us has to sleep with her. Or she wants to sleep on the couch, and one of us sleeps on the other end of the sectional.

She tells us her back hurts and continues to want it rubbed, almost more than before the surgery.

We are always analyzing and trying to figure out why. And trying different things to see if she sleeps better. It's all a guessing game since she can't tell us much. But we've kinda stopped the analyzing and have just accepted that it's going to take her a long time to get over the trauma of the two surgeries.

One of the scary things is that she tells us that on Thursday (the day of the scoliosis surgery) the doctor put brown medicine on her back. We didn't think she was suppose to be able to remember anything from the operating room. If she remembers that, what else does she remember that she cannot express? It's pretty understandable that she could be having lots of bad dreams and fears upon awakening in the night.

It would be nice to get a few nights of uninterrupted sleep, but for now Kimmie needs a lot of comfort and reassurance that we are there.

--Mom