Kennady News (as of Sat evening)

Kennady got out of surgery at 2pm on Thursday, however, because of the medicine in the procedure, she did not wake up from surgery until 11:30pm!  Then, she was up for 24 hours.  It was a very difficult first night.

Because of the sensitive incision on her back, she must lie on her stomach for 3 straight days/nights.  If she moves too much, there might be leaking spinal fluid and the doctors would have to go back in and seal it up.  On a normal day, she might spend 30min on her belly and then she is ‘fighting mad’ and ready to turn back over on her back.  So, for her to spend this many hours on her stomach is really difficult.  We propt up a iPad in front of her so she could watch Netflix. This has helped some.

On Friday, my parents came up to the hospital so that we could have a break. We took the boys to dinner, putt putt, and to get ice cream! So fun!  They ended up staying with Erica at the Ronald McDonald House.  I (Robin) stayed up with Kennady at the hospital.

Kennady finally started going back to sleep around 1am Saturday morning.  She slept off and on all last night.  The nurses come in and out at least every four hours to manually check all Kennady’s vitals.  This makes it very difficult to sleep! The nursing staff and doctors have been great at Dell Childrens’ hospital.  They have been friendly, helpful, and most of all considerate of our wishes.

Twice a day, therapist come into the room and measure Kennady’s flexibility.  This is to determine if the medicine going into her spine is working or not.  They adjust the flow according to her tightness.  The good news is that the medicine is working great and she has a ton more flexibility.  Her arms and legs are moving like a normal body.  In a few days (after all the surgery heals) we will really see the big results when she gets back into her wheelchair.  We can’t wait.

Thanks so much to everyone for the support!  I will be preaching tomorrow at PromiseLand San Marcos and can’t wait to see everyone.  Erica will be spending the night back up at the hospital and then we will switch again tomorrow night.  If you are interested in visiting, we would love to see you. Many folks have asked about bringing us food or coffee.  We love to eat and drink coffee, however, coordinating the food has been a bit difficult. It might be easiest to simply visit when you can and bring us a gift certificate if you would like.  Of course, just seeing your face will be good enough too.

If you haven’t read the details on why she had surgery, you can get the details here.