Post Op Checkup

We took Savannah to a follow-up appointment with her surgeon today. Everything is healing as scheduled and looks good at this point. She now has the green light to eat soft foods in addition to the liquid diet. She was very happy to have some scrambled eggs and cottage cheese for dinner tonight! She will also start going to speech therapy classes again next week. I haven't noticed anything different in her speech so it will be interesting to see if her teachers will be able to tell since they haven't seen her in four weeks now.

Checking In

Riding the Carousel at the mall!

Amazing gifts!!! Big thanks to Aunt Glee and Uncle John!

Hungry and can only eat purees?

No problem just eat all the ketchup you can! (Ewwww...)

Still Healing

Savannah is still doing well. She is still over emotional at times but seems to be doing well with the pain. We have been trying to keep her busy and have been going to the zoo every few days. Last weekend we went to the Wild Animal Park (aka Safari Park) so I could run a half marathon that I signed up for last year. Savannah and Daddy took a shuttle to the finish line inside the park. There they got to see animals and walk around while I was on the course.

The first and the worst of the hills.

I haven't been training so I was really slow this time. A little over three hours later I crossed the finish line. I was so confused when I was handed a laminated card on a lanyard with a photo of the medal. After all that running they had ran out of medals! Mine will be mailed to me in a couple of weeks. At least I finished this tough course complete with big hills. Afterwards we went and fed the lorikeets and petted the goats. Shortly after Savannah fell asleep and we headed home for naps. It was a good day and I am happy I decided to do it (I wasn't going to and changed my mind the night before!).

My "medal"

Feeding the Lorikeets after the half marathon.

Today we went to the zoo again and later this week we plan to spend some time at the beach since the weather is predicted to be 100+ degrees this week. Our plan of distracting her has been working well. We also plan to start speech therapy again in 2 weeks. I think Savannah will be happy to go back to classes again.

Required goat petting for today's zoo visit.

Nap time with a friend.

A fire in the riverbed near our home last week.

Surgical Recheck

Today we visited Savannah's surgeon to check the surgery site. Everything still looks good (HUGE sigh of relief!). She needs to stay on a liquid diet for a few more weeks to protect the surgery site and our next appointment/check up is on May 19th. I am hoping at that time we can start adding more food options. It is going to be hard to feed her nothing watery soup, whipped yogurts, and melted ice cream until then.