My First Blog Post!

In the middle of this storm, I am starting a blog. It seems like a weird time to do this, but yet not.  Weird, because we are in the middle of this storm, and I feel a blog should tell a whole story in order.  And yet not completely weird because I need a good way to tell people information.  Well, this will take some creativity on my part then won't it?!


Since we are starting in the middle, I am going to assume you all know we are here at Children's Mercy.  Jenna has an abscess in her forehead (I should stop here and send a giant thanks to Eli for teaching me how to spell forehead after all this time of talking about foreheads!).  This abscess is a pocket of infection in her forehead between the skin, which is swollen, and the bone, which has been restructured in her previous surgery.  The restructured bone is making it difficult to see if there is an infection in the bone.  Her bone isn't smooth like a "normal" bone would be, so the MRI is inconclusive in this area. 
The plan:
Tomorrow, 12-17 at 9am they will do a procedure to drain the abscess as best they can.  They are not sure how much they will get from the site because it is so small.  They will test the bacteria they collect to see what kind it is and what antibiotic to use to best treat it. It will probably be the antibiotic we have already been on for a week, and we will be able to continue it orally once we get home. 
Sometime soon, we hope, we will be able to get back home.  I think Saturday, Eric thinks Monday or Tuesday. Sorry honey, I hope you are wrong! 
Jenna's surgeon, Dr. Singhal, is in Boston on vacation, and his associate Dr. Kaye who has been talking to us all week has not been able to contact him.  We will most likely be back soon, sometime after Christmas, for Dr. Singhal to "clean out" the rest of the abscess. This will require reopening the former incision, which by they way has healed perfectly if you didn't know.  It will be a less major surgery and will not require an ICU stay, any transfusions, have quite as much swelling and a shorter recovery.  It will still tear my heart out to hand her over to the nurse, that I can guarantee you.
Well, there is it, information for tomorrow, a lengthy update on Jenna, and my first blog post. I guess the hardest steps in blogging are the name (how hard was that?!?!?!?!) and the first post, you know, the start of the story from the middle.
Thank you for sharing in our storm. Thank you for reading this. Thank you for praying for a miracle.