Update on Carly’s Back Problems
Posted by Greg Steward | Filed under Carly, Steward Family
The following is from Kathy:
Praise God we received some much anticipated answers to Carly’s back issues. She indeed has tethered cord syndrome and is scheduled for a surgical correction on Wed. April 29th at Emanuel Hospital. The pediatric neurologist that we met today described in detail (almost too much detail!) the findings from the MRI and the surgery to fix the problem. She will do the surgery and she seems very confident that everything will go well. Carly will have surgery which consists of going in between the lower vertebrae and clipping a non-essential cord that extends from the spinal cord but contains no spinal fluid and which is putting pressure on the nerves that extend from the base of the spinal cord into the lower back causing her bladder, bowel and scoliosis (the MRI shows 10%) issues. She will stay in the hospital one night for observation and to recover any lost spinal fluid while lying flat in bed. She will need to lay low for seven days and then take it easy for another seven. So two weeks recovery time, not bad for back surgery.
April is a huge month for us. Easter, a three day Focus retreat for Greg (April 15-17), both the girls’ birthdays (Carly turns 5 on the 14th, Sophie 7 on the 24th) and now a surgery at the end of the month. Pray that God would keep us calm, give us wisdom, creativity, energy and joy. Our month could be full of so much worse things! Hallelujah we can praise a risen Lord and celebrate his resurrection and the births of two beautiful girls and correct a long standing problem all in one month! Whew! But God is good all the time. He hears our prayers and answers them. Thank you all so much for your prayers and encouragement. It means the world to us.
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