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Monday, November 2, 2009

Our trip to St. Louis.....

Quick trip, 400 miles one way. We left Tulsa at 12:21, stopped in Joplin to eat something, and then drove to the other side of Springfield to Marhsville for a stop to refresh ourselves and take a break. Then on to outside Rolla to gas up and head on in to St. Louis where we found our motel, unpacked and was asleep by 8:30pm, had a good night sleep. We arrived at our appointment this morning early. We seen Dr. Bridwell and he wanted a spine X-ray which at first we didn't think we would have to do X-rays but he needed to see his spine. Dr. Bridwell was very thorough and just as I expected, he will research Jeremy to come up with the best plan for him. I've got to obtain his X-rays that were done when he was in NICU, then when Dr. Cyrus first discovered the scoliosis, and then each one thereafter. He wants to see when it started to progress to determine what is the best plan. Putting Jeremy in traction was discussed, growing rods were discussed and of course fusing the uppper and lower part of the spine was discussed so the growth would come from the middle but at this point nothing is set in stone. Dr. Bridwell mentioned doing something in 6 months so we put a tentative date on the calendar of May 19. That would give Jeremy the summer to heal. At some point we will put Jeremy under and he will stretch him out and get an X-ray so he can see how his spine will do under surgery which way the spine will go when stretched out. We left about 1pm and arrived home around 7:30pm, we have unpacked, got Jeremy ready for school, my stuff for work and papa came and picked up granny. Just continue to pray that GOD work his plan out....

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