God has always been faithful to send AWESOME Christian doctors into J's life, ones that truly have Jeremy's best interest and our experience with Dr. Dan Hoernschemeyer has been no different. He is a physician we met back in February and he did J's anterior release on August 6. He has became a superhero in our lives and far exceeded my expectations. Dr. Dan has been there from the beginning and continues with a genuine, care and compassion for Jeremy. When a surgeon tells you that he is praying for your son and has others praying, that is special. If you missed the surgery postings you can go back to the previous post.
This is our superhero's amazing medical assistant Holly, who was always there getting answers to all my questions, which you all know me and there was plenty. Holly also had to coordinate the 2 surgeries between 3 surgeons. Holly emailed me the morning of surgery asking me how I was doing, and when I hadn't heard anything she called into surgery for me.
Today, we had our 6 week post-op appointment and it was nice to see Dr. Dan and under much less stressful situation. I have to admit pulling into the parking garage caused a little bit of anxiety but it didn't last. He was pleased with progress that Jeremy has made and took a video of him walking. I knew he would be pleased once he got to see Jeremy. He wants to give Jeremy more time to build up his muscles. We go back in January and Jeremy will go back in traction for approximately 2 weeks, he will be able to sit in the wheelchair and be upright. Then he will do the spinal fusion. Dr. Dan feels J will tolerate it better since he won't be recovering from a spine surgery, plus he wants to naturally relax and stretch J's spine. I totally understand why he wants this and I know that Dr. Dan has given this decision lot of thought, consideration and prayer. I also know that Dr. Dan has Jeremy's best interest in mind when he came to this decision, he proved that during the first surgery. He feels the less he has to do to J's spine surgically the better. Jeremy's spine already told us at his last surgery it didn't like this. We are aware that Jeremy is Jeremy and doesn't always do things by the book and may not tolerate traction. It is also during winter so like Jeremy not cooperating the weather may not either. Jeremy will need to stay healthy, which the last few years he has.
If one thing GOD taught me this past summer is my plans are not his, and his plans are always best. If you notice this was the first time in my post that I used the word "plan". I am totally at ease about this and actually the word relieved comes to mind, I wasn't looking forward to having Jeremy having another surgery so quick.
What are we going to do? we are going to enjoy the upcoming seasons. The fall carnivals & festivals where Jeremy will be a teenage mutant ninja turtle. The season of Thanksgiving, giving thanks to our creator. This year our child life specialist are going to be out of town so I volunteered to be in charge of coordinating the feeding of our families at the Children's hospital. We will then enjoy the reason for the season and celebrate Jesus birth. I am excited because last year the day after Christmas I went shopping and bought yard decorations whcih include a 4 ft Christmas bear, 6 ft Christmas snowman for the lawn, lights and icicle lights. Jeremy's yard will be decorated.
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