Surgery Follow-up Appt

Last Thursday Kinley had a follow-up visit with Dr. S, the surgeon who preformed her repair surgery last June. The appointment went really well and was very short. Basically Dr. S just looked at Kinley's belly, listened to her lungs and said she looked great. Initially Kevin and I were told that Kinley would need another surgery when she was around a year old to fix the hernia that was created when they did her repair. (When they brought the intestines that were in Kinley's chest down to her abdomen there was not quite enough room, and they were only able to close the outer layers of skin. The innermost layers still need to be closed.) Dr. S said that the hernia did not seem to be bothering Kinley and there was not much of a bulge in that area, so he would rather wait another year to do that surgery. His reasoning was that then Kinley would be a year bigger and stronger, and that was just fine with Kevin and I. Since the appointment was short and sweet we were able to go upstairs and visit our friends from the NICU. We were also able to go across the street and visit Aunt Kate and our friends at the Hyatt.

I should mention that while Kinley was in the NICU at Children's Mercy, the Hyatt was our home away from home. It was so nice to be able to bring Kinley over in person and say thanks for everything they did for us while she was in the hospital. It really made our lives easier to know that we had a place to stay so close to Kinley during that difficult time.