Going Well..

Hello again! Since I last updated everything has pretty much been the same. I guess it's good that I don't have a bunch of updates, the past month has been pretty uneventful. Landon is off antibiotics now, and so far so good. Dr. Levitt in Cincinnati has reviewed Landon's records and developed his plan of care. No surprises there, he will have a colostomy reversal/pull-thru procedure sometime within the next few months. They should be contacting me any day now to schedule the surgery. If we can't schedule over Christmas break we might have to wait until March for Spring break. I'm really trying to avoid taking FMLA at work, and with this only being my second year at my job I don't have much sick time to work with.

More good news, I've won several battles with our insurance company. I appealed Cincinnati being billed as out-of-network, stating my case that mistakes made in St. Louis due to lack of experience would be more costly than a trip to the leading colorectal specialist in the country. I'm still working on the whole colostomy supplies issue, though. Whoever decided that these bags should last 3 days clearly never had a child with a colostomy. Even when I tape and paste around the edges for extra reinforcement, they always spring a leak within 24 hours. Not fun!

Last time I updated I mentioned that Landon had started laughing without sound- well 2 days later I was getting ready for work and Carson and Austin were playing with Landon in his bouncer. I heard a laugh- one that was clearly not Carson or Austin's. I looked in there and Carson and Austin had Landon laughing out loud! At the time he was still barely 2 1/2 months old! I even managed to record it on a video on my phone, until Landon spotted my phone and immediately gave it a hard stare and forgot what was so funny. Landon has also continued to become stronger and stronger. He has awesome head control, and when he sits in his Bumbo seat he can easily turn his head back and forth to look around the room.

So overall, everything is going very well. Last weekend we even managed to go on a weekend trip to Nashville, Tennesee- colostomy and irrigation supplies in tow. While we were there, we purchased a new vehicle unexpectedly. We were pretty crowded in our Toyota Highlander with 3 car seats squeezed in the middle row, and I just wasn't comfortable putting any of the boys in the 3rd row in case we were ever rear-ended. We managed to find a great deal on a Chevy Suburban that is only a year old. It is huge, and has plenty of room for the boys. I feel much safer driving it, with all the worrying I have done lately it's really nice having one less thing to worry about.

Well, that's it for now. Hopefully everything stays uneventful and I can just check in every now and then and talk about how well everything is going!