What Happened to Yesterday?

I could have sworn I made an entry yesterday, but clearly I did not.  I guess it was a long day.

Kendra had an appointment with Dr. Cartwright up at Walter Reed AMC.  Dr. Cartwright is the current Pediatric Urologist Head at WRAMC.  I don't know how much I might have said about Kendra in the past, but she was born with bladder extrophy.... which means her bladder was incomplete, as was the closure of her abdomen.

Her first repair surgeries happened at 7 days old at WRAMC.  Kendra was born in Germany during our first tour there.  We had to be "medically evacuated" to the states because there were no doctors that could care for Kendra in Germany.  We've been blessed with a great deal of continuity in Kendra's care from the beginning.  Her first surgeon/urologist was a Dr. Skoog, and his intern, Dr. Peppas.  When Dr. Skoog retired, Dr. Peppas stepped up and continued to provide most of the care Kendra has needed from time to time.  Kendra has had several surgeries along the way.  Her final surgery was in 1998, when they augmented her bladder and created an abdominal stoma (opening) through which she does her catheterizing. 

The last few years we've been moved so often that we seem to never be with one specialist very long and we seem to end up teaching them all that we know about this affliction.  Anyway, now that we are back here, Kendra wants to see about making some modifications so that she feels less "obvious".   This doctor (who happens to be female) was fabulous!  She really sat and listened to what Kendra had to say and addressed so many of our concerns and hopes.  It was a great visit.. I can say that Kendra was moved to tears, the news was so good.

OMG... LMAO.. I am such a dork... you can't tell now, but I accidently deleted the whole above text.  I was sitting here pissed off at myself and my son wandered in and showed me how to get it back.  YEA MAC!!!!!!!!!  He's the hero of the day!

Anyway... diet wise things are still pretty good.  I did have three dunkin donut munchkins (those are the donut holes, right?) while we were up at WRAMC, but other than that.. I've been good.

No exercise yet this week though, other than the typical daily chore stuff.