I am still reading Corelly and thanks for thinking of me. My little girl and I have been sick ever since her birthday on 8th August so other than a little bit of Facebook, there hasn't been a great deal of computer time for me. I have been following everyone's stories here when I get a chance though and I am so pleased to see so much great progress being made.

We have had an up and down few weeks. My little girl was due for surgery on 11th August but came down with a cold on the day of her birthday. Her surgery was rescheduled to 25th August but because her cold hadn't completely gone, we have been rescheduled again to the 8th September. The hardest part has been the build up each time to just a few days before the surgery date, and then having to go through that whole emotional process again.

We had a follow up appointment with our surgeon not long after my last post to get some questions answered. I'm so glad we did as we learned that the surgery may be more invasive than we first understood it to be. The worst case scenario for us is a pelvic osteotomy, although the surgeon indicated that is not highly likely at this stage. A femoral osteotomy is a real possibility though so we're not feeling great about that.

We also learned that our bub will not be allowed to spend any time on her tummy for the whole 12 weeks in the cast. That is going to be so hard as it limits her even more than we expected. She is pulling up on the furniture and cruising everywhere so it will be a real shock for her to not even be able to play on her tummy or learn to commando crawl in the cast.

The one little piece of good news though was that the surgeon indicated that he didn't anticipate the need for a brace after the cast if all goes well. I hadn't heard of that before (but then I hadn't heard of no tummy time either) but we have our fingers crossed that perhaps she may escape the brace. One step at a time though and we will just wait and see.

Right now our focus is just on trying to be as healthy as possible for the 8th September. I still have my cold and bub still has a bit of a sniffle which is a worry. We have put ourselves into voluntary house arrest in an effort to avoid picking up any other bugs, so fingers crossed that we can finally get things underway. As much as I am dreading the day of surgery, at least there will be a sense of moving forward rather than being stuck in limbo as we have been for the last few weeks now.

I hope that everyone is traveling well and I so enjoy stopping by to read the latest news when I get a chance.