Emerson's Scoliosis Journey

Nine casts down.  I am pretty sure we are pros now! We enjoyed some cast off fun. We had an arrival time of 6am and left at 3am.  There were no delays and everything went smoothly.  Emerson really enjoyed this adorable bag that Jeanie made and gave to her.  It kept her busy while we talked to all the people prior to surgery.  We were so proud of Emerson because she is normally scared and hides when her doctor enters the room.  Today she talked to him, told him about catching her first fish, meeting Salvy, and that she was putting Trolls on her cast.  Our routine is that Craig puts on the bunny suit and is allowed to walk her into the surgery room.  She gets what we tell her is a "breathing treatment" (which is really the anesthesia) and takes a little nap while Dr. Luhmann puts her cast on.  She didn't cry AT ALL this time. While waiting for her to wake back up the doctor always comes out and answers our large amount of ques...

I am having a hard time keeping up.  This may be long. Cast #7 Cast #7 coming off Damage from cast #7 - Her first open sore from a cast Bath fun after Cast #7 Cast #8 surgery sent smoothly.  There was some concern that she had a runny nose and was sneezing but no fever, so they continued as planned.  Dr. Kelly applied it and didn’t do any x-rays because he tries to limit the x-ray exposure.  We like that but also feel a little weird not knowing.  Emerson requested mac-n-cheese and fries for lunch.  Apparently, they don’t make KC Royals duck tape but one of Em's teachers, Ms. Whitney made this awesome vinyl cutout for her and we tried to make a powder blue jersey.  Emerson loved it!  Cast #9 will be with Dr. Luhmann (our doctor) on Tuesday.  The two doctors have a little different casting techniques.  In our experience, Dr. Luhmann’s are tighter, get better correction, and are more fash...