Friday, April 3, 2009

Good evening. We are finally home, yay!! It was a long, exhausting couple of days.

We went to see the surgeon on Thursday. David's leg shows new bone growth, and no sign of local recurrence!! Praise God. He is scheduled for the next lengthening on June 22nd. The only 'bummer' news we got from the surgeon is that David will have to have a revision in the next couple/few years. When he is done growing in his legs (between 16 & 18 years of age) they will go in and remove his expandable implant and put in a new, non-expandable one. The one he has is not 'sturdy' enough for him as he gets older. Also, the part that is in his tibia is, in the doctor's words, meant for 'little-ish' kids, so it will be replaced, also. That kinda sucks; a whole new limb-salvage surgery with a new implant. *sigh* The doctor said we can have that coincide with the last lengthening. So, overall, that appointment went well.

Today they drew blood to check David's vitamin B12 levels. We don't know when we will get those results back. Then he had the CT scan with contrast. Then he had the bone scan. Preliminary report (via Dr. Raphael) is CLEAR SCANS!!! Thank you Jesus! Your prayers are working! Whew. We can breathe for 3 more months. We will get the official report and results on April 20th when David has his monthly oncology appointment in Reno. But all looks good!!

Then, Nita and Chris came to Children's. Chris had an appointment with Dr. O'Donnell, then they came to see us at Children's. It was soooo wonderful to see them. We are in contact all the time, but we were so happy to 'catch up' in person. And the boys look so different with hair! It was so great to see them. The picture is of David and Chris.

Then we went up to the 5th floor to visit some of the nurses that took care of David. Autumn, it was fantastic to see you!! We miss the friends we have made. We don't miss the hassles of Children's (like the pharmacy), but we miss a lot of the nurses. We got to see Hannah, Anne, John, Allison (I don't know how to spell her name the way she spells it), Diane, Tracy, Kim, and of course Autumn!!!! David misses Autumn. Anyway, we had a pretty good day.

By the time we left it was rush-hour traffic. I don't know why they call it that~~~no body is rushing, we are pretty much sitting on the I 80 parking lot!! So it took us quite a while to get home; but we are home. Oh, of course, it snowed last night at home, and we weren't here!!! AGAIN!! That was the story of our lives all last year. Oh well. That is life. So we are so happy to be home, and with good news. Thank you so very much for your prayers.

Well, it is late, and we are tired. Have a good night and I will post tomorrow. Sorry it took so long to get this posted; we had a bad room at the Family House. Thank you for your patience.

Thank you for visiting. God bless you all. We love you.

Kristi and the Koury Klan

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