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Surgery # 4

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 This past summer, Jane went in to see her clubfoot doctor just for a follow up. It has been about a year since she last saw them. Since then Jane stopped wearing AFO's (her shoes with braces) She's been walking well on her own and jumping. So we had no concerns. Her doctor said her feet looked great. Then he looked at her hips. He didn't like what he saw. We got back in touch with our Hip doctor; did x-ray and MRI and both confirmed that Jane has double Hip Dysplasia. Her hip is in the socket, but the top bone of the socket isn't growing and curving down like they hoped. We've known she's had this, but we've  praying and hoping the curve would improve over the years, but it hasn't.  We've been praying that no matter what the results would be; that God would help us accept it. To accept the news as from God Himself. I've learned over these years that God is working on my behalf when life feels unpredictable. He's building a relationship of tr

Jane's bladder

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Its been a while since I've updated on Janes health. Honestly, things have been going pretty well. I felt like we finally "got a break" from all the doctors and tests. Of course we still had our followups every few months, but for the most part things slowed down and we got to feel "normal" We were enjoying having Jane home with us and doing things with her.  One of the new specialist we started seeing was a urologist.  When I was still pregnant with Jane and I met up with the team of surgeons. They told me of a possible complication; that when Jane gets older, she'd have a hard time controlling her bladder. So of course we knew their was a  possibility, but I never expected it to be like this.  We met up with the best urologist in Tacoma, Washington. He recommended we ran some test to check how her bladder was working. The first test was the Urodynamic Test. It was one of my worst experiences ever. I won't go into all the details but Jane was so tra