We got some Great News today!!!

This is our "Monkey" Jack! If you ask him his name he will tell you it is "monkey"! Lately this poor guy has been through it all!! Back in January, I was pregnant with Thatcher. I was carrying Jack down the stairs and we had a rough fall. His knee swelled and we thought it would go down in time. In March after Thatcher was born, it wasn't getting better...it was getting worse! I had him at the pediatrician repeatedly (we love our pediatrician, we are there a little often though)I finally insisted something be done...we had wrapped it, iced it at night, gave motrin before bed and NOTHING was working. So, our pediatrician who trusts a mother's instinct referred us to a orthopedic surgeon. When we went the first time, he said wrap it, ice it, motrin ( we have done this), of course it didn't work. The second time I insisted on going, he said it was up to me....MRI, surgery, or let it be? We as parents wanted to know what it was before we sent our 2 year old off to surgery...we chose the MRI. So he was sedated...and had uncommon side effects to the sedation medicine (nebutol). The MRI results came back and confirmed he had a large mass in his knee. The surgeon recommended surgery because there was a possibility it was a tumor. June 15th Jack had his surgery (1 hr 30 min) , it seemed

like it took forever. The surgeon came out and told us they found more tissue, so another incision was needed, they now had two biopsy's to send off. TODAY, the results came back and everyone's sweet prayers came through....Jack's tumor was begnign!!! Thank you GOD!! "MY MONKEY" is going to be okay!! He will have a pretty big scar on that knee of his, and lots of doctor visits over the next 6 months to make sure he has no reoccurance! BUT, we can all finally BREATHE, and LOVE more, LAUGH longer and NEVER take a second for granted!

B