Dear friends and family -



Thanks for visiting Georgia's page! As most of you know, Georgia had been struggling with worsened seizures since January 2010. She subsequently underwent seizure surgery which resulted in a functional hemispherectomy on July 21st at Denver Children's Hospital. We really appreciate all of the kind thoughts and prayers that you have showered on her (and us!) - please keep them coming! We hope this website/blog can be an easy way for us to keep everyone informed on how Georgia is doing. Bare with us...we're new at this!


Love - Rick and Alicia







Monday, October 18, 2010

holding out for Handler

Just a quick note to let everyone know we decided to hold off on Georgia's shunt placement until Friday when Dr. Handler returns. We pretty much tapped all of her specialists for their thoughts on whether or not we could wait the 3 extra days, and it was a unanimous yes. Bottom line, there is minimal risk to wait longer and we feel much more comfortable waiting for the doc who knows her best. To quote Dr. Handler, it'll be his own "footprints" that he will be walking in. So let's send lots of good, refreshed thoughts to him as he returns from his conference on Thursday.

By the way, for those who are curious, when asked if Georgia will have any activity limitations with the shunt, she will: no sky diving and no scuba diving. I think we can live with that.

A photo to depart on (we finally got our new camera up and running!):

happiness is swinging...


3 comments:

  1. Sounds like she'll be in great hands that belong to someone with careful and knowledgeable feet. Hugs!

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  2. Prayers are coming your way from us!

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  3. Good luck tomorrow - thinking of you guys!

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