Update on Lily

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Hey everyone,

Sorry I have been MIA for so long. I have had a lot going on

lately. Just wanted to update everyone on Lily. She went for her

5th cast on Oct 5th in SLC. She is now 0 degrees in cast with no

rotation!!! We are so excited!!! Her hips are even starting to

show improvement which is great news! She still sleeps in a brace

at night for naps for her hips but it is showing to be sucessful. I

talked the doctors into one more cast after this just to be

conservative and they respected my concerns. I figure it is not

summer yet and if I can keep her in her cast until she turns three I

will feel more at ease with the whole situation and then get her

into a brace by summer time.

Our trip was the best trip to SLC we have had in a long time.

Lily did great in the hospital the whole time and was in good

spirits the whole week. The bad part came on the trip home. About

30 min before boarding our flight home Lily got sick all over the

airport. She was throwing up none stop. I amost took a flight out

the next day but just decided to suffer on the plane instead of the

airport waiting for someone to come pick me up which would have been

a few hours. I am glad I made that decision although felt bad for

all the other passengers at the same time. Lily threw up the whole

two hour flight. It was horrible! To make a long story short, she

spent the night in the ER severly dehydrated, I caught the bug the

next day and am also 4 months pregnant. I spent the next night in

the hospital severly dehydrated and then to follow up my son and

husband both followed suit with out having to go into the hospital.

It was the worst flu virus I have ever had or seen. Lily is still

the last one to get over it. Poor little girl. Well, I hope

everyone is well. I plan to catch up on posts this week as I have

not read any for about 3 week now.

Hansen

Lily Hansen(4-12-04)