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Kerri,I am so sorry to hear about your husband's partner. My best friend's husband is a police officer and lost a partner. I know how hard this can be on them. I hope you and Christian are recovering well.Enjoy your trip to Disney!TashaMommy of twin boys- and 3 years oldFort Worth, Texas is 7.5 degrees and brace free during the day!!!Casting 14 months and bracing 10 monthsSubject: updateTo: "infantile_scoliosis" <infantile_scoliosis >Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 10:05 PM

First, I would like to thank each of you that have responded to my post. I appreciate all of the information that you have provided and advice that has been offered. I am sorry that my post is so delayed. My husband's SWAT partner was shot and killed in the line of duty this week. They had a call out on Tuesday morning and my hubby saw Tony shot and killed. To make matters worse, I tripped that morning trying to get to the phone and tore my acl, pcl and meniscus. =( Christian is still recovering from his T & A surgery 3 weeks ago, but doing better each day!

It's been a bad week to say the least, BUT we are headed to Disney in the morning. It's a well needed break for the kids as well as us! I look forward to jumping in feet first to this group when we return!

Thank you again and God bless!

Kerri

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Dear Kerri,

I am so sorry for the loss of your husbands partner. I am sure Tony

was like a part of your family. I am releived to hear that your

husband is alive. Have fun at Disney and we will be here when you

get back.

Sincerely,

HRH

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> First, I would like to thank each of you that have responded to my

post. I appreciate all of the information that you have provided and

advice that has been offered. I am sorry that my post is so delayed.

My husband's SWAT partner was shot and killed in the line of duty

this week. They had a call out on Tuesday morning and my hubby saw

Tony shot and killed. To make matters worse, I tripped that morning

trying to get to the phone and tore my acl, pcl and meniscus. =(

Christian is still recovering from his T & A surgery 3 weeks ago, but

doing better each day!

>

> It's been a bad week to say the least, BUT we are headed to Disney

in the morning. It's a well needed break for the kids as well as us!

I look forward to jumping in feet first to this group when we return!

>

> Thank you again and God bless!

>

> Kerri

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Thats great! Im glad they could get your daughter in! Keep us updated and the best of luck with everything! ShaunaSubject: UpdateTo: infantile_scoliosis Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 8:03 PM

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to let you all know that we went to Philly Shriners this

morning for a second opinion on our daughter Emma. Just to refresh

memory-she's 8 months old, with a 40+ degree curve and rvad over 50

degrees. She was casted with a different type of cast- non Mehta cast-

however, we wanted to get a second opinion to see if we couldn't get a

better type of cast put on-- a Mehta cast. We were happy with what they

had to tell us, and we're going to be getting in soon hopefully to get

the Mehta cast put on. Thanks to everyone for all your help! We're

going to be out of town for a bit, but when we get back and have her

casting appointment I will update. Take care everyone!

Jay

[Guest guest]

Great news!

Subject: UpdateTo: infantile_scoliosis Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 9:03 PM

Hi everyone,Just wanted to let you all know that we went to Philly Shriners this morning for a second opinion on our daughter Emma. Just to refresh memory-she's 8 months old, with a 40+ degree curve and rvad over 50 degrees. She was casted with a different type of cast- non Mehta cast- however, we wanted to get a second opinion to see if we couldn't get a better type of cast put on-- a Mehta cast. We were happy with what they had to tell us, and we're going to be getting in soon hopefully to get the Mehta cast put on. Thanks to everyone for all your help! We're going to be out of town for a bit, but when we get back and have her casting appointment I will update. Take care everyone!Jay

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OT first: My kids' elementary school will remain open. I attended the Board meeting on Monday and heard the 6-1 vote to close the other school. It was not a victory because it was all so sad but we are still very relieved. That's a big thing off my mind and schedule (meetings, getting ready for the meetings, etc.) too. Next up is I'm serving on what is called a discernment committee for a woman who wants to become a deacon (ordained) in the Episcopal church. Our committee helps her discern her call, be it to ordained or perhaps lay ministry and recommend to the Bishop whether or not to accept her as a candidate for ordination. Our first meeting is next Monday. Hopefully these will only be once or twice a month. I was really flattered to be asked to be a part of it, as it is a priest from another church in our area that asked me (I attended a class he taught a couple of years ago and got to know him there), but it comes right on the heels of the school stuff! Oh well, I'd be bored if I had any time to be bored I guess!

EV next: I've still been doing Maximum Body Shaping. Monday I did that, then Day 2 of 5 Day Abs (thank you everyone who helped, I figured out that if I hold down the ff or reverse buttons that it WILL let me do those things, if I just hit forward or reverse I'll get the circle with the line through it, still can't find any chapters but can at least move to the place I want to be) and then I did Open Heart beginner practice or something like that off Yoga Complete for Every Body (love this DVD). It was wonderful!! I miss my yoga! Today, I had a lot less time so I just did Maximum Body Shaping but I seriously upped my weights using mostly 12s and sometimes 10s for the lower body stuff and biceps and upright rows. I used 5s for the delt stuff and 8s for triceps kickbacks. I even got to use my 15s for pec flies! I pushed myself super hard and it felt SO awesome! I'm FINALLY really back to working out or at least REALLY wanting to. My schedule is still crazy but the DESIRE to work out is finally back so I'm trying harder to get them in. I was going to work out 4 times this week but tomorrow is shot. I have to drive the kids to school (DS has a big project to bring in and can't do the bus) and grocery shop in the morning, work in the afternoon and then have lunch and go to work in the evening too. But, I will definitely work out again on Friday. That will be workout #9 for Maximum Body Shaping. I'm trying to see if the "Visible Results in Just 10 Workouts" claim is true and with 8 down I can say it definitely is! I was getting soft from not working out much in 2+ months and the definition in my arms, stomach and legs is coming back, it is awesome and I feel so much better about myself in that sense too. I've decided this is a definite "desert island" workout for me. I'm not getting bored with it at all and I've really got down the few parts that I was confused about (because I wasn't watching carefully enough, the video and cueing are fine). After I do workout #10 I'm either going to keep working with it or possibly switch to another FIRM video or a few. I am loving the results from this one. Haven't decided yet but the cool thing is that I actually am getting excited about my videos and rotations again. Yea!!

Gotta get some sleep now. Some day, I really want to get caught up on all the postings. I miss chatting with all of you! There's 600+ posts in my EV mailbox right now though!