Therese Botell

Well it's been months since I've logged in here, frankly with coaching my daughters cheer squad and being on the board I just kept too busy. During all the craziness Kate was told she would need another surgery. Since the surgery in May she had difficulty getting food down and staying down, she found comfort in eating the gelatin fruit snacks and would eat multiple packs per day. Well unfortunately she wasn't digesting them well and ended up with a wad of undigested gelatin in her stomach. This created much pain and suffering for Kate and after extensive studies her surgeon stating it was a bezoar, it needed removed and in his 20 years as a surgeon he had only heard of and seen one of these. (of course another rare item and of course it was Kate , she always has the rare stuff) long story short they were able to break the mass down without surgery, which was a miracle. We couldn't be more blessed since the surgery would have been by far the most difficult to date. The amount of stress we continue to endure from living with CDH is unimagiable to most and yet we move on and survive. Now back to our everyday mild decisions like should we allow Kate to try out for the basketball team?