Hello everyone, heart friends, family and supporters. It has been too long since I've written on this blog. I have been busy with work, and my girls have kept me very busy indeed. It has been 8 years since I've started this blog, and the journey has been difficult but oh so worth it.
My heart child, Abby is now 18, and her sister will be turning 15 in 2 months. The time has flown. It has not gone without incident however. We have had a few trials and tribulations. And soon we will have a great celebration.
My husbands insurance had changed, and we've had to make adjustments, and with this new presidential administration I do fear for Abby and all that have pre existing conditions. We will all have to wait and see.
Abbys' changes. Abby was diagnosed a few years ago with a horse shoe kidney. We found this out through testing, and the fact that she kept getting urinary tract infections. It turns out that for Abby, as of this writing, her horse shoe kidney presents no harm for her. I was worried about alot of things, and I will explain that later. Then last year, when Abby was in high school taking drivers ed. She flunked the eye test in class. We were all devastated especially Abby, as you can well imagine. Her father took her to the DMV, an ophthalmologist It looked bleak. I also took her up to U of I to get some additional testing done, still no help. We still need to get a CT of her head, and hopefully we will soon. It seems that Abby does not have enough peripheral vision to drive. We found out through testing at U of I or U of C that she has smaller optical nerves than most. The neuro ophthalmologist believes Abby was probably born like this and ordered the CT and another test. That doctor is no longer at that hospital.
So Abby will not be able to drive if ever....and we wait to see what her new PCP will do.
When I return, I will give you some information as to what a horse shoe kidney is, and why I especially was concerned.
~~~~~~Until next time,
Carole
