More Updates

I heard back from the surgeon today who, after looking at the films from my CT-scan, confirmed that I do have a small abdominal hernia. Because it is a mild hernia and not causing me extreme amounts of pain, I asked him if we could postpone the surgery until after the holidays. (The last thing I want is to be recovering from surgery while we are on one of our trips - St. Louis for Thanksgiving and Oregon for Christmas.) Thankfully, he agreed...with the understanding that I will take it really easy and lay low for the next couple of months so as not to aggravate it or make it worse. And, of course, if it does suddenly worsen, we will schedule the surgery right away. But, I am hoping for the best and I am going to try my heardest to stay down and follow the doctors orders. Assuming I can and all goes well, I will have my surgery the 2nd week in January. Nothing like starting off the New Year with a bang!! :)

Oh, and for those of you who are wondering, we finally finished getting Nolan's room repaired today - the carpet installers came this morning and laid the new carpet and we spent the remainder of the day, and part of the night, moving furniture back and rebuilding his crib. He was so excited to be sleeping in his room again and back in his crib (I think he was a little cramped in the pack & play in our room). And we are glad to be sleeping back in our bed tonight, too!