We're HOME!!!!!

We got in at about 10:30 last night. While Gunars and my dad unloaded the car, my mom and I got the girls to bed. I did not even touch the stuff last night. We went straight to bed, too. It felt SOOOO good to sleep in my bed. Kassey even slept through the night (she hasn't done that since we left for Michigan!) She must have known she was home! Kyara is doing well. She ate some cereal for breakfast and NO GAGGING!! She and Skylar are trying to help me get everything put away this morning.

While we were gone, our dishwasher broke. Gunars set it to wash before leaving on Thursday, luckily he had to run back to the house to drop off a basket, and found the kitchen flooded. He called his dad to help clean it up and jumped back in the truck to head to Michigan. Well, when we got home, I made the mistake of opening the door to the dishwasher to see what was going on.... STINKY!! Oh...My....GOODNESS!!!! I have called a repair man to come fix it today. It reeks. I don't want him to have to open it!

Back to Kyara...

Dr. Coran said she had a stricture in the neoesophagus (the upper portion that is still left). He opened it, but it may stricture down again. Luckily it is supposed to respond to dilations better than before the surgery. If Dr. Meyers feels comfortable with doing her dilations, Dr. Coran said he would talk him through it so that we don't have to go all the way back to Michigan for an follow-up dilations. That would be HUGE! I have had enough snow to last several years!!!

This is still going to be a long process. Although Kyara is eating some mushy foods, we are still having to work on the amount of food she is taking in and work on chewing so that she can eat more solid foods. Right now we have to stay away from breads, pasta, and meats. Hopefully soon we will be able to add more foods into the diet, but we are tickled pink with the way things are going. Thank you for all of your support through this ordeal. We are VERY blessed!