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The night before my surgery, I was a complete mess.  My mind was in a million places and I was pacing the floor like a maniac.  I could not focus on one thing for long.  The twins were driving me crazy and nothing seemed to be going right.  I just wanted a peaceful evening so [...]

As I mentioned in a post the other day, I’m going to have surgery on Monday morning. This will be a diastasis recti and umbilical hernia surgery. Diastasis recti is a separation of the rectus abdominis muscle into right and left halves and was caused by my pregnancy with the twins and worsened with [...]

On Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 8:40 a.m. I was blessed to bring a wonderful baby boy into the world. His name is Alexander Richard and at birth he weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces and was 21.5 inches long.
I have not written on my blog in over 3 months and there are many reasons for [...]

In a previous post I mentioned that I have an umbilical hernia due to my pregnancy. I called my OB and told him that the pain has worsened and the swollen area was bigger. He then decided it would be a good idea to visit a colleague of his who is a surgeon. [...]

Two appointments ago, my OB told me that he suspected that what I thought was an atrocious belly button outie created by my twins during the pregnancy five years ago, was actually a hernia. I was speechless. He then asked me if it hurt, I paused and said nope, I just do not [...]

From: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/dec/13/war-on-sickle-cell-has-new-tool/
War on sickle cell has new tool
St. Jude success with mice could lead to human cure
By Mary Powers
Saturday, December 13, 2008
A Memphis research team has used gene therapy to cure sickle cell disease in mice, a key step in fashioning a cure for humans who have the inherited blood disorder.
Investigators at St. [...]

We took William and Keisha to their four year wellness visit with the pediatrician on Thursday. From past experience, we knew that it would be a long adventure, so I picked the latest appointment slot available (3 p.m.).
Earlier in the day, I had my own doctor appointment. The appointment went okay, I guess you can [...]

I have not given any updates on the children and their hearing issues in a while, so here we go. The week of July 21, Keisha had her follow up visit to her ear, nose and throat (ENT) doctor. We were concerned about whether or not she was also going to need tubes [...]

Last Thursday, we took William to his ENT appointment. The doctors and audiologists were very thorough as they always are. One doctor cleaned the wax out of William’s ears and used a microscope with a wand to get the wax that was very deep. She said that it looks like at least [...]