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I’ll be heading to Portland again this year to go to Railsconf 2008. I’ll be giving a talk there again this year too called “Design For Developers” where I’ll teach developers how to design a pretty-looking web page. Should be a blast.
I’ve been putting off writing an update about Lisa’s eyes and legs for some time so I could deal with everything personally. Now that things are finally settling down a bit I’m going to get back to regular updates to the blog. Lisa has been doing well with her clubfoot treatments. She’s on her third set of casts and things are looking very good. When we were in the hospital, the doctor who takes care of the casts made a big deal about us making sure we never miss an appointment.
It’s been confirmed that Lisa has cataracts in both eyes. We have an appointment set up for Wednesday in Marshfield to have the pediatric optometrist take a look so we can come up with a plan of attack. I’m not ashamed to tell you that this was extremely difficult for me to deal with. Even though I knew it would happen, I still hoped that she would be able to dodge this one.
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The pediatrician and the nurses want to keep Lisa for one more day. There’s problems with the feedings, similar to what happened with Ana so we’re just gonna get her going with formula. To make things more interesting, we’re still waiting to hear about the eyes. The pediatrician (nice guy by the way) didn’t get a good look at her eyes, so he wants to get an opinion from an eye doctor.
The pediatrist was just here and explained Lisa’s condition. It’s found in 1 out of every 1000 babies and it’s pretty treatable through a serious of castings and bracings. Lisa will have six different casts which will be used to reshape the legs. The last cast will stay on for three weeks. After that, there will be 14 to 18 months of shoes with the bar between them, 23 hours a day.
Lisa’s here, and she’s really a cutie, but I’m still extremely nervous. I’ve always been quite the pessimist though. We still haven’t gotten a good look at her eyes and that makes me extremely anxious. I really want to know that she’s okay, or that we can get the ball rolling on whatever needs to happen. Lisa was a bit scrunched in the room, so her feet ended up turned in.
Welcome, Lisa Lin Hogan. 20.1 inches, 7 lbs 14 oz, born at 9:52 PM on January 24th, 2008
You can follow mom and baby’s progress at Twitter. I’ll post a full recap of today’s events later this evening when I know more.
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