Havyn now has a new piece of hardware. We reported to the hospital this morning at 7:30 and they got her back into surgery fairly quickly. After a bit of trouble finding a vein, the surgeon successfully implanted a port near her right collar bone. They said she did great.
She is now recovering from the anesthesia. She’s had a bit of water and a bite of a sucker. She’s tired and pretty whiny. She kept asking for “ploset” for the longest time. We couldn’t understand her. “Do you want to go to the closet?” She’d say back with increasing frustration, “No! Ploset!” We asked if she wanted water. She shook her head sharply and kept demanding the ploset. “You want us to pause the movie?” “PLOSET!” Continue reading “Port report”



We made it all the way to Sellersburg before our first potty break! 🙂

Ok… so the neurologist just left our room. He said, “it’s a good thing we did another MRI of her spine.” They had originally thought the tumor was an astrocytoma. Now they’re pretty sure it’s not. With a clearer view it looks like a hamartoma. Which means not malignant. And not technically a tumor. 
