This is Anna Marie Dingess's blog about her fight with Pseudotumor Cerebri. Pseudotumor is so rare in children that she is the 42nd child in the United States diagnosed with this disease.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Yesterday's Dr visit and Surgery Change
Good morning sorry I didn't get a chance to write this last night. Well our first Dr's appt was with the Encrin. As most of you know Anna doesn't have any human growth hormone b/c the fluid flatten her putarity 2 yrs ago and it caused it to quit producing HGH so we did a ton of blood work to see what other hormones are not working and to find out what step we should next. However post surgery once we figure out how she is doing we will start growth hormes (HGH) on a very small dose. So it looks like we will be coming to Ohio allot. Also as most of you know Emory wont touch Anna that's why we are up here. So we can get her the treatment she deserves and needs. Okay so that was the first Dr. Then 2nd was the Nuero and they are now saying she could have secondary migraines b/c of the psuedotumor. So after 1month after surgery we will wean her off of the Topomax (Praise the Lord)! And see if she does have headaches or if it was just the pressure. Then we headed back to our "quarterback" Dr Katz. Wow is he the man, he has contacted every Dr we have been to and discussed our plan to make sure it the plan he wants for Anna Marie. So he is on board and will keep going. Well to call our night we went to Dave and Busters for my birthday and one of the lady's from the office made me a chocolate cake (wow) and then she came and celebrated with us. Well that was our day in a nut shell. O yes the moved the surgery tomorrow b/c of an emergency that came in. So surgery will be at 1200 tomorrow.
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If you believe in prayer... We have a church praying for you!
Uncle Steve
This is Shelley's Mom from Anna Marie's class. Shelley has been talking about Anna Marie and her surgery every day. We have been praying for her several times a day.
In addition to prayers, I have been asking Shelley's Daddy to put in some extra words on Anna Marie's behalf with God, since he is closer than we are.
Shelley drew a picture for Anna Marie. Do you have an email address where we could send it to her? You can reach us at afranks9@bellsouth.net.
Special prayers will be on order tomorrow for all of you.
Love and hugs from Georgia to Ohio.
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