Update

Good Afternoon,
Well its been a while since the an update. Anna Marie has had only one headache since Dec 8, 2008. This is when she had her last shunt put in. It has been probably the best month of our lives, she has started reading and doing very well at school. Her attitude is different and she actually smile. What a blessing she is. Yesterday
(1/18/08)was a new day for Anna Marie we started her on Human Growth Hormones (HGH). I am very excited and scared all at the same time. She will take a shot a day for 10yrs so she can grow. Now we won't see results over night it will probably take 6mths or more however HGH can cause Psuedotumor. So our Prayer request is that her fluid doesn't get worse and the headaches return. Her doctors are looking out for her she is on the smallest dosage of hormones so we can see how her body reacts to it. We will be going back to Ohio in Feb. for check ups from all of her doctors. Thank you all for your continued support in Prayer and financially we appreciate all of you.
IF you haven't checked out our new website for Team Anna Marie pls do so. www.teamannamarie.org

The Dingess Family would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Thank you for your support and Prayers over the last few months and for the years to come. Anna Marie hasn't had a HEADACHE for 16days to GOD be the Glory great things he has done..
Merry Christmas again and we will update soon..

Don't forget to go to https://www.teamannamarie.org Our new website for Team Anna Marie

Just wanted everyone to know that Anna Marie has been Headache free for 9days:) Praise The Lord :)

Hello all,

Just wanted to let you know that we have a new site for the athletic team (aka Team Anna Marie). Please visit our new site at teamannamarie.org. You can register and use our Forums

Sorry, It has been a couple of days. Anna was released from the hospital Wednesday to the hotel. On Thursday we went to see Dr Kosnik and was told that we could go home!! So we went over to Dr Katz office and said good bye and headed home. We stopped over in Knoxville at the Page's house, and drove the rest of the way home Friday. We are so blessed to be home. Anna is doing great we are 6days without a headache..Praise the Lord :) God is so good! We find out this week if we can start Anna on growth hormone's!! I will update soon love to all..PS I will get Mark to put up some new pic's of Anna Marie :)

Anna Marie just came out of surgery. Her valve in her stomach was broke, so they replaced it and put her cathiter back inside her and flowed very well. If all goes well they will disscarge Anna on wednesday to the hotel then we will go see Dr Kosnik on Thursday then come home!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for your Prayers and Support

Sorry, I haven't updated. Well Friday was a bad day, from 11 -12 Anna drained 51cc of fluid which is way to much and had the opposite problem and she had a low pressure headache. Anna had a really bad afternoon and got sick b/c her pain was so bad. On Saturday Maryanne flew in and surprised Anna. That was awesome so I went to a hotel and sleep for 13hrs. It was the best sleep ever!!! Sunday was okay day on saturday anna's shunt started leaking from the incension site so we have been watching it carefully. Prayerfully they will move the surgery to Monday b.c of the leak. I will update tomorrow, thank you again for all your Prayers and Support :)

Good Evening, Dr Kosnik wants to make sure that all of her infection is cleared up. So it looks like surgery next Wednesday. Then we will have to be in the hospital for 2 days then we will see about heading home. Pls continue to Pray for Anna Marie and healing for her infections and that she will start eating b/c Anna has lost 5lbs.

Anna had a pretty good weekend. We are still waiting on results but everything right now looks good. Thank you for your continued Prayers and as soon as I get more info from the dr's i will post them. We love you all

The Infectious Disease Dr's came in and said that Anna's white blood cell count had dropped in her CSF. Which is a good thing and the cultures haven't grown anything yet. Praise the Lord. They are going to continue to let the cultures grow b/c it takes 5days to get a clear answer on what it is or isn't. So we are going to wait patiently until Monday to get all the answer however we are already claiming that God is clearing up this infection so we can put the shunt back in and come home! Thank you for your continued Prayers and support... I may not update the blog this weekend due to Anna's daddy,brother and sister will be here. We love you all..