With Lily and Benson at grandma's house, it was fairly quiet around here. Nathan was home from school for spring break and I am SO grateful to the wonderful friends that I have who let Nathan come and play with them and kept him from being totally bored all week hanging out at home with me and Kayla. This gave Kayla and I A LOT of time together. :)
She has always been very much a mama's girl. . . and now that has really increased. I couldn't get up and walk more than a few feet away without her trailing behind me asking me where we were going. It was nice to have some one on one time with her and she sure kept me busy! I am past the really tired pregnant stage, but I am still the regular pregnant tired. . . but Kayla was full of energy. We baked cookies, took walks around the block, played games, read books, cleaned house, etc.
One night while I was reading stories to Kayla, I asked her if she could pick out any letters on the page that she knew. She had to look hard, but she was able to point out several letters that were fairly small that she knew! This made me so happy! In the hospital, the doctor had mentioned that we may need to start learning braille for her, just to be prepared.
Over the next few days, I really started noticing improvement in Kayla's vision. She was comfortable to ride her bike around the block, she was running around, jumping on the trampoline, and having no problem seeing her food. Every once in a while I would notice that when she would reach to grab something small, she would miss, but there was still huge improvement in her eyesight. Did I mention how happy this made me! She could function pretty much normally. She was sitting far across them room from the TV one morning and started laughing. I asked her what was so funny and she described to me exactly what had happened on the cartoon she was watching. Yay!
This has been a HUGE blessing for us. It is one thing to deal with the whole tumor/chemo thing, but another thing to deal with it with a child who suddenly has impaired vision on top of that. I am so grateful that her eyesight has improved and she can go back to being a normal little girl who loves to color princess pictures and play with Polly Pockets.
What a wonderful miracle! These posts are bring tears to my eyes. Thank you for sharing. I will continue to pray for you and your family.
ReplyDeleteJamie, you are my hero! I'm so glad Kayla has been doing so well, so glad we were able to come see you guys. I couldn't even really tell any difference in Kayla's eyesight, other than her dialated eyes. I got to help Kara fix Kayla's hair before the baptism and it is still so thick and beautiful, maybe that will be another miracle for her, if she hasn't started losing it yet maybe she will be able to keep it!
ReplyDeleteThis is the first update that hasn't made me cry! I'm so glad you are documenting everything for your family and that we get to read it, too! You are amazing, Jamie!
ReplyDeleteJamie, we hope that Kayla continues to improve. We are thinking of you guys and praying for you and your family.
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That is great her eyesight is already getting better and i am glad you are keeping track of everything and i wish i could have been there for nathans baptism!
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