19°

19°... that is the present COBB measurement of P's spine. We found out on Monday that he has thoracic levoscoliosis. I brought him to the pedi because he started with a fever Sunday evening - this was on the tail of that lovely tummy bug. He said everything appeared normal and that P was on the upside for the virus - yey! While there, I mentioned my concern of P's hips/legs always pointing to the right in his carseat and how when I hold him I can feel his body leaning/pulling towards the right. He decided to look at the radiology reports from his xrays from February 26 and February 28 (hospital admit and inpatient xrays) - both noted scoliosis [why we were not made aware of this is beyond us... but that's not here nor there right now].

February 26

February 28

The pedi said if only one report noted scoliosis, he would possibly chalk it up to being positional but since both reports have it noted, we needed to to see a prto specialist. He recommended waiting until April but we decided otherwise. We saw Dr. Frederic Warren at Ochsner Childrens yesterday and a "scoli series" was performed [just 2 chest xrays]. He calculated P's COBB measurement at 19°. He stated that since P is so young and he falls just outside of the "moderate" level, we are now in "watch and wait" mode. P goes back in 3 months for another scoli series and to see if his measurement increases.

We also have an appointment on Tuesday with Dr. Bennett of Tulane - we've heard that he is amazing with pedi scoliosis. I am curious to see what his thoughts are.

I will follow up on Tuesday with a post about his findings/thoughts/etc...

As for me, after discussing things with Daddy, we've decided it's best for me to move forward with the hysterectomy. It is scheduled for April 28. I spoke with the physicians assistant two days ago and he a few questions addressed. She informed me that I am having a total hysterectomy (complete removal of the uterus) not a partial (removal of the upper two-thirds of the uterus). The procedure will last for about 3 hours (typically, it takes 2 hours but I've had 2 c-sections) and I will stay 1 night in the hospital. I will have 5 small incisions.

That's all for now...