God is great! - Mallory's Surgery

Little Back Story:

Mallory hadn't been gaining weight like she should, so our pediatrician had some tests run a while back. Those tests came back showing that she possibly had Celiac Disease (her digestive system can't tolerate gluten - causing malnutrition, poor weight gain, etc, etc, etc). In order to formally diagnose Celiac an intestinal scope has to be done. Mallory also has had 6 ear infections in the last year so we were looking at getting tubes too- I know, poor Mallory, right?- to top it all off, Jeremy was considering switching jobs and at the beginning of the month so we thought our insurance would be ending as of November 1st.

So we began on September 30th with prayers for an opening in Dr. Sanders schedule for a scope, one in Dr. Sawyer's schedule for tubes, and insurance approval + a job for Jeremy come October 23rd. What do ya know, on October 2nd, Dr Sanders office called me to say a spot had opened on October 7th, then when I talked to Dr. Sawyers office, he was going to be at the same facility that day and could easily add Mallory to his list. PRAISE GOD! Such an answered prayer as we could not change Mallory's diet until the scope was done. She was feeling worse as the days went on and would hardly eat. God is so good and definitely looked out for our little Angel.

I talked with Dr. Sanders on Tuesday (10/13) about the results from the scope and they did confirm that she does indeed have Celiac. Now they want to test Kelby as well, because it is a genetic disease. Hopefully we can avoid having to have another scope done. But, it looks like we will all be going Gluten-Free! Do you even know how much stuff is made with wheat, rye or barley???

And... Mallory is a whole new kid after the surgery. She feels so much better and is back to playing tricks on Kelby. She was in the best mood the day of the surgery, almost as if she knew that she would feel better after.

* Oh and Jeremy's company is allowing him to stay on through the end of the year, so more time to job hunt. Anyone need a civil engineer specifying in Land Development??? I know a FANTASTIC one. ;)

On our way to the hospital...




Before surgery...






After surgery...




When she finally got back to normal, mind you she was a GROUCH for about 2 hours after the whole ordeal, she was starving and loved the GF arrow root cookies we had for her. The nurses loved her and she hammed it up too. Our little Missy Lou is quite the trooper, we love her and we are so proud of her.