We had our 2nd appointment with the Neonatal Doctor for our NICU Followup on Thursday. This is the same people who had us so freaked out about Mallory having to have a helmet when we went to visit them back when she was 4 months.
We had a different doctor today, who I liked better. She had Mallory play with some toys to see her abilities, looked at her muscle tone, etc. Overall she looks great and scored at either her actual age or adjusted age on everything, so we are right on track. She said her head looked better as well, so no more helmet talk for now at least. We had another lady come in and work with us on a few things to do to help strengthen her neck some, she tends to lean to one side, but nothing major. We were officially discharged, no more neonatal follow-ups! Her pedi can do everything from here!! Yipee!!
Also, I have to mention how much of a little ham Mallory was at the appointment. She would just grin and wiggle every time the nurses or doctors talked to her…..her personality is really coming out now, but we have a little show-off ham on our hands I think!
Thursday night was the March of Dimes Signature Chef Dinner and Auction. I went to help volunteer while Ben stayed at home with Mallory. It was fun, we had a pretty good turnout and the food was awesome! They had a goal of raising $12K and I found out today we raised $18K, more than they've done in over 5 years!!! Yeah!!
Friday we were off again to my parents, deer hunting beckoned. Thankfully Ben was able to shoot a nice 13 pointer on Saturday morning, so the trek back and forth to Elkton every weekend can be curtailed for a while. Here’s a picture of Ben and his deer, and yes our redneck shows every now and then, so we had to put Mallory in the pictures too.....
We then took it off to Smiths Grove to the processor…..and of course the head had to go off to the taxidermist. Yeah……
We made our first trip to Charley’s with Bean on Saturday night. She can’t quite enjoy a good steak yet, but thankfully she was an excellent baby while the rest of us enjoyed our steak. Probably had something to do with putting her across the table from Daddy. She is totally taken with my Dad, as is Dad with her, but it cracks me up. All Dad has to do is just look at her and she just grins so big! I don’t know why she gets suck a kick out of Dad, but Puddin’, as he calls her, is totally taken by him!
Sunday morning we realized that our 6X12 trailer was missing. Ben had it parked at mom and dad’s by the grain bins when he had come down to first start hunting and now it was gone. It had probably been gone for about 3 weeks but we just noticed it on Sunday. So, it sucks, if you see a 6X12 Heifner Custom Trailer around the Todd Co area, get the plate # and let me know! Although I’m sure it’s long gone now. Ben filed a police report today but our deductible is $1000 so it doesn’t make much sense to turn it into insurance for $200.
I just got the letter saying that Mallory has now been approved by her insurance for Synagis thanks to her Pedi writing a letter/peer to peer review on our behalf, which is awesome, with the exception that in January Ben’s insurance changes companies totally and we are deciding if we will go with his or mine but regardless it looks like they will both be $6K family deductible HSA type accounts, which means we essentially get to pay out of pocket for the last 4 shots because our deductible will start over. Yippee, you can’t win for losing on this thing! I know it will be worth it for her to have them, but thank you Mr Obama for screwing it up for everyone, you suck. Ok, rant over.
Ben had taken this whole week off because he had planned on hunting but since he killed a deer on Saturday, he decided he was pretty much done hunting for now. So, he went back down to Elkton on Monday to help Dad put up the Barn Quilt Square. They finally got the rest of the barn painted and then could get the square up. I think it looks great! And be on the lookout Todd County people, there a soon to be announced project that has to do with Barn Quilt Squares!
Here’s a few other pictures of Mallory. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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