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Posted by Michelle on Feb 16, 2008 in Hayley, Michelle
Cute photos from our friend Landon’s first birthday party. It was amazing to think just a year ago we were visiting Mike, Sara and Landon in the NICU.
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Posted by Michelle on Feb 15, 2008 in Hayley, Michelle
We’ve got a pile of photos from the Baltimore trip! Check out them for shots of the soccer games, National Aquarium, Dolphin Show, misc ones and ones from Hayley’s camera.
We had so much fun! Our hotel was right down from the Ravens stadium and the hotel ran a free shuttle to downtown Baltimore. We went downtown with friends and had a blast. Hayley was tracked out so we stayed an extra day to do the museum.
Soccer was pretty rough though. They moved up our team of U10 girls to the U11 division which meant much bigger and stronger kids. But they worked hard and had fun!
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Posted by Michelle on Feb 3, 2008 in Hayley
UNC women’s basketball played Elon and Hayley was a ballgirl. Nice blow out win.
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Posted by Michelle on Jan 25, 2008 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle
Being silly on the couch with Hayley’s camera.
Posted by Michelle on Jan 23, 2008 in Hayley, Michelle
I have so many more Baltimore photos to post but I had to post these three cool ones from Charm City Cakes. Charm City Cakes is the base for one of our favorite TV shows, Ace of Cakes on the Food Network. Hayley was dying to go visit it – you can’t get in but we took some fun photos outside.
Please ignore that I need my highlights done asap. I canceled my appointment when the chaos over Hayley’s finger happened.
Humorously, Hayley was convinced that every hobo, smoking person and random guy going into a bar all worked at Charm City – I guess b/c Duff and the bunch are a bit alt/rocker/punk/grunge looking. I finally just let her think they might in lieu of explaining what potentially was some unsavory characters!
Posted by Michelle on Jan 10, 2008 in Hayley
Hayley has this aching finger that got worse and stiffer over the past few days. I thought it was broken worst case, she’s not in much pain at all. It just was nagging and had swelled up more, and gotten stiff in the past 24 hours – I decided might as well get it looked at.
We went to her regular doc, who is a family practice but also is sports med group. After x-rays and exam, they tell me it is not broken. Her doctor thought there was an infection of the flexor tendon sheath in the fourth metacarpal and it is a “fairly serious” problem (flexor tenosynovitis) that may require surgery that night.
Our doctor called an ortho group she uses for hands. Together they set up a plan for us go to the ER immediately and the hand ortho specialist will meet us there as soon as she is settled to make the final call.
I’m not going to hash out the six hours debacle in the ER but the Dr. Post decides yes there is an infection but thinks that most of the pain is from a nodule on her flexor tendon which has taken away most of her range of motion. He said he wasn’t going to surgically open her hand up that night but wanted to run antibiotics in IV. He would see her Friday morning at his practice and then decide if he wanted to do surgery that afternoon or wait a week until the infection is gone and really see overall what is going on.
Post is a board certified orthopedist with another board certification in hand/upper extremities surgery plus extra work in hand and microsurgery so we feel very strongly that we’ve got the right man on the case. It doesn’t get much better than this guy.
They put her on IV for awhile and now that everyone knows no surgery that night, we are all punchy and Hayley makes us take photos of her IV – I kid you not, she wanted documentation of it. At least she could eat and drink finally, she’d been starving and we left about 1:30.
She is in no pain – not on any pain meds, just antibiotics. We’ll know more later but I had to post the photos from the ER since she insisted on the IV photos.
Friday update: In a crazy turn of events, Hayley’s finger popped up straight this morning as we were going to the hand specialist. Annabelle licked it and it it loosed up, don’t ask me how!!!
The doctor thinks it is a small benign fibroid that got stuck and wants to just wait and see. He said to take her off the antibiotics and cleared us to go to Maryland for her soccer tournament.
The FINGER!!!
The FINGER xray!!!
Hey look, I got an IV – woohoo
Let me try a fake sad look for sympathy over the IV
30 secs later – as you can see just fine, totally faking the one above
I got my Ipod and DS, I can stay forever
tired dad
tired mom
March update – the bump came back, she had surgery but it wasn’t successful but it isn’t causing anymore problems so we are in a wait and see mode after consulting with a ton of experts at UNC.
Posted by Michelle on Dec 29, 2007 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle, More Family
Another lovely Christmas season with friends and family! Photos include Christmas Eve making gingerbread house and decorating cookies (I forgot the camera at the party next door), Christmas day and 3rd annual gingerbread destruction.
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Posted by Michelle on Dec 22, 2007 in Hayley
Photo from the exhibition game where the UNC women’s basketball team played the Chinese National Basketball team and Hayley was a ballgirl.
The game went down to the wire and Erlana Larkins won it with a free throw in the final seconds. Incredibly exciting!
game winner
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Posted by Michelle on Dec 8, 2007 in Hayley
The Holly Springs Sun had an article on Hayley’s soccer team making to the finals in their first big-time away tournament in Myrtle Beach, S.C. I finally got around to scanning it in.
It was lovely to see an article on them since we had such a great time down there and the girls played so well. I was a bit astonished to be going five hours to play but it really was lots of fun.
The file is a pdf so you can read and print it easily:
Read the Holly Springs Sun article: Great Carolina Shootout Finalist.
Posted by Michelle on Dec 7, 2007 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle
Back by popular demand – the Xmas list for the family…
Please let me know if you get something for Hayley on this list so we can mark it off.
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michelle
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