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Posted by Michelle on May 3, 2008 in Hayley
Hayley had a chance to see some of her bdad’s family at a soccer game in late March.
I love this photo, this is Hayley with her half-brother Dalton, they were both so tired.
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Posted by Michelle on Feb 20, 2008 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle
I swear I’ll get around to posting the backlog of photos but here are two cute ones. Oh yeah, I went back to pink hair for awhile.
Multiplying love frog webkinz – ahhhh
Some day we’ll take a photo without someone cracking up!
Nope, still goofing
More goofing
Still more silliness…
well that’s about as close as I think we’ll get to not laughing
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 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 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 Nov 15, 2007 in Hayley, Humor, Michelle
Hayley is a ballgirl for a bunch of the UNC women’s basketball home schedule this year – at their request! She’s done two games so far already and coming home from one earlier this week, we drove by the kookiest thing on the street in Chapel Hill outside of our favorite restaurant … it was the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile.
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Posted by Michelle on Oct 16, 2007 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle
We are back from Myrtle Beach where Hayley’s team finished 2nd in the U10 group tournament, going 3-1! They even got cute trophies for second. Hayley played well and had a nice goal on Sunday afternoon.
We were right next to all the fun stuff so we went to the Hard Rock Cafe and MagiQuest, the kids played in the pool and had an ice cream sundae party. The funniest was excited they all were to be in a hotel WITH each other nearby. Four hours from home and we even ran into someone from our neighborhood playing for another team there.
After watching coach after coach SCREAM at their teams, we know for sure how lucky Hales is to be playing for Coach Dan.
Upstairs with teammate at Hard Rock Cafe
Oh so close to a goal
Win in sudden death penalty kicks (after regular pks)
