VPI Follow Up Last Week, Surgery Tomorrow

Last week D had her follow up at with her VPI team to check how well her p-flap has healed and how well it is doing it's job. We bribed prepared her with the promise of special lunch with mommy and daddy and a trip to Target to get the accessories for her new room. She was very excited until we pulled up in front of the building. We were eventually able to get her out of the car and into the hospital. Bottom line is the speech therapist was fairly impressed with the improvement in her speech. There is a small hole that potentially could cause an air leak which will interfere with her correct speech but at this point it is so small they want to wait to see if it closes itself as she grows and gains weight. If not, we will go back when in a year or two (or three- whenever she is discharged from speech therapy) and decide what to do then. She was just happy to not have to do the "nose camera"

Watching herself on TV as they took video of her repeating sentences. This is the "nose camera" room- so initially she didn't really trust us that all she had to do was talk into the microphone.

Tomorrow we go to see her plastic surgeon for a lip revision. Right now she seems more interested in the "surprise" I am motivating bribing her with but I imagine tomorrow at 5:30 when we pull up to the hospital not even promising her a pony will help. It should be an outpatient surgery and if everything goes well we should be home with her around lunchtime.

Think good thoughts for her (and us)

click here for an update on how the surgery went