We were robbed-- Surgery and bad MRI results-- When it rains it pours:(

On Friday night while we were all asleep in bed, we our home was broken into. It was a very windy night so when the burglars pried open our kitchen window it was drowned out by the sound of the crazy wind that we had been hearing all night. The burglars came in the kitchen and stole my purse (with my wallet, work keys, jump drive and tons of other stuff), Kevin's wallet, I-phone, two of our laptops and then brazenly went upstairs into our bedroom where we were asleep and took our laptop on our desk in our bedroom just a few feet from where we were sleeping. A few other things were also taken. They then found my car keys in my purse and stole my Honda Odyssey Van. We did not realize things were missing until about 9am Saturday morning when we were getting ready for hockey. I was upstairs and Kev asked if I had his wallet and phone and I said no but went down to look in my purse and realized my purse was not there. We then started looking around and realized computers were missing and a few little things. Kevin went out to the side of the house trying to figure out how they got in and as he walked by the driveway he saw a large empty space and thought-- where is Christy's car-- sure enough, it was gone!! We immediately called the Police and they arrived shortly after and took a report and dusted for fingerprints. We didn't realize initially that they came upstairs but this morning I asked Kevin where my computer on my desk in our room was. He didn't know and we asked the kids and no one knew and I knew it was there on Friday because I used it but it was gone. We searched everywhere because the last thing I want to think is that that horrible people were in our bedroom while we slept but unfortunately the computer is gone and it always stays in our bedroom, therefore we must assume they were brazen enough to come into our room-- that scares me more than anything.


Needless to say, this has been quite the ordeal. Besides feeling violated and having to clean up the mess of reporting cards stolen, getting new drives licenses (will get those on Monday) dealing with trying to get a rental car with no drivers license and no credit card (BIG PAIN-- still don't even have a rental yet-- Monday) and explaining to our kids that a bad person broke into our house and stole our stuff and car, I am also having to deal with the fact that my work keys were in my purse and the purse was stolen. Mia is a little freaked and was a little teary eyed this morning before church asking why someone would do that. It's hard explaining it to the girls-- the boys are fine- but I can tell everyone is a little on edge-- especially Kev and I. The problem is Kev is having his hip replacement surgery on Thursday and this surgery has been scheduled for months so he is concerned with getting our house protected before he is out of it with surgery. This is going to be a hard next few days trying to calm our nerves and get our life in order BEFORE Kevin's surgery. We have a ton to still do and I am not a nervous person in anyway, but I am very anxious and nervous right now. I don't like feeling like this.

OK, besides the break in and Kevin's life changing surgery on Thursday, we had Finley's MRI results on Friday morning and unfortunately, things were much worse than we thought. While she is exceptionally high functioning (because the Spina Bifida was so low on her back -part of her butt crack) her spinal cord is very tethered to a bunch of fat in her spinal column and when she grows she will begin to lose function. The neurosurgeon said she is already being stretched quite a bit and is surprised she has not lost function at this point. Really we don't know if she has or not because we have only had her since January so we don't know if she has lost function over time-- because she is so functional, but maybe she has lost function we are not aware of. He said that it is not the question of IF she is going to need a detethering surgery but rather WHEN and he is inclined to do it sooner than later because she is already so stretched. We are having another neurosurgeon look at her MRI results on Monday but more than likely we are going to have to proceed with surgery soon. There are a couple bladder function and bowel function tests that must be done before her detethering surgery and both those tests require her to be under general anesthesia (with breathing tube so it will be better than her being put under for the MRI) so we are going to have to get those done ASAP as well. Also, when they do the 6 hour detethering surgery they will coordinate with a plastic/reconstructive surgeon and they will work on making her lipoma more natural. So in all, the surgery will probably be about 8 hours and we have neurosurgeons and plastic surgeons schedules to coordinate to get this done. With the 2 other tests and the schedules to work with, I cant imagine she will be having surgery anytime before mid June but we will see. I'm worried about the surgery but more worried about doing nothing and having her spinal cord stretched and her losing function-- therefore I don't understand waiting for the surgery as opposed to doing it now. Anyway, I will let you know what we decide but for now I'm just glad we know what needs to be done and we can now move forward.

So, as you can see, when it rains it pours in our family. I am trying to stay positive but it is not easy when things are just off. Emotionally I feel on edge and am just really worried about the break in and them coming back again and Kevin's massive hip replacement surgery and then the worries about Finley's surgery, and oh ya, my OBGYN wants me to have a couple procedures that carry recovery time as well (obviously going to hold off on those for now). If you could lift our family up in prayer, we would appreciate it. We are so thankful that we are all ok and that the robber did not have a confrontation with any of us but we are also having a hard time with the violation. Pray they find my van-- that is huge since I live out of my car and we planned on driving it for many years to come and cant afford to take on a new car loan.

Thanks for listening and sorry to be a total downer, but things are not too cool right now. I will keep you updated on any info on the robbery and the surgery issues.

Thanks,

Christy :)