Update on God's Grace

Here's an update for you friends & family following the progress on our daughter Gracie- The last blog entry on her was August 8 an is at http://tedscolumn.blogspot.com/2006/08/gods-grace.html


Yesterday she saw Dr. Katherine Mathews at St. Luke's in Sioux City. She is from the University of Iowa's "Childrens Hospital of Iowa."

Her expertise includes neuromuscular disorders and the neuropsychological outcome of childhood stroke. She told us that her examination didn't suggest any genetic diseases or disorders to her but that she would like to have us take Grace to the U of I in Iowa City sometime this year for a series of tests in the speech, neuropsychological, gi & urological areas to find out more. She doesn't see why the speech and bathroom issues would be related, but she wasn't prepared to rule that out either. She didn't think that Grace's lack of motor-coordination was severe enough to constitute a problem either.

In other words, we didn't really get any answers. However, we are getting more direction and help- things that we felt like we didn't get from the gi specialist we took her too at Children's Hospital in Omaha and that our general practitioner hasn't been able to offer anymore.