Caden’s Page

Seven years ago today at the Medical University of South Carolina our family was blessed with a new addition. Caden was born via C-Section early that Tuesday morning as the presidential election began that would result in the re-election of George W. Bush to a second term. The picture to the right is of Sherry […]

Caden has been experiencing some pain with a piece of titanium hardware that is protruding against his skin from the inside.  Caden had a follow up visit with the orthopedic surgeon this past week.  The surgeon originally wanted to perform Caden’s next surgery (rod adjustment) at about the six month mark from his his original […]

Caden has been out of the hospital for three days following his scoliosis surgery and we are finally getting back to “normal”. Life is a somewhat new normal for our family for at least a season, but normal none the less.  Caden has come out of this scoliosis surgery with a much slower recovery than […]

I got an email today from a blogger friend reminding me that I had not posted about how Caden’s appointments went last week. The short version of the story is that the MBS is still showing no signs of swallowing functionality. The feeding via g-tube is still in play for all of Caden’s nutrition and […]

First off let me say that everyone is doing pretty good. I have gone back to work this week and Grandma is in town helping Sherry out with the boys. Josiah is growing like a weed. More on that in a minute. Caden has a big day on Tuesday. He will get his first MBS […]

First things first. Happy Birthday Nana!!! This picture was taken on July 1st. (click the picture for a larger image) Nana’s birthday was this past Sunday. ENT Update We took Caden in for an ENT follow up yesterday. We are now at three weeks post surgery. The ENT took a look at the surgery site […]

It was an eventfully day here at MUSC. I wrote a few emails today to those who subscribe to the email updates for Caden’s Page. I was unable to post directly to the blog for a while. Below is the majority of what I wrote today. Scroll to the bottom of this post for the […]

We have a time for the surgery tomorrow. The show time is 9am in the MUSC main (adult) hospital surgery check in. The surgery will actually begin somewhere around 10:30. The surgery procedure will require an inpatient stay. The procedure being performed is called a sphinterplasty. It is expected to improve speech and swallowing. The […]

We have a change of plans for Caden’s upcoming surgery date, and it looks like my suspicions about the manometry were valid. One of Caden’s speech therapists issued the following in an email to Caden’s ENT doctor. “I have talked at great length to people in the know about manometry for assessing esophageal motility. When […]