Jaxon's Party...

Garrett News...

It has been a rough week here at the Garrett house. John has been having sever back pain over the past 8 weeks. He has had a "bad" for about 4 years but never like this. He had an MRI 2 weeks ago and it said he had a bulging disc. So Our primary care Dr sent us to a back specialist.  We were all kinda of confused because the severity of the pain was not matching the MRI results. John's appointment was on Wednesday and when the back specialist put his MRI films up on the "light thing" his face was reflected complete shock. He asked John how is it that you are even walking? How much pain meds do you have in you? Which was and is a lot! John has completely ruptured and herniated discs in his back and the gel from his discs are oozing on to the nerves. The doctor also told John he has lost 3/5 of the muscle mass in his left ankle/foot that they will not be able to get back. His was also told that him the MRI place was negligent in reading (if they even read them) the MRI because it is very obvious that is much more sever then a bulging disc. He should have had surgery in the first few days following the MRI. The doctor is now out town and we have to wait more so the doctor has John doing one more test nest week to check the extent of the damage of the nerves and discs. Then there is a 90% chance he will have back surgery to remove those discs in 1 1/2 week.   

On a happy note Jaxon's party is tomorrow and we are very excited. It is a Caillou party which is his favorite character right now. Caillou was the first character he has formed an attchment too. He gets very excited when it comes on TV or if he sees Caillou somewhere. It has not been easy finding Caillou stuff. I had to go on ebay to find all the party stuff and thank God we have a great bakery here called Edgar's who is hand drawing Caillou on the cake. So I will post lots of pictures. Here is the video of Jaxon's card that we made and sent into PBS Sprout and they put it on TV. Sorry it is a little blurry I had the dang camera on the wrong setting.   

My Baby is 2!!

   Our sweet little boy is 2 today. I don't know where the time went. These have been the most amazing 2 years of our lives. Jaxon is truly the love of our lives and will always be our greatest accomplishment. We are so lucky and blessed to have in our lives. 

Playing with his new cars with Uncle Tony. Also I can't keep clothes on him. He strips minutes after I dress him.   



   We did a low key Birthday Celebration tonight at home. We let Jax open one of his presents and we had cup cakes. Saturday is the "big" party. We spent this past weekend in FL with my mom so we are having the party a week late. I will post pictures on that trip later.      

Jax doing his ISR Swim test.

This is Jax doing his "swim test." He did so good! He passed with flying colors. These lessons have given us such peace of mind. However they did make VERY comfortable with the water, so it is a good thing he knows what to do if he falls in the pool. On this particular day we went to the family I am a nanny for to swim. He was walking the pool and every so often he would sit on the edge of the pool and dip his feet in. I was in the shallow end watching him do this. He made it down to the deep end of the pool sat down to put his feet in. Well he got a "wild hair up his but" and "jumped" in, while I was at the other end of the pool. I started swimming like a mad women to the other end of the pool and when I got to him he was floating on his back laughing. So we already got our moneys worth. Not to mention we will be in FL next and my mom lives on the water and we will also be at my aunts and she has a pool. So I am so grateful he knows what to do if he falls in or in his case jumps in. If your child is ever around a pool I highly recommend these lessons, they are amazing!!!