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.