Getting better

This pic was taken Dec 1, 2012.  Lacee's first High School Dance.  Its called "Santa Switch"

Lacee was not yet back to school full time when this picture was made.  She completed the second quarter of her first semester of ninth grade at home, with a homebound teacher coming to the house twice a week for an hour. 

At our last visit with her new doctor, a cat scan was performed.  Dr Talac told us that Lacee either had a compression fracture or a blood vessel wrapped around her back.  I asked him how we would find out which one, he said it did not matter, we would treat it as a compression fracture. 

He wanted her to take aqua therapy, but we cannot find a place around here or a therapist trained to give her that.  The closest is an hour away.  I know that isn't far, and I am the first to say that no place is too far to go for our children.  However, with me not working, we simply cannot afford the gas to drive that far even once a week, never mind more.

I am thankful to report, tho, that Lacee is doing so much better.  She has returned to school (its been back in for one week) and has done amazing so far.  She is allowed to sit or stand in her classes depending on what she needs at any particular time. I am so proud for her to be able to attend school without being miserable. I continue to pray for her continued healing. 

I am certain that having our preacher and his wife pray over Lacee last month, and asking many others to pray for her, has played a huge role in her progress.

help wanted

today i am writing asking for feedback, for help, for insights. our daughter is 14. beginning last december, she has had unexpected trouble with her back. the back pain has caused her to miss nearly the entire spring semester of her 8th grade year, and now she has missed a month of school thus far in her freshman year. she loves school. she was a cheerleader. she has always been a social butterfly, loving to be in the crowd. she has been to 2 children's hospitals, 2 rounds of PT, 2 rounds of chiropractic care, she has had bone scans, xrays, MRI's, cat scans, a spinal tap, blood work, and every other type of test you can imagine. no one has been able to give this child any relief or any answers. we were thrilled when this summer and into the fall her pain was gone, thinking maybe the medications were helping. yet now that the cold weather has set in, the pain is back and she has had to stop attending school. it just now hit us a few weeks ago that possibly the all the swimming she did this summer helped with the back, and now that she is no longer swimming, the pain is back. our pool is not heated, we do not have a YMCA here, and we cant think of anyone with a heated pool that we could just go take use of a few times a week to help her. however, even if we could, we still do not know why she is having such issues. she was diagnosed with celiac disease 4 years ago. she has been totally gluten free ever since. this spring when this back fiasco first started, a bone doc told her she had scoliosis, but that it was not bad enough to number or to cause pain. we are still stuck with no answers, no relief, and plan of action. we are in an appeal with her insurance company for more testing, as they have denied her another cat scan, yet will approve all the narcotics in the world. she will not take those narcotics tho. they do not help her. they do not phase her pain or her speech or her motor function or anything at all actually. so we do not get the filled. pointless. anyway, does anyone out there have any experiences they could share, any hospitals, clinics, doctors on this planet that can and will help my child? this mom has had enough of not being able to help her child and not even knowing why.