2 weeks post surgery

This past week has has been an interesting one. Karter has continued to find his voice. I can hear him even if I turn the baby monitor off now in the morning. He even had to be taken out of the church service because he was too loud. We love it, we see his persobality coming through more and more every day. He is happy, smiling and laughing all the time now. On the other side of things, last Thursday I noticed that Karter had felt floppy again, his head control was all over the place when on the floor and when being carried and the strength that I felt the week before seemed to have gone. Of course this was frustrating for me because I did not prepare myself for, what I felt was, going backwards so soon. We think that there was a possiblity that either he was fighting illness or (as suggested by someone) he maybe overdid it the week before and was just sore because he has since regained his strength.

I had called to make an appointment with the physiotherapist who was taking over while our regular one is on holidays. She came to visit this past Monday. She gave us a few simple yet important tips for Karter. I had expressed my desire to have a "workout plan" for him, something like you would get from a trainer at the gym, you know 12 reps of this, 24 of these etc, etc. She played with Karter for awhile and said that she felt the most important and only thing we should be focusing on right now is his rolling. He is so close and she felt that giving his the ability to roll would open the door for all the other skills to emerge naturally. So that is what we are doing. It has been three days since she visited us and he is already rolling consistently from his tummy to his back and with assistance from his back to his tummy, so we are pleased at his progress this week.

Finally I feel like we are on the brink of big things. I explained to the physiotherapist that I felt if he could just get the rolling down, it would be like a snowball effect with everything else. She agreed that would most likely be the case, how fast that happens is something that we cannot really predict, but we have not been given a reason to suggest that he would not meet those milestones in time.

So that is what this week has looked like. Karter's incision is healing rapidly, most of the stitches are gone and the hair around his wound is growing in very fast. The surgeon did a great job with it, looks like there will be a very minimal scar.

All our guests have left and the house is empty, the meals that have be so thoughtfully provided are allowing me some recovery time and have been such a blessing these past two weeks. Now it feels like we take a deep breath and move on. Such a weight has lifted in so many areas of our lives. If I can describe for you in a picture how I feel today it would look like this:
If you have ever driven for hours on a straight prarie road, you know that you can encounter sunny skies and then in an instant dark clouds. A few minutes down the road it can hail and you can't see where you are, in those moments you experience fear and the "what if" factor. A few minutes more the hail turns to a downpour and then to rain showers and then a light spinkle. Within a minute you can see the end of the black cloud, it is like a line in the sky. On the other side of that dark line is the hot sunshine beating down and blue sky for what looks like miles. That is the journey we have walked this past eight months, but I feel like we are emerging the line between dark cloud and blue sky. I am going to enjoy basking in the beauty of the clear hot sunshine...Thank you Jesus!!!