NEW SITE LAYOUT
After a year and many months of little changes, I've finally done a big update for the site - including a new layout, updated archives and over 50 new pictures in the pictures gallery, including his one-year transplant checkup and his second birthday. I had said before that I would get new videos up as well but I haven't been able to get to them yet. But, all of the videos should be OK to view, all depending on your internet connection. Sorry it took me almost a year to fix them, but up until recently did I discover a new way to stream the videos.

I'm also the reason why there were little updates in the past week or so. Like I stated before, I wanted to wait for the new layout before I posted anything ... so the most recent update is below, and the daily updates for Logan's one-year transplant can be viewed in the archives. And on that note, here is the latest update ...

Hello everyone.  Sorry that I didn't update all through the week last week, but most of it was the same old tests with no real results.  However, I do have big news; Logan's hearing has improved in one of his ears!!!  So, the audiologist who told me that it could never happen can go and suck an egg!  This means that they will probably turn down his hearing aids a little bit which is great, we just have to get him to start wearing them.  On the downside, Logan has a really bad astigmatism in one eye that is making it difficult to see the world.  To correct this, he is going ot need glasses.  Tomorrow I am going to go and get him fitted for them.  He said that there is a possibility that this might get better, but until then he'll have to have them.  I was shocked that he needs them, but Dave wasn't.  Dave has an astigmatism, and he has glasses and I wear contacts, so he wasn't surprised at all.  I am just worried.  I was teased horribly when I was a child and I just don't want the same thing to happen to Logan.  With glasses and hearing aids the children are going to have something to focus on and I just can't imagine someone being mean to my little man.

There is also some more bad news.  Logan went to see Dr. Martin and they evaluated him.  They tested his occupational and physical skills as well as his cognitive skills.  It turns out that Logan is behind in all areas.  And I don't mean that he is just a little behind, he is very behind.  And I don't mean for a normal child, I mean for a transplant child.  She had a graph that showed two curves, one that represented children that didn't have transplants, and the other one represented children that have had transplants.  In all areas Logan was below.  It breaks my heart to even say it.  Every parent just want their child to be where they're supposed to be and it's really hard to know that Logan's not there.  She said that we should increase the amount of therapy that he's getting.  He's already getting all three therapies twice a week, and so now I guess it's going to be bumped up to three times.  I don't think that we're going to have much time for anything else.  I don't know how many hours they think that I have in a week, but I'll do anything that I have to do for him to catch up.

One day, while we were waiting for him to have an MRI I had to use the restroom and as I was walking down the hall I saw a familiar face, it was Rachel's mom.  She told me that they were still there and they had moved back into the house.  It seems that Rachel has GVH of the gut.  The poor little thing didn't look much like herself, but she still smiled at people just like her old self.  She was going to have a feeding tube put in.  While we were in the hospital with her she was able to have her feeding tube taken out.  So that was really sad.  Her mother said that she also couldn't walk and had to use a walker, they had just started showing her how to use one last Monday.  I said goodbye and went to the bathroom.  When I got back to Dave I was nearly in tears and was close to a panic attack.  I'm so afraid that something is going to happen to that little girl.  GVH can be so dangerous, even fatal.  Her mother gave me her website but when I tried it, it didn't work.

Well, after all of his tests were done and we were done at the hospital we left the area and headed to a town called Asheboro.  They have a zoo there.  We were originally going to go to the beach, but there is a small hurricane there and so we decided to hit the zoo.  It was absolutely amazing there, not to mention huge.  They had everything.  We saw polar bears, cougars, alligators, elephants, zebras, and even giraffes.  The park was so big that it would take 40 minutes to walk from one end of it to the other, so instead of doing that we took the little trams that they had there.  Logan slept on and off almost the entire time.  There was a mix up at the hospital with his blood pressure patches and he ended up getting one put on that was twice the dosage that he should have been getting, which we didn't know at the time, and so he just slept.

If anyone out there and is on Facebook both Dave and I are on there if you want to add us as friends.  The only thing is that I am known as Megan Ramsey Stout (obviously Ramsey being my maiden name).

I am really excited, this Friday will be Logan's second birthday.  Dave and I are going to have dinner and a cake, and then next weekend we are having a huge party at my parents house for my side of the family.  Then, we have to plan a date for Dave's side of the family.