We did great at the basketball game on Thursday night. Chaylee is our new best buddy and we gave five/knuckles to some of the girls in Junior High. We also showed everyone our sign language skills about a MILLION times. :-)
Friday, we left at 3:50am for the Cleft Team Appointment. We arrived there at 7:30am, in time to have some breakfast and find the right part of the hospital to begin our day. We spent four hours with them, having back to back appointments with various members of the team. We met with audiologists, genetic counselors, orthodontics, dentists, an ENT physician, a plastic surgeon, speech pathologists, and a pediatric geneticists. They evaluated all sorts of things for Elle and will be sending us a written report in a couple of two weeks.
The bottom line is that her lip and palate surgery while in China were good. We will need to do a bone graft when she is between 7 and 12 to fill the ridge gap behind her front teeth. There may be some nasal surgeries required when she is a teenager and also, lots of dental appointments over the years. There was significant fluid in her left ear which we will need to have checked again in a couple of weeks. It was effecting her hearing in that ear, so we'll have to determine if once the weather gets warmer can her body manage this on its own or does she need tubes. Otherwise, the team was very impressed with her communication skills and good health. They will be following her and doing the necessary interventions through her early adulthood.
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