Hopkins Visit and Horse Show

We are at Hopkins now. Amanda had the hematology appointment today with Dr Keefer. What a wonderful guy! He was very thorough and helpful. He ordered more blood tests for Amanda to be sure we have comprehensively evaluated any clotting disorder possibilities. Amanda was so brave and didn't even cry when she had to get stuck twice to get all the blood collected. We should hear something about the results by the end of the week. His big question is whether blood vessel abnormalities led to the stroke in utero or the stroke in utero was caused by a clotting disorder which led to the blood vessel abnormalities. It is kind of the chicken and the egg question and it's answer has important ramifications.

Tomorrow Amanda has her MRI and appointment with Dr Jordan, the vascular neurologist. the MRI is at 9:00 and the other appt is at noon. Hopefully, we will head home in the afternoon after receiving good news that everything is stable. We are faithful that will be the result. I will post again tomorrow night or Wed morning.

Saturday was a fun day for both girls. Both Katie and Amanda showed May at the CCHA horse show on 4/4. Both did really well. The pictures show how much fun they had. If you want to see more pictures, you can go to my Facebook page and look under photos. After finishing up the horse show on Sat, we then spent the afternoon working the Azalea Festival booth for paws4people and then came home and packed so we could head to Baltimore on Sunday morning.

We hope all is well with all of you. If you ever want to see Amanda's horse video or new video with ELLIE, you can type in Amanda Ivancevich in Youtube and both will come up. The poster of the horse video spelled hippotherapy wrong but the video is still great. The video with ELLIE gives you a pretty good picture of how Amanda is doing these days from a physical standpoint.

Thanks for all the prayers. Until manana....
Susan