Sinus Surgery...

It was all in his head!

So Jimmy had to have sinus surgery in January...

He had a deviated septum and also had to have his sinus's bored out to prevent his chronic infections!  It wasn't too bad for him...not fun though...especially when he had to go for the post op's twice to have his sinus's vacuumed out and a little camera shoved up them.  The first time went OK...the second time he emptied his stomach in the doctor's office after the procedure and then headed off to Sacrament to start his 2nd. semester at Sac. State.

He feels like the operation was a success but is so stuffed up with allergies that he is having a hard time breathing!  I took Pictures of Jimmy pre and post op with my camera but had a malfunction while downloading all my January pictures to my computer.  All my pictures somehow didn't make it to the computer and the computer proceeded to erase the whole memory card that the pictures were on!  So very frustrating!





This is probably what the surgery looked like!



OK this isn't Jimmy after surgery but he had the same cute litte gown, the under nose bandage and the same look on his face!

More Surgeries

After Christmas Shawn started having some pain in his upper back.  Shawn and Kim and Wesley were spending the Christmas break here in California with us.  The pain got so bad that by the day that they were supposed to fly back home we had to take him to see the doctor.  He was given some pain meds and told he probably had a disc. problem the Dr. said 80% of disc problems are musculature.  They flew home that evening but the pain was more than Shawn could stand even with the pain meds so he went to the Dr. in Utah.  They ended up doing an MRI...and to take a long and painful story and make it short...he was in surgery 3 days after talking to the surgeon.  He had a level 4 ruptured disc.  The doctor said usually this kind of injury he sees after a bad car accident and the patient is screaming to be put out the pain is so bad!  The surgery went well, they fused his spine and after a day  in the hospital he went home with an armful of pain meds.  The pain was pretty severe...about a week after the surgery he was complaining that his lower back hurt.  He finally got them to see him in the Dr. office again.  They once again did an MRI and found that in his lower back he had a level 3 disc rupture!  Once again he found himself in surgery.  The lower disc was pretty bad.  The Dr. kept referring to Shawn as Mr. unlucky saying it was pretty rare for someone to have two discs rupture like he did.  The healing has been a long an painful one for Shawn.  He has had to take over a month off from work.  Hopefully he will be well enough to go back to work soon.  The Dr. said it will take a year before the healing is complete and the pain is gone.  He still has some numbness and loss of strength in his limbs but hopefully that will get better over time.  They have had quite a new year!  Hopefully the rest of the year is better for them!

There are good things that come from bad though...it gave us a love for Shawn's surgeon.  A wonderful show of goodness.  Not only did he give Shawn very good care, he treated him like a son.  He then told Shawn and Kim that he would not charge them for either one of the surgeries!  He would take only what the insurance would pay. 

Shawn and Kim in  San Fran. the day before leaving California to go back home to Utah...you can hardly tell how much pain Shawn is in...of course he couldn't straighten his head...he walked around holding his arm up and his head at a weird angle!

Jonathan's  Baptism Day January 8, 2011

It is great to be 8!

Jonny with Uncle Jim, Grandma and Grandpa Patten and Aunt Christy

Jonathan and his family
Ethan, Cory, Megan and Kaitlyn, Jonathan, Kristal, Adam

Kaitlyn



Megan and Kaitlyn



Megan

Ethan's 5 year old Birthday!

January 23, 2011

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2010 -A YEAR IN REVIEW

Since I was not very good at keeping up my blog last year...and I try to keep it up as a family history...I decided to put up a review of last year. I was amazed at how many things happened last year. No wonder I am tired! There are 10 posts...Birthdays, Births and Blessings, Baptisms, Temple Sealings, Graduations, hospital visits, Home improvements, Trips, Fun Things, Thanksgiving, Christmas! So scroll down through the posts to see how the Patten Family spent the year 2010! ( when you get to the bottom hit older posts to see them all)

2010 A Year In Review....Birthdays

Even though we didn't get to spend birthdays with those of our family out of state I put their pictures up anyway!

January-Pam and Ethan

February-Kim

March- Stacy and Megan

April- David, Sam, Christy

May- CailinJuly-Shawn and Adam August-Michael, Cory, Wesley

September-Ben and Jimmy October - Kristal November- Butters December - Jason, Kaitlyn, Jonathan