June 10th marked 6mos with Audrey in our family and our arms and it couldn't be any better. She is thriving, growing and changing. Last week we had her vocal chords looked at. It required her being put under, but it was over in 5min. Turns out there is no scar tissue from her heart surgery, but we still don't know why one side is paralyzed. Good news though is, it shouldn't effect her development, however, we are still stuck on a lot of daaaa (which stands for dog, milk, water, swing, outside, inside, shower, the various brothers and sisters) and derrrrr (is either there or this, we usually judge the context, [aka, direction of pointing] when determining meaning).
When she is older and there is less risk involved we will probably have surgery to tighten the gap between the working vocal chord and the paralyzed chord. The long-term risk of not doing is sound production (developing a raspy, breathy voice) and aspirating fluids into the lungs. They would take fat from her body and inject it into the paralyzed side to build it up and that should take care of it. But that we don't need to worry about for awhile.
There isn't much more to report other than the close of the school year, the other kids are doing great and we look forward to...well, school starting up again! LOL! Go Wings, thanks for a great year...the kids are totally hooked on hockey--thankfully replacing Star Wars for awhile.
Here are some pics:
