Short Hannah Update

I realized that I have not been very good about updating this blog on how Hannah is doing. She has had a lot going on the last two months. I have been good about notes on facebook but have neglected this site, due to a busy schedule. Hannah has not had the best of healthy over the past few months. It seems that she gets over one thing and then starts into something new. Over the last 6 to 8 weeks she has been on 4 different antibiotics, and been diagnosed with three different illnesses. Hannah has always been highly susceptible to illnesses in the past but has never gotten sick so repeatedly. We had to cancel our trip for thanksgiving because Hannah had pneumonia and had to receive shots over the course of a few days. This illness hit her fairly hard and since then her lungs are having a hard time recovering. We had a visit with her Allergy- Asthma specialist today and he is concerned that her lung are worsening. He ordered a chest xray and some lab work today and I will be meeting with him in January to discuss the findings. Hannah will be staying on an oral medicine for now for her lungs along with her inhaler and breathing treatments- as needed. One of his concerns is that Hannah is not able to fight illness lately and a few of the test will be looking at her immune system to make sure it is doing what it should be doing. I have faith that she is going to be just fine but that the doctors want to be extra carefully when caring for Hannah. Hannah also has another stomach emptying study in about two weeks to take another look at her stomach to see if she has made any progress with her food digestion. We will be meeting with her GI specialist in January as well to go over those results. Hannah looks great at this point, from a plain eye view, she is happy and very, very active. She has yet to let being sick slow her down much. I ask that Hannah be kept in prayers that the doctors will continue to see what needs to be done and be able to do it. I will be better about posting updates as they come available and if anyone ever has any questions or suggestions please never hesitate to call our home. you can email me if you would like as well, I check email often. -Karen