Move'n on

I have learned (it has been a long learning process) that life is always changing and always for the better, even if it doesn't seem like it.

I have never liked change. Change has been hard for me in the past. I have finally learned life doesn't always go how I want it to. In fact there will always be things that will happen that I won't like. I now know that everything that I have gone through, good or bad and mostly the bad things, have shaped me into a better person. A more caring, compassionate and loving person.

Our Craniosynostosis Story

Craniosynostosis, or craino for short, is when one or more of the sutures in a infants head fuses together too soon, changing the way the head grows. A child's sutures close gradually, one by one, until about age 2.

When Kate was about 2  months old, Emma who was not yet 2 year old threw a toy cup at Kate, hitting her right on head. I examined her head but I didn't see exactly where the cup hit. I saw a bump on her head that I thought might be from the hit, but it never bruised or got any bigger. Little did I know that it wasn't the bump I should have been looking at, and it wasn't from a hit on the head. 

A couple months went by and the bump stayed the same. I kept looking it wondering if something was wrong. No one else ever said anything to me about the shape of her head, until I was out shopping with a friend and she asked if Kate's head was flat on one side. I told her, "I always thought there was a bump on the other side, do you think anything is wrong?" Like a good friend, she assured me it was probably nothing and that Kate was fine. I still wondered, and after asking a few other people about it, I finally called her doctor.