In August Sebastian had surgery to take down what we had planned to be one testicle, which had not descended on its own. When we turned up on Monday the 3rd of August, both testicles had decided to stay up, and we agreed with the doctor that both should be taken down. Although this would not make it less painfull afterwards. As no one had thought about having bloodwork done prior to the procedure, and as it was almost three months since the last CBC, the surgery was almost cancelled by the anaestetics, but we ended up meassuring the hgb as sort of an indicator. Well, the surgery went well, but Sebastian was very poor for the whole day, and ended up being sick to his stomach. The following days he felt better, although the doublesided surgery did not make it easy to walk. After a weeks time he was able to go back to kindergarten, and all in all it seems like he got through it allright. We have a check up in November on this.
As written in the last update, a neurosurgeon had asked for a MRI scan on Sebastian to detect a possible tethered cord in his spine. The scan was done in the beginning of September, and a week later the doctor called me with good news: no tethered cord. Sebastian has on top of this had a good bladder and bowel control since mid-July, so all in all good news. However, a little fatty thing called a fillum terminale lipom was detected in the spine, but as the neurosurgeon put it: "it is most likely a casual finding of no importance." After having searched the internet I am not so convinced about that. A lipoma could possibly lead to tethered cord later on, as far as the info on the internet tells me. We will see. I have asked for a second opinion from a doctor at another big hospital here in Denmark, but she has not called me back yet.
We have gone through another round of PGD, with relatively positive results: 14 eggs were retrieved, and one of them a perfect HLA match for Sebastian. However, it did not turn into a pregnancy this time as well. We will just have to try again, hopefully starting out again before Christmas.
In mid-September we went to Geneva, Schwitzerland, to visit our friends Rikke, Lars, Camille and Laura. We stayed at their place for three days, and the kids had a blast. We were treated like kings and queens, and had once again expelled Rikke and Lars from their bedroom! Marie-Louise grew very fond of Rikke, who knows how to treat a real little lady: juwellery, hair-slides, high heels, pearls and lots of princess outfits! She was just SO happy! We went to see Geneva for one day, and tried quite a few playgrounds in the area. It was great to spend time with the Paganos in Versoix, and we do hope to be able to see them all again soon.
