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Dental Floss Part 5 - The Faith Perspective

In Faith All Things Are Possible ------------------------------------ This is part 5 of my blog series on the road to having our child Introduction:  Right Here Part 1 can be found:  Right Here Part 2 can be found:  Right Here Part 3 can be found:  Right Here Part 4 can be found:  Right Here Part 5:  *YOU ARE HERE* ------------------------------------- So there's a major part to our story that I've not mentioned up until this point.  It wasn't for a lack of importance that it wasn't mentioned but rather a careful choice.  While our religious belief is a vitally important piece of our puzzle in navigating this situation I did not want our experiences this far to be written off by anyone who may not believe the same things we do.  However, I'd also be remiss if I did not mention the strength we've received through faith in this ordeal.  So the intention of this post is to highlight some of the key low points of this journey and how we allowed ourselve

Dental Floss Part 4 - The Diagnosis

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Frontal Encephalocele ------------------------------------ This is part 4 of my blog series on the road to having our child Introduction:  Right Here Part 1 can be found:  Right Here Part 2 can be found:  Right Here Part 3 can be found:  Right Here Part 4: *YOU ARE HERE* Part 5 can be found:  Right Here ------------------------------------- So following the doctors advice I got in the car and rushed to the doctors office as fast as I safely could.  To be perfectly honest I don't recall parts of the trip because his words were just banging echo's through my mind "brain matter leaking from her head."  "It certainly is rather strange."  I had no time for Google research and in hindsight I am quite glad I did not have that time because there are some key distinctions I had yet to learn to frame our case versus a lot of the cases out there.  I was also still in shock that I had decided not to go with Margaret to the appointment, so for the 45 minutes i