Ford Family Current Events

This is Adam Ford's first post on the family blog. It has been a very eventful few months. We have moved back to duchesne as many of you know, and I have started my new job as a personal banker at Wells Fargo in Roosevelt. We have been striving to sell our home in Saint George, but we haven't has any offers yet. I expect that it will sell soon due to it's low price. In any event, we are going to move into a cute little home here on July 10th. We really got lucky and found a great little home with a great backyard, which is the most important factor to me. MaryJo thinks the home has a lot of great possibilities and is excited about having a nice garden now that we have the room. Teagan is still fighting her infection, and seems to be very cheerful despite the constant annoyance of changing the bandage on her leg everyday. We have recently heard back from her doctor at Primary Children's and expect to have an appointment sometime during the next couple of weeks. We are looking forward to getting into our new ward here and becoming involved. We have been living with Larry and Julie over the past month and it has been a real blessing. We have been able to save some money and Larry gave MaryJo a great part-time job moving wheel lines. MaryJo has been moving wheel lines since she was 10 years old on her own. She has been teaching me the intricacies of moving wheel lines. All in all I would have to say that it is definnetly not as easy as it looks. I am grateful that she is so willing to help us save some money, and make it possible for us to pay both are house payment and rent coming up here in July. Well I would bore you if I got much more detailed than that. I hope all of our friends and family are doing and that they are being abundantly blessed during these economically turbulent times. Bye for now.

Primary Children's

The first part of May I noticed a swollen lymph node on the right side of Teagan's neck. At first I thought that she was probably catching a cold, so I waited and watched, the very next day I notice another swollen lymph node. At this point I knew that it was related to the wound in her leg. We saw her Primary care doctor who referred us to an Infectious Disease Doctor at Primary children's. In the mean time Teagan saw the wound clinic again, and we found out that her wound isn't healing, it is a fistula.

We Took Teagan to Primary Children's Hospital to see an infectious disease doctor. She was diagnosed with Mycobacterium Avium Complex. She is now on three different antibiotics, the lumps in her neck will need to be removed in surgery. Other than that she is cheerful and energetic!

P.S. we are moving....again! Adam got a job offer in Roosevelt as a personal banker, so we are moving back to the farm!

Teagan's Wound

This is Teagan's wound. It's healing well. Sorry that the picture sucks!

Paper Route

On the days I work Teagan does the paper route with her daddy. They have to get up very early so they are both pretty tired. I came downstairs after my nap one sunday and they were both a sleep on the couch. It was so cute that I had to snap a picture!

Nothing Yet...

We're still waiting to hear about the test results for Teagan's infection. Nothing is growing in the dish so far that looks positive for TB, so that's WONDERFUL!!!! And the incision is healing really well, it is a little green so I have to do a dakins rinse, which is really just bleach water, but it doesn't sting and she doesn't mind it. So hopefully in another week this will all be behind us!

Everything else is the same as usual. We haven't even celebrated our 3year anniversary, we've been so busy with everything else! But as of the 25th of March, we've been married 3 years! Yeah us!!!

Tuberculosis???

So Teagan's doctor called yesterday to tell me that Teagan's culture from her sore came back and it has some kind of bacteria in it that is the same as the bacteria in tuberculosis. So they are sending it to have more cultures to see if it indeed is Tuberculosis. If it is we will be going to an infectious disease doctor...we wont know for two weeks. Everybody pray for her please.

On a more cheerful note, Adam passed his Air Traffic Control SAT test with 82%!!!! Yeah Adam!!! Just think what he would have gotten if he had studied! Now he will have an interview at the end of the month to see if he is going to Oklahoma City to start training for ATC! I'm so proud of him! We also had our 3rd anniversary, but with everything going on we haven't celebrated it yet.

Adam and I joined gold's gym. I want to take spin classes and Adam wants to lift weights again so we are starting to workout, wish us luck...we're gonna need it!

More Teagan pictures

These are more pictures of Teagan's hospital stay.