Hi everybody!
As most of you know my name is Kendall Taylor. I have an older sister, Jordan, and a younger sister, Caroline. Most of my blogs will be about Caroline. I thought since everybody had a blog that I would start one to keep everyone up to date on what is going on in her life.
Caroline was born on January 5, 2009. She was 3 week early and had a lot of issues. Which is extremely surprising because she wasn't that early. Caroline stayed in the ICU at Jackson Women's Hospital at River Oaks for 3 weeks. She was hooked to a respirator the first and second day and she somehow pulled the tube out by herself. We then found out that she was having seizures. She had a stroke soon after that. Since those days in the hospital it has been extremely stressful to all of our lives and hers, unfortunatly. We brought Caroline home from the hospital and everything seemed like it was going good. She was going to physical therapy and speech therapy. At this time, we were not sure if Caroline would walk or talk. We then took Caroline to the doctor for her head. Caroline's skull was not fully developed when she was born and they thought that she would have to have surgery to correct this problem so that Caroline's brain could enlarge and and develop properly. Corrin, Janice (Corrin's mom), and my Nana took Caroline to Pensacola to the doctor after this news. They went to a doctor to get a second opinion. The doctor that we went to seemed to think that her skull would develop throughout time from about 8 to 12 months. The doctor then told us to go get an MRI to check on her head for damage from her stroke. Little did we know, when she got her MRI it told us that she had been having seizures that were not visible to us. Then, they decided to do a CT scan on her to find out what she would be able to do or not be able to do. We found out after this that She will not be able to walk or talk and her vision has been
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