Sacral Dimple

 Also during our NICU stay we learned that Neely (poor little bear!) had a sacral dimple that would need a ultrasound to confirm that the dimple was closed and the spinal cord was not teathered.  A dimple, which is located below the tailbone, could indicated that the spinal cord never formed correctly and is tethered.

 No one ever said the word "spinal bifita" and it never occurred to me at the time that this  was what they were worried about. On our last day the nurse practioner looked at it and thought that it was closed and didn't think that an ultrasound was needed. However, when our pedi looked at it she could not say for sure that it was closed and wanted us to get an ultrasound just to make sure. A week later, after what seemed like 3 million appointments, we took  Neely to Cooks for a spinal ultrasound. The ultra sound was quick, easy and over in 5 min ( took me longer to get the the girls in the building). We waited anxiously for the results the following day. Our sweet pedi knew how worried we were and called us at 6:30pm on a Friday night to report that the sono showed no thering. Woohoo! Another crisis averted.