Eli's port removal surgery went spectacles well. The actual surgery was only 11 minutes. They called me from the post op recovery area, and said that he was waking up but they weren't sure how lucid he waa because he kept repeating himself. I talked to him and he kept saying how determined he was, …
Eli came down with a fever on Sunday, so we got to make a trip to the emergency department at the hospital since he still has a port. They had people inside the entrance to greet us with questions about symptoms and pump hand sanitizer on our hands and give out masks for those who …
With the scans having gone well and the port removal surgery scheduled, I thought we'd breeze through this last bit without problems. Sadly, this has turned out not to be the case. Three weeks ago, Tabitha, age 5, came down with a virus of some sort that gave her croup. I had her with me …
The kids like to try and catch Leprechauns each year on St. Patrick's Day. This year, they set out the traps they worked on earlier today. This is what they came up with: Gold coins to lure the leprechaun into a box too deep to escape A gold coin that can't be removed (maybe leprechauns …
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Wishing he could be playing outside Eli's complaint for the day is that he wants to be outside playing in the spring-like weather instead of cooped up in an MRI machine for the next three hours. We arrived at the hospital earlier than planned, but the staff was ready to get started. I had already …
