This week on planet Earth

This is it, surgery week.  Each of Ethan’s surgeries has come with its challenges.  This time it is that he has to fast for 4 days.  He can have liquids, but I cannot imagine that making much of a difference.
Over the weekend, we took him to Hershey Park.  Today Jenn is taking him to our [...]

Super Glued Friendship

Yesterday, I met with a friend that I had not spoken to because of an argument.  He had told me over a year ago that he was sorry, but I was not ready to hear it.  I probably “accepted” his apology at the time.  But my hope was that I would [...]

Playing with Fire

So I am doing something you are not supposed to do.  I stopped my happy pills.
 
At first it was a mistake.  I fill those little pill boxes, for each day of the week.  I was 4 pills short last week.  So I put in the 3 I had and ordered a refill.  The refill came [...]

Not the three toed variety

So the past couple of nights, I have been watching the history channel.  They have had a cheesy documentary on the Seven Deadly Sins.  I found it all very interesting until they did the show on Sloth.  Then I started feeling a little uncomfortable.
Now I have always thought of sloth as being lazy, not doing [...]

A Day In the Life

Yesterday.  Woof! 
 
Yesterday was a mess.  It started at about 12:45am.  Ethan had a bad asthma attack.  He came into our room and was barking.  I went to get his nebulizer, but he did not sound too bad.  By the time I got back to our room, Ethan was having a full on panic attack [...]

Depression

 
It is scary how paralyzed you can be when depression has you in its grip.  I have been mostly off the radar the last week or so because it was all I could do to just function at work and home.  At last, the cloud has lifted.
 
I wish I understood depression.  I don’t.  Though it [...]

And the winner is…

So I really intended to write about politics today.  Then I read a friends blog.  Someone who commented on his entry made a comment that I have heard all my life.  For the sake of argument, I will boil down the sentiment being expressed:  God is a Republican. 
I think I have been fairly honest about [...]

Put on a happy face

 
Jenn told me something last night that almost made me cry.  While she was giving Ethan his enema, he asked if he “tried” real hard could he stop having the enema and catheterizations.  Sadly, I think it is finally dawning on him that his life is not exactly like his friends. 
 
On another front we [...]

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Well today was the big day.  Today we started cathing.  Like many unpleasant things in life, the dread of the thing was worse than the thing itself.  One thing became abundantly clear as we began, we are extremely lucky.  Because Ethan is older, we were able to reason/bribe him.  While he does not “like” the [...]