Cathy

 
So I am in an angry troll kind of mood.
 
Ethan had his second urodynamics test today, but I could not go because we had an emergency at work (it is 7:15pm as I write this…I am still at work…waiting for customer confirmation).  The Urodynamics test is by far the most invasive test ever conceived of [...]

Not like a horse?

 
Yesterday was Ethan’s clinical appointment day.  Thanks to my new best friend Maggie (our GPS); we made it to DC Children’s in record time (45 minutes). 
 
After waiting for about a half hour they took us to our room.  The cool thing about Children’s is that they have a flat screen TV in every room.  [...]

Specialist Buffet

This week we have our Spina Bifida clinic appointment (they accept VACTERL patients too).  He sees 5 specialists all at once.  It is bound to be a multi-dread week.  First of all, the only appointment we could get was on Jenn’s birthday, ugh.  Two and three are more serious matters.
 
They took hip x-rays at his [...]

Noodle Salad

I want noodle salad.  Watch the clip and you will understand.
 
 
 
 
At my old church, I attended a Men’s retreat.  We were in small groups and the leader asked everyone to share the greatest moment of their lives.  Without exception, all of them said, the birth of their child.  That my friend is noodle salad.
 
Now don’t [...]

Mello

 
I love Saturdays, especially when there is no agenda.  I was a bum most of the morning except for the “procedure.”  We went to the mall for lunch.  I had bourbon chicken.  Then Jenn bought socks while I got Ethan a haircut at Cartoon Cuts.  I got to watch an episode of Fairly Odd Parents.
 
We [...]

Me me me me me me me

I am sitting in the computer room overlooking the park, watching the kids come and go.  Today was a long day.  Ethan had an upper GI test (x-ray with dye in his stomach).  The test was at 8:30.  I expected to get out by 10:30, take Ethan to lunch, and then have some me time [...]

Grading my faithfulness…

So…Yesterday…is over for now. 
 
Ethan was scheduled for an MRI at 10:30.  Since kids cannot sit still long enough for the test, they have to be given general anesthesia.  So they wanted us to show up at 9:00 to do all the paperwork and pre-op stuff.  We left the house a little after 7.  It [...]

Concentrated Dread

Tomorrow we are going to Ethan’s Spina Bifida clinic.  When Ethan was a baby, we had 5-6 specialists that he saw on a regular basis.  Each doctor wanted their own set of tests.  It was Jenn’s full time job just lugging him around from appointment to appointment.  Then there was the dread each time they [...]

Grateful?

During my never ending training session on Friday, I started playing with Google tools.  I found two that were kind of cool.  One was a search engine for just blogs.  The other was an RSS reader that allows you to read blogs across applications.
 
So while the boredom continued on the training front, I started searching [...]

Memory and the Evil of Red Monsters

I find memory and the workings of the mind fascinating.  I guess that is why I was a psch major (although my friends will tell you it is because I am crazy). 

Anyway memory…interesting.  I find it odd that I can remember all of the words and the tune to the theme song for “Land [...]