Friday, April 20, 2018

Our Verrado House is Listed

Our house went on the market today for $339,000.   
It is bittersweet to see these beautiful pictures. 















































Saturday, March 17, 2018

Christian's Third Surgery

At long last, Christian had surgery yesterday to remove and unusual mass on his upper thigh.

He was very calm on the drive, and remained calm until the nurses started touching him to start the IV process.  Happily, they have somebody whose specific job is to come in and help the kids understand what's going on, reassure them, etc. And she was absolutely fantastic!

Everything went well, and today is the day after and Christian is back to his normal self! 

We wait one week for the biopsy results but the doctor doesn't seem too concerned. He said it look like at some point Christian had a huge charlie horse (which confuses me because the mass was above the muscle, not in the muscle).

Thursday, December 28, 2017

The Return of Erythema Nodosum

Oh. My. Goodness.

The erthema nodosum is back.

Thankfully we were able to get into the pediatrician yesterday.  He agrees with the erythema nodosum diagnosis and has concluded that Christian's immune system is in high gear since getting the Hand, Foot & Mouth Disease last month and the erythema nododum is the result.

He assured us there is nothing to worry about and that the condition won't hurt Christian.   He ran some blood work to rule out a few things and those results came back as a negative.  

Doc also says Christian doesn't need the Prednisone this time around ... WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Christian also got a TB test on his arm, and we will get the results of that tomorrow.   The doctor expects it to be negative.  (I mean really ... who gets TB these days??).

Up next:   tomorrow Christian gets an MRI to look at a mass on his leg that has been there for a while (doesn't bother him at all).   He has already had an ultrasound that determined the mass is not fluid in nature ... so the MRI will take a closer look.

Monday, December 25, 2017

Merry Christmas!!



Happy children on Christmas!

Hanging out with Grandma Janet!

Mommy and Scarlett working on a bath bomb experiment. :)


Scarlett's new Cardinals shirt! :)

Scarlett and her new pink scooter!

Christian and his cool new scooter from Santa!