12th Birthday: Vacation on a Deserted Island

It’s been a rough couple of months for our little dude. First, he had pneumonia in early July. Then there was the surgery at the end of July to seal up a wound on his tailbone that he had been dealing with since his spinal fusion surgery two years ago.…

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A Long Six Weeks, Part 3: An Expensive Uber Ride

Welcome to the conclusion of the “A Long Six Weeks” three-part series. In Part 1, James spent about five days in the hospital with pneumonia. Part 2 starts twelve days later when he was at a different hospital having an adjacent tissue transfer surgery to repair a wound on his…

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A Long Six Weeks, Part 2: Adjacent Tissue Transfer

Welcome to Part 2 of the so-called “A Long Six Weeks” series. In Part 1, James was in the hospital for six days with pneumonia. During that hospital stay, Stacy was trying to find a doctor or surgeon to stop by James’ room to look at the wound he had…

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A Long Six Weeks, Part 1: Pneumonia

We are exhausted. Maybe a bit beyond that. Is there a word for being beyond exhausted? I am too tired to Google that. I don’t even know if I have the energy to write this post right now, but I have to at least get started. Maybe I’ll just write…

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Life is Short

These past couple of months have reminded me just how short life can be. My cousin passed away in June a couple of weeks shy of his 47th birthday. Then in early July a good friend told me that he was diagnosed with late-stage bladder cancer and the doctors were…

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