It’s been a couple of months since I wrote a regular monthly post, but it feels like it has been a lot longer than that. I think things are back to normal…if there is such a thing. As long as James doesn’t throw us another curveball and remains healthy, I…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We’re in summer mode at work when we try to get a bunch of projects done before the upcoming school year, so I frequently lose track of time. I did manage to squeeze in a week of vacation time, but even that was a busy week with projects around the…