Sunday, December 7, 2014

Off to the med center and more toddler fun! - December 7


It’s that time again.  Off to the med center day tomorrow for what we are praying is our final MRI trip.   We would ask for your prayers, as our entire household has been deeply under the weather with the flu this past week and we are just now barely on the mend enough to get through this type of excursion.  We are grateful that Asa is first on the docket in the morning, which unfortunately means we have to get up long before dawn, but thankfully means that we are not sitting waiting all day long with a ravenous toddler, just stuck in a waiting area with a sleepy one.  We also have an eye appointment after our MRI to look at Asa’s eye that does not drain properly as a result of the anti-viral given to him in such high doses when he was critically ill with adenovirus.  Tomorrow’s MRI will be followed up by a doctor visit later in the month. 

Other than this, life with a growing and recovering Asa has been a barrel of monkeys.  I know it’s a small blessing to count, but Asa has gone through two episodes of normal childhood illness in the last month, the stomach virus and the flu, and escaped like a normal child.  I know it sounds crazy to be thankful, but that could have involved multiple trips to TCH had he still had a port, but since he does not, we can handle him just like a normal fever-running, snotty, puking little kid.  Whee!  It just shows how truly miraculous it was for us to get through so many months around here germ free while Asa’s counts were low.  Daily Asa toddlerhood around here, when he’s well, which is most of the time up until the plague descended upon us, includes plentiful yogurt and cookie eating, reading lots of books, calling all fuzzy animals dogs, pulling ornaments off the tree, putting any objects he can find in the kitchen trash, telling us he has peed or pooped, but not caring at all, and basically, just giving everyone in the house a run for their money. 




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