I really wanted to go on the trip to attend Beth Moore’s conference in Atlanta last weekend — mainly because I wanted to escape “normal” life for a couple of days and just get away with my friends — but I knew my main doctor might not be up for it.  He gave me a [...]

I woke up this morning only to find that my company’s email system was down, so work is a wee bit stunted.  I’ve spent the morning working on what I can (which is very limited — how did anything get done before email existed?) as well as doing some laundry and being generally lazy.  You [...]

Well, it’s definitely the mono again.  I began a fever late last night and it just went downhill from there.  I went into the office early this morning to grab some files I needed and then I spent the rest of the day alternating between working from my bed and sleeping.  Since last night, I’ve [...]

It’s Tuesday evening and I’m in bed before the sun has even had a chance to go down.  I’m out of energy tonight and am taking that as a sign that the only place I belong this evening is directly in my bed. I didn’t want to mention this yesterday, because it really paled in [...]

I went over to the hospital after work last night to sit with Stephanie for a couple of hours before heading home to take a shower and go to bed.  A few minutes after getting in bed, Stephanie’s sister called me to ask if I would want to come back to the hospital to sit [...]

I woke up this morning to a text letting me know that one of my college girls, Stephanie, had been admitted to the hospital with a blood clot in her leg.  As the day has progressed, the clot has moved to her lung and now a second clot has formed in her leg.  I’ve just [...]

I’m home from Atlanta, but I’ll tell you more about that later — but, for now, I have far more important news… Olivia was released from the hospital late Saturday evening. I stood beside her bed and listened to the PICU doctor tell us she would be sedated for two months.   Two months.  I heard [...]

I’ve been waiting for this whole gynecological nightmare from Satan’s hometown (think it through and you’ll get it) to become funny and, finally yesterday at 9:12 a.m., it did just that.  I was up throughout the night with terrible pain and decided to call my doctor’s office to speak to a nurse about what I [...]

Who am I missing this sweet Thursday morning, you ask? Why, Aviean (my cousin’s daughter), of course. I took these pictures of her a few weekends ago, while we were in North Carolina.  Would you like to agree with my completely biased opinion that she’s one of the most darling things on the planet? Thank [...]

Well, if you haven’t already seen my Facebook status from yesterday, they woke Olivia up again yesterday and she watched cartoons for a few minutes!  From what I hear from her dad, she is making incredibly fast improvements that are leaving even the doctors and nurses amazed.  As recently as this past weekend, her doctor [...]