I love connecting with people, reconnecting after time passes, making new connections. Generally, I love people. I also love to talk about my amazing children. I love sharing the exciting (I think it's exciting) things that go on in our lives. I do. I love it. Of course, those of you who check this blog regularly and find no updates for weeks or months at a time might be drawn to a different conclusion. It happens this way because the internet is a life sucker for me. I barely maintain the status quo and rarely make progress in any area. If I get time to sit at the computer, I can't help thinking the time would be better spent eating or ironing or cleaning or organizing, or (could it be possible?) napping. (The latter most, by the way, never really happens.)
I recognize this to be a bit of a short coming of mine. So, once again, I apologize for my internet slothfulness and will move on to sharing about the children. :)
A few days after the last post, the blood returned. We neglected to be consistent in some of the measures we had taken to regulate the bowels and, unfortunately, Lucas has to reap the consequences. Since then, we have been more consistent and have added another character to our pooping production, probiotic-filled yogurt. The past four days, he has pooped twice each day, and they have not been the hard pebbly poops we were seeing. (Yeah for poop descriptives!) He is still having some blood, but I think it is decreasing and, hopefully, it will be gone and stay gone soon. We can at least take comfort in that it doesn't seem to cause him any discomfort. The urologist is there if we need him and has been quite encouraging. As for follow up surgery, he is comfortable doing it as soon as January though we are planning to wait until the summer, I think, so as not to disturb Lucas' school schedule.
We have also been to Dr. Lueder, the ophthalmologist, since the last post and got a prescription for glasses. He said that he feels comfortable leaving Lucas' eyes as they are. I told him that he will be having another surgery on his boy parts some time next year, so he said to come back in about 6 months versus one year to be reevaluated in case he changes his mind and decides that further surgical correction is a good idea. As for glasses, we have yet to get his prescription filled. Dr. Lueder isn't concerned with him wearing glasses as of now and recommended we not spend a boatload of money on something Lucas might refuse to use. This seems like sound logic to us. We've checked a couple of more affordable places, but they don't have frames for his size. There is much more checking to be done. I know there are lots of options; I just need to look into them.
Lucas is continuing to do well in school. He's got all "A"s thus far. :) He is still adjusting to the time of hard work that's been added to his life, but I think by the end of the school year, we'll get there. :) He is now drinking through a straw like a champ and growing stronger in the arts of sitting, standing and walking. Last week, Eliana and I spent the day with him and it was fantastic. It was an impromptu decision and I was unprepared for it, but am planning to do it again, possibly as soon as this week. I will have camera in tow, perhaps video also, so that you can share the experience too. :)
Eliana is awake now and has done a mondo poop, so I am off to get her cleaned and changed and then head off to another life sucking event, shopping for jeans that fit me. I hate shopping for most anything but groceries. I gotta do what I gotta do though. :)
Thanks for reading, for praying, for caring. ;)
Here are a few more recent pics.
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| October and November 2010 |
