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Archive for September, 2009

Happy Friday

Friday, September 25th, 2009

We got back VMA/HVA numbers today:  11.1 VMA and 14.1 HVA.  These are the lowest Sam’s numbers have been in a year!    We are over the moon.  Sam is home from the hospital but still on hydration so no school or soccer.   We talked Dr. Willert into letting us out yesterday on home hydration so we […]

“Why Does Sam Get All the Lucky Stuff?”

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

We are in the hospital with red pee.  Sam has been peeing blood continually since Saturday and though we called in on Sunday as soon as they saw his urine sample Monday morning we were admitted.   He played soccer on Saturday and probably was dehydrated from a week at school not drinking enough and then a […]

Charlie’s first day/forty minutes

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Charlie on his first day.  Not happy Charlie on the bike ride after he escaped from preschool So, I thought I was going to post today on a silent house and the significance of Charlie’s first day of preschool.  But alas, Charlie had other plans.  I knew we were in trouble when we started talking […]

19 and 19

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Those are our VMA/HVA numbers from Monday.  Just got them back.  Yeah Baby!  Sam is at the hospital getting blood.  Wednesday’s red blood was 7.8 and platelets were 65 so we’re starting to drop.  I’m picking up Andy from school and going to meet Sam and Neil at the hospital.  Neil said Sam is one mad […]

First Day of School

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

The boys on their first day of 1st and 4th grade Ready to go! Charlie having a blast flying in the pool – courtesy of Uncle Tom Sam playing golf Andy golf Charlie ping pong Sam in cooking class Andy mixing it up   We dropped the boys off for their first day of school […]