Quiet Week

It’s been a very quiet week. Max is back to school and finally caught up with all the work he missed. I don’t know who’s more exhausted him or us from it all but I do know that it was priceless this morning watching him bound into his classroom so excited to share his social studies project, an Indian dwelling he made with his dad. By “made with” I mean it was done while Max had IVs in both hands so you can just imagine the help he needed from Michele. I really should have taken a picture because it was so comical to watch the whole construction process. In fact, I was convinced that Max’s IVs were going to be super-glued to his wrists but somehow the nurses were able to remove them.

Max seems to be on the mend, his abdomen only hurts if we press on it so the pain is obviously subsiding. He’s even walking upright again! Unfortunately, we did hear from Max’s surgeon this morning and because we were seen by his partner last weekend and not him he wants to see Max next week to be sure things are resolving. Hopefully he doesn’t find something he wants to fix. He’s a good surgeon but he does love to find things to fix and none of us are particularly interested in giving him any business.

On the Hopkins front the cardiology group has been reviewing the last three years of scans they have done on Max and they find no reason to be concerned about an aortic aneurysm. Just another false alarm in what seems to be nine years of fire drills which, thankfully, seldom amount to much. It never ceases to amaze me how much stress we can build up over nothing, talk about your highs and lows! In the mean time, they have also scheduled all our testing and appointments around Max’s eye surgery so that we can be sure to fit everything in while we’re in Baltimore in March. It seems like we just got home and we’re already planning our next trip!

I’m hoping for the calm to continue this weekend so that we can actually start to get Christmas rolling at the Marangella Ranch. I swear you would never know its Christmas by looking around our place. We’ve given up on the idea of decorating the yard (very much to Max’s chagrin) but I would like to get up a few decorations in the house if for no other reason than to lift everyone’s spirits a bit!

Have a great weekend all!