Good News

We had our first bit of good news from the doctors in a while. She had herself a test today called a Hydroscan. It was needed because her bellyruben (i don't know if that's how you spell it, but it's how they say it) scores weren't getting any better, which means her liver isn't working like it should. So they put her in a full body scanner thing, injected some dye to follow the path of the bile through the body. I'm sure it's an exciting journey, but I've never seen it live. And actually, I still haven't. But the test itself wasn't supposed to take more than an hour. So 3 and a half hours later, she came back. And that long without pain meds was a rough time. They were looking for leaks in her ducts or liver. They suspected that they were the reason that the scores weren't going down is that there was a leak somewhere. But there was no leak, so that was really great news because it meant that she wouldn't have to have the scope sent down her throat again. It meant that there was nothing really wrong, just that her guts are swollen...those are her doctors words. And if you want to know what her really nice doctor looks like, she looks like this...



She seriously does. A great doctor and very nice, but the first time I saw her, she was in the surgeon scrubs and I thought that it was Will Ferrel as Janet Reno. She sounds like her also. So hopefully, hopefully people, we'll be able to have Mommy back home on Thursday.

In T-ball news, I just looked through the equipment bag that was given to me at the first meeting. I noticed that for my team I have two complete catcher's gear sets, three boxes of t-balls, a catcher's mitt, two very old bats, a tee, and two batter's helmets. This presents a problem because every kid running the bases and batting requires a helmet on their little 5 year old heads. So if I have a runner at first and second, the batter doesn't have a helmet, which is in direct violation of the little league rules...which I read...which state that I should have at least 7 helmets. So I guess I'm almost there. Almost...

I looked through the bag because I'm supposed to have our first practice tomorrow, however, it seems like I have about 73 Big Bad Wolves trying to blow my house down, and with them came about 3 feet of rain in approximately 4 minutes. It was one crazy hard downpour. If it continues, I'm not about to make 12 little kids run around and get sick. I've had enough with the sick for a good long while now.

Here's hoping you had a spectacular President's day.