Great Weekend

Just got back from swimming and a BBQ at Aarons. We had a great time. I love watching my two guys swimming in the pool and playing, they SO love each other. Life has definitely settled down and feels back to normal. We infused Myles through his port and it worked wonderfully, no more multiple needlesticks and hour after hour of frustration, YEAH!!!! Myles and Aaron are going to Idaho's hemophilia camp in a few weeks on the Salmon River over by Yellowstone. What great bonding for them (as if they need anymore). I love my sons so much it's almost surreal. I picked some veggies to bring to Aaron's, nothing like fresh picked for dinner. All is good!

Floating the Boise River

Myles, Dave, and I floated the Boise River yesterday for a couple of hours. The weather was hot (99 degrees) and the water was freezing cold! Keeping up with these two boys will either keep me young or make me old real fast.

LOL

My Help

Myles and his friend John have been helping me with all of the vegetables. It is amazing the ownership and admiration that they have gotten. Planting, pulling weeds, running the stand. I am sooooo proud of them. I have them run the cash register to expose them to the new world that they will be entering soon. Lots of hard work AND fun.

Burn Camp 2008

We received the pictures from burn camp and they are fantastic. I sent a link to all so they can view them, but just in case I forgot someone, here are a few. I don't know how to attach a link in this window but when I find out (Aaron's help) I will. It is so apparent what a great time Myles had!

Opening Day

OMG! (as Deirdre would say, LOL) we had so much fun today. We opened our vegetable stand and had about fifty people show up. I made 20# of pulled pork for sandwiches with my infamous Amish Coleslaw. Lots of fun meeting new neighbors who seem to be excited about what we are doing. I have never seen the look of appreciation on buggies face like today. He has been helping me so much (with the exception of surgery), pulling weeds, staining the deck, picking and washing vegetables, he has been with me through it all. He got so much gratification of seeing people's faces on their excitement of it all. Aaron, Tuyet, and my sister Darlene, were all here. WHAT A GREAT DAY! We have veggies, farm fresh eggs, frozen bananas, Italian Ice Cream, what a loving neighborhood thing. People showed up on motorcycles, quad's, all kinds of stuff. There were actually people here today that met their neighbors for the first time. I LOVE THAT. Everyone around here knows the story of buggies, so when they saw him being a normal fourteen year old I think it filled their hearts. My heart was filled today also. Good day............

The Deck

I finished it! I built this deck all by myself (not bad for 51). It took me around three days and some very sore nights, but it's done (it's 16 feet x 10 feet). The only thing left is the canopy. Myles help me stain it last night and it looks great. We took his IV out yesterday but the area of the stitches and port is still a little sore. Other than that he is doing great. Good thing that he could still play video games through all of this, that ALWAYS seem to help the pain.

Happy Fourth of July

Myles is doing great! He is down to a regular Tylenol for pain, yippee. He is moving his right shoulder pretty well (port side) and I think that by today he might be back to normal, just no lifting. He is receiving two doses of factor a day through an IV that they left in his arm for four more days. We can't use his new port for around a week and a half. It looks really good, his last port was on his chest muscle and really stuck out under the skin. This time they put it in the pocket where the shoulder meets the clavicle. We are all so HAPPY that he doesn't have to be stuck ten or eleven times just to secure a vein, double yippee!! Good decision.
We are going to just hang out at home for the day as he still isn't into being around fireworks and I want to stay home to make sure my house doesn't burn down. Having hundreds of acres of fields around us makes me a little nervous.
Happy fourth to all and stay safe.

The Port

Wednesday 5 am.
Myles' surgery went well. He had a pretty rough time yesterday recovering because of vomiting most of the day (good ole' anasthesia) and anyone who has had surgery knows that throwing up with stitches in you is not fun. By last night everything seem to finally settled down. The pain was rough for him right after the surgery but that too seems to be calming down. When we showed up at the hospital yesterday morning (which was a pretty quiet drive) his dad was there waiting. Myles lit up like a lightbulb and was in a great mood in pre-op. Thank you Gino, it helped soooo much. Hopefully we get to go home today!! All of your prayers worked great.
Sherry
P.S. Kate, do you have a hotline to God?