He's Home!!!

The boy is back - very tan, very happy, loads of stories. We were SO excited to see him. Couldn't do anything all day long yesterday due to the anticipation.

However, we're dealing with a little problem. Danny came down with a 103 degree fever today - and we're scheduled to leave for our long awaited family vacation in a couple of days. So, it's off to the pediatrician we go. Will catch up later.

Camp Update

Well, as the photos show, Matthew's having just a miserable time at camp......NOT!

Things started out on a less than relaxing note. Last Tuesday (Day 2 of camp), I received a call from the nurse that went like this:

Nurse: "Everything's fine and we don't want you to worry, but we're taking Matthew to the hospital."

Me: "Why?"

Nurse: "He was playing a game of 'Mercy' and we think he may have broken his finger."

Me: (Laughing) "No problem - a broken finger, we can handle ."

As it turns out, the finger was not broken, only sprained. You can see from the photo how much it seems to be restricting his activities.

However, the medical concerns last week were not entirely lighthearted. On Tuesday, in between calls from the camp nurse, I was also getting calls from Holy Cross Hospital regarding my mother, who had arrived there to receive an outpatient transfusion for her ongoing anemia and ended up being admitted for a severely slow heart rate. She was in the hospital until Friday, when they implanted a pacemaker and sent her home. She seems to be doing ok - although the fact that she's been hospitalized five times since January has us all worried.

Despite the fact that we still seem to be stuck in Hospital World (and even driving into a hospital parking lot sets my nerves on edge) , we are all doing pretty well. From the sounds of it, Matthew is having a great time at camp. (For those who don't know, Capital Camps is coed - and intelligence tells me that's a significant factor.)

Danny is out of camp now and enjoying the high life. (It's now 9:30 in the morning and young Dan is still fast asleep.) In the past week, he's gone to playdates, lunch dates, sleepovers, a baseball game, and the movies (Editorial opinion here: Pirates of the Caribbean 2 is to be avoided at all cost.) Jon flew up to Boston last weekend to spend time with Ali and Bobbie in Woods Hole. Both are doing well. Ali's raised over $2,000 for breast cancer research and is walking in the Avon Breast Cancer Walk this weekend. Go Ali!

So, life is relatively relaxing and we're enjoying this interlude. Hope you are, too.