Wow...it is hard to believe that Thanksgiving was over a week ago!
Thanksgiving was a jam-packed day:
8:30 am Turkey Trot Race
Joey ran his second race, Owen rode in his first...me pushing him along trying to catch up. Joey and I talked about pacing and running together...Joey "yes yes'd" me until we heard the gun go off and then shouted to me that he would be just "a little bit" ahead. Joey ran this second race, much like his first: sprintsprintsprint ....completely stop (catching his breath until another boy his age would pass him)...sprintsprintsprint...completely stop and so on. Owen and I ran at a steady pace, but Joey still managed to beat us by 15 seconds! At one point I could see Joey sprawled out in the grass panting on the side of the course, but he got up a few seconds later and started to sprint again. Funny funny kid...
1pm McQuillan's House for Thanksgiving Dinner
The boys and I met Joe and his parents house after he got done his football game with the guys and we got cleaned up after our race. Spent a couple hours eating Eileen and Mary's yummy food and sitting around talking. A very nice afternoon...
5pm Trip to Long Island, NY to visit "Trubenbach clan"
I decided to take the boys up to Port Washington to spend a few days with my parents, brother and his family and my mom's family. It was so nice for Joey to spend time with all of his cousins and for everyone to see Owen...it has been awhile. Spent Thursday night, Friday and much of Saturday EATING, watching movies, playing with Owen (Joey basically disappeared for two days completely attached to the hip to Aiden) and kitting...yes thank you Alex for my inspiration to start knitting again. I left New York stuffed, feeling loved and cared for, needing much exercise, proud of completing a hat for Joey for X'Mas and totally craving more of my Aunt Amy's Butternut Squash Soup!
So this week...I got to the gym 6 days to work off all that Turkey-day (weekend) gluttony and got back into the "normal" swing of things. Owen's MRI of his throat and chest came back negative (no tumors) and the ENT doctor diagnosed Owen with reflux and put him on Zantax. The doctor determined that Owen has a slight excess of tissue attached to his vocal chords and the reflux causes inflammation of the tissue which is probably the cause of the noise Owen makes at times when he is sleeping. We are also hoping by treating the reflux, Owen's feeding habits will improve. After visiting the ENT, Owen had his chemo treatment and everything went as usual. Up next...Chemo on Monday followed by the dreaded neuropthalmologist appt. Hopefully chemo won't run late and we'll actually make this appointment and let's hope Owen is finally "cooperative" although I highly doubt by their standards he will be...
Happy 90th birthday Nana!!
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