SIGH

Cap'n Chaos is seriously ill.

He is in the hospital.

Update when I can.

Please keep him (us) in your prayers.

Back on the Chain Gang

We are mid-way through the second week of our school year.

Only 34 1/2 more to go...

A Word to the Wise...

"Never fart behind the shower curtain." - Sweetums

I am with words.

Dear Vendor,

I realize that selling you wares (which, by the way, were not handcrafted as opposed to everyone else's at the arts and crafts festival held in our town this weekend) is how you make a living...

Carry on...

However...

I suggest you be more careful about grabbing on to someone's kid.

Sweetums was only looking at your bracelets.

She didn't want to try one on.

Had you not been quicker, I can assure you that you'd have been drawing back nothin' but a nubbin.

Leaving your grimy handprint on my kid was not cool.

RAWR.

Results

I've had trouble posting.

It's not blogger's fault.

It's mine.

Sorry.

The results for Sweetums's tests came back.

She is no longer considered a pre-diabetic. Yay!

Adrenal panel was normal. Phew!

There is a simple cyst on her right kidney.

The nephrologist will be keeping tabs on that.

We saw the cardiologist again this Monday.

The diagnosis at this point is essential hypertension.

This means there isn't a cause for the high blood pressure.

Essential seems a weird way to describe it.

Frown.

Echo cardiogram was repeated.

No change.

FROWN.

Sweetums's medications were doubled.

The cardiologist remains "cautiously optimistic"...

We will see him again in two months.

Prayerfully, her heart will be stronger.

The wisdom teeth will have to wait.

Sigh.

All of Sweetums's life, I've been on guard...

I must have let that guard down.

Gotten caught in a lull...

Why else would I not see that something was going on?

That question is on a loop in my brain.

I am sad.

I am worried.

I am without words.