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Snowman!

The kids made their first snow man this morning. With more snow on the way, I'm sure there will be others, but I had to post this one.

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Snow Day Two

Official count in our backyard this morning is 10.3 inches. A record for big D! A big tree limb broke and is hanging off one of our trees blocking the street, so Tim wrestled with that all morning. Got...

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Cleo and Maddie

Here is a cute pic of Cleo and Maddie playing down at Maddie's grandparent's house. Apparently, they are "gathering food for puppies" now, since they have already built a few snowmen.

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Cleo wins at PSIA

Today Cleo competed in the Private School Interscholastic Association regional meet in the Creative Writing contest. She came in first and will compete at the state level meet in early May. We are so...

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It's Cleo's Birthday! April Fools . . .

Cleo and I wanted to do an April Fool's joke for her birthday this year. If you were born on April 1, what else can you do but go with it? I went to one of my favorite websites - bakerella and found...

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Canton Road Trip

Today was our big road trip to Canton for Cleo's birthday. We had 4 girls, 3 moms, 2 grandmothers (Cleo's Nana and Hannah's grandmother), and 1 dad (Tim). it took all 6 grownups to keep up with the 4...

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First Day of School - 2010

Whew - I feel like it has been such a marathon trying to get to this point, but it is finally here. Both kids had their first day of school in our new neighborhood. Crazytown. The kids were very...

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Article 17

Hey, blog… long time no see, eh? I decided to resurrect this ol' dinosaur to communicate about Barrett's upcoming procedures. With his tonsillectomy, things were a little nutso for a few hours that...

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Broncho time

We are a go for the procedure tomorrow, but just the bronchoscopy.  We couldn't coordinate with the GI dr because he was out of town, and we decided that we didn't want to wait to work it in.  Barrett...

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Waiting

We are all checked in and waiting to be taken back. Anesthesiologist says not too bad, but I prepped him for the worst. :). Just waiting for pulmo and we will go back with him until he is asleep.

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And it's started

Dr. C said Barrett sounded much better than he did on Tuesday, and our hard work has paid off. They took us back with him where we saw him go off to lala land and Barrett did great. They said the...

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All done

Barrett is in recovery and doing very well. He is maintaining his oxygen and at decent levels, and they are planning on sending us home. I'll do another post on what we learned when I get a chance.

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Tenacious B

Good news first.  Barrett is doing very well at home.  Cough is pretty minimal, slight headache, but nothing too terrible.Now the not so good news.  Dr. C was not so thrilled with what he saw in...

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Percussion junction, how's that bumpin?

A few points of business - our follow up with the pulmonologist is August 8. I will call for the blood test for CF on Monday, but the earliest we would have it done would be Wednesday. Today we did our...

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Let the Games Begin

We had a wonderful vacation and enjoyed not thinking about health issues all weekend, save for a few bloody noses (one in the pool... gross!) that were not a surprise after a bronchoscopy where they...

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Sweatin It Out - the second results are in!

Right now we are down at Children's getting another sweat test for cystic fibrosis. After talking with the phlebotomist and seeing how Barrett reacted to this one, I think we figured out that they just...

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Out with the old, in with the new

I spent much of Thursday and Friday afternoon dealing with the new equipment and medicine that are going to get this mucus out of Barrett's lungs.  People who know me well know that I am a real medical...

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Is this thing on? My brain, that is.

The human brain's capacity to deceive itself is really quite astounding.  When you want to believe something, your brain will go to great lengths to make sure it thinks it's happening.  And, wow, my...

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the big two week followup... so many questions. so, well, so what?

We had our followup visit with the pulmonologist.  Most of our questions centered on where do we go from here and what can we expect from Barrett now?I'm always a good news first sort of person, so...

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The Vest is here!

Ok - the vest!  The vest!  The vest that is going to cost us as much Barrett's first car probably will.  This sucker better be amazing, right?So far, I would say it is pretty cool.  It's heavy, but it...

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