May 1, 2009
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This is getting redundant...but another update!
Had my 6th surgery in 19 months on April 8th and all went well, thank goodness! Still recovering as I had a setback where I started having a fever around 100 degrees the day after surgery and it lasted through Sunday. Sucked as I panicked! During my chemo treatment (which ended in mid March) I was always on fever-watch - meaning if I ever had a fever of a 100 degrees that was my ticket straight to the ER as there was the possibility of infections other than just a simple viral one. So when I started having a fever after my surgery I wasn't sure if the protocol still was in place - I think I called the doctor's office at least 4-6 times in one day trying to get a hold of ANYONE to advise me of what to do! Luckily, they weren't concerned since I wasn't showing any signs of infection at the incision areas nor was I leaking stuff (gross). I had to flash my dad several times so that he could make sure I was okay since I was heavily medicated!
Then last week, Duke went in for reconstruction ACL surgery - when we first moved back from Singapore Duke went straight into surgery to fix his left knee ACL. Well we think he never fully recovered nor properly rehabilitated his knee, as it turned out he had torn his ACL again, which was causing him more pain. So in we went to OHSU in March for him to see another specialist and hence, his 3rd knee surgery. Needless to say, it has been a rough month for our family, but thanks to my parents and Duke's mom, we made it through!!!!
Anyway, I'm still trying to catch up - back in January, Duke's brother Justin and his wife Kasey flew in from Phoenix to attend her company's holiday party (I did not know that companies still had the money to do that!)...so it was good to see them , since I missed them last year as I had just started chemo.
Here we met up with Sean, his new wife Whitney, Justin, Jerry and their friend Sara and of course, Gannon's cousin Lexi! And Duke's Mom & Ron also showed up shortly after....
Gannon then got to open more Christmas presents that his Nana & Papa brought up....
Yes, he does fall asleep! (With the help of melatonin....)
Sunday was the NFL playoffs and both Justin & Duke are avid Arizona Cardinal fans (who won if any one cares)...it was nice that the brothers got the chance to hang out and watch football as it has been a long time since all 4 of them have been together.
See, even Neo watches football...
I ended up taken Gannon and Lexi to one of Gannon's daycare buddies birthday party just to get the kids away for some fun of their own...
And of course the brothers do what they do - wrestle!
Then a few weeks later, we met up with Nick & Kelley to celebrate Nick's birthday! Gannon of course promptly fell asleep and slept through the whole dinner...
For the actual Superbowl, we first went and hung out at Duke's friend Mike's house with our friend Sheri, Aric and their son Brayden (they were our old neighbors before we moved to Singapore and Aric's brother is Travis Buck who plays for the Oakland A's!). Gannon and Brayden are identical in temperment, energy and attitude...
Our handsome little guy!
