reading week

I think it's funny that seminary doesn't have "spring break." No, we have "reading week." :-) Ryan has been able to read some, but we have mostly tried to relax - kinda taking a deep breath to get us through the rest of the semester and heart surgery.

No, still no word on when the surgery will be. Silly red tape. Of course, if Athan's case was an emergency, we could go to another city for the surgery but we would prefer to be here in Lex. As soon as Dr. Plunkett is able to see patients, we'll be quickly to surgery, we hope.

Athan has an ear infection. Poor guy. He had some congestion and a fever, so we saw Dr. Coburn yesterday, and he diagnosed an ear infection. We got some more meds.

Ah, meds. We use more syringes than forks in a day around here. Especially when he's got an infection of some kind. In just 3 hours time this morning, Athan had to take Cortef (double the normal dose), Synthroid, Digoxin, Furosemide, Loratidine, Cefaclor, Ibuprofen, and drops for his ears. Whew. He is a trooper, though. He has only ever offered mild protest, and most of the time he takes his meds very well. I've been amazed and thankful that it doesn't seem to bother him at all to start every meal with a syringe.

We have, however, discovered that medicines that make most babies drowsy have the opposite effect on Athan. Even Ibuprofen and Tylenol jazz him up, so he doesn't sleep much when we have to give him things to help with fever or congestion. That's why we're up writing and blog and not sleeping at the moment. :)

Morgan seems to enjoy having both Mom and Dad around more this week. She also got to play with her friend Macy this morning, and had so much fun. She notices when we have to pay extra attention to Athan's meds. Not wanting to be left out of the fun, she requests Morgan Medicine. So we fill syringes with juice or water and make sure Morgan gets her meds, too. :)