Time Flies

I've been horrible at doing this blog thing.. it's been 50 weeks since my last post. I suppose I owe some apologies to all of my faithful followers but I'm not going to admit guilt and apologize. Instead, I'm just going to add a couple quick thoughts and call it GOOD.. maybe for another 50 weeks, or maybe not. We'll all just have to wait and see.

For those interested, April had surgery 10 days ago. She'd been suffering with a lot of pain in her back. An X-ray revealed a kidney stone. One doctor measured in at 18mm and another at 23mm.. so somewhere between the size of a nickel and a quarter. It was too big to pass, so she needed surgery. It was a painful experience for her.

They inserted a tube through her side and into the kidney. Then they went in and broke the stone up into smaller pieces (yes with a jackhammer!) and sucked the smaller pieces out through the tube. The doctor said it was a very hard stone to break up and was probably growing there for years and years. We have a good share of the pieces on display for anyone who wants to see them. I'm thinking of giving it (the stone) a name and a blessing.. April's experience was worse than childbirth and maybe we can claim it as a dependent for a tax write-off!

Keep smiling everyone!