Bullet Point Update

• Mark has a new job and we still have health insurance (with the same company, so we can go through this all over again in a few years).

• My Sedona get-away was spectacular and it was so great to spend time with my friend Karen.  Two days wasn't nearly enough, but I'll take what I can get.

• Jack's kidney ultrasound is scheduled for next week (love our urologist).

• Eric and I are participating in the Run for Ryan House on Saturday. We are doing the 5k - should be fun.

• Our dear friend Peggy is coming out to Phoenix to visit us for a few days next week. She says she's coming out to see Jack, not me. Too bad, she's still going to have to put up with me because I'm taking a fews days off from work when she is in town! :) (For those who don't know Peg, she is one of Jack's former St. Louis nurses who has become one of my very best friends.)

• Jack is sick. I walked in the door after work last night to find Mark bagging Jack.  Since then, more bagging, increased vent settings, 3L oxygen, high heart rate and a miserable kid.  I'm not sure yet where this is heading.  In the past, it would have been an absolute NO to going anywhere near a hospital when Jack was sick because I had absolutely no confidence in the hospitals here.  But, after all of last year's admissions and making a few key connections with doctors I trust and who can make things happen, I'm not as opposed to taking Jack to the ED if I feel it's necessary. As of now, I don't feel it's necessary.  We started him on Tamiflu.  Our pulmonologist gave us a script with several refills to have on hand.  I'm not sure it's the flu, but I figure it can't hurt to give him the Tamiflu just in case.

Stay tuned.