St. Jude Yearly

When I took a glance at my calander last night - I realized I had forgotten that we went to St. Jude this morning. Had a full morning planned, but decided we better go ahead and get it over with since school ball practice starts next week. Got there fine, had the usual talk before they drew blood about how bad Ann's veins are - finally after digging around in her hand for about five minutes they finally squeezed out enough blood to run the tests they needed. All came back fine. Our usual Dr. we have seen every visit since we left was out today and had to see someone else - good thing we have not had her for the past 14 yrs. or our visits probably would have stopped long ago - can't exactly explain what was bad about her - just made me as well as Ann very uncomfortable. Oh well, its over now for another year - this chick we saw today said they will release Anna when she is 18, but Richard (who we ALWAYS see) has told us they will continue to follow her for longer than that - so who knows - we will just go back next year and see what Richard says.

Mr. Wyatts heart cath went well - he had some blockage but Dr. Hill didn't feel it was signifigant enough to put a stint in at this point - will follow up in a year and see if there are any changes.

We enjoyed a visit this week with Jesse and Stefanie - hard to believe that they are all grown up - Jesse will be out in just about a year.

July 23, 2007

The girls went to a volleyball camp at Fayetteville this last week. It was a camp for Sr. High but Alys got to go and play with the JV team. This was the first time they had really gotten to play with their new teammates and they both did well. At this point Ann is playing libero for the Varsity. She is so excited and really played aggressive and loud (not something she usually has a problem with). Alys enjoyed playing with the JV team - it will be tough to go back to playing with junior high after playing "up".

Today was an interesting day. The junior high team at Nettleton played the junior high team from CRA. Alys was a nervous wreck. She really dreaded facing her friends across the net. The match went fine with Nettleton winning both but not by much. This was just the first of many transitions we will be making over the next few weeks.

Hal's dad is scheduled to have a heart cath in the morning at 7:00 - mostly just precautionary - but we are all anxious for this to be over and have good results from it.