Update

soccer boy
Originally uploaded by Beckerbuns

First of all, happy Mother's Day to all of the moms, grandmas, aunts, sons, and daughters out there! :)

This past week, Ricky saw the gastroenterologist. He has grown almost an inch and is doing well healthwise. She said his belly was good, and that he needs to stay on Miralax two times a day now. I asked if he was more likely to have a blockage again because of having these blockages in the hospital. She said that, to the contrary, he is more likely to have blockages again just because he was born with peritonitis due to a blocked and ruptured bowel. In other words, he was already more likely.

She said that his lungs were a little crackly, but not unusually so for someone with CF and definitely better than they were when he was in the hospital. (That's one thing I like about her -- she always listens to his lungs too, even though she's a tummy doctor. I like that she is thorough.)

Ricky has still had some trouble recovering from his hospitalization. He was out of school one day this week and slept much of the day on another day. He also had a couple of major dizzy spells. I'm getting so frustrated... I wish I knew why these were happening.

I came to a decision after Ricky got out of the hospital that we needed to get a wheelchair for him. Mind you, it would only be used when he is having one of his spells and can't walk without being about to pass out. So I started searching Craigslist, Freecycle, and the local Las Madres bulletin board to try to find a used pediatric wheelchair.

Someone responded to my Craigslist ad that she had a small adult-sized wheelchair, used. She lives in Watsonville, quite a distance away, and was willing and able to drive in from there to show us the wheelchair. I met her at a local Wendy's (the one where the infamous "finger in the chili" incident happened, incidentally) to check it out. It's definitely used, but fully functional and just the right size for Ricky. I bought it. I feel a lot better now being prepared.

There's no soccer today because of Mother's Day. The kids and I are taking my grandmother to the airport today. My mom's going to be on her own briefly and then have people around most evenings to help her. She's recovering nicely from her leg injury!

Finally, Ricky got a package from Fed Ex this past week... In it were discs of all of the photos from his Genentech photo shoot back in November. The picture you see here is one of them and some more are here. They turned out great, didn't they?