update on mom mom

Well Mom Mom is home tonight. After the angioplasty, the results were inconclusive and they sent her home, with really no more information than she went with. She is feeling better, but still no answers about what may be going on. Hopefully it was something that has passed, and will not be an ongoing issue, but I guess we will have to wait and see. Thanks for the thoughts and prayers.

my "other" grandmother

Well, after a bout of infection, followed last weekend by chest pains and general discomfort, my grandmother (Mom Mom) went to the hospital yesterday morning. The doctors ran a series of tests, including a stress test, to determine the cause of the problems. The results from the second half of the stress test show that there is some sort of blockage in one of her arteries. She will be transferred to St. Joe's hospital (another local hospital that specializes in heart procedures) first thing tomorrow morning where she will have a heart catheterization. As we find out more information, I will be sure to post updates. Please keep my grandmother and my family in your thoughts and prayers. Thanks!

Another Thanksgiving

Well another Thanksgiving has successfully come and gone! We had the annual gathering at our house again this year and everything was great! Conlon and TracyAnn were the first guests to arrive, when they came into town last Saturday. We spent the whole week with them and had a blast! We got to spend Conlon's birthday with him and went to Kobe's Japanese Steakhouse to celebrate with some friends. It was so nice. On Wednesday Sean had an appointment with Dr. Fine at NIH and got tremendous results! There has been significant reduction in both of the tumors (brain stem and cerebellum) and the new drug seems to be working away. Unfortunately, he is not feeling a ton better, which is hard when you get such good news. But we are taking it day by day and looking forward to Sean feeling better soon! It was great news to celebrate over Thanksgiving. The Aabs and the rest of the Carabines were waiting for us when we got home on Wednesday and we enjoyed the rest of the weekend with them! On Saturday we gathered at the Emery's to make our Christmas candy, which is always a nice kickoff to the holiday season! Now it's back to work after a LONG break :( and getting ready for Christmas.

for those of you waiting...

here is an update on the two of us. Nothing much is going on here at our house. We are getting ready for Thanksgiving and all of our visitors. We are having our foyer and hallway painted, which looks great! I guess we actually have been pretty busy. Tomorrow is Friday and I have survived my first American Education Week and all of the visits that come along with that. I also survived my first set of parent-teacher conferences which went terrifically! This week has been challenging at school but next week is a very short week, so I am looking forward to that! Last weekend was Stacie's baby shower, which I had a hand in planning and it went great! She was a little surprised and we had a very nice time. Sean has been busy lining up our next home improvement projects which include getting the foyer painted, expanding our living room, and closing in our porch. These are things we are very excited about and can't wait to have finished. On the health front, Sean is doing a little better, seems to have a little more energy. We go to NIH next Wednesday before Thanksgiving for an MRI and appointment. We are looking forward to finding out how things are progressing. Conlon and TracyAnn are coming in this weekend, joined by the Aabs and the rest of the Carabines on Wednesday. We will be sure to post another update on Wednesday after the appointment.