The trouble with August...

Well hey everyone. Some of you may know we had fun fun fun plans to spend this past weekend taking a quick trip with my mom down to Houston to see Fender's Uncle Bobby play Real Salt Lake Saturday (Houston won 4-3) what an exciting match! And that was to be followed up with a fun-filed Sunday at the beach in Galveston and everyone returning home on Monday. Short, quick, and sweet.

Instead, I was diagnosed with a rare, and potentially serious eye condition called uveitis, specifically scleritis. I was in a good deal of pain and couldn't make the trip. On top of that, YiaYia had another chemo treatment last week and although she is doing well now, she had a rough couple of days so mom decided all our time would be better spent visiting and resting with each other at home so she came to Dallas to be with all of us.

Back to my eye...weird and crazy stuff. We're waiting blood results and praying the condition isn't due to many of the associated diseases. We should know more after a week. In the meantime, the only way to relieve the pain and pressure (which is not helped at all by Alleve, Advil, Excedrin etc) is with high dose of corticosteroids to suppress the immune system which is apparently attacking my eye in it's spare time. I'm not blind in that eye, but I can't use it due to a glossy film that has covered much of it and floaters that jump about at whim now.

But enough of all of that...on to why we have this blog...our boy Fender. He had a good weekend. In addition to playing pirate, saying "argh" every time I wore my eye patch, he enjoyed time with Granmama, Aunt Lala, and all the dogs again and got a little hair cut. Here are a couple of pics...and again...a couple of videos are coming soon. I promise.