Just playing...

Just hanging around...
 

Oh my aching back...is it from climbing and hanging or pushing the big pumpkin around the house?
 

Lego building time with Daddy.
 
 

An update on my eye...
Only a remnant remains of the gas bubble in my eye now. Yea for laying down to sleep again! Bad news is vision is still cloudy (better than just before surgery, but not clear like it should be). Doc says he saw a bit of cataracts starting, which the surgery can cause. Thankfully (I think), they have another surgery for that. But more bad news...biopsy was negative for toxoplasmosis and now he really has no idea what is causing the uveitis...which flared back up yet again when I came off the steroids, so I'm back on them a third round. :( I see a collegue of his on Wednesday then I'll be back at my doc a week later. My poor pupil has been in a state of permanent dilation since all this started...anytime it starts to get smaller, I go back in and they dilate it again. :(

Another angle we're working on is a strange lump in my neck from back in June. My regular doctor thought it was just temporary swollen lymph node...even though it was as hard as bone. Original CT scan in June revealed nothing to be worried about. But doc in pre-op for the eye surgery found it and was concerned and wanted me to follow-up with it. My eye-doctor said the same thing and thinks it may be related to the eye problem, which originates somewhere with a faulty immune system. So...I will now be having a consult with a surgeon at Baylor (hopefully this week) to do prelim stuff and likely set a date for a biopsy of the neck mass. Ugh.

But...the main thing is I feel good. Other than the fact that I can't see out of one of my eyes and my weight is coming back, all of which can get frustrating after a while, I still feel healthy and happy. And with the bubble nearly gone I can start working out again. Yea for getting to workout while on steroids?? :/ Well, at least it seems to help curve some of the typical weight gain steroids cause. Blessed are all who were gifted good metabolisms where you rarely if ever have to worry about what you eat. This, however, is not one of the many blessings I have received.

And speaking of blessings...you are also blessed who have a church you regularly attend. Tomorrow is Sunday again and we're not sure where to try this week. With my church currently in limbo between preachers and not feeling spiritually guided to any of the four we've tried recently...this week we may have to sit and regroup. There have been pros and cons for each church. They have all done their part in making us feel welcome and wanted, but we haven't quite found the spiritual focus we're looking for. I've never been in search of a parish before and it is very exhausting. I am so thankful for the strong, stable, spiritual upbringing I received and I very very much want to provide that for Fender. So we're certainly not giving up...we're praying that we'll find the right place for all of us soon.