Alli update - she is wearing her brace full days now. She started with a full 9 hours on Monday and Tuesday (from 7:00 in the morning until Ralph picked her up from school). Wednesday, when I put her brace on, she growled at me - not a good sign. She bounced back pretty quickly, but it was obvious she didn't like putting it on. The, her teacher called me at 2:00 to warn me that she was 'having one of those days' with Allison. Not good! At 2:30, I was picking Alli up to take her in to get x-rays - which means pick her up, drive to MD Imaging, wait to sign in, wait to be called to a little window and fill out paper work and then wait until our turn for x-rays and then wait to make sure they turned out all right and then wait for them to make copies for us to take to the doctors. It really isn't a long time in total, but the up and down gets to Allison more than just sitting in one place. I think we were there a total of 30 minutes - not bad, but that was a lot of ups and downs, not to mention trying to make her stand still in the exact right spot for her x-rays! She doesn't do half steps I found. She needed to move a little bit to the left, now a little bit back to the right, too much, a little bit back to the left, too much.....She really did very well through it all - though I was a bit frazzled. Then, since it only took a half hour, I took her back to work with me to wait until her 4:00 appointment with the specialist. That was so much fun! (for her!) Once again, she did really well. She likes going to my work - she likes looking downstairs through the glass handrails, and following me around. After all that, it was off to the doctor's. We got there before 4:00 and saw him around 4:30 - the usual! He wasn't happy with the way her brace was fitting (neither was I - this was the first time I had seen it on after more than just a couple of hours, and it was really riding up!) It was also catching on her clothes - the bolts on the back were tearing her shirts. So far, the brace has destroyed 5 shirts I think. Ralph had already put a call in to the Orthodic specialist, and she had a solution, so after the doctor's appointment (which was pretty non-committal - keep it up and see me in three months) Ralph went by the orthodics place. He was there for 45 minutes - once the specialist saw Alli and her brace and the x-rays, she wanted to do some work. Ralph went back again on Thursday for another 1 1/2 hours to get the brace re-fitted, and it seems to be working much better! Alli still doesn't like it, but it looks like it fits better. She moves into the full 24 hours a day soon!
Alex update - Alex had his procedure done yesterday in Chico - and they didn't even do anything. The doctors couldn't get his heart to go into an arrhythmia while he had him there. Go figure! So AJ had the whole anesthesia and recovery for nothing! We go back to see the doctor in two weeks, so will find out more then about possible medication, etc. Bummer! The good news was that, since they didn't do any ablation work, AJ didn't have to spend the night - he just had to lay flat on his back for 6 hours, and then he could go home. Luckily for both of us, he slept most of that (and his last nurse was willing to bend a few rules about being perfectly flat, etc.!) He is doing fine today - a bit sore at his incision sites, but other than that, he feels fine.
I did finally take some pictures of the scarves I've done recently. I didn't realize it, but I must have had a thing for red lately!
Three of my more recent scarves
This is a new yarn by Lion Brand - a tweed - I like the color changes
This one is actually crocheted - and I really like how it turned out.
And this one is a new yarn put out by Michael's - nice and thick and fluffy!
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