You’re welcome, Steve. I think of you and your family often and remember you in my prayers. I’m sure it’s lively with a group of children that age. My pack-of-wolves boys are 17, 15, 13, and 9 now. Patrick, the oldest, is being aggressively recruited by universities, although not yet with enough financial aid for him to go away. And my Elen is in the Marine Corps!
I got my first colonoscopy at 40 after a fellow Girl Scout leader and a man from my church died from colon cancer in their early 40s. Both left young children, and both were diagnosed too late to have much hope of surviving. Frank was still nursing when I went the first time, which is why I didn’t have anesthesia. Dr. Zeydman said, “If you’ve been through labor nine times, it will be nothing,” and he was right. Labor breathing can get you through anything but dental work, because you can’t breathe in your nose and out your mouth while they’re drilling your teeth!
Does “labor breathing” work on boys? Lol
Today, Valentines’s Day, is predictably a little hard on me. My medication management ARNP just quit, too. Drat!