October already?

Hard to believe it's October.  Even harder to believe my last post was nearly a month ago!  It's been a busy month so here are just a few highlights.

We held Steven's birthday at Mr. Gatti's in mid-September.  The event was a huge success and we are thrilled that things went so well.  I will try to post some pictures of the party here shortly.


Megan broke her nose earlier this month and got a pretty good concussion in the hit.  She is scheduled for nose surgery on 10/19 to straighten things up and roto-rooter out the nose.  Troy offered to use his drill to do it at home, but Megan has decided she would rather have the ENT do the surgery!

We went to San Antonio last weekend for a swim meet.  Megan was initially scheduled to swim, but was not released by the doctors to swim yet.  We decided to go down and get out of town for the weekend just for a change of scenery.  We enjoyed the time together but had a hard time recovering from the drive!

Troy met with the neurosurgeon who referred him back to the spine doc for another potential fix before attempting a fusion.  The next procedure is a spinal neurotransmitter implant.  We had to jump through a few hoops before they can get insurance approval.  This past week Troy had an updated MRI and a psych eval.  He passed both and now we await insurance approval.  The doctor's office said it can take up to 6 weeks.  His pain level is pretty high, so we are hoping this can be scheduled sooner than that!

I started my final thesis course this past week.  The last six week course was incredibly time intensive and I was looking forward to this course being a bit easier.  Unfortunately, the syllabus is pretty full and looks like it will be just as labor intensive as the last class.  I will be completely done on 10/24 and that date cannot come soon enough!

For those who haven't heard from us much lately, please be patient for these remaining few weeks.  Between working, driving to appointments, my thesis, and juggling the demands of life, I just don't have the time and energy to keep in phone contact as much as I would like.  I look forward to having some free time in just a few weeks!

Betsy