December is slated to be a very busy month for the Fishgods! In addition to the holiday season activities, we also have two swim meets and two surgeries scheduled.
On Saturday, Megan will swim at a daylong swim meet. We will attend, then head to Abilene to see Steven before he has surgery next week. We will stay overnight and return Sunday late afternoon.
Steven will have his impacted wisdom teeth removed on 12/6. He will have to be put under general anesthesia and will stay in the hospital at least one night. We have met with all the professionals involved and relayed our previous experiences with general anesthesia so they will be on the lookout for respiratory distress post op. I will be heading back down on Monday evening to be with Steven for surgery and a few days after.
Grandma Jane is coming to Texas on 12/18. She always said she would never come visit because of tornados! Ha, we got her! Troy is having spinal fusion on 12/22 and she is coming for that and for morale support afterwards! We are so glad she is coming!
Troy's surgery will be on 12/22 and he will be in the hospital for 4-6 days. Spinal surgery is obviously very involved so it will be a long recovery. We are hopeful that this will alleviate some of his pain and 2012 will be a banner year!
We have decided to celebrate Christmas a little differently this year. We will each open one gift at the hospital on Christmas day. We will do our traditional Christmas dinner etc on 12/31. Assuming Troy is doing wonderfully in the hospital, Jane and Megan will stay with him on Christmas Day and I will drive down for a quick trip to spend Christmas with Steven. I may try to change that a little bit and have staff bring Steven up here for our family Christmas celebration on 12/31. We just found out this is an option and will definitely take advantage of this while Troy is recovering!
So, that's life in a nutshell. Yay December.
Sending good juju to the two Gilchrist men!
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