Christmas Tree

 

Thanksgiving weekend, Doug and I put up the tree together.
The photo of the tree below - Decorating is still in progress.

This Christmas will be extra special with Andrew being here.
Since he will be here, Santa Clause will be coming to our house.
It's been quite a while since "Santa Closet" made a visit here.

Quick Trip to Iowa

I did not take any pictures on this trip; but Jill did....so please see her blog for all the details of this last minute trip to visit Melvin in the hospital.

http://joshandjillelliott.blogspot.com/2012/11/road-trip.html

Tests

Tuesday, Nov 14th - I started my clear liquid diet in preparation for my colonoscopy and endoscopy scheduled for Wednesday, Nov 15th.  The colonoscopy was a routine screening, since I had polyps removed at the last testing 3 yrs ago.  The endoscopy was requested due to some stomach issues I've been having over the past eyar.

The results are as follows:
1) Stomach polyps removed. These were fundic gland polyps and this type of polyp does not have the potential to progress to cancer.
2) Esophageal stricture. This was dilated and biopsied. The biopsy of the esophagus was normal.

 

3)  Diverticulosis in the sigmoid colon and the descending colon
4) One 5 mm polyp removed from the transverse colon. This polyp was adenomatous. This type of polyp is considered pre-cancerous, meaning that it had the potential to progress to cancer, had it been left in.

** Kelli  - I have many pictures that I can share with you, if you'd like to see why my insides looked like during the procedure and examples of each type of polyp**

I will continue my routine screenings to prevent any future occurances and I recommend my family members get their preventative screenings. 

Early Thanksgiving

The weekend of November 10th and 11th - Jackie and Jonathan came home for the weekend and the Elliotts were also here. Doug came home from St. Kitts. So we were only missing Karl & Audrey :-(
We decided to celebrate an early Thanksgiving since no one would be at home for the holiday weekend. We cooked a small ham and a small turkey breast, sweet potato casserole, sausage stuffing, cranberry sauce, rolls and Jill's home-made apple pie (pictured above).  

I'm very thankful that my immediate family lives so close and that we get to share in the holiday traditions. These are the special moments in life!

Sick Again

Jill and Andrew came home Sunday night and Andrew was running a fever.

Jill had given him tylenol at 3pm but this was 5:30 and the fever was higher than earlier in the day.

His temp was 104.5

We quickly put him in the tub to reduce the fever and took him outside to cool down after another dose of Tylenol.

Monday morning, I took him to the pediatrician and Andrew has a double ear infection.

His lungs were clear, but the poor little guy can't breathe very well.

The doctor didn't think his first ear infection was healed and now was worse.

So another step up in antibiotics - Augmentin, twice a day.

We will definately be going in for the recheck of the ears this time.

We want an all clear for his first birthday and upcoming holidays.

 A photo of Andrew on Monday night not feeling so perky.

Andrew has now been in his new daycare setting for a couple of weeks and is doing great there.
He is shown here with his buddy Kameron on a wagon ridge around the neighborhood.

Just Because

Doug brought me home these flowers yesterday, "Just Because"