I'm still behind, and moreover behind again, on updates (along with everything else). The short version is that the switch in Jamie's brain finally flicked after about a week of really bad sensory/autistic times, but just in time for him being capable of feeling good and happily learning and playing and being his normal-for-him self, he got a ( Read more... )

First off, thanks to those who answered the calls for prayers, lately. Chris Muetz got the best possible news from his doctors, in the wake of the last bad news -- they feel the tumors in his lungs are removable, and moreover, removable via the least invasive method, so there will be minimal trauma to his body (currently recovering well from the ( Read more... )

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Vern/Uncle Ho is stable, through his transplant successfully and now maintaining drug-induced unconsciousness long enough for his body to adjust somewhat. Sheila can, hopefully, finally pass out herself. I know I was up through most of the night ( Read more... )

Some of you already know him, and some have just heard me refer to our friend Vern. One of the Bristol Renaissance Faire's Friends of Faire "henches", in his persona Sir Horatio Palavacino, Vernon is known more familiarly, in and out of faire, as "Uncle Ho". (Some of you might just think of him as the photographer I did the shoot for.) His wife ( Read more... )

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Well, it was a good day for eating -- Jamie ate that icing, and had more normal food for him, three other times, I think -- and for almost-but-not-quite potty training -- Jamie sat on his potty chair a fair amount, and though he never did anything directly into it, he did, at my suggestion on one occasion, sit down on it before urinating into his ( Read more... )