Week 303: All good

I don't say this often, but this week was excellent. Lemon and I went to our big clinic visit on Wednesday morning, and it went remarkably smoothly. For once, Lemon was in a cooperative mood, and went along with everything he was asked to do. He was totally fearless about the PFT, the throat culture, and even the blood draw. With only minimal prompting from me, the clinic managed to have things run on a more or less tight schedule, including checking us in for our x-ray and blood draw while we were busy with other parts of the appointment so that we could get our tests done and get out of there in a timely fashion. Everyone was very pleased with Lemon's weight gain and totally on board with the plan of going up to 4 cartons of formula a night during the summer to fatten him up before first grade and whatever new round of big-kid viruses that entails.




Even better than the clinic visit itself were the lab results that we got afterwards. Liver function? Normal. Glucose? Normal. Iron levels? Normal. Counts of various blood cells? Normal. X-ray? No major changes from last time, which is about as normal as one can hope for in CF. We are still waiting on the results of the throat culture and a couple of other things but so far I couldn't be happier. We put in a lot of hard work this year and it's nice to see that it has paid off.

On Friday, Lemon graduated from kindergarten. The graduation ceremony was really well done. How the teachers managed to get 80 kindergarteners to behave in a more or less coordinated and orderly way for an entire hour is an absolute mystery to me, but they did it. The kids sang and danced, received little diplomas, and had a big picnic lunch outside afterwards. Friday was also Lime's last day of 3-year-old preschool, although that even was marked by considerably less fanfare. Still, a major accomplishment for him, and he has grown tremendously (in intellect and ability, if not physical size) since the fall.

 It is hard to believe that this school year is now behind us. It seemed so daunting when it started, with all the challenges of the new schedule, new places, new childcare arrangements, new germs. And yet, here we are, on the cusp of summer, with all of its attendant challenges to think about. Not the least of which is the apparently infinite list of things that the kids need for summer camp starting next week. Ah well. Monday night is for blogging, and it's looking like Tuesday night this week may be for summer gear acquisition. Whatever it takes.