Back to a new state of normal

We have come through the Labor Day weekend without any trips to the hospital and everything seems to be running fairly smoothly for a change. David is back to being his usual, cheerful and mischievous self. I am beginning to think that David's new seizure medication may actually be taking some of the edge off of his personality. He doesn't seem to get as angry as often as he did before. Oh, Pam will be the first to confirm that he still has his little 2-year-old fits from time to time, but I believe they are less severe than they were before.

I did some internet research on the medication his neurologist put him on for the prevention of seizures and it appears that it is also used in patients who have other types of mood disorders. I honestly don't know if there is a connection here, but it sure seems coincidental that David's moods got a little more pleasant after we started his new medication. I'm not complaining; just curious.

This coming week, we will be integrating David back into some of the other activities he was doing prior to his seizure. He will resume "Mother's Day Out" at our church and Pam has already gone by and given a few of his teachers some instruction on how to administer his emergency seizure stopping medication. It is a simple process, but needs explaining for the ininitiated. His teachers seemed cool with it, so we're happy to get back to normal there.

Pam and I got some serious straightening done in the back of our house. We bought a storage shed and moved many items from the temporary holding area on our back porch into that shed, plus some other things that were taking up some much-needed floor space in the house got sent out there. Sadly, the shed is nearly full now and I'm wishing it was twice as big. Perhaps what I need to do is purge some more things we aren't using, but deciding what stays and what goes and why is time consuming and depressing to me. The happy news is we have our back porch about 90% cleared off of things that didn't belong on it and we can start using it the way we had intended when we decided to move to this house.

I'm still working on the music room. I got some junk moved out of there, but I still have a lot to put away, sort, organize and in some cases, toss. I had hoped to have more time to work on that this weekend, but for the past four days, David has decided to skip his naps, so that makes afternoon plans take a back seat to whatever thing he is seeking to destroy at the moment.

My Harley had a dead battery and was preventing me from riding it. I finally got that taken care of this weekend, so next on my agenda is finding time to actually ride it. I'm planning on driving it to work if the weather cooperates. We'll see how that goes.

We are beginning to feel some stress over still having two houses to pay for. We have not yet received any offers on our old house and not very many people have looked at it. We try to go by there at least once a week to see if it needs any attention. Each time I go in there, I think to myself, "This is a beautiful house. Why wouldn't anybody want to buy it?" We just hope and pray the right family comes along and buys the house soon. It will go a long way to help our collective peace of mind.

Thanks for checking in on us. We'll post more family news, soon.

Rob