Health, Houses and Heirs

What we have here is a perfectly healthy little boy in our future living room.  We had the opportunity to get out of bed at 7:00 am (in the morning) so we could make it to Little Rock for Julian's latest doctor appointment and tests.  The bad news is that Julian had to get a catheter, and to get the catheter in just right he had to be held down with sandbags on his arms and legs.  The doctors even used masking tape on his legs to keep him from kicking and possibly causing himself even more pain.

The good news is that Julian has no kidney reflux anymore!  He doesn't need to take the daily antibiotics or anything.  His kidneys are functioning perfectly normally!  He will have another ultrasound on them in 3 months just to make sure, but that should be the last of it.

Speaking of the future living room, things seem to be proceeding in terms of us buying the house.  We rather hope that it works out because homelessness really doesn't sound very appealing to any of us.  We have asked the sellers if we can move in before closing happens, explaining our situation to them, but we probably won't hear back from them until tomorrow (Wednesday) at the earliest, which doesn't leave a lot of time before we become homeless, but as long as they aren't evil then things can still work out favorably.

Honestly, limiting our daily stress intake is probably a good idea right now anyway, what with Julian scheduled to become a big brother sometime between late March and mid April.  Granted, that means that I'll get to do the vast majority of the heavy lifting in this move again, but it seems like a reasonable tradeoff.