Daily STUFF

Hello!

Well, it has certainly been a week! Nothing spectacular, just a lot of STUFF...

David had his first track meet--he ran the 1600 meter and jumped the long jump. Yeah, David! (OK, so this is an old photo, from last fall X-country...pretend he's running on a track instead: it looks very similar...)

I attended the Middle School parent meeting to be informed of the class choices for Teresa next year in 7th grade. Latin seems to be her language of choice for next year. (She'd be too bored in Spanish I...) Also, now that she's been taking flute lessons for this school year, she can be in Band next year.

I am still attempting to organize the garage, but I am finding it to be a torturous, miserable, losing battle...any ideas of how YOU fit too much stuff into limited space, will be greatly appreciated! I am SOOO listening.

The Boston Celtics won last night's NBA playoff game--game 7 against the Chicago Bulls...WOW! What a series!!!!! So many overtimes and having to play 7 games. We did not attend any games, of course, but if you're going to pay a bazillion dollars for playoff tickets, THAT is the kind of game you want to attend! Nail-biting action to the very end.

And brace appointments...David has a curve in his spine--scoliosis, I may have mentioned that before. 2 years ago, they took xrays and said we should "watch it," to see if it stayed the same or got worse as he grew. These most recent xrays showed that it has, indeed, gotten worse.

So now he wears a brace every day, about 3/4 of the time. He takes it off for sports. With regular clothes on, you can't tell he's wearing it. Of course there are no guarantees with a brace. But the idea is to "force" a correction while he's wearing it, and as he grows his back will grow less curved, not more curved.

It was kind of an amazing process to make the brace--like out of Star Trek or something! They hooked him up to a computer monitor, and then "scanned" his torso, with a scanner, like they were painting his body. Each swipe of the scanner put one more 3D vertical "stripe" on the computer screen, of that part of his body. This brace is exactly fitted to only him. Here's an online picture of one, it's pretty accurate.

Well, I can't believe the weekend is over-- They seem to fly by. Have a great week! Love, Kari