Late October

So, it's been quite a while since I posted here. An update on Joe. His diagnosis is 'junctional tachycardia', which is an irregular heartbeat (arrythmia) that's up to 180 bpm. He had a EPS (study to check it out) and they did catheter ablation (but didn't 'ablate' or freeze any tissues). The reason they didn't freeze any tissues to 'correct' the heartbeat seemed to be because it would cause risk of putting a pacemaker in. This 'junctional tachycardia' is basically sending out crazy electrical signals in Joe's body. I know he is going to try to quit smoking and maybe decrease his caffeine and stress. This will help not to 'aggravate' the situation, but was not the cause of it (he was born with this). He goes back to work Friday (Halloween) and is going to follow-up with his doctor in a few weeks to talk about medication.

My virtual child

So, for my class I am getting everyone to create a 'virtual child'. My virtual child's name is Michael. There are enough Michael Angileris out there, but I like the name anyway. I tried to get a girl, but figures, couldn't even get a 'cyber' girl. The first part asks personality questions, then you choose your child's features and 'voila!' you have a baby (if only it was that easy). Then you have to choose different decisions (ex. will you breast feed or formula feed, will you choose home day care or child care, will you play more or sing more to your child). I tried to choose what I already have with my own, but (like reality) I was making 'virtual' parenting choices when I was overly tired. At my 'virtual'l 9 month baby check my baby was getting intestinal problems and was a little behind in gross/fine motor skills! Wait! Did did I choose singing over active play with my baby....is it because I was supplementing with formula?? ....take it back!! Here I am getting defensive and wanting to start over with my 'virtual' child.

Back to reality....tomorrow I think I will take the kids to Curran's apple orchard. I have 4 tomorrow.