2011 Week 5

THIS...

PLUS this...

EQUALS this...

PLUS this. :(

Taylor came down with the dreaded strep throat again this week. A throat swab (gag!) at the doctor's office gave us the unwanted diagnosis and sent us to the local pharmacy for some watermelon flavored antibiotic syrup. GAG! Taylor has 10 days of gagging to get through in order to rid herself of the throat plague. No fun, but we are still quite grateful for antibiotics.

John will have the first stage done next week. Getting those posts
placed in the jaw bone requires cutting, hammering and bone grafting. ICK.

John's oral surgery is coming up in two weeks' time. Anxiety all around! We have managed to figure out the funding for this much needed procedure, and best of all, it doesn't require living in a van down by the river! :) After 16 months with the right side of his mouth pretty much useless, John will be one step closer to having permanent molars again. He even jokes around about the implants lasting longer than his own teeth. I certainly hope they do. No one should have to go through this process more than once.

Some days you're the skunk, some days you're the dog.

And me? I have been working on myself. I have the tendency to panic, overwhelmed with the amount of work to be done. Just like the dog, I want to tackle the whole bowl at once. Wisely, I have deferred that impulse, thinking one bit at a time is all I'll be able to manage. I hope to be patient enough to live one day at a time, letting yesterday go as I'm able and leaving tomorrow until it arrives.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in the one ahead.

Kristin