Looking up......

Today we had the two younger boys appointment with the pulmonary specialist. At first he seemed a little gruff and I was worried that he would get impatient with us trying to explain everything but as the morning progressed, he had more of his coffee and he became like a little teddy bear by the time we left. I have to remind myself that the attitudes of the Army are really different from the Air Force and that even goes with the doctors too.

He throughly looked through the boys medical records, and then examined them himself. He said their pulmonary function tests looked good and said if it was up to him and if we were staying here for a couple years he would work at seeing if he could wean the boys off of some of the meds they are on. He had them also have an X-ray done. There was a little spot on Kai's x-ray on the left side but he said that was normal for a kid with his symptoms. It shows a little thickening in the bronchia, but nothing abnormal and it could disappear in a few years.

The report he wrote for the appeal was that he was positive that the boys were well maintained and there should be no problem with them being over there. He also said that they could be seen by a regular pediatric doctor and just have their regular 6 month check ups to make sure the meds are doing fine.

We are hoping that the docs in Germany will change their minds and say that they can come over after all and we're hoping that they will do it before the weeks out, but they have 7 days to make up their mind so we won't hold our breath. I guess once we know then we will have a good idea when we can leave this place. It's just waiting to see which way we will be going, East or West?

It's Friday and we're going into the weekend with....

no word yet of what we will be doing. We got an email from the USAFE guy in Germany asking us to be patient and that they are trying to talk with the Dr that rejected us. I guess she's on leave for this week so they won't know anything until they talk with her on Monday. We went today to Walter Reed Medical Center to have the boys do a pulmonary function test and the lab tech there said that they were doing great with their lungs. They are stable and as long as they stay on their medications and take them like they should that we shouldn't have any problems with them overseas. We were able to go through a Spring here with all the pollen that was floating around and pooling in the streets when we had a rain and the boys never had any problems at all. We will see the specialist on Tuesday morning and then we will submit our appeal papers then. We can only hope that all this will work out.

Today is my Mom's birthday so I need to try and call to talk with her tonight if I can. She is 95 yrs old. I sent her some flowers for her birthday so I hope she enjoys them. I couldn't think of anything else to send her. I want to get some pictures printed up then we can send them to her in a book so she can look at them when she wants.

Joe Revas came over for dinner tonight. He will be going in for his stomach surgery at the end of the month and with us not know ing how much time we will have he wanted to have an evening with us. That man just cracks me up. He is so excited about the gospel and he enjoys sharing it with other. Too bad we're not all like them.

Well, I need to take care of some things and then need to get to bed. Kai has a swim meet in the morning and we need to go for that. I hope tomorrow will be a nice morning. Tomorrow we need to really go through the garage and get some stuff done in there. I want to be ready for whatever comes our way.

Tuesday again...............

It's been a week since I posted and we are still sitting herein limbo so to speak.  We are waiting to hear from Germany what they are thinking about this whole thing.  

We went to see a new doctor yesterday to see if she could put accurate info on the paperwork and she is reluctant to change it.  She wants us to take the boys to get pulmonary function tests and the last time I tried getting an appointment I couldn't get any answers from the clinic.  Hopefully she has better luck.  She was looking at the boys medical records on the computer and said that they boys had info on their charts that was inconsistent there too.  So I guess it would be good to have a look at all of their charts.  Anyway this has turned into a major hassle.  

Sheldon said that Christian was texting his "new" girlfriend and Chris was saying he was hoping we'd stay in the US instead of going to Europe.  The talk too over in Germany is that they might not have Sheldon come over by himself because of the troubles with the last guy.  I guess the last guy's wife didn't like it there and didn't do well.  They ended up getting divorced and he had to deal with all of that and ended up leaving a couple months early.  The difference with that for Sheldon is we are used to this kind of stuff unlike a younger married couple and its us;)  We are always looking for another adventure, though, its not the perfect adventure, but it could prove interesting.  So we shall see.

So lets recap, a week ago today we found out that the boys were denied going over to Europe to live.  As of now, a week later, we still have nothing resolved.  Such as the life of the military:(

Been a loong time............

Wow, I have just had so much going on and so many things popping up that I haven't taken the time to sit down and write.

Let's see, first of, I've been feeling tons better.  Saw the doctor she did blood tests.  Had to go and redo one of the blood test because I was a bit anemic, but haven't heard from them since.  I'm suppose to go in next week for a follow up so we shall see what everything says.  Since I haven't gotten a call, I'm figuring that there can't be anything major bad with me or else they would have called me to have more test done.  I'm wondering if it was just my reaction to the meds?

Spent the 4th hanging close to home and watching the fireworks show from the banks of the Potomac river.  There was no music and once the show stopped we could still hear the percussion sounds from the blast of the fireworks made for about 10- 15 seconds longer.  That was impressive.  The wind was blowing our way from the show, so we did have the smoke to deal with when watching, but they were still very pretty. We also took the boys to see Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.  It was cute.  Definitely better than the second one.

Sheldon just called to tell me that the medical portion for our request to go overseas has been denied.  We are having problems because of what the doctor here said about Malachi.  We have never had a problem with him, he's never been hospitalized or he has never had an attack for asthma, even as I write he's been doing swim team with no adverse problems at all.   We would have flair ups in the winter time or when he would catch a cold, but nothing really.  So she wrote that he was chronic and the AF doesn't have a doctor close enough to take care of him in the NL.  So this afternoon we have to go and see what our options are now for us.  They will most likely send Sheldon over for 1-2 yrs and we will have to stay here in the states.  We are going to see that if the asthma will be the problem and all we need is to have a Dr close by,  maybe they could send the family to Ramstien AFB and then Sheldon could come home on the weekends?  They said we can appeal the Dr's notes and get a second opinion.   So this afternoon we will be off to the assignments office to find out what our options are and go from there.

Well, I guess I better get off and get dome work done around here.  I have a feeling these next few weeks are going to be crazy;(