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;(