Happy Father’s Day!!!

Dear all,

This has been a really great week!! And today is a fabulous Father’s Day!!  Happy Father’s Day to all you daddies out there and to the dads of all my wonderful family and friends!!

Every morning I have been up to see the kids off – I wave to them and blow kisses to their smiling faces. I am so glad that they like going to Child Time now. Rowan always talks about how much he likes Miss Sierra, Miss Alma, and Miss Pat. Encsi is putting multiple words together all the time these days. Most people wonder if their kids don’t speak when they think they should. What do you do with 2 that don’t shut up!!?!?!? It is really great. I adore them.

Although Jani and the kids have colds, their spirits have been good. Hopefully my system will evade this bug! (this was written earlier in the week – they are all doing much better and I still have no sign of it – yay!)

It has been a week of many “firsts” but some are kind of personal so I won’t share all but here are some: I was work every day!!  Bob Lust moved the fridge and microwave from my van into my office yesterday on Tuesday.  People are happy that my stinky lunches will be kept in my domain (curry and pad thai stink?!)! The main reason for this equipment is so that I will have the intranasal desmopressin on hand and also when I need to heat something, I won’t burn myself carrying it on my lap or spill it everywhere. Krista made me a couple of trays with Dycem on the top and bottom so it won’t slide around and things on it won’t slide either.  I hadn’t seen this stuff before but I love it and I also love the edges (thanks Chris and Winnie). Now I can carry stuff on so I won’t burn myself and things won’t slide off my lap and so I am set!

I managed to get my hair cut on Tuesday. It was good to see Jackie (Practicality).  I’ve been going there since I moved here and so she has seen me 23 months pregnant and she has met the little monsters too!  Anyway, she seemed pretty happy to see me - she hugged me like a sister. A few tears were shed. It is still tough to have people see me like this and obviously hard for people who knew me before to see me like this.  Knowing that people keep me in their thoughts is more valuable than I can say.  Plus she did a great job on my new short do – no surprise there! She always took good care of me in that regard!

I have had some very nice interactions with many ECU people this week too – Mike VanScott, Dick Ray, Deirdre Mageean, Ruth Schwalbe, Ching from Pharmacology, and Pui-Nn Ho, a medical student who spent her first summer in my lab came by my office to visit with me. People of all walks offer to help me any way they can. And as I say to all who tell me it is good to see me, it is great to be seen!! I don’t remember anything about most people visiting but now knowing that they did I am indebted.  Ruth Ann Hendrickson visited many times too and still keeps her eye on me. I have such an incredible battalion of people looking out for me so THANK YOU!!!!!

To boot, the Flat Out 5k I have mentioned previously, Bob Lust has offered to cruise with me in a wheelchair! I am pretty excited about that for many reasons.  

No one has told me yet who put up the get well sign on the road where the accident occurred. If you know, please send me a message!

Friday was a very productive and bonding day. In the morning, I went to work and resubmitted out first manuscript to Cardiovascular Research. Keep you fingers crossed for us! At lunch, I went to pick Rowan up from Child Time and we met daddy at Coldstone for ice cream.  Then I took Rowan for a Wendy’s cheeseburger and fries and then later to go see Kung Fu Panda. It was a very nice afternoon.

Saturday was good too. We tried to go strawberry picking at Briley’s but the season must be over already. Oh well, blueberries will be easier for me to pick if someone can park me next to a bush!! Then we went to Sam’s club, and then home and then we all had a good nap! Encsi slept for 4 hours!! In the afternoon, Gabor and his kids came to hang out a bit. After the kids were fed and bathed, Jani and Rowan and I stayed up late and watched Indiana Jones. I told him I would take him to the new movie if he liked it but when the German guy drank from what he thought was the wrong holy grail and vaporized on his skeleton, that was enough to scare Rowan off of Indie for a while!!

Now is a rainy Sunday morning. Jani and I were up early and got to have croissant and coffee together at 6:30 before children awoke. Rowan was awake first but a cartoon took care of him for a few minutes. Then Encsi didn’t wake up until 8am. Now they have been fed and are playing but every couple of minutes they want attention from one of us and so I am going to sign off.  Jani is messing with stuff – the alarm system, replacing air filters, dumping laundry on the bed for me to fold….it is father’s day though and so I will just smile and be glad that we have such a good daddy! And so now I’m going to hang with the kids and call my daddy and uncle Kal to wish them the best father’s day too!!

One more thing though – I keep hearing from people that they do keep up with this blog to see how we’re doing and I am very glad for that (although I have to admit it feels a bit weird to write to the internet that doesn’t reply!). If anyone has questions that you think I should address, please don’t hesitate to let me know.  As far as my health goes, I feel better and I am getting stronger but my sense of smell hasn’t returned and my pituitary is still misbehaving.

One more quick thing – so Jani is messing wit the alarm system and so some loud ones went off (we were warned) and when Jani turned it off, Rowan said “that scared the eyeballs out of me!”  How funny is that?!?! I had a mental image of a cartoon character with his eyeballs 3 feet out infront of  him while his body was already turned in the other direction to scram!!!

Anyway, gotta go!! I still haven’t had a chance to ask Vince about the pix but I promise I’ll get to that soon!