Monday, January 19, 2004

Monday, January 19, 2004 3:48 PM CST

All is well in New York. On Sunday we awoke to nasty weather..freezing rain, rain and snow all day. We ventured out to buy groceries and even though I told Nathan it was too nasty to go out again he was begging me to ride the subway. My cousin Laura called to invite us to her place in Brooklyn and so we decided to go. Nathan enjoyed the ride but was out of sorts while we were there and kind of anti-social. Afterwards we went to friend's of my aunt's who live in the same building (we stayed with them for a few days before) and we had a very yummy and relaxing dinner with them. We came back to the apartment and Nathan went to bed.

This morning I had to wake him up. I had warned him last night that I might have to do so and so when I woke him up this morning he said something to the effect of "see, sometimes I am happy when you wake me up" and was quite cheery. We took a cab to the hospital. It was very cold and icy out. We had to hand around for a while since it was Monday. He also had to have his blood drawn through a finger prick. I let him know about this before hand and he proceeded to cry about it until they finally did it.

He got settled in his bed but we still waiting forever for the antibody. The pain wasn't too bad today. He handled it really well and we were out of there by 1:00.

While we were there I overheard a mom talking about her child who relasped after 8 years in remission...ugh!

He slept the whole way home on the subway and walking and went right to bed when we got back. He got up around 4:30 and he seems pretty good now...just watching a little "sponge bob". I got to relax and do some straightening up while he was asleep and so it was good time for me.

I might try to borrow a digital camera so I can post a new picture. His hair is long enough to look a little unruly. It is still thin but really has grown. It looks to me like it might be curly.

We fo back tomorrow at 8:00. Thankfully we are on the "early shift". This works better for Nathan's schedule. If we didn't go right away in the morning he would spend the whole time anticipating leaving.

I got an email from Julia's sitter with some pictures and it sounds like she is having a really good day and doing just fine.

I'll update tomorrow.