Yay, I caught up.
Now to catch you up on what's been going on here.
I'm still not feeling the best, but it's better than it has been.
I wasn't feeling up to going to town for the groceries Mon. as planned, but was feeling better that night. The forecast for Tues. was rain, and I had been feeling worse in the mornings, so I considered going in for the groceries when Tom went to bed Mon., but Angel said she was too tired. I couldn't sleep, so I went in and woke her up about 3am, and said I'd take her to Steak & Shake for 1/2 price shakes if she went with me to get the groceries. She wasn't exactly thrilled with the idea, but finally agreed. Yes, it was crazy
, but the store is practically empty overnight, and we avoided the rain.
Glad school's finally done.
They had an extra week due to weather closings. Angel got all A's again this quarter.
(one shy of having all A+ again too) I had emailed the superintendent and principal after last quarter, about the unearned low grade from 1st semester, and neither even bothered to reply.
Angel decided to try to pursue the issue herself, and made an appointment to speak to the superintendent. (she's very shy, so this was a major undertaking for her) He still wouldn't remove the grade, but was willing to allow her to retake the class (the issue was that the teacher did not provide what she needed when she was not attending school). Further discussion with the principal pointed out that there were some potential issues with that solution that could still end up lowering her class ranking, so they offered a different solution - an online summer course. The downside to that is that we have to pay for it (and it's not cheap), and that she has to do school work during the summer, but not doing it would have a major impact on her GPA & class ranking, so we're doing it. Wish the school would have taken care of the situation when it first started last Fall. The material arrived already this week, so she'll probably start it tomorrow.
Angel's had her driving permit since Dec., and did the classroom book portion 3rd quarter. She couldn't take the classroom driving portion because of her low platelets, and will take it in the fall. The Dr. has cleared her to drive (I still don't understand why it's ok for her to drive, yet she can't take PE.
), and last weekend was the first time that it hasn't been raining, and that Tom had a Sat. off, so she had her first actual driving lesson.
This is me -
Tom did the teaching, and I sat in the back, and I was a total wreck.
I chose to stay home when they went out again Sun.
Angel had a clinic appt. the beginning of May, and all her counts were up a little bit. Not much, but improvement of any kind is always good.
Dr. decided to have her wait 6 weeks for the next appt. instead of 4, and that's hard, not knowing how her immune system is doing.
We're still battling ants. Very grateful that they seem to have stayed away while we were on the trip. They came back shortly after we returned, but in a different place in the kitchen. The bait traps worked again, but then we had ants coming in the original spot from last fall, on the other side of the kitchen. Can't know for sure, but we think we're dealing with multiple colonies. Had more coming in yet a 4th spot in the kitchen. Haven't seen any in a few days, but I haven't felt confident enough to move our food back into the cupboards yet, which has been a major inconvenience.
We found out that the National Honor Society application requires quite a bit of school activities, as well as activities outside of school, and volunteer work. Normally, that wouldn't have been a problem for her, but under the circumstances, she hasn't been involved in much at all. She volunteered to help with our library's Summer Reading Program, which started this week. She helps with crafts and other tasks every Wed. this month, from 10-4:30. It was a long day for her, she's not used to much activity.
Unbelievably, I'm still having problems with our MAW coordinator.
She had told us to do something in Jan., and said we would be reimbursed for it (and I have it in writing). When we received the final information packet & expense card, that reimbursement wasn't included, so I emailed her to ask about it. She said a check would be mailed 4/3. After the trip, we still hadn't received it, so I emailed her again. No response. I waited 2 weeks, and have emailed her once a week since, and the only reply I've gotten is one automated email I got 3 weeks ago saying she'd be out of the office for 3 days. The reimbursement would really be nice, but what really irritates me is that she won't even reply to my emails, and I have been very polite all along.
Angel was invited to attend Camp COCO (children's oncology camp organization) for a week in July. It's located about 90 minutes from here, run by a school of medicine, and a nurse, tech, and the Child Life Specialist from clinic are part of the staff of Drs. & nurses that provide care. Tom and I aren't exactly comfortable with the idea, but decided to let her go. The acceptance letter was supposed to be here by the first week of June, so we're getting a little worried that maybe they didn't receive her application.
Tom's vehicle is having several major problems, and it's difficult to have it worked on with the hours that he's working.
Our area has had lots of rain, and the ground is too saturated. Areas are flooding that don't have a river or other source that is the typical cause of flooding. If you happened to see the footage of the water breaking through the college doors - that's our local community college about 16 miles from us, in the town that Tom works in. We've been fortunate that we only have had minor water in our basement. Angel had classmates that actually canoed in their yards. Tom managed to make it home on 2 different occasions before most of the roads between home & work closed down.
Sorry for such a long post, but I hadn't updated for about 2 months.
Hoping to feel well enough today to
finally start the TR. We're going to post in short sections though, but will post several sections at time if we manage to have time to do so.
I want to post links on her Caringbridge page for our TR posts, but I don't want to have everyone that reads her CB page to have total access to our DIS threads, so I'm going to re-do the 1st post of this thread & re-post it without the PTR link (I know that the links are still in my signature, but it's not as obvious as having the link in the text.). Sorry for the duplication.