No news being good news

Thought I'd take a break from blogging for a while, as I probably went over the top during the week of the operation.

Rowie is progressing well, all signs are that she is recovering as expected. Last week she had x-rays and there was some concern about the prescence of both water and air in her lung cavity. The x-ray last week indicated that the problem was dissipating, and this weeks (today's in fact) shows that the trend is continuing.

Rowie's still got heaps of aches and pains, but she's managing her pain very well and is largely using panadol and aspirin for the most part. Amazing really that you would consider these common, purchase-in-supermarket drugs for pain relief, but there you go.

I'm trying to get hold of a scanner this weekend so that I can scan one of the x-rays for the blog. I had imagined that Rowie's new valve would be, you know, stitched onto her heart somehow (hey I'm an IT guy not a doctor!). In fact it appears to be encased in a "crown" of some kind of metal (I assume stainless steel or titanium) which is in turn stitched on. It looks amazing! It really took me by surprise when I first saw it! Rowie too - I think she had concluded the same as I. I will try and get an image for the blog.

Oscar has returned back to school this week after a largely uneventful (for him) two week break. His transition to Narangba Valley school has not been great - I think he's gone from being "Oscar who everyone knows" to "Oscar who?" and it's been quite difficult for him adjusting. However, he's also had a temporary teacher for this past semester as his "real" teacher has been on a sabbatical trip around Australia, and has now returned. What a change! Ms Vela (his temp. teacher) seemed very nice but I guess the nature of temporary teaching is quite difficult - you will by nature not "bond" as much as a permanent teacher would I suppose. This does in fact seem the case, as "Ms Brinkworth" has returned and, in Oscar's words, school is "totally different" - she's putting order back into school life and, for Oscar, that has always been important. So, all is well at school, particularly this week as he's had swimming FOUR days in a row!

I have returned to work this week also, and to be honest it's been a struggle getting back into the day-to-day stuff... No doubt it'll come back to me, but somehow it seems a little trivial in the bigger picture.

Looking forward to the weekend and some downtime.

In the meantime, here's a lovely picture of Oscar pulling a "funny" face!