Day +411: Coughing and sniffling

Lots of going on around our house these days. Isaac was the first to get sick about a week ago, and then Keri and Mina Brigitta followed pretty quickly. I didn't feel it until Friday and Saturday, but I got off pretty lightly and felt well enough to go on my business trip late Sunday, though facilitating an all-day meeting on Monday wasn't easy. Keri said she felt pretty horrible last week and Isaac was definitely out of sorts for a few days, but about the only effects we've seen on Mina is a runny nose and crusty eyes. She should still have some protection from her last dose of IVIG, so that has probably helped spare her. Isaac and Mina both went on amoxycillin. I don't relish putting Mina back on antibiotics, but Dr. Loh said her B-cell function came back a little low after her last checkup, so it's probably for the best. Will be interesting to see if she gets c. diff. this time. We'll have to watch a lot more carefully now that Mina is no longer in diapers.

We are still trying to figure out our summer schedule. Keri and the kids will spend about six weeks in the Northwest and I'll join them at various times, but I'll be doing a lot of flying around the Northwest at the same time. Right now it looks like my August itinerary will be San Francisco-Idaho Falls-Spokane-Eugene-Wenatchee-San Francisco, with a couple of trips to Boise tossed in somewhere. It'll be a busy summer for me as I try to make up for lost time a bit at work, but I'll find some downtime here and there.

Not a lot of news otherwise. Mina has not been to the oncologist in three or four weeks, so there is no other medical news at the moment. She'll go back in once before the trip. It's interesting, there are little indications here and there that her memories of that time are fading. The other day Keri unearthed the ankle brace she wore for about three weeks last summer when she fell down and hurt her leg on her first trip back to the playground. Mina didn't recognize it, not even after we tried to jog her memory. Maybe it would have come back if we'd put it on her leg. Then the other day we were reading one of the Curious George books where George ends up in the hospital with a broken leg. Mina said, almost wistfully, "I used to go to the hospital!" I said "Not anymore, though!" She said "Why?" I stammered for a few seconds, and then gave up. Too complicated to explain. I'm looking forward to the day when she's forgotten all about the hospital and I have to explain everything to her.