The view from Budapest

We are going home!!!! Tomorrow, Trent & I get on a plane and return to Budapest. We are so excited to have our family back together. We haven’t been all in the same place since May 2nd. That is just way too long.

There still isn’t anything to report on [...]

I wanted to give you a quick update on the situation. Not much has changed, but I wanted to let you know the latest.

Valerie is in the Zurich airport as I type on her way home. She arrives this afternoon (Tuesday). It has been 4 weeks since she left [...]

Valerie just boarded the plane to come home!!!! If I can get the kids to school in the morning and work for a few hours, then this leg of the journey will be over. I feel like I’m stumbling to the finish line, but it looks like I will make it. [...]

Just a very quick update….Trent has a very healthy gall bladder according to the latest test. He is thrilled that he will have no surgery, I am so sad to not have an answer. Dr. Higgins (the gastro specialist) just called and said that one of the meds Trent is taking is slower [...]

Tomorrow (THURSDAY) is an important day for Trent. We will be retesting his gall bladder. Dr Rob is still a slight bit suspicious of it and wants to check it out one more time. Bad news for Trent is that it means another IV, the good news is that after the prep [...]

It is Saturday night and I am typing this from Little Rock, Arkansas. I decided Friday at 11am to come and got here at 11Pm last night! We are taking the weekend to see Tom’s sister’s family, and some dear friends that we have from living here for 6 years.

I heard [...]

Trent survived a difficult day on Tuesday. He had a camera look through all his intestines and upper digestive system today, but that was nothing compared to yesterday’ prep for the procedures. I didn’t mention that he did an upper GI test yesterday, as well! His Tuesday’s diet consisted of three glasses [...]

I want to give you and update on the latest with Trent so that you pray more specifically. This is Tom writing this time so this email will probably not be as entertaining as Valerie’s, but as least you’ll get the information.

When Valerie finally heard from the Gastro-pediatric doctor’s office in Lubbock to schedule [...]

This afternoon, Trent and I met with Dr. Higgins, the pediatric gastroenterologist, who “happened” to be passing through Abilene (which by the way is not an easy thing to do). He was very thorough and seems very knowledgeable. The bummer is that he was not at all impressed by Trent’s weird experience with [...]

The Latest from Valerie . . .

We had another trying day at the hospital. We got there at 7AM to run a gall bladder ejection something or the other. I think it is a bad idea to arrive during a shift change! The new shift didn’t realize that we weren’t [...]