Catching up....

I have lots of stories to tell, well, maybe not too many, but several for sure!  First I will give you the GOOD NEWS!  Dina had her port taken out!!  Isn't that fantastic?  The first few days were hard with some pain and lots of discomfort, couldn't sleep on her right side, but she is healing and all is good now! 

I had another CT scan, saw the oncologist and all is well with that also.  Sent the report to the urologist as we had a scan from the lungs down to the pelvis done to check on those stones.  Well, I still have some stones in the kidney.  However, I have no pain and feel really good!  And more good news is that there is NO bacteria infection from a urine test!!  Yeah!!  However, I do still have stones and there are two kinds (fortunately NOT the proteous bacteria) I grow both the calcium oxalate and the calcium phosphate kind!  Which is odd because they are totally opposite.  the doctor believes I have what is called renal tubular acidosis...so now we need to figure out why and how to prevent more from growing.  I will be seeing a nephrologist and have a complete work-up done to see how we can conquer this thing (good thing I have met my deductible!!).

So I would say that Dina and I are on the road to a full recovery!! 

Now for the fun stuff!!  In June we were in AZ to watch Ellie play Volleyball in a tournament in Phoenix...we love watching her play!!  And it was Lily's birthday while we were there, so we did lots of fun things with her!  Dina, Lily and Lily's friend, Jane and Ellie were the only ones to join us...Jamie and Jalen stayed home and had fun!

               

Here are the girls having a good time at Mirabel.

 

                          

A very rare site - seeing Papa in the pool!!  It was HOT!

Lily's B-day...she chose a new Italian restaurant we discovered...Lily is on the far right.

Lily is our animal lover, she wanted to go to a pet store, so we did and she held the guinea pig

Heidi and Dina...good friends since grade school and her family just moved to the area!

For Lily's birthday Scott, Dina, Lily and Jane all went horse back riding into the hills around Cave Creek..they all had a blast!  Lily said it was the best birthday ever! 

To end the evening of Lily's birthday, we took her and Jane to an amusement park, again the little girls had so much fun running around to all the rides, they even did a zip line over the park!!