A quick one...

As Thumper's mother always said, "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothin' at all". Heeding Mrs. Rabbit's words, I've taken a few weeks off.

Dennis is back in the hospital for another one of those short-stay adventures that has morphed into something more lengthy. I'll spare you the icky details, except to say that he has an infection the size of a football in his abdomen that has pushed his left kidney back about four inches (it's true, I saw the CT) and could potentially cause way more damage than I'd like to think about if it were to get into his bloodstream. It's self-contained, at the moment, and will hopefully stay that way until the antibiotics (three 0f them) take hold or the surgeons decide to "go in and get it".

If this were me, or any average, healthy person, going in and getting it wouldn't be a huge deal, other than the fact that it's surgery. With Dennis, though, every decision made be a doctor has to be carefully considered, weighed for the possible good & bad scenarios, etc. He's been living on Davis 12 (one of our regular haunts) since Thursday, waiting for the team to make their determination, which will hopefully happen today.

Meanwhile, the juggling act continues. I am a hospital-dweller by day, mom/maid/house painter by night. Finally finished the bathroom that I started the last time Dennis was in the hospital. And if anybody needs about 1/3 of a gallon of Lemon Bliss, let me know.

If you happen to be attending the Elk Grove Great Pumpkin Festival on October 4 & 5, be sure to look for the really big kid in the Cosumnes Fire Dept. uniform. Erick will be "on duty", passing out flyers and generally schmoozing with the locals as a part of his ROP Fire Tech training class.

More news as I can think of it, or make it up, whichever is more interesting. Keep those cards & e-mails coming in!