Tyler2008Book

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testing a new feature

Shoot the pig

Well today was Study Day 0 in our participation with the sw!ne f1u vaccine trial. Both kids had examinations, blood draws, and shots. Tyler was a trooper and very quickly got over the trauma of the needles. Miss Thing, on the other hand, was quite upset. It didn't help that I had told her a few days ago that there would be shots involved. She worried herself to tears for several days and then was tense every time someone walked into the exam room. While we were waiting to be randomized (apparently involving faxes back and forth to Wash DC study HQ) she fell asleep crying that she didn't want any shots. When they finally brought up the vaccine, she awoke to Tyler crying while getting his shot. Next thing she knew, she was being held down to receive her shot. Not a wonderful afternoon for anyone, including PoPo who was a trooper about entertaining and distracting the kids. We all survived and now they can tell Daddy what brave kiddos they were. Only 2 more blood draws and one more shot to get through. They are definitely earning their study stipends. Now on to our daily diary documenting temperatures and degrees of irritability. Right now they are laughing and jumping into a pile of pillows so I don't think anyone is wounded for life.

TTFN

August 2009 update

Well, I've tried transferring my Typepad blog into Blogger automatically but apparently it can't be done. I started transferring entries individually but that is a tedious and overwhelming task. Apparently I started blogging 4 years ago. While I haven't been a prolific blogger, that is still a lot of content to transfer.

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Life, hardware failures, and depression have sucked my digiscrapping mojo away. We've finally got things rearranged at home into something that makes sense for us. Our front room is now the office for Alex and I. We've also got an arts and crafts table for the kids. The center is open to leave plenty of room for scooters. Moving my computer & desk to the basement a few years ago was just a bad idea. I didn't like being away from the family and I hated having my desk become a dumping ground. Now I'm back upstairs, my desk is unburied, my EHD is repaired and networked, and I've got lots of new pics to scrap and stories to tell. Here are a couple recent pages (click images to see credits).