My oh my, Monica's poor back! Monica was able to get an MRI scheduled this week, and took the results to the spine doctor she's been seeing. The night she got her MRI we put in the CD to look at the images, and you know it's bad when even I can find the problem without assistance! She's got quite a large herniation at the bottom of her spine (L5S1), as is highlighted below. Her doctor said it's about 1cm in size, and referred her to a neurological surgeon and told her to call and tell them she can't wait and needs surgery ASAP! Of course, what does a receptionist care, so we're still working the system a bit to get things figured out, but we're looking to get surgery scheduled as soon as we can... At this point Monica just feels ready. She's been having increasing pain from this since the start of June, so whatever fixes it and gets it over we're ready for!
In milder news, the rest of the week happened too. The week started off with Labor Day, the day in which we DON'T work, to celebrate... well, from my understanding, that people worked before us. We had a good time together, and I set up the slide into the splashpad again as that was a big hit at the end of last week. I joined the girls for an afternoon of slipping and sliding. The slide didn't work very well for me. I don't know if it was my swimsuit, or that I'm just a little too wide for the slide, but I didn't get the same sliding as the girls do. That's okay though, I just had to take diving slides across the splash pad, and then we played a game Brooke plays at school called snakes in the grass. It's like tag, but the people running away have to slither like snakes.
That evening we joined some friends for a BBQ and swimming. Grayson wasn't napping this time, so he got to play in the water too. Actually, he really didn't want to get in the water. He really wanted to ride on this duck, and there was a raised spot of the pool that he spent most of the time walking around. He did fall off the wall one time, but fortunately his floaties were on and caught him, from hitting his face into the cement. It was a close one, but the padding did a pretty good job saving him from that fall.
Grayson is becoming more of a wild one at bed time, and has recently discovered how bouncy his crib is... This is not great, and every night I think "can this crib survive to be used for another child?" That's not an announcement or a plan for the future, I just wonder if Grayson is going to break his bed sometime soon.
This weekend it was pretty cold here. It rained ALL day on Saturday, and the high was in the 50! It was REALLY nice, and seeing the sun this morning is a little sad... Anyway, Grayson found some stylin' shoes and put them on.
Saturday afternoon Katie and Nolan came over to visit. They brought pizza with them and we had a great time catching up and playing together! I promised Nolan a spot in the blog if he'd take a picture with the girls, and it worked! He hopped right up on the couch!
Last night at dinner Grayson finished a little before everyone else was ready to leave the table, and ran around giving everyone kisses. It was really cute. At first he was running up and grabbing Winry's head and pulling her in for a kiss, but he only did that when the camera wasn't running.
I stayed up to watch the BYU game last night, and what a game!! I did a lot of other random things as well, and completely forgot about the blog, but I'm not forgetting today! Anyway, the game was super great, which of course means BYU won! It went into double overtime, which I could have done without as I ended up being up till about 12:30. And that's everything I've got for right now. I'm just realizing I haven't talked about a side project I'm working on at all with a golf company. I'll have to get a video or pictures this week so I can show that off. It's pretty neat, and I've been working on it quite a bit lately. Anyway, I think that's everything for today, have a great week!
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