Jennifer won 1st place in Halloween costume contest

Hello Family and Friends,

Here’s the latest from Austin TX. Jennifer went back to the heart doctor last Monday and all the tests came back OK. They still have her cut back on some of her high blood pressure meds and it seems to be helping on the fainting. She has only fainted 5 times in the past three days. But her blood pressure is still high at times and we are waiting to see what the doctors will do next.

The Varisela Vostor (form of shingles) started to come back on Thursday and they put her back on the fluids. Nurse Mary has to give Jennifer IV fluids and IV antibiotics every 8 hours around the clock for the next 7 days or so. We are going back to the doctors tomorrow and see if we can get something stronger for Jennifer.

Here’s some good news, Jennifer went to a Halloween party and won 1st place with her costume (she was a LOVE child from the 70’s) and won 1st place for the best decorated pumpkin. We signed her up for an art class and she had a great time last week and she went out to the movies last night with some friends.

She still gets tired very easy, the itching from the Varisela Voster is driving her up the wall but she is taking one day at a time and that’s a good thing.

It’s so nice to have the family home and someday we will be a normal family again.

Wait, 2 high school teenagers, a wife with a credit card, a son off to college and a hyper dog……. I don’t think there is such a thing as a “NORMAL household”!!!!!

Thanks for all the prayers and GODBLESS.

Tim

note: the above entry is a copy originally posted on our ‘Caring Bridge’ website.