Great Strides Walk

We had a great turn out for the walk--a total of 25 walkers!  Even though we don't have our final team total in, I'm going to guess that it is right around $3,000.  I'm glad that the rain held off for us to get the walk in.

McPhee Rocks!

Our school every year does a Pennies for Patients drive for Leukemia.  It usually doesn't net more than $20 and the students and staff don't seem to get behind it.  This year Breanna (see picture below) came up with the idea that we should raise money for Cystic Fibrosis and put the money towards our Great Strides walk. 

We had a kick-off celebration and one of our students read some facts about what Carson has to go through every day.  The class with the fullest bucket would win a root beer float party.  So for the month of April, students were asked to bring in money.  The money poured in!  I had a student whose family donated $100 and another one in the picture below brought in $50 from her family.  The response was overwhelming.  Students asked around their neighborhoods too.  In the end, we raised $1,000!  That is so amazing!  Because of the amazing response, Ayars & Ayars donated root beer floats for the entire school.  Thank you so much for everyone's generosity.

April CF Clinic

Carson had his CF appointment last week.  He was up to 34 pounds and 39 inches tall!  They were very pleased with him.  His BMI dropped just a smidgen under the ideal 50%, but he has been doing great. 

We got his culture results back yesterday.  Carson's staph is gone, but he still has MRSA in his throat.  Last time it was in his nose, but must have moved out of there and down only to his throat.  He started on three antibiotics yesterday--two are for 28 days and the other is swabbed up his nose for five days. 

How the Time has Flown

A couple of things came up with Carson in the past two weeks.  Many of the little people at Carson's daycare got sick.  Carson was pretty good except for a runny nose.  Then I noticed he had a lump in his cheek.  I called and got him an appointment right away.  It ended up being a swollen gland.  I was told to give him sour things to make him drool more.  The CF clinic later prescribed him an antibiotic to help with that.

Here is Carson eating a sour candy.

 

Then Carson started throwing some tantrums.  He goes and sits in his bear rocking chair and pouts.  When I asked him if he was done having his "pity party," he said he wasn't and that he had balloons.  Later he offered me some cake from his pity party.  So the other morning before leaving for school, Carson had another pity party.  Here he is with his balloon from the celebration.  He wanted to take it with us in the car.

 

Carson is 3!

I can't believe that Carson is three all ready!  Time has certainly flown by.  It was a crazy week for us.  We ended up getting Chris a new car on Tuesday.  He was tired of driving a gas guzzling SUV.  On Thursday, our frig died.  Thankfully, we had plenty of room in the deep freeze and I had a spare mini frig to throw the food into.  We had to throw some things away, but they needed to go anyway.

So on Friday, Carson's birthday, we went out to buy a new frig.  By the time we got to Macaroni Grill (Carson requested spaghetti for dinner), it was a 45-60 minute wait.  We placed an order and came back for it.  We took Carson to Target to pick out a present.  He was really mad when he had to leave the train table at the car dealership, so we found a train set for him.  Carson loves it!  He also picked out an airplane.

Since Carson didn't get to enjoy someone singing to him (and the fact that we didn't have any food due to the frig), we went to dinner at Texas Roadhouse on Saturday.  Someone loved a little too much riding the "horse" and wearing the hat.  He kept yelling "yeehaw" at the people around us.  I apologize to those that were around us.  Carson has talked about his evening there a few times this week.

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When Grandma and Grandpa Hermsen went on vacation last summer, they brought back Carson a VW van from Austria.  It's the type of car you pull back and it drives off.  I wondered how long it would be until Carson broke it.  I was betting on a week.

Throughout the summer, Carson would get it's wheels jammed, but it was easy to fix and the van would go.  He loved driving off of the coffee table and hearing Chris go "ahhhhhhh!" for the people inside.  Well today, it is broken.  I was sitting at the breakfast bar and Carson came up to me.  In one hand was the van, the other was one of his play screwdrivers.  "Mommy, can you fix it please?"  Sadly, the mechanism that makes the van go is toast--no way to fix it.  Carson is quite bummed out, but it was too cute seeing him bring me a tool to attempt to fix it.

Throat Cultures

We got the results back from Carson's cultures on Monday.  He recultured MRSA in his nose and staph in his lungs.  At this time, they are not going to add any medications since he all ready did a treatment when he first cultured them.  His doctors were not worried about it since he sounded great when he was there and his x-ray looked good too.  You would never know that anything is going on and Carson continues to be an active guy.