Cornea Transplant Update

October 21, 2005 will mark my one year anniversary! I had a follow up appointment today and Dr. Shah says everything still looks great. Of the transplants he has done in the last year, my eye has healed the best and has the best vision. Before my surgery, my vision was 20/-400 with it now being between 20/30 & 20/40. He will begin to take out my sutures in 6 weeks, starting with 3 on the right side of my cornea as they are kind of tight.

I do experience eye head aches (if you have allergies or have had one, you know what I am talking about) when I am really tired....

Potty Update

Today marks 1 week in the "potty teaching phase". It is working out well. Jakob is up to trying to go every hour...he gets all excited and can't wait to put a sticker on his chart! We had a bad day Saturday....and going poo is posing a challenge (he has only gone on the potty 2 times). He picked out Buzz Lightyear pull ups and was all proud.

Thomas the Train at Essex

Jakob will be so excited that we are going to Essex to ride Thomas the Train 11/12/05. He is so fascinated with trains. The train ride is approx. 30 minutes long and he will get to meet Sir Topham Hat. It is going to be hard not telling him now...but if we did, he would ask everyday and all day "Are you ready to go?!" . We have invited along Missy, Joe, Lucas, my parents, Nana, brother and his family.

Kennebunkport- Columbus Day Weekend

We're going on vacation!!!!

I would prefer VT for the fall, but.......Maine and the ocean will do just fine.

After searching many a places to stay....I was looking for a room on the ocean- all were not to my liking!....I found a place on a cove. We are taking along my Mom so she can "tend" to Jakob at night. My Dad decided that he will not take the weekend off of work, so we will go alone and have a great time. The only scheduled activity is a trolley ride (Jake LOVES trains!).

No More Diapers?

Since yesterday Jakob has gone to the bathroom on his "Royal Potty"a minimun of 4 times a day. He was doing this dance and my Mom asked if he wanted to use the potty and he said "Sure!". Now he is obsessed!

I never thought it would happen! Everytime we would ask he would yell "no potty!" and he would scream if we tried to put him on it.

Got tickets to go see Def Leppard 10/17/05 at Foxwoods! My 10 year old Godson is into 80's rock now, so a bunch of us are going to see them (Bryan Adams opens). I went to see them in 1993 at the Sub Base and they put on an awesome show (I was 3 "people rows" from the stage).