The Road to Recovery

Brandon and I have been a little under the weather the last two weeks.  At first I thought it was allergies with all those great tree pollens with the trees in full bloom and the wind blowing more than usual.  But by the end of last week I realized it could be some kind of illness.  I thought we had recovered by Sunday last week.  I sent Brandon to school on Monday and I went off to my usual meetings.  I was in a meeting Monday afternoon when my phone started ringing over and over.  I finally realized this and saw it was the school.  I called them back to find out Brandon was in the nurses office with 104.7 temperature.  I have no idea what happened from 8:00 am to 3:30, but is was a downhill spiral.  I rushed to the school finding Brandon fairly lifeless.  I called Brandon's PCP and they said bring Brandon directly there.  We rushed to their office.  That reminds me - I HATE AUSTIN TRAFFIC.  This all took over an hour.  By the time I made it to her office, Brandon's temp went down to 103.  I was very worried that he would have a major seizure while I was driving him around.  We got to the office and Brandon looked much better.  After several tests and xrays we determined that Brandon had pneumonia.  Man, I was so off on thinking he was fine when he went to school.  So we started aggressive breathing treatments and antibiotics.  The next day I started to feel bad and I went to the doctor and received the same medicine.  So it has been a long week with Brandon and me recovering at the house.  He is much, much better now and will probably be ready for school Monday. 

Monday, I close on the new condo where Brandon and I will be moving.  It has been a complicated closing with setbacks every few days.  We have one more hurdle to overcome before closing on Monday.  If all goes well, we will be the proud owners of a condo in the Eanes school district.  We will spend the next few months updating the condo and move in this summer.  It will be nice to not have to worry about a yard for a while, be able to walk the trails around Zilker from the condo, swim in the pool and have much less to clean, but I will miss the country.  Brandon will be fine wherever he lives as long as he has his crucial items - the Internet, the Beatles music, the TV (he kind of has a little crush on Selena Gomez), goldfish (the snack) and pediasure.  Oh - and his mom.  The only scary part of the move for me, are all the back-ups I have established where we live currently.  If I need to work early or stay late I have people lined up to help.  I won't have that support network in town and will need to establish it.  But that is part of a mom's job is the challenge of scheduling on a daily basis.  We will get through this. 

So we are on the road the recovery.  Recovery from our illness and moving to the next chapter of our life as Brandon graduates and moves into learning about life in the working world.  We are ready for the move and ready for the challenge. Wish us luck.
More later
Leah