Blogging in B Minor

Each day brings new experiences and today was really great. It’s the national MLK observance and I spent the better part of the day with my son. We went to the park and took along our skateboards and skated around together. I picked a board up about 3 months after my surgery, probably against my better judgment, and decided to get back into it so we could skate together. It’s great! I skated all the time growing up in Huntington Beach, California. It’s surf city – we ran around at the beach and that’s what we did – rode our boards, body surfed (I wasn’t a surfer), layed on the sand and had fun. So it’s a nice time for he and I. We ran some errands after that – some clothes shopping which of course he doesn’t care for and then we went to lunch together.

I decided to do a pretty fun craft with him today. I have been saving these crayon pictures he’s drawn for several years. Some of them are great! So I told him that we should do something with some of them so we went to a local craft shop and bought some frames, mattes and so forth. His room is all blue and red with dark woods so we matched them all up of course. We found some of this work – on yellow paper and such and started to frame his pictures. We finished one and it was time for his “quiet time” but he’s so proud of his work! His framed work sitting up on his dresser – what could make you feel more proud as a 5-year old kid? I felt great about doing this with him and it’s something I’ve been thinking about for awhile.

As for me, I’m doing alright but it’s been more difficult lately with headaches and I”m not sure what to attribute them to, if anything. My professional life has been a bit more stressful in terms of projects starting to wind up and so forth but nothing I haven’t dealt with many times before. The headaches aren’t bad but the pain can come up quite suddenly. When I get up from sitting or laying down I get a sharp pain on the right side of my head. This has been going on for at least 3 weeks now and hasn’t subsided for more than a day at any given time. Of course I sometimes let my mind wander, then rein it back in. I have another MRI coming up after the 1st of Feb. I’m in the middle of cycle #4 – I start tonight for 7 days, then I’ll be off and that will end the cycle. We’ve talked about the decision point at 6 months but I’ll start thinking seriously about that and research it at about 5 1/2 months.

That’s it for now.

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