I've just signed on as a co-blogger for a friend's blog (Life with Twins and Multiples). Having somebody else watching over my shoulder, along with all the other ladies consistently posting, ought to help keep me on my toes and posting, right? And if I can keep up with posting on that blog, surely I can keep up with posting on my own. So here's my biannual pledge: I promise to start posting regularly from now on. (Yeah, we've heard that one before.)

To start off with, I see I haven't updated on Kender since the beginning of last month. Kender, as I reported, was having trouble with glaucoma and bleeding in his eye, and was put on some eye drops to help bring his pressure down while we waited for the bleeding to clear out and give the doctor a better look. A little over a week later, he started having symptoms of even higher pressure, including inconsolable fussiness, bloodshot eye, dilation of the pupil in that eye, and even bulging in the eye. A stronger eyedrop was called in, Kender went in to see Dr. Drenser in the office a few days later (Dr. Trese was on vacation, of course), and he went in for an EUA on the following Monday, April 19.

Kender's pressure was still slightly elevated, but lower than on April 1, in the low 20's, so he'll be continuing on both the drops. The bleeding was gone, and with that out of the way it does not appear that there is any new growth of blood vessels (Yay!). The bad news is that enough scar tissue has now grown over that eye that Dr. Trese does not think he has any usable vision left. (The good news being that we don't have any reason to continue trying to force Kender to wear his glasses now.) All of this is in his right eye. His left eye had some leakage that was visible on angiogram, so Dr. Trese did some lasering. He's to return for another EUA in 3 months instead of 4 now.

As for me, I'm in the middle of another spring fibromyalgia flare. These spring flare-ups have been baffling me and Brian, but I think I have a theory. After a long winter stuck inside here in Michigan, snow everywhere and needing to bundle up all the time, when spring comes it seems warm to everybody. Off to the park we go! We're outside gardening, weeding, playing, going to the zoo. But...it's not that warm. Not really. Lots of this stuff we've been doing when it's only in the lower 60's. My theory is that after staying warm by hibernating all winter, I'm shocking my body by not waiting at least until it's in the 70's to go outside so much. Yesterday it was in the 70's, and I was outside a good chunk of the day, and I feel much better today! Not that it's really practical to continue hibernating through the 60's up here, not with small children that need to get out. But it's just a theory.