Submitted by Mike on Thu, 11/22/2007 – 5:21pm.

We want to wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving!! We have so much to be thankful for! I have been busy cooking Thanksgiving Dinner. This has been one day I Really miss my mom!!( I have never cooked the Thanksgiving turkey before!!) Brandon is taking a nap so we will be eating our holiday meal a little later than usual. It is very cold and windy outside and we are supposed to have snow later this evening! I have not decided yet if I will be hitting the stores tomorrow morning. I LOVE shopping on the day after Thanksgiving but have never shopped in the snow!!!

I want to thank you for all the Birthday cards, gifts and messages!! We spent almost 7 hours at the hospital with Brandon on my B-day. (Last year on my Birthday we had a 10 hour Transplant meeting with the Children’s Hospital of Boston!!) Mike and Brandon tried to make the best of the evening. We had cake, candles, decorations and presents! Brandon had a blast helping me open my gifts and eating the cake. The WHOLE apartment was covered with ribbon and torn pieces of wrapping paper!!!!

As for Brandon– His kidney function numbers still have not improved. The ultrasound showed urine backing up into the kidney. We have since had two more ultrasounds and have meet with the urology team. Doctor’s have not ruled out a kidney biopsy but for now are holding off. We have increased ,yet again, his medications and will be starting him on another new medicine Saturday. We are hoping this new medicine does the trick!! The Doctor’s have been back and forth with us about doing the biopsy. The risks are very high so they are trying to avoid doing one but have just about exhausted all other options!

Happy Thanksgiving, JULIE
P.S.– Thanks for making the CAR WASH a big success!!