I'd write more, but we all have the plague

Tyler managed to pick up a cold a little bit before his birthday, right when all of the family was coming in to visit. I don't know what it was, but it's set off a chain reaction of illness that's kept the entire family busy with doctor visits for the past few weeks. It's pretty staggering.

I started it off, with a fever and a cold that eventually clogged up my throat with gunk and ended up giving me an ear infection. I'm a grown man! I'm not supposed to be getting those anymore. Anyway, I did, and managed to get over the worst of it before my throat got really sore. I ended up going to see the doctor for that one, which meant that he as able to tell me that my ear was still infected and my sore throat was not, fortunately, strep throat. It was still horrible, though, so I got some antibiotics and am feeling much better, thanks.

Tyler's ear infection has stubbornly refused to go away, and ended up spreading into a pretty severe fever a couple of times. Unfortunately that meant that we had to graduate him past oral antibiotics and onto a shot! It was horrible! But it seems to have helped his ear. Anyway, he's going into the ENT doctor tomorrow to get evaluated for tubes, because he's been getting a lot of infections and they're becoming progressively harder to cure. I don't want to be giving him a shot every time he gets a cold.

Jess managed to skip the worst of it, but ended up with a voice-clearing sore throat yesterday and she ended up with a couple of doctor appointments too. So between the three of us, we have been keeping the American health care system well employed. You're welcome.

Micro news! Tyler is really good at walking now. He does more walking than crawling. This means that we get a lot more calls from the day care telling us he bonked his head on something. He's also taking naps on a Cot now and is being gently weaned off of bottles and on to real person food. They cook good stuff at that place, I'm actually kind of jealous I can't join him for lunch. He'll be moving up to the toddler class pretty soon, I suspect. I'm trying to make more music, but so far haven't been successful. I'm trying to find a way to come at a new composition that allows me to, well, make something, mostly. Work was boring, so I went off and found my own work. It's much less boring now. I've become totally addicted to supporting video games on kickstarter. It lets you pledge money to support a thing (music, art, a physical product, anything, really) before it gets made. It's just like putting in a pre-order, really, but it's a pre-order that helps the development of the item in question. I like it. I finished the first book of the Hunger Games. Quite pleased with myself. A good, fast read, high on quality. Recommended.

-N