Mon, 17 Oct 2005

Nate's Birthday Pictures are up.
The birthday pictures are here.

Hi everyone. Nate had a good 6th birthday. We went to the pumpkin patch on his birthday, and picked out the great pumpkin to bring home. It's now time for the rule: You can have it if you can carry it. Nana went with us over to Half Moon Bay. It was a great day on the 8th.

The 9th wasn't so fun. Our next door neighbor died after a fight with cancer. He was much too young, and I think his wife, Mary Beth, and kids (13 and 12 years old) were surprised by how quickly he went. I have known Mary Beth since I was a small child, when she used to babysit for my parents. They are really nice people, and this is tragic.

Nate was sad to find out about Bob dying. This was the first person that he knows that has died of cancer. I think he's getting old enough to start to understand the scope of cancer. Well, about 10:30 that night Nate woke up having a hard time breathing. He was very scared, crying, and working hard to breath. He kept crying out "am I gonna die?". We tried to calm him down, since the stress was only making things worse. We decided to err on the side of caution, so we called 911. Nothing like a big fire truck and ambulance in a small court like ours to get people outside. The paramedics checked him out, and determined his lungs were clear, but that he was having trouble with his airways in his throat. Basically, it was a case of croup.

Since we already had the ambulance here, we decided to go for a ride. After a few hours in the El Camino Hospital ER, a couple of breathing treatments, and a couple shots of dexamethasone to the butt, and Nate was doing much better. We headed home about 2:30am. Our other next door neighbors were so kind to drop off my truck at the hospital so Nate and I could just drive home. That was enough excitement for one day.

Now on to fun stuff.. We had Nate's birthday parties (one with friends, one with family) yesterday, and it went very well. Some of his kindergarten and other friends came, had cake, opened presents, jumped on the trampoline, and just had a great birthday party.

Enough for tonight. Good night and take care.

- Greg
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