March 16th was Slayton’s eighth birthday. On the day before we convinced him that we had a fun day planned for him…of furniture shopping. For a couple weeks before hand, we got him all riled up, telling him all about the entertainment centers and end tables we wished to purchase.

Needless to say he was getting quite upset.

So on the 15th we all piled in the car. The boys brought their Game Boys. Kept their attention away from possible spoilers.

Finally, two hours later, pulled into the parking lot of FunSpot. He didn’t even notice. When he did, he couldn’t stop jumping up and down.

Joining us was our good friends, the Picards, and Slayton’s best friend Quentin. They played a lot of Skee-Ball and gave all the tickets to Slayton.

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He hasn’t even had a pack/den meeting yet. So today @ 6:00am we put him in his uniform for the first time.

As you can see from this picture, he’s lost yet another front tooth. This one came out at school.

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I still continue to feel generally miserable, though I have periods of time where I feel good. I had a period of five minutes - five whole minutes! - about a week ago where I actually felt 100%. It came on suddenly, and just as I realized “hey, I actually feel good right now!” the good feeling started sliding backwards.

Frankly, I just want to know what the pain in my upper left abdomen is. I had it before taking the Cipro, and I’ve got it now. I’ve seen a gastro doc, who performed some tests (that I won’t get into) who couldn’t find anything wrong.

Tonight we were eating corn-on-the-cob and he was having such a hard time with it. Sarah and I convinced him to just get it over with.

Pictures forthcoming.

I started having this dull ache in my left side, under the rib cage. Went to my GP, she ordered a chest xray, saw nothing, told me it would likely pass.

Week goes by, now I’m having what I can only describe is a ‘cramping’ sensation in the same area. Go back to the Dr, she says it’s likely musculo-skeletal, and to take Aleve, it’ll likely pass on it’s own.

About another week passes, and during that time I start having a pain in my back, ribcage level, on the left. Heavyness in my pelvis. Peeing all the time. My Dr is on vacation, hey…time for a second opinion. He diagnoses ‘prostatitis’ puts me on antibiotics (Doxycycline).

It seems to be working - kinda - on my pelvis discomfort, but the pain in my back is getting worse. Plus the medication is having some really screwy side-effects. I’m having chest pains, and I’m massively photosensitive. I see the ER doctor, he says I’m having a reaction to the antibiotic (well, duh) and gives me a new one, Cipro. Doesn’t answer the questions about my back, and sends me on my way.

Been on this new stuff for nearly a week now, and though I’m no longer photosensitive and having chest pains, the heavy pelvis sensation returned with a vengeance a couple days ago. The back pain seems to be subsiding a bit, but now I have an itch under my arm that I can’t scratch, that wraps around to my back ribcage.

And the cramping sensation, which never completely went away, came back with a vengeance a couple days ago. It comes and goes, but when it’s there it’s a fairly disturbing feeling. It’s like eating a meal and going for a run and getting cramps, without running.

I’m really worried about this “cramping” sensation. Doctors don’t seem to be worried, but they don’t have to LIVE in my body, do they?

As such, I’ve been horribly depressed. I don’t WANT to be. But I can’t help thinking that it’s something very bad.

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