May 18, 2009

The donate Life is to get people to sign up to be Organ and Tissue Donors. Last year at the softball tounaments we had a few people sign up but I'm planning on WORKING IT this time with both tournaments.

We are starting week three of Scott's recovery from the tonsillectomy and we are seeing some improvements already. He's hardly snoring at all right now which is just great. Of course we'll have to wait until he's off the pain medication to determine if it's the surgery that's making the impact or the pain meds. He'll have another sleep study done in a couple of months - after a full recovery - to see if there's improvement there. His last sleep study determined he stopped breathing about 40 times per hour, which led us into deciding to have the tonsillectomy as an option for improvement. We'll not get 100% improvement, but if we can get 30% - 50% then the surgury was worth the time, effort and pain (easy for me to say right)!

We want Scott to be in the best possible place health wise at the time of transplant so that everything has a better shot of taking. Another improvement this past week is that he seems to be more energetic. He's been electivlly doing small chores here at the house as well as initiating afternoon walks. So for now we are thrilled with the improvements.

A final note for today - we've decided to do raffles at both softball tournaments in hopes to raise a few more dollars. I'm am excited to report that stores at the local level, in ,Carrollton and LaGrange, are assisting us with our fundraising effort to help Scott. So far we've got Chick-Fil-A and Publix gift certific...ates as well as items from the Publix Bakery to sell at both tournaments. I've got several more stores to reach out to this week in hopes of having more items to raffle off.