Blog from the heart

This photo was snapped on July 17th / o5 in Malawi, on our way to a nature reserve. Gilly's love for nature knows no bounds.

This weekend was filled with friends, family and activity. Last night we dined at Chase; one of our local favourite Lebanese restaurants. Gilly enjoyed the outing immensley, and his loving companions cherished every moment. Gilly was quiet, as usual these days. Finding his words is a struggle (a new expression of his is, "how shall I say it?"), but he remained on top of the conversation, and was even willing to have Sharon put more $ in the meter so as to prolong the evening.

Today we spent time with many a friend, drinking tea from Malawi, listening to music from far off places, and looking through a home grown, hand made Birch Point scrapbook a la Tamara.

Gilly's calves started bothering him again last night and continued to feel sore earlier today. We were advised by Dr. Evan Blauer (well, a tad early, but he's earned his stripes in our books so why wait the 2 months or so), Dr. Shelley Veinish and Dr. Maurice Levitan, backed up by the staff nurse at the Jewish (she's getting used to my telephone voice by now) that we should have his bilateral calf pain (cool vocabulary for a teacher, wouldn't you say?) checked out tomorrow by our family physician to rule out DVT (deep vein thrombosis). Talk about a run on sentence! Seems it's a simple test called Dopplers. Maybe I could get a job as a writer on Grey's Anatomy. I seem to know all the fancy lingo! We'll cross that bridge tomorrow.

Gilly is anxious to get started with treatment, if this is to be in the stars. One doctor so far (who looked at the MRI at our friends' request) agrees that there's no reason to wait. We hope to meet with him later in the week to discuss possibilities other than what we have been presented with thus far. Three MRI CDs reached Israel today and Sema has the ball rolling across the Middle East. We have relevant information from a variety of sources, and we plan to uncover every stone. Hopefully we will be able to be proactive sooner than later.

I loved Vasu's comment today: "You blog from the heart." What a modern day expression. He's so right. As soon as I laid eyes on Gilly 24 years ago last January, I knew I was home. He waited 10 days to pop the question, and I replied, "What took you so long!" I gave him my heart (thanks Trudy!) and have never looked back. Blogging from the heart is so natural, it hurts sometimes.