Blessed

Today I have to take my baby boy into the Children's Hospital for a follow up ultrasound on is kidney. He sort of has 3 kidney's as his left kidney is duplexed, which means there's two chambers, an upstairs and a downstairs, each draining separately. At his last check up everything was fine, and he will be having to go yearly for these check ups .... I'm sure everything will be fine, but there's always that little nervousness that your child won't be perfect.

I remember when I was pregnant and we found out about his kidney .... the very first ultrasound ..... I sat in the parking lot and bawled my eyes out and then called a friend who calmed me down and reminded me that it could be worse. The last few months of my pregnancy were consumed with constant ultrasounds to check his kidney.

Next week we go back to meet with the doctor and review the results, and we will find out (hopefully) that everything is still working as it should and we'll be done with it for another year.

Ironically tonight I am going to a Trooper concert, benefiting the Kidney Foundation. A friend from highschool and his wife along with his company arranged it. Sadly, this friend's three children all have kidney disease, and will all likely need kidney transplants in their life as well as lose their hearing (kidney's and ears develop at the same time and often if there's something wrong with one, the other will have issues as well). I plan on having a great time tonight celebrating the fact that my boy's kidney issues are not as serious as my friend's children, but also hoping for a great turnout with lots of generous people giving to this great cause so that perhaps their futures are a little brighter.

So, if you have healthy children, hug them a little closer for as my friend put it when I found out about Landon's minor problems, it could always be worse and we are so lucky for the blessing of health.