The Simple Pleasures of Life

Last week, Cade and I spent the whole weekend inside.  Cade was getting over the nasties of yet another case of tonsilitis.  What was supposed to be fun and goofy day was spent being lazy on the couch.  It was fun but not the fun either of us wanted to have.  Jody worked most of the day so Cade and I just were lazy.

Today however, was different.  Today is National Fishing Day.  Daddy, Cade and I set out to Live Oak City Park for Jr Fishing Day.  Cade had a Shrek fishing pole, some tackle and some worms from Walmart.

Cade fished for awhile with his Auntie Melmel when he was younger but hasn't fished in almost 2 years.

Fishing Day was lots of fun.  For $2, he got in to the event and got a cool tshirt.  We had just lost our first bobber and realized that the little fishing pole was not a good fishing pole.  They had given us a ticket for door prizes.  WE WON!!!  He got the choice of a camping chair or a new fishing pole.  We grabbed the fishing pole, definitely.

Within minutes of attaching the bobber thing and hook and new worm, we caught the first fish.  The way Mommy finally broke Cade of bringing home every dandelion and rolie polie in the world is that Cade "gives them back to God."  Guess what!!!  This works with fish too.  The first one was probably a 10 inch catfish.  It bit Jody when he was taking the hook out.  (pretty funny).  We got our photo with fishie #1 and then "gave fishie back to God."

After catching the hook in a tree, losing the other bobber thing and then borrowing a bobber from someone else -- we got another good line.  WE CAUGHT FISH #2.  Cade thought this was pretty cool.  He helped, but pretty much Daddy did most of the work.  This poor fish did not want to give up the hook.  We gave him back to God too.

You see, when you give them back to God --- the fishies, the rolie polies and dandelions get to continue living out their life like God needs them to.  They get to do their jobs and we get to enjoy their beauty.  (Yes, sometimes Mom pulls things out of her butt to amuse the child)

We caught a little guppy (about  4 inches.)  By this time Cade was getting bored.  Fishing is not exciting unless you can actually catch fish CONSTANTLY.

We cast a few more lines and Cade watched a frog and really wanted to take the frog home.

For Cade's first fishing day with mom and dad, it was pretty awesome.

He said the fish were really slimy and wiggled too much to keep them.  God needed them back:).

Surgeries... good, bad, not sure

I always love filling out medical forms when I am a new patient at a doctor's office or hospital.  Most give you this short line about this long _________________________________________________________ to fill out past surgeries.  Yeah, that doesn't work for me.

I have had a bunch of surgeries in my life.  Not to go in to too much detail with kinds, I have had kidneys, TB removed from lymph node, tonsils, sinuses, CSection (this list is longer actually).  I had surgery in 1976 (twice), 1980, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2005 and 2008.  That is a bunch of surgeries.

I have had very routine surgeries and also ones that I could have really died from.  I remember before my jaw reconstruction surgery, the Oral Surgeon listing off the warnings and disclaimers.  That surgery included anesthesia that took my blood pressure REALLY low because it was a bloody surgery.  I remember the look of shock and panic in my mother's face but still I had the surgery.

I could very easily have died in childbirth.  It was a God thing that I didn't but there were complications.

Where am I going with all of this?  There are risks to everything you do.  There are uncertainties in everything.  I believe strongly in doctors (and have put my life in many of their hands).  Faith plays into that alot.  With as many medical things as I have had go wrong and right in my life, I have to have faith.

With all that being said, Jody and I will soon be making the decision whether Cade has a tonsillectomy or not.  My poor baby boy has such problems with his sinuses and his tonsils and just gets worn out from them.  This will be the first time he will go under the knife in his life.  I am not sure how I feel about that.  I have no fear of surgery for myself.  Obviously, I have had enough and have put faith in enough medical personnel, but still not sure how I feel about Cade having surgery.  That is kinda scary.

Thursday he has an ENT appointment over in the Medical Center.  We will go from there.  On the one hand, I do not want him to have the pain of every other month tonsillitis because that just sucks, but I also don't want to have to put my little boy's life in someone else's hands.

Hmmmm.....