Keeping connections open

Hello, y'all. I realized this week, when the rumor mill had my husband in a coma, that maybe I need to make a bit more of an effort to keep everyone informed of what's going on in the Brewer household. I DO try, believe it or not! But ... I'm afraid I've been failing miserably lately. My family and my job seem to be consuming about 125% of my energy. But you-all are very important to me, and I regret that I've let some relationships simmer on back burners. Please know that you are often in my thoughts, even if I rarely make it to the keyboard or the phone these days. I can't promise that I'll make it in here every day, or that what I post here will have anything even CLOSE to literary value! But I'll try to give you at least a telegraph-like update a couple times a week.

So what's up with the Brewers, you ask? Well, first of all ... Mark's "incident." As best as the doctors can tell, his body most likely stored up the narcotics he has been injecting, either in a pocket in his thigh or in his liver, and then something caused it to release all at once into his bloodstream. So, yes, technically Mark overdosed ... but through no fault of his own. And yes, he definitely would have died without medical intervention, but he was only "out" for about four hours after I found him (in addition to however long he was out before I found him. That part's not clear.) He responded really well to the narcan drip, though, and was home in less than 24 hours.

We're going ahead with the (second) ablation on Thursday. They are also planning to put a port in, since Mark's veins are pretty much shot. This should be a day trip, but we'll see how things go.

In brighter news, Alex is performing with the children's chime chorus at the church the kids and I have been attending since July (McMinnville Cooperative Ministries--or the Coop, as some call it. :) ) He'll be performing in church this coming Sunday, the 14th, and then at our Christmas Eve service at 7:00.

Brendan will also be in a performance--for school though. (He chickened out on the church thing.) His performance is next Wednesday, the 17th, at 7:00 in the Dayton Grade School gym.

Kayte, being a high schooler, isn't practicing anything except her texting skills and how to flip her hair with the right measure of sass and laissez-faire ...

A new term starts tomorrow. Can you believe I made it through a whole term? Whoo-hoo! I've pretty much decided that if a person can survive a life filled with middle schoolers, he/she can survive pretty much anything! :) Although it DOES help if I'm braced and ready when they come through the door. So I'd better stop babbling and GET TO WORK!