August

Today is August 17th and its Michael Cosgrove's (Bangor) my big brothers birthday.

Happy Birthday Michael.

Wow the summer is almost over and the kids are getting ready to go back to school. Eoghan will be going in to 3rd grade, Maura will be starting Kindergarten and our Finnian will be starting pre-school.
Finnian starts the 3rd of September,Maura starts the 4th of September and Eoghan starts the 8th of September. Thank goodness they all don't start the same day. Well its a big for both Finny and Maurs. Finny gets to go to school on a school bus with his nurse Bernadette. To be honest it was the only way I was going to let him go to school only if his nurse could go with him. With the way he is now you just don't know when the terrible seizures will hit him. Just to day he had one totally out of the blue and we had to hook him up on his pulse oximeter as his oxygen has a tendency to go low and I got the oxygen ready just incase he would need it. But thankfully he didn't the O2.
We all complain about the list of supplies we have to get the kids for going back to school but its isn't a patch on what I need for Finnian. I have to get prescriptions for his therapy, letters for his medications, letters for his oxygen and pulse oximeter. He will have to travel with feeding pump,suctioning machine,pulse ox,Diastat, oxygen,blood pressure cuff,syringes, etc. All of these things have a place in our house where they live but try to pack everything in to a backpack they don't fit.
Oh well I will have it all figured out by the time he goes to school.
Bye for now
The Cats in the Bronx