A little background on Charysse's doctor for this surgery. We found her on TV, strangely. I was browsing through stations one evening and stumbled across Dateline. They were running a story on an actual brain surgery she was doing. The surgery involved a father and musician having a tumor removed. The newsworthy portion of the [...]
Charysse's mom: There are many times a parent watches the back of their child as with each step they get further and further out of reach and out of site. I don't care how old they get or what the circumstances, I think we always feel mixed emotions as they do. Somehow we parents learn [...]
I'm posting some pictures from the premiere last night, for those of you who don't believe our story. It was slightly chaotic, so they're a little blurry, but I think still clear enough so you can see that we didn't make the whole thing up..... Today was great, just hanging out with my family all [...]
Wow, we packed in a lot today. Our day began with an MRI, which was much shorter than I anticipated, much to my delight. Last time I had an MRI done here, it seemed like at least 45 minutes, but this one was only 20 minutes. Yay! After that, we killed some time walking [...]
Well, the fun is officially over and we're onto the home stretch. We were able to spend some great time with Marvin's family over the past day or so. We had some great laughs with his sister and her family. It's always entertaining at the Sikkema household. My toes are officially surgery/Disneyland-ready now, meaning they've [...]