On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:00:17PM -0700, Nancy  Sturm wrote:
> There are 536 e-mails in my in box.  I don't think I even have time to
> delete them.
> 
> We went to Bandit Springs and rod a nice 30 miles of limited distance on
> Saturday, arriving back home Sunday afternoon.
> 
> Out 15 year old son, Arontae, was looking "off" Monday morning, so I rushed
> him to the ER and he and I got a fast ride in a small plane up to Oregon
> Health Sciences University where he had a shunt revision.
> 
> His VA shunt had failed, a life-threatening event.  He is having a nice
> recovery and he's back home, but I may never leave him again.  I am having
> trouble getting past the horrible possibility that his shunt had clogged
> while we were gone and his care-givers wouldn't have recognized the
> seriousness of the event.
> 
> He's fine.  I think I'm traumatized.

aiee!  i am so glad he's doing okay.  he sounds like a really sweet kid;
i hate to think of him in danger.

you take it easy on yourself -- you had the perceptiveness to know when
something was going wrong, so good on you. 

--vicka

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