New School Year

So a new year has started. Lorien is in 2nd grade. Vanessa is starting to learn the alphabet and numbers. I'm pretty sure she knows her shapes and colors. I will soon find out. I'm realizing I have not spent as much time working with her academics as I did with Lorien at her age. I guess I was out to prove that I could teach and now that I know I'm not as paranoid. Anyhoo, our bouncing baby boy was born July 25th at 4:48 am, 20" long 7lbs 2 oz. A week and a half after that he was diagnosed with CF. It's a genetic mutation. His pancreas doesn't work. Right now it's just the enzymes that process the nutrients in food that doesn't work, but eventually it could turn into type 1 diabetes. But the main thing Cystic Fibrosis is known for is the lung problems they have. I don't have all the technical terms, but the salt doesn't get processed, or magnesium I think, and he sweats too much salt giving him the possibility of salt deficiency, but that also means the mucus in his body is dry and sticky. And anyone knows that when that happens you get Pneumonia or Bronchitis. So basically he'd get those horrible sicknesses just from a minor cold. His body will keep producing more of this awful mucus to try to get rid of the cold, but the lungs won't be able to move the mucus up for the body to get rid of it with coughing, it will just get stuck. And if it lasts long enough it could turn into a chronic infection. We've been learning a lot about CF,but there is so much more to learn. We are going to a meeting with the local parents whose children have CF. That's all I have time for today! TTFN