Sunday, January 16, 2022

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Tonight's picture was taken on January 8, 2009. I remember this day like it just happened yesterday. Mattie endured a very long bone scan that morning. Something that should have taken an hour at the most, landed up taking 4 hours! To prep for the bone scan, Mattie wasn't allowed to eat or drink anything from the night before. The reward for complying during the bone scan and doing it without sedation was going to the restaurant on the Hospital's campus after the scan for a special lunch. With us was our friend, Mattie's art therapists and his child life specialist. In front of us was a large hibachi grill. The chef was cooking up shrimp for Mattie and was throwing shrimp at us to see if we could catch them in our mouths. This whole notion made Mattie laugh!

Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins. 

• Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 65,599,883
• Number of people who died from the virus: 850,484

The excitement for the day was the snow. After all, my parents haven't seen snow in probably over thirty years. We took my parents out for an early dinner, so we could get home before too much snow fell. This was our drive home. My parents couldn't get over this, but fortunately Peter learned to drive in Boston, and I feel very confident in his ability to handle this kind of driving. 

The birds are flooding our backyard. They appreciate all our bird feeders throughout the yard. There is someone else in our home who also appreciates the bird action..... Indie the cat. She is memorized and sitting by the windows, watching all our feathered friends. 

A snowy backyard!