Like nomads, but with more stuff

In the nearly 20 years Terry and I have been together prior to Calgary I can think of five ER visits: each of Alex's broken arms, when ...

I have never, in my adult life, been this sick for this long. I am now rethinking my previously reasonable reasons for not getting the flu ...

Haven't written in a while about Alex and dairy, because I thought we had everything figured out. I mean, the coughing is over (knock o...

It's summer in the foreign service, which means we are on a several week whirlwind trip to see as much family and as many friends as po...

When last we touched this topic, she had started coughing again. The M.O. is thus: 1. we get her coughing under control, thus far it has/ha...

This time it's *the* cough. We are trying a new approach and yes food elimination is part of it. This sucks.

After barely two weeks she had completely stopped coughing, so we put her back on dairy. A couple of times she complained of heartburn afte...

It makes no sense at all, but three times is no longer a coincidence. Something about having a cold/being sick makes Alex's GERD act up...

So our last two trips back to Maryland from cabin have both occurred during snowstorms that basically shut down the DC area. Maybe we are a...

So Tuesday actually started Monday when Zoltan fell backwards off the couch onto the coffee table and gashed his head right at bedtime. We ...

Apparently they don't do stitches anymore, only staples.

We put Alex back on medicine today, to get her through birthday and Halloween season. Cutting the dairy helped immensely, but not completel...

There are four people in my family. And right now there are four coughs in my house. One is GERD/reflux One is most likely a sinus infec...

Since December, I have had pain and limited mobility in my right arm. The doc in Russia told me to "stay off it" until it felt be...

Almost a year after it all began it has finally ended! Alex had her last dose of medicine around the end of August. So far there has been n...

Alex and I have been in America for a week now. From Philly, we came down to my brother's house outside DC for a visit with them and co...

On Monday, Alex and I began our journey home. We took the rest stop but I have to admit, flight times sucked and I am not 100% sure it was ...

I finally got confirmation from CWT that my and Alex's tickets are changed. I went into the airlines' web sites and got us seats to...

Our family is supposed to depart St Petersburg, likely forever, in June. But instead, Alex and I have to curtail. We thought we could med...

It's hard to write about an overwhelming experience. And some of the personal stresses of the last couple of weeks have even been good ...