Chailife is wonderful

My son has more to tell. I forgot the broviak came out in a scheduled surgery. Unlike the kidney drain tube, see earlier post. This was a 2 minute surgery in November of 2003. My wife was upset she wanted him to have as little anasthesia as possible. She got her wish. The surgery was around 9AM. At 9:15 AM he was done and riding a toy car around the recovery room knocking into people.

Other things. There was a group called Chai lifeline who also helped during the chemo period. His chemo only took about the length of time it takes to get a flu shot. ONly we had to wait for 3 hours each time. And he was only two years old. They are very religious. They are known to us through our friend in Chabad of Ann Arbor. My oldest daughter called R went to Sunday school through Chabad the year before she went to kindergarden. The next year the other daughter L went to Sunday school through Chabad in diapers when she was 3, two years before kindergarden. We didn't send her the next year when she was 4. It was too tiring to get up early on Sunday morning.

It was at this point I had become more "religious". We joined the conservative temple. During L's Sunday school I noticed the Chabad curicula was new to what I learned in Sunday school. I then became interested in reading Parsha online. I still read them. On the third time around things start to sink in lol.

Well I am not proud of handouts. We get plenty from my FIL. Chai lifeline gave us $200 per month during the chemo months. This went to pay a cleaning service. We kept our regular cleaning lady $60 per week every so often plus the other company at $70 per hours for 3.5 hours every so often. It was a nice gesture. They are based in Chicago and would have done much more if we lived in Chicago.

Then in Fall of 2003 they invited us to a retreat for Jan of 2004. All five of us went to the catskill mountains. It was alot of fun. Very religious Jews there.