"That's one thing I haven't worried about."

Thursday, Jan. 30, 1992

     Yesterday we went to visit Ann Prescott at the hospital & got to talk to her for about 30 minutes. She's doing pretty good. Before we saw her we went across the street to see Carol Ficklen. She hasn't changed much. She & Andy are trying to start their family now.

     Ez's 9-mo. checkup was yesterday afternoon. She weighs 20&1/2 lbs. & 30&1/2". Dr Karp said she's doing good. Everything we asked her about she said not to worry about. The only thing she was concerned about is that she's not pulling up yet. That's one thing I haven't worried about. She said she should be doing that by her 12-mo. checkup. She tried to get her to stand up but she wouldn't so she gave her to Guy to try & she only kind of did for him. Dr. Karp said most babies won't "perform" when the parents are telling her what they can do. There was a medical student with her but he didn't do anything.

     She talked to us again about testing Ez. for CF. She said there's not anything she'd do differently to treat her whether she has it or not. We told her we'd think about it. I'm just afraid that if she is diagnosed with it, she'll never be able to get any insurance, medical or life.

     Today we went to work in the church library. Guy ended up doing most of the work. Luana kept her down in the office but when I went down to check on her she was getting pretty fussy. I gave her a bottle of juice & when she was almost done I realized it was almost lunch time. So I got her lunch ready to feed her & I didn't have her spoon or bib. I had to feed her with a regular spoon & she did ok. She seemed like she was ready for a nap so I went to the nursery to rock her to sleep. She just wanted to look around at every-thing. So I went up to the library & Guy was almost done restacking the cassette tapes. He said he'd watch her while I typed up cards for some new books. He came downstairs before I was done & walked around with her til she fell asleep. We finished up upstairs & then waited til she woke up instead of waking her to leave. We went to Wal-Mart to get some stuff.

     I forgot to mention that Dr. Karp said Ez. can have dairy products now. She said to just use up whatever formula we have left the switch to whole milk. But we're going to just add the two together and gradually increase the ratio of milk to formula. We started this morning with 4 oz. formula & 2 oz. milk. So far so good.

     Guy washed my car this aft. & even dusted & vacuumed inside too. Tomorrow we're going to visit Nick & Tina for the weekend. They live somewhere near DC. They used to be here in the Navy but they went to Central. We lived in the same apartments way back then. Tina & Guy hit it off. Nick is quiet like me. They're from TN. Brian was a baby then. I'm not sure how old he is now but Evan is almost 2. Tina says he's a tiger. It should be an interesting weekend. Tina had to have surgery about 1&1/2 years ago for a brain tumor. We didn't know about it til months later.