Monday, June 30, 2008

A Change in Attitude

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You already know that I am a big whiner. And our past troubles haven't helped much with that -- have they? Take typical posts like this ...
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Update on Fever Situation

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Thank you so much for all of you who chimed in. After I wrote last night's post , K left the house for the grocery store at 1 am and bou...

More on Fever, Lyme Disease, and Other Issues

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First, just a reminder about the " Lyme Disease Saga " -- it isn't over yet , in spite of the negative test result in Brazi...
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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Feverish Sunday

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Now it's a little cloudy and also still hot and muggy, but earlier the sun was shining and it was not as hot. In sum, it was a beautiful...
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

The Magic is Here

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Fireflies are here and they make summer evenings outside like magic to me. Much better than any Disn3y fake "magic." I wish I had ...
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Antibiotics, Here We Go

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So, the nurse practitioner examined Kelvin and said that the procedure is the following -- if there is proof of a tick bite and a rash 3 cm ...
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Quick Coming Home Post & Some Lists

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We're back home. The trip was good, the boys behaved well and although I made one serious mistake during the last part of the night (I d...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

"Bye Bye Brasil"

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We're leaving for the airport within an hour or so, so I don't have much time to write. I'm glad to be going back home, twenty d...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

Yummy Brazilian Fruit - II

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I have only two more days here in Brazil so I will try to blog (and photo blog) like crazy because I know that once I get home the motivatio...
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Saturday, June 21, 2008

Negative

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That was the result of the blood test and I feel a bit, well... I don't know, sad because I spent so much money on that -- BUT, I am gla...
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Thursday, June 19, 2008

581.90

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That's how much I paid (in reais , not dollars, it would be around US$ 332) for the test to identify if there are antibodies to the Lyme...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

"On the Road Again"

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We had a good time in Águas de Lindóia. The hotel was famous in the 1920s and it's pretty old now, but it's undergoing massive renov...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Quick Update

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First of all, thank you so much for all your support and words of encouragement after I wrote the last two posts . It's very comforting...
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My Brave Boy

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When the scary possibility that my firstborn son may be sick presented itself the first thing I thought about was that I was relieved that i...
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Monday, June 16, 2008

I Think My Son May Have Lyme Disease

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Really, I do. And the worst part is that we are in Brazil right now and I know that the doctors here wouldn't know which antibiotics to ...
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Friday, June 13, 2008

Yummy Brazilian Fruit - I

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I think that one of the Brazilian fruit [can one say "fruits"?] I miss the most is this type of grapes. They are more or less lik...
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Nope

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In case you're wondering what the results of my husband's " application " were, he didn't pass. I'm quite relieved...
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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Quick Update and Suspense

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It's almost the middle of the night and I should be sleeping, but I'm checking blogs instead... There are tons of pictures and stori...
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Saturday, June 07, 2008

In Brazil

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I Just thought I'd let you know that I arrived safely in my home country. This trip was different from all the other trips in the past s...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008

Leaving Soon

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So, I didn't sleep one wink, but got almost everything that needed to be done done... It was very, very hard to drive to the airport, I ...
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