Davison family health

My mom returned home from the hospital this morning. She’s now able to eat solid foods again, which is a pretty substantial upgrade from the ice chips she’s been limited to for most of the past week. She’s still pretty weak from the surgery, using a...

Mom update

OK, so my mom is out of the intensive care unit (ICU). I saw her again this evening, and she’s starting to get back to her old chipper self. The emergency surgery she had Monday night was to repair a stomach hernia. Unfortunately, the hernia that had opened up...

A jolt

My dad called us last night while were at the Motel 6 in Weed to give us the jolting news that my mom had gone in for emergency hernia surgery. I’m not medically knowledgeable enough to say much more than it is serious stuff (all the more so since Mom had a...

California dreamin’

Los Altos, California Some of the people, places, and things from our recent California trip: • The Petersons—Mark, Christine, and Jared—came over for a BBQ at the Lillys. I drove around the block in their new Subaru Outback Turbo, a car that nicely...

Made it

Los Altos, California We have arrived at the Lillys in Los Altos. Today’s journey was a touch more difficult than yesterday so far as the kids were concerned, but nothing I’d call a major problem. Elisha just got hungry at in opportune times, meaning just...