There is FINALLY a diagnosis!!

Thomas has ulcerative colitis. After swallowing the camera, it showed several more ulcers in his ilium. He is now on Crohn's meds, in hopes that it will heal the ulcers and the bleeding will stop. Then, he goes back in August to see how things are going.
Thanks for your prayers...it has been a long time coming...since March when I first took him in to see our family doctor.

And Thomas starts his new job at Best Buy tomorrow. Luke has gone down to Guadalupe State Park with two of his friends camping this week. I am continuing to work at AISD Instructional Technology, for the summer, teaching teachers! This is a great change of pace, and I am really enjoying it. I told one of the IT's to put me down for whatever they need me to teach....ended up with 36 half day classes! But I have enjoyed most of them. I have to admit, teaching how to analyze TAKS data is not the most exciting class I have ever taught, however. The webpages, phones, LoTi lessons, are much more fun!! And it is fun seeing teachers around the district that I don't get to see during the year.

God is GREAT!!

I made it through the year. This has absolutely been my second hardest year to teach.

• Thomas's mysterious illness weighing on me, (still no diagnosis)
• the dear ex, dropping my beloved oldest from his insurance, right before Thomas's tests began
• now paying $441 a month for insurance
• worrying about my beloved youngest, Luke, dealing with a creepo as a coach
• having to converse with the coach, AD, and principal about the coach's erratic behavior,
• my dear friend Patty, head of Special Ed, went to a new school
• Special Ed just NOT being the same great team
• Luke totalled his car, and I was the carpool until he could afford a new one.

But, praise the mighty Lord, this school year is over, and God has great and awesome plans for my future:

• Next year, I am honored to teach with Shari and Cathrine, who are soooo successful in teaching 7th grade ELA
• My dear friend, Trina, is our new counselor, and will actually come to work and enjoy it, unlike our past one
• I am teaching 35 half day Tech classes to teachers this summer, for mega-bucks
• We will have THREE Tech Liaisons next year, so I won't be run ragged!!!
• My oldest will be a junior at my alma mater, McMurry
• My youngest will be a senior at Cooper, no longer playing basketball for the creepo coach
• Luke only needs two credits to graduate, and is taking 8 classes, so I will not stress over his grades
• I actually have another vacation planned for July...back to Ft. Worth, (less gas) to GardenRidge, and Movie Tavern
• No changes in administration at dear ole Clack for next year
• Hopefully, in the not-to-distant-future I will be teaching Technology Applications in middle school (so far, no TAKS tests for Tech Apps) = less pressure

God bless you all!!!!

Did ya notice there was more good for next year, than bad from this year? God is like that!