Tuesday, April 12, 2011

List of Lasts

Lately what has been on my mind is our list of lasts. It's so easy to remember when Ant and Al did things for the first time. Their first tooth, their first steps, their first pump knot, their first day of school, etc. But do we remember their lasts? The last time they came in the living room and squeezed into the recliner with Tony? Did I realize that the last time I took Ant to get his hair cut was the last time I would take him to get his hair cut? He now has his driver's license and doesn't need me to take him any longer. Did I realize that last time I took him to school would really be the last?


Last week we had another "last" that we almost missed. Alex has a growth hormone deficiency that was diagnosed when she was 3, and every night since then she has been taking growth hormone injections. We knew it was getting close to time to stop the injections as she had hit all the milestones she needed to hit in order to stop taking them. We were waiting on that last hand x-ray to see if her growth plates had closed. If they were closed, she was done. The doctor told us we would get a call in the next few days with the x-ray results, which would give me time to mentally prepare for her "last" shot. With uncanny hospital speed, that only happens when you don't want it to, the hospital read her x-ray that same afternoon and we got the call. "She doesn't need to do her shots any longer!." While it was good news it also meant that we had missed the "last" one again?!?!?!




What did we do? We did what any other parent would do. We lied. We weren't goint to miss this "last" shot. Tony gave her her first shot 10 years ago and he did her last shot, too. We went ahead and gave her a shot, took this lovely picture, and finally have a documented "last." Right after her shot, we told her it was her "last" one...

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