Well, I went to visit my nephew at Stanford Hospital today, and had a wonderful time.  For those of you who don’t know Aleksei had to have emergency surgery last Wednesday due to a perforation in his colon.  They removed 5 inches of his colon and put in a temporary colostomy bag.  The doctor told my sister that he was the sickest person in the hospital last Wednesday, and that he could have died in the four hour surgery.

While I was there, he was in pretty good spirits.  He ate some jello, a sherbet kind of dessert, a popsicle, and more jello.  He told me all about how gross his ostomy bag is, and was very brave when they had to take some of his blood (I told him that he was braver than you dad).

I prayed with him when I left and he asked me to bring Liam to see him.  I told him I would, and am trying to figure out how to bring Liam back tomorrow.