Back in Boston, March 1

On February 28 we flew into Boston for our first boomerang trip-- out n' back, out n' back -- since first returning to our home in Utah on February 18th, having been in Massachusetts continuously since August.  We had a beautiful flight over Boston Harbor coming down into Logan International Airport, and it was early enough in the day that Audrey and I decided to explore a bit.  I wanted to do something we had never done before, so we visited the restaurant Durgin Park at Quincy Market.  Here Audrey is happily munching cheerios while we wait for her french fries. We had first been curious about this place from a page in her little board book, "Hello, Boston!"  Our food was not amazing, but the staff was charming and wonderfully kind and helpful, even carrying our stroller up the stairs (many of the old restaurants in Boston are very difficult to get into with a stroller or wheelchair). Audrey and I had a fine time until her french fries got stuck in her stricture and came back up.  Then she decided she was done for the day and became very fussy.  The staff at the restaurant were super nice about her eating issue and the mess she'd made; I'd been hoping the fries would be ok to give her, but I hadn't known that her stricture was already down to 6mm, just a tad narrower than a french fry, and Audrey is not yet a very patient chewer.  The waiter wrapped up the rest of our leftovers and very nicely helped me carry the stroller down the stairs.   Audrey was exhausted, so I took her home and tucked her in bed.

Friday Morning, March 1st:
At the surgical waiting room. It's a beautiful spring-like morning in Boston that reads a bit like one of those "fortunately, unfortunately" stories. We walked partway to the bus stop then hurried back home to retrieve the almost-forgotten-but-absolutely-essential piece of pink software, aka blankie. Then we took a bumpy bus ride for twenty minutes, walked another ten minutes during which our stroller wheels caught hard on some uneven pavement and tipped completely up over end. She was buckled in and wearing fuzzy hat and gloves, plus there's a front bar on the stroller, so the face plant she sustained could have been so much worse, but STILL. Reported it to the doctors and she checks out fine, soooo after much adventure, here we are waiting to go to OR prep.

 

 My favorite part of this photo is the way she rocked back on her heels with delight.

 We had a balloon dilation from 6mm to 10mm, and missed our ortho appt due to long delays in the operating room but it all worked out in the end. Ortho clinic worked her in last moment and she now has a removable cast for the next (final) week. Bushed but finally on the bus heading home for the night. On schedule for her next dilation to be 3wks from now as expected.