Wellll, it’s that time again.

It’s Annual Check Up day (click link for more info) for The Kid at the Pediatrics Cardiology Unit…

As every year around this time, my stomach is tied in knots…

Mentally I know that he’s fine, because really at no time in the past year he’s been displaying signs of the Brugada syndrome being active in his body…

Emotionally this is as it always is a somewhat nerve wracking day…

We are off this afternoon to the medical center for a cycling test, picking up the Holter ECG stuff and then off for a meeting with his cardiologist…

I am sure it will all be fine… but I just want this day to be over…

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UPDATE: Back home. The Kid got through the cycling test very well, then was hooked up for the Holter ECG (which he needs to keep on for 24 h, so no showering tonight nor tomorrow which he obviously finds very upsetting *sarcasm*). We then had a normal regular ECG done and then visited the Pediatrician. Preliminary results look OK. I will get the full results from the cycling test and 24 h Holter ECG on August 12, but all seems fine right now and we’ll probably get to stay away for another year. The Bionic Man a.k.a. The Kid says “hi”

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We’re out today. The Kid, The Lill Niece and myself will be venturing out to the zoo today. The Blijdorp zoo in Rotterdam to be precise.

See you when we get back!

Weeks and weeeks and weeeeeeeks of glorious weather, when I was stuck in the office working and The Kid was off on holiday elsewhere…

… and now we fi-nal-ly have him back in Dutchyland and I am on my official summer break and…

rain

/re?n * –noun

water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1 / 50 in. (0.5 mm) in diameter.

Oh well, it’s Dutchyland afterall. I kinda knew this would happen. At least my iPhone will be back today, there’s that…

Goodmorning / goodafternoon / goodevening

The DutchBitch is not in today. She will be smooching and cuddling and hugging  and smothering The Kid who is back after a 3 week absence while on holiday with The Ex.

We will be spending the rest of the day eating the apple pie that I baked him… and the bowl of red currants I got him… and watching the Flash Forward episodes I taped in the past weeks…

Leave a message after the *beep* and we’ll get back to you a.s.a.p.

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I know you all have been going pretty nuts with my remarks on Facebook, Twitter and around here. And Gawd knows that The Sis and The BIL and The Mom have gone insane over me being on their doorstep all the time in the past days cos I didn’t know what the hell to do with myself. Using the Lill Niece and the Littler Niece as replacement kiddy love, but ya know… I am dying here not having The Kid home in the past weeks.

I am not sure why but this time ’round it has been much harder on me than the years before. Probably because he’s getting older and the time that he’s going to be doing his own thing more and more is approaching. Probably because this is a big year of big changes, end of base school, start of high school, end of post-school daycare, stuff like that… And also probably because this time ’round he was a long way away during his summer holiday with his dad: Indonesia…

While I am typing this up on Thursday evening he should be airborn on his flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam. By the time this post airs, he should be back on Dutch soil again. He will be with his dad for another day and then on Saturday morning he will be back where I most like him to be: with his Momma!

I will try to occupy myself today to get through it. I will be out to lunch with a girlfriend / former colleague. We have not properly caught up for over a year, so that will be good. And then I dunno… probably bother The Sis, The BIL, The Mom, The Lill Niece, The Littler Niece and such a bit more… and then sleep… and then SATURDAY!

Yeah, so I know. I am a complete dork kinda Mom. Deal with it. It’s the way it is.

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