Well, school is finally done and the kids are ecstatic.  Billy had a great year, as did Nick and Sara.  I can't believe Sara is done her second year of high school already!

Luckily, things are still quiet on the medical front.  Billy just started a new heart medicine, an ACE inhibitor called Enalapril, which the nephrologist thinks will help protect his single kidney from wear and tear damage over the years and preserve good function for longer.  He said that they have been finding that people born with only one kidney have small damage done here and there and that they can wear out in middle age, and anything we can try to prevent or extent that sounds like a good idea to me.  We do have to have blood tests done a month after we start to make sure the medicine agrees with him, but if that is clear there are few side effects to worry about.   We have our routine ortho, urology, nephrology and gastroenterology appointments coming up over the summer, but I don't expect any issues to come up from them :)

Now it's just enjoying the down time during the lazy summer days, finding Sara a part time job, enjoying our Caudal Regression picnic this weekend, our anime conventions, and our vacation in North Carolina's Outer Banks later this summer!