Monday, September 25, 2006

The musings of The Mo and pooh. (yes that pooh)

Thought I would give a Mighty Mo update to all the fans out there. Mistress picked the boy wonder up at pre-school Friday and a mom pulled her aside say her daughter talks about Mo constantly and wanted to set up a time to play together. They are not in the same class.

Hardcore Mike was at a party Friday night and spoke at length with a lady who inquired about his Ironman Finishers hat. She began telling him about this great kid who went to her pre-school (she's the owner) and that his dad was this awesome guy who is training for an Ironman. This went on for a several minutes and Mike was getting ready to puke at this woman effusing so much about this kid and his Ironman training dad that he didn't really care about.

Then she mentioned, "..their both named Commodore."
"Who'da Wha'ta? Did you say Commodore?"
"Well his son goes by Mo. Do you know them?"
"You could say that..."

Small world.

On a more pressing issue, the Mighty Mo is having some issues. Well two. The first is growing pains which I would dismiss and have dismissed as being a whiny, tired child. Not so. I am a believer now. This 'ailment', (is it that?), has my son waking up in the middle of the night bawling his eyes out, writhering in pain, agonizing about his legs and feet, sometimes unable to walk without assistance. Its not a long term concern but it does ruin the night.

On Tuesday morning at 0600, Mo goes under for about the dozenth time in his short life. This time for a procedure to check inside his bum. For the last several months he has been complaining about stomach pain. Usually this is just before he goes into the bathroom have a massive BM. Most of these BM's are very hard samples that tear him up.

The problem is that he still has a normal bathroom breaks. Its not like he goes days at time without a movement. After some x-rays and MRI's which he did like a trooper, the doctors prescribed a mild laxative which was soften stuff up. Yeah...not really working but still normal.

I would like to say this is an elective procedure, as if there is still lots of things to rule out. I don't know what's left to decide on or if this narrows down other avenues of consideration but it was pretty much demanded by his Mo's medical team (yes they are still networked into him though his other issues are resolved). This can still be part of his 'immature organs' from when he was born which caused all kinds of vomiting and weight problems and good lord so much else.

Not normally wanting to be within a half iron swim of a hospital, I am going there to support both Mistress and Mo. He will want his mommy so I will most likely be official coffee-getter and bag-carrier. They say the operation will take around fifeteen minutes. We are hoping they remember to put him under with the right medication becuase he, like many patients, wake up completely frantic and disoriented when put under with the normal stuff. Is it bad that I know this about a 3.5 year old? Or that I knew this when he was less than 1 years old?

All things considered I will take these two issues over the multitudes of issues we dealt with over his first three years. He can probably grow out them both. Through all things he has had powerfully positive outlook and thats hard to dismiss when factoring success.


6 comments:

Cliff said...

Keep it strong Commodore,

kids are very resilient to thigns like these. When I gone through my liver transplant, i didn't know what was going on. I know i had a tumour but inever thought about things like dying or future and what not.

If i have cancer right now, I would freak out. Irony :)

Flo said...

Comm, little Mo will be fine. He's a trooper and with you and the mistress he can't go wrong. Be sure and let us know how it all turns out.

Rainbow said...

Yes, please keep us updated. It is good to be there with him and Mistress. He is lucky to have such loving parents there for him.

Rainbow said...

And with this picture of him there is little doubt that he is a babe magnet.

Nancy Toby said...

Aww, what a cutie! Yeah, I think he's MIGHTY MO all right! He will come through with flying colors.

And you will have aged another 10 years, but that's what Dads do.

stronger said...

I have experienced a few nights of growing pains with my son. Hope you get the BM problem solved- it's painful just thinking about it.