A Time to Live and a Time to Die
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Brooke was very excited to get her tiger cub green belt today. She proudly accepted her belt from one of her teachers, Mr. Hubbard, and is excited for her first class tomorrow with the new belt.
Some of you may remember that Brooke started going to the dermatologist in August for some small warts that were spreading on her hands. When we first went and decided upon a treatment plan, the dermatologist said it should take 2-3 months of treatments to get rid of the warts. Two to three months later, however, we had not seen any improvement. They were actually getting worse. What other choice did we have? We stayed the course. Today, after 10 months of treatments, the dermatologist finally declared Brooke’s warts to all be gone. She got a treatment again today just to be on the safe side, but we are finally done! Brooke has really been a trouper through the whole course of treatments other than a couple of visits she had with another dermatologist when hers was on maternity leave. I am proud of Brooke’s mature attitude, tenacity, and grace through all of those visits.