Skype Me

Following Laurie and Dave's lead, we signed up for Skype to do Internet chat and phone calls. It also supports video phone calls and is MUCH easier to use than Yahoo Messenger, Net Meeting, or Windows Messenger. And it is free, of course!

Our Skype name is "HenrySam". I have been trying to set up the laptop on occasional week nights and weekends, leaving it logged in while we are around.

The video quality is very good. Brian captured some images from our call on Saturday morning.

Right now it is up in Henry's room, with the camera pointed at the jumble of train track on the floor.

I encourage you all to sign up, add us to your contact list, and send us your contact name!

Christmas 2007

Well I guess there has been some lag between postings.

We had a very eventful pre-Christmas. Sam went in for his pre-op visit at Childrens on Thursday December 20th. Instead of preparing for his sclerotherapy procedure Jan 2nd, he was admitted for a probable infection in the tissue of his ear.

Because of the proximity to the lymphatic malformation, we had visits from Vascular Anomalies, general surgery, Infectious Diseases, Ear-Nose-Throat, and maybe one or two other specialties.

The short of it is he spent 4 days on I-V antibiotics before being released Sunday afternoon with a course of oral antibiotics for the next 2 weeks (finished yesterday!)

We were able to host the Christmas Eve dinner that night. I will get some pictures of that soon.

Christmas morning was fabulous. The photos are from Henry's kid-cam, a Fisher Price nearly indestructible digital camera.

He took most of the pictures, including the first one of Sam in his chair.





















The new pre-op appointment is now January 22nd and the procedure is scheduled for February 13th.

Don't forget to look for us on Skype. Our Skype name is HenrySam. I can always plug in the camera for live video phone calls!