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The Bunch Head To Ray Roberts and T Has A Little Scare

This is the original bridge to the area from 1899.

Unfortunately, our planned trip to Bonham State Park did not pan out. This park only has 13 rv sites and even on a Monday and Tuesday night they were completely booked. My daughter in law's father who works there says it is not uncommon for people to rent the whole place out. Therefore, we weren't able to head up that way to visit C and H. Instead, we went to Lake Ray Roberts and enjoyed a hike that we had never done before. It was about 5 miles and took us a couple of hours to complete, but that also included stopping along the way to check out possible places for L to have her senior photos taken. We found several cute spots, but unfortunately by the time her cap and gown comes in there will probably not be any leaves on the trees. I think we may just take some pics without her cap and gown and then take the rest later when her gown gets here. L has also been busy researching what she wants to go to college/trade school to do. She has a few options we are looking into for next year. It's hard to believe that next year L is off at college then T will be my only student left and he will only have 3 years until he graduates! 

L showing off her flexibility.

I thought this would make a pretty background for senior photos.

This was a lot higher up than it looked.

This time we didn't get lost!

I am not sure if we were ever mentioned it to anyone, but T was born with pectus excavatum. It's not that we tried to hide it or anything. It's just he had a very mild case as a young child and we just "kept an eye on it". Basically, T was born with a sunken chest. His sternum curves towards his heart which, fortunately, his is fairly mild. However, now that he is bigger, has more muscles, and is becoming a high intensity athlete, he may start noticing some issues/limitations. Things can change with this as adolescents hit there growth spurts and T had an incident this week at basketball practice that really scared him. His coach had them playing full court ball for almost two hours and then ended with them running lines and it was just too much for T. For only the second time in his life so far, I had to get him out of there. I saw he was starting to struggle and have trouble breathing and I went on to the court and pulled him out. He had been shaking it off and trying to finish, but when I saw him trying not to cry I got him out of there. He described it as something squeezing his heart and he started getting dizzy and couldn't breathe. He has to learn to stop when he recognizes the signs. This is probably the first time he really remembers it happening and it really scared him. It made D and I realize that since he hasn't really had any issues we haven't really been watching it as close as we should. T's last stress test was over 6 years ago before we moved and we realized we should have him do another one now that he is older, just to make sure everything is still ok. T scared the coach to death at practice, but he is fine to workout. It is just when he works at such a high intensity for too long, his heart can't enlarge to pump more blood because his sternum literally prevents that from happening. 98% of the time it isn't an issue. He can play hard and work hard, but he can't over do it and push too hard. At this practice in particular, all the boys looked ill. I think the coach just pushed them all a little too hard. However, we are still getting a check up at the pediatric cardiologist just to make sure it isn't starting to become an issue. 



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