long time...

It's been a long time since I've posted an update on my blog... A lot has happened since December...

My brothers spent the spring playing soccer. I spent the spring going to their soccer games. Miguel played Challenge and went to a tournament in Williamsburg. Ivan played Varsity and his team made it to the semi-finals before losing to Western. Both of them tried out for travel soccer for the fall and both made it to the highest level teams. Ivan will be playing for SOCA Lightning and Miguel for SOCA Express. This is me at Miguel's game taking a video of him scoring a goal.

I went on a treasure hunt with Chaos the dog and Brian. We looked for treasure in three places but we only found one treasure. We found a cool lake too that we got in to cool off.
My little sister graduated 5th grade. She's excited for middle school year next year and she's going to do so well! She has all A's and B's and was taking math at the highest level that she could!
We've spent a lot of time already at the pool. It's our favorite place to go. The kids are all swimming really well. I've been really sick so it's been nice to take them to the Charlottesville water park and let them just play and play while I rest on the chairs. I get in the water a little bit when I get really bored and hot, but right now while I'm sick, I usually just sit out and watch.
The doctors don't really know what's wrong. I've been sick for a month with a recurring fever, cough, lots of body pain, tingling and pain in my left leg, etc. I've had 4 MRI's, 2 chest x-rays, over 20 tubes of blood taken, and about 2-3 doctor visits per week to my regular doctor, a neurologist, and an infectious disease specialist. I missed the last 3 weeks of school. The only thing definite that I had was pneumonia way back at the beginning a month ago. That put me in the hospital for a night. It was scary for a while because my white blood cells dropped very low, way below normal, along with my red blood cells, platelets, calcium, etc. Also I had elevated levels of anti-nuclear antibodies which are antibodies against my own body, an indication of an auto-immune disease. But since then, my antibodies have gone back to normal and so have all the blood levels as well. Tomorrow I have another doctor appointment with my regular doctor to see if I'm finally getting better or not.