Tag: parenting

Not so good news

Dr.Simos called Olga and told her that he finally managed to talk to Dr.Avraam from Nicosia. It turns out that Maxim’s kidney tests are not as good as we hoped that they would be. The functionality of the kidneys is outside of the safe range. One kidney performs at 58%, while the other one is only at 42%. It’s this latter kidney which is worrying. It should be at least at 45%.

The danger of this situation is in the possibility of urine getting back into the kidney. If this happens Maxim will be in a lot of trouble, not to mention pain. So, obviously, some action needs to be taken.

Another test will be scheduled in the near future to study the situation more and to see how dangerous it really is. Unfortunately, Olga didn’t catch the name of the test while on the phone with Dr.Simos, so I can’t give you any details yet. Neither can I search the web for more information. But rest assured that we’ll be talking Dr.Simos shortly.

Exclusive pictures of the first day of Sofia Georgiades

Sofia Georgiades

A long time ago I’ve promised pictures of Sofia Georgiades. I was the only one who made photographs on her first day in this world, but I had to hold them back for some time. Both Alex and Kate didn’t want me to release them for the 40 days or so. And than they weren’t sure that they wanted to release them at all. But I was persuasive and finally we agreed to make them public. After all this fuzz I realized that I didn’t do any post-processing or color corrections what-so-ever. I’m too bored and lazy to do them now, so you’ll have to look at them as raw as they are.

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-07-19_Sofia_Georgiades

Standing upright

Standing upright

Once again I will allow myself the amazement about the speed with which Maxim is learning. It seemed that only about a week ago he was trying to make an attempt at standing and it was taking his complete concentration. All his muscles were working and he was breathing heavily after a mere twenty seconds of trying. Today though he looks like he was born standing. He can get himself up from a sitting position in under two seconds. He falls rarely. He turns around while standing. He uses only one hand to hold himself. He can stand on one foot while waving another in kicking things all around him. He can stand for 10-15 minutes at a time. Sometimes he even can sit down by himself. And than get up again. What can I say? I wish I could learn at least at one tenth of his speed.

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-09-29_POTD