Katie, Lacy, Baxter and I will all be leaving tomorrow night (monday) to go back to Rochester, MN for Katie's one year post surgery check up. We'll be staying in Hannibal, MO (home of Sameual Langhorn Clemens, aka Mark Twain for all of you Huckelberry Finn fans) on Monday and then will arrive in Rochester on Tuesday. She has several rounds of tests scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, and if all goes well we should be leaving on Friday.

The worst case scenario (we think) is that Katie would need another surgery to fix the valve that connects her esoph0gaus to her stomach. Unfortunately to do that she would have to have the same surgery that she had last year. Which means that they would have to go in again and cut out her rib, pretty much crush the lower six and crack some of the upper ones, cut an 14-15 inch gash from her back to her chest, deflate her lungs, insert two chest tubes, all which we are told is worse the second time around. So we are really, really hoping that she won't need this. All prayers and thoughts are greatly appreciated.

On the plus side is the fact that we get to eat at a little sandwhich shop in downtown Rochester named City Market which is the best little sandwich shop that I've ever eaten in.