Band Concert

It's been another crazy week in the Morgan household. No matter how hard I try to not let things get so hectic this time of the year, I end up failing. I guess it's just par for the course when life is already busy and you throw a huge holiday and all that goes with it into the mix. :-)

Jake had his first band concert on Wednesday. He had quite a bit of nerves stemming from wanting to do well and had been a little stressed about it the past week or so. It was so cool to see him and a few of his percussion friends from elementary school up there part of the band. He did such a great job and more importantly, looked like he was really enjoying himself. From what we could see (he was way in the back being a drummer) he was smiling the whole time.

We were really hoping that once the concert was over, some of the recent anxiety might let up and he might start sleeping better. No such luck. He is still struggling with anxiety and worry over getting sick or now the latest....going blind. Anytime anything gets remotely close to his eye or if he accidentally brushes his eye when his hands aren't freshly washed, he gets worried it's going to affect his vision. Logically, I get why he is so worried about these two specific issues. As I mentioned last week, he equates being sick to having a really hard time walking. And having already lost 1/2 the vision in both eyes due to where his bleed was, he doesn't want to do anything that might cause him to lose more of his vision. The other part of me doesn't know how to reassure him that a speck of dust or the brush of a hand can't hurt his vision. I did tell him the other day that at some point, he's going to catch a cold. It just can't be avoided. He is doing a great job at keeping his hands washed, eating well and taking vitamins, but as we all know, colds can't be avoided 100% of the time. I also told him that his walking may or may not be affected, we just don't know. He's healed more and walking better than he was the last time he got sick, so it might not be as bad this time. I just want to see him worry less and be a little more carefree, not an easy task.