Tuesday, November 04, 2003
Hello everyone,

I just moved the website to be hosted by a provider (theculps.net is no longer running on a computer in my closet) The website should be considerably faster now for those of you connected to the internet via a broadband connection.

Nicholas is doing really well, he doesn't really need any additional oxygen during the day, so we leave it off of him during the day. At night we put him on a little bit of oxygen just so he won't have to work too hard. Sometimes at night he will pull his oxygen out of his nose, but the alarms don't go off because he is doing so well. This is definately exciting news. Dr. Shochet thinks he will be off of oxygen completely by Christmas. It is so fun taking him places, and playing with him without any tubes attached.

We took Nick to get a kidney scan yesterday, to see if he is still refluxing into his kidney. We won't know anything for another couple of weeks though when we meet with his kidney doctor to go over the results. His kidney condition is not serious, but since he has only one working kidney we are very cautios. He currently is taking a maintenance dose of bactrum to prevent him from getting a kidney infection.

Thank you all for your continued prayers and support.

Love,
Alex, Terah, and Nicholas