I have not shared this previously but now that we are past the crisis here it is.

My bride had her annual lady Doc check up in Nov. Part of that was a breast exam .. of course. Because a good friend of hers has been battling breast cancer she requested a mammogram. They did a mammogram and an ultrasound exam and found some suspicious micro crystallizations. The did an MRI which was not conclusive. This was at our local hospital in KSA where we live.

DW was leaving for a US trip to visit family which included two weeks in Texas. Her Doc here referred her to MD Anderson for a second opinion. She called me last week from Houston when MD Anderson recommended a biopsy. I immediately bought tickets and jumped on a plane for the 28 hour trip to Texas. Because of a mechanical problem one of my flights was canceled and I missed the biopsy. I was there for the waiting period for the results though.

Though we had a stressful wait of 5 days the news was great. Benign. The condition is only what the Doc called fibrous changes to breast tissue appropriate for my bride's age. She will be 40 in a few months.

Even with that best possible news the week just got more amazing.

As I shared recently, my kid told his mom and I that he wanted to be adopted. Since we were all in Texas we called our kick ass attorney that we used to keep the Sperm Clan pummeled in to submission to see about getting the adoption rolling. He told us he had some ideas and that he might be able to get the adoption done in 48 or so hours. We wrote the big check and crossed our fingers. Well, he missed his 48 hour target. Not a problem though. We met with him last Monday and the adoption was completed on Friday. The bride, my parents and I spent the day at the county courthouse to be available if the Judge could fit us in. He fit us in. The funny part is the kid could not get leave to be at the courthouse with us but the Judge called him for the hearing. So now for the first time in our nearly 21 years as a family my bride, our son, and I share the same family name.

High stress, high emotion, but an amazing 10 day turbo warp speed trip home. And an additional bonus is that we spent 10 days with my parents.

Life is good in the Rags clan. In the past 10 days I have shed many tears both of fear and of joy, been frightened nearly to death about my bride and the cancer scare, and had my heart filled by my incredible wife, my amazing parents, and a young man of character who chose me to be his dad.

I landed at midnight and got to our Villa at 01:30. DW is in Fla for 10 days of fun and partying with her girl posse.

Back to work in a few hours.

Thanks for listening.