Kurt Leucht’s Blog

Overheard in the car after opening up a small rubbery alien toy received from a candy machine:

Karsten (4 yrs): Ewwwww.  Smell it!

Elijah (6 yrs): Smells weird.

Karsten: [Pause.  Eyes get real big.] It smells like a REAL alien!

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Overheard last night while driving home from the ice cream stand:

Karsten (4 yrs): Whoa, that was bumpy!  I feeled a lot of bumps.  That made me jiggle.

Elijah (6 yrs): The correct word is felt.

Karsten: That made me felt.

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Karsten, our youngest, had his tonsils and adenoids removed last week via out patient procedure at the hospital. It went very well and he wasn’t scared at all. He’s been claiming all week that it doesn’t hurt, but we think that’s him trying to get out of having to take the medicine.

(image of Karsten in recovery room after surgery)

Kurt has been home for the past week recovering from endoscopic sinus surgery and deviated septum correction. He and the doctor are hopeful that these procedures will allow him to have less sinus infections and also less ear infections in the future. The recovery from the sinus part was really pretty painless. Guess there aren’t too many pain receptors around your sinus cavities. The deviated septum surgery is the only soreness that Kurt is experiencing right now. But the nose and upper jaw soreness is tolerable and Kurt is going back to work this week.

(Kurts Sinuses from the front)

In this front view CAT-scan, taken before the surgery, you can clearly see both my deviated septum (the middle part of my nose) and my “benign semitransparent nasal lesion” (which is a fancy medical term for “tissue in the sinus cavity that doesn’t belong there and is not cancerous”) on the left side under my eye. The sinus cavity on the right side of the image is black, which means there is no abnormal tissue inside there … only air.

(Kurts sinuses from below)

In this bottom view CAT-scan, also taken before the surgery, you can also clearly see both problems.

Kurt

Yesterday morning our family took part in the 1st Annual Gilchrist Educational Foundation (GEF) Light the Way 5K Run/Walk at our church. We walked. And even though we were pushing strollers with the boys for all 5 kilometers, we did not cross the finish line last … we crossed it third to last.

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Official race results are here at Running Zone. We finished with an official time of 51 minutes and 13 seconds.

Kurt