A Decision Made

Well the McMaster Registrars Office will close today without a visit from Rob.

After much weighing and praying we have decided that Rob will carry on with his schooling. It was not an easy decision and I must say we're not totally confident we made the right decision, but it's still the decision we've made. I'm sure there are going to be days we'll regret the decision but we continue to pray that he may indeed be able to complete at least this term and hopefully the entire year.

This means a few adjustments. Rob has been trying to help out around the house and quickly found himself fall behind already in the first week. This is the reason he felt he needed to either work for a year or drop a course. I was definitely not in favour of dropping a course. This would mean making that course up next semester or during the summer ... both only prolonging the agony. We've done summer school before and when he was done with it he said he'd never do it again. He works long enough hours, and then to have to go to school and find time to study inbetween there ... it just doesn't work. Rob's study hours are longer then his works hours, (but at least we get to see him at breakfast and supper time), now that we have decided to carry on with school it will mean he will no longer have time to help me out. Since I now have helping coming during the day and we are working on getting our night shift nursing figured out we felt that this was somewhat of an answer to our prayers. These two should help me to better balance the household. As well, Matthew is also getting older and less fussy. Life is always going to be busy and there will be many things we'd like to do but cannot, but as long as we can keep the basics running we'll manage.

With James being such a rare case we having nothing to go by when it comes to complications, hospitalizations, procedures etc. It would be hard to see Rob lose a year of school and him only be in hospital a short time. On the other hand, it will become very difficult if James does end up in hospital long-term again as Rob will not have time to visit and the extra stress and decisions will make it hard to focus on his studies. Although we can no longer be refunded, Rob can still drop out any time that he feels it is too much. We will cross that bridge if we encounter it.