Monday, August 17, 2015   Part of preparing for a major surgery
was to tell the kids that I would be away for a little while.
Ora is pretty young so we didn't even tell why I would be away.
(She is used to me being away for three days at a time for
work.) We were a little more at a loss with how (and what) to
tell David. He is a little older and would realize that it
wasn't just a work trip. He can also be very sensitive in
general--he cried all night when my grandmother died recently--
and his own medical issues make him more aware of these in
specific. But when we told him he didn't seem to be affected. He
said, "O.k," and turned his head back to the Youtube clip he was
watching when we interrupted him.  We thought David would take
it a lot harder and Ora not so much, but it ended up being the
reverse. Maybe David really was worried, etc. and he hid it
because of his age, he's a boy or his general demeanor. We don't
know.  Ora on the other hand was clearly affected. She said to
every person she saw, "do you