Continuing the saga

The last article ended with Mason in ICU. I had a great schedule in hand, and I was being emotional. Really, really happy about basketball — and really, really worried about Mason. I spent the next few days praying: "God, I have never wanted anything more than I want to do that LO game on 30 December. After that, I don't care what I may have to give up to care for Mason, but please let me be available for that game."

Maybe it was all the clean living, or maybe it was just pure luck, but I did get to do that game, and I finished out the season. I stayed involved in basketball officiating through the spring, running a series of clinics and assigning several summer leagues and tournaments. I was even able to attend all the camps I wanted.

But my heart wasn't in basketball the way it had been in past years. Mason was given a "working diagnosis" of Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis. It's a kidney condition that in an adult is secondary to some other problem such as diabetes or drug abuse.

Continued...