New Beginnings

“A New Beginning” that’s what the back of Rhino’s warm up soccer shirt says.  And yeppers, that’s what this year has in store for Rhino a bunch of new beginnings.

First, tonight we got our new soccer sign for our front yard.  New design, all new sign, and Rhino’s full name!  Second, tonight was his first Sophomore season soccer game.  He got to start on the JV squad….hoping this is a trend that continues!

Rhino also went thru his nuclear stress test today at our cardiologist office (he’s been having some issues with his heart lately that he’s never incurred).  Everything went well as can be…he didn’t pass out, didn’t run into any unusual SVT (really high heart rate), etc, etc, etc.  It’s now a wait and see for the rest of the test results….UGH!  Could this lead to another new beginning?  A beginning that we have been blessed enough not to have to endure….surgery, medications, and/or both.  It’s been discussed also, with the cardiologists about pulling Rhino from sports again.  At this point in the game (no pun intended there!) Rhino’s cardiologist feels that he is still safe enough to continue to play soccer.  Rhino’s coaches have been informed of the situation and they monitor him as well.  I sit in the stands at every game and monitor my son too.  We’ve discussed as a family the probabilities of Rhino “crashing” on the soccer field and well…..we’re not going to stop him from something that he loves, that he finds joy in and quite frankly it’s like anything else in life….if we’d sit here and dwell on Rhino’s VSD and put him in a bubble he wouldn’t have a very productive life!  That bubble would burst some day anyways and he would of missed out on a life……..

“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

So it’s a new beginning all around in the Teenage Rhino household, one that is leading us down paths of unknown but sometimes those paths take you to the greatest adventures you’ll ever encounter!