CF Thoughts

Along my sidebar are several links to CF websites.  While I don't read them frequently, I do find myself browsing the sites every once in a while.  And when I do I often wonder why I don't do it more often and when I have more time.  There are some gems of advice in those websites and some of it is advice that I could actually use right now.

On a daily basis, however, I do follow a certain CFers blog.  Recently he had a discussion about how parents have positively or negatively affected a CFers life and treatments.  It was definitely interesting and something that I really need to think about.  What has stuck with me over the last couple of days, though, are some comments made by readers about traditions with their treatments and clinic visits.  One person talked of getting new jammies for every hospital stay.  Another talked of going to breakfast on clinc day.  I feel as if Finn is starting to get old enough where it's going to be time to really put some thought into how we're going to talk about it and approach it with him.  He's doing so well with all of his treatments that I want it to continue to be a positive thing for him.  So, I'm trying to figure out what I can do to make some of this special and encouraging for him as a 2 year-old.  Does anyone have any ideas?  I was debating on maybe getting him a new toy for clinic visits.  It's hard to sit through a 3 hour doctor's appointment, so a new toy sounds like it'd be good for both of us.  For daily treatments he normally gets to choose what show he watches while we do them (lately he's been choosing Yo Gabba Gabba, which I can't stand, but he loves.  He watches it with a permanent smile on his face.)  Does this sound like enough for a 2 year old or do you all have some other ideas?  I'm totally open!