We're attending an honors convocation at my son Dennis' college tonight-this will be his last one as an undergraduate.He is in all the usual honor societies and fraternities dealing with maths and sciences as well as being on the dean's list since he started college 4 years ago.Tonight he is being awarded for being the only honors student with an accumulative 4.0 GPA for his entire college career in science and math. He is the only one in the past 15 years to recieve this award.I don't know all the particulars but, I will be finding them out tonight.Now if you had asked me -oh about 15 years ago which kid was a handful of my 3 I definitely would have said Dennis without a doubt.He was from the start- a month premature, born with a deformed eustacian tube in his right ear leaving him virtually deaf in that ear and a series of illness -one where he dehydrated in 15 minutes and went flat line-2x when he was 3-miraculously everything except the deafness disappeared after his emergency tonsilectomy when he was 5.Yes he does have a genius IQ but, he was spoiled rotten and stubborn and could have thrown it all away- especially after losing his older brother when he was 15.But he kept going out on that battle field called life and barging through all his obstacles.Do you think I'm a little proud?
