Tech Rocks

Toe plays a new game online with friends

As a child of the 80's I can never quite get over my awe of technology today. I am the person who oohs and aahhs every time I see X-Ray results in seconds instead of hours (for those of you young chickens, they used to take X-Rays on FILM and it had to be developed before you could get results).

I feel the same about FaceTime and Skype. I remember seeing an ad (15 years ago?) of a guy taking a meeting from his lounge chair on the beach. I thought this was hilarious. And impossible. And yet here we are. It certainly is making staying at home easier.

Toe has actually used this technology for virtual play dates for years. His cousin in Illinois keeps him company when he is sick or in the hospital. He plays Minecraft with friends during breathing treatments. Because of Toe's CF, we become sequestered a lot. Toe spends hours on FaceTime with his friends on a regular basis. We also have a few play dates, but especially in the winter, FaceTime is  life saver. I am in awe of the technology and SO grateful that we don't have to pay long distance rates to do so (For those of you of a certain age, remember when we made our phone calls on evenings and Sundays and kept things short? So 20th century).

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Recently we have dabbled in combining more traditional games with our technology. Toe has an ongoing D&D game that he DMs (serves as Dungeon Master) online with my sister and her daughter in Illinois.

Toe has spent his spring break virtually connecting with friends. Besides Minecraft and D&D, some other friends asked Toe to play the board game Cartographers with them. He has spent a couple of hours this afternoon with the friends and their family playing this board game. They have had to be creative about how to see the board or cards or to "switch maps," but overall, the thing has been an amazing success.

I know it's a shock, but he's a storyteller...

I am INCREDIBLY grateful for this technology and for people reaching out to us during these times. The likelihood is that Toe will be home through the end of the school year and these connections mean the world to us.

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