Month: March 2005

I had a call from the school nurse today. David some how managed to bang his head on a desk while he was leaning over to pick up his books.

The nurse recommended that I take him to the doctor because he was walking in a zig-zag pattern (not so unusual) and said his legs were weak. She also said his pupils were sluggish?? He does have a good size bump.

Of course there are no available Dr. appointments today. I was told I could go to the E.R. Right! We don’t do E.R.

So David is reading a book on the couch and I’m observing him.

To be continued.

Yesterday Eric went out to play some “B-ball” (which is basketball at our house). He came home about 30 minutes later with that somewhat desperate sounding “Mohhhm!” call. He somehow managed to gash his leg just below the knee cap. He went up to make a basket and came down too close to the pole, and a screw sticking out of it by about 1 inch. It looked like his skin and several layers had just been jammed up an inch farther than it should be.

I was thinking stitches. I was also thinking that it was almost 6:00 and the urgent care places would be closed. That would mean sitting for many hours in our way too crowded E.R. with lots of interesting people and their germs.

Luckily Bob came home just in time. He ran up to the drug store and got some butterfly bandages and lots of tape. He came home and operated on Eric’s leg until the gash resembled a smiley face with too much lipstick. Bob made sure Eric kept his leg straight. He even bandaged up a soft splint for him to sleep with so he wouldn’t bend his leg. He is still keeping his leg straight today. It looks pretty good. Bob says if he can keep it straight another day it shouldn’t come back open.

Yea Bob!

Eric has been involved in a county wide economics competition for the last 2 days. It has been very interesting to observe. The kids are so knowledgeable. I was impressed, especially by my own son, Eric.

Anyway, when it ended at 6:30, I was trying to figure out how to deliver 3 kids to their homes and still get back to my house to pick up Bob, Radar, and Jake for our dog obedience class (15 minutes from our house) at 7:00. Of course it didn’t work and we were 15 minutes late for our class. It was the strangest thing. When we walked into this warehouse for the class, all the people had changed from the week before. None of the dogs were the same. We were completely confused. We told one of the trainers that the people were all different.

We finally figured out that we we’re not in the Tuesday night class, we should have come on Wednesday! AAAAuuuuggghhh!

Mom and Dad have been working away trying to get their new condo ship shape. Patsy has been a big help painting all the walls and helping Mom shop for this and that. She has also contributed lots of essentials and a few non-essentials.

Today I painted some of the baseboards while Dad painted ceilings and Patsy was painting walls. Mom was shopping.

Too bad Mom and Dad won’t have time to enjoy the nice weather and relax with their cocktails while watching golfers. There’s too much work to do.

Wait until you see the incredible tacky lamps from Big Lots M. put in their bedroom. It’s worth the trip just to see those lamps!