August 30, 2012
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It Never Ends
TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM
Today I got a call from the hematologist's office to tell me that I needed to be in their office at 11:20am tomorrow morning. **Sigh** The original date I had for this was next week on Friday but, what the heck! I have nothing else to do. It seems like my life revolves around doctors lately. Then the surgeon calls to say if I wanted to go ahead and schedule the angiography for my leg that has the bypass, I can skip my appointment. I said no thanks. I would rather keep the appointment, heal a bit more and schedule it for after my granddaughter's wedding. But I did find out that I can go ahead and shower. The *bandaging* over the stitches is actually a kind of paste and it's water soluble.
So tomorrow morning I am off to see the doctor about my *anemia*. Why the anesthesiologist said I should probably take a vitamin with iron because my blood count was a little low and the surgeon is freaking out, I have no idea but I'll be damned if I am going to submit to iron shots. I was sick a lot as a kid (with chronic ear infections) and the doctor thought that would be the best for me along with some iron pills that a horse would have had a tough time swallowing. It got so that everything I ate or drank tasted like iron. I kid you not. I started crying because I loved my mom's fried chicken that we always had on Sunday but I took a bite and it tasted like iron. That's when my mother (who knew how painful the damn shots were) said, *Enough!* I really remember how much I loved her at that moment when she said I wouldn't have to take any more shots or pills. And I never had any problems with my blood count until the surgery on my legs. The doctors mentioned it but not one of them suggested I take vitamins with iron or any such thing. That kind of pisses me off. I'll handle it tomorrow when I meet with the doctor and find out what the whole story is.
I asked Chewlee some questions about her getting into trouble yesterday. She got very upset and told me it wasn't fair. She said *Michael* (we shall call him) kicked over her castle she was building and SHE got in trouble. All she did (she said) was make a fist and threaten him. She said she didn't even HIT him (I think she might have felt better about being in trouble if she had!).....YET. It was the yet that almost made me smile in front of her. I told her she should just have told him he should help her fix it or told the teacher like Kai Lan does. But she said, *But he's not a FRIEND! Kai Lan tells that to her FRIENDS!* She had a valid point. I told her if it happens again, NO FISTS should be made...just tell the teacher that he did it and you are upset. She doesn't think it will help but I told her she doesn't know that until she tries it.
She didn't get a smiley face today but she didn't get quite a frowny face either. It was a face with a squiggle for a mouth. It was mostly over her talking and talking when she shouldn't have been so she disrupted the class, I'm sure. She was already upset over losing her cartoon privilege at home AND here. Today she lost her Leap Pad until she gets a smiley face AND the Princess is going to show up at her class tomorrow. At first, the idea of that made her happy (to have her mother there) until the Princess told her that all her friends would know she was a baby who had to have her mommy come to class because SHE couldn't listen.
I'll let you know how things work out over the coming days. My son, Mustachio, told me today he got a surprise present. It was Buttmunch. Yes, she's back in KY and staying with him. He's went to the landlord to ask for a 2 bedroom apartment as soon as one is available (which may be very shortly). They had a unit that had been two one bedroom apartments they converted but he said the layout sucked so he turned it down. He's told her that she has six months to get her act together or at least show him she's really trying. He really thinks she can and I know he will be helpful. It's a hell of a responsibility he's taken on but he loves his sister and he knows how tough things can be when a relationship breaks up and there you are! They have actually been good to each other over the years. I just hope this arrangement works out for them.
Love you all. Please say a little prayer for my brother who still needs them and while you are at it, say one for all the victims of the flooding and tornadoes that have occurred over the past few days due to Isaac. Be good, be happy.
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