2nd Grade

This morning I was trying to get Zach to study his spelling words. He told me he didn't want to study because he was pretty sure he would still get to go to 2nd grade.

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Another ER Visit

Eric has been complaining about pain near his ribs on the left side. It got really bad last night. So today, the nurse told me to take him to the ER. Four hours later, the Dr said she wouldn't X-ray it because there's nothing they could do if a rib was broken. I guess there was concern about a collapsed lung but she quickly ruled that out. Fortunately we had the iPad to entertain us. We watched lots of Cosby shows and my personal favorite, Shark Tank.

I think I am tired of ER visits and I want to bubble wrap all my kids!

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Another Update

I am feeling really well. I have a little bit of soreness, but not really pain anymore. The physical therapist thinks I am over the hump. She got me on the treadmill yesterday and made me walk at a 4.5 pace (only because I told her that was my pace before my injury and knee surgery.) I did that speed for a few minutes. Before I did it, I told her I wouldn't be able to. She didn't like my pessimistic attitude. So she told me I could do it and I was going to do it. She would let me stop if my pain scale when up by 3.

She was right, I could do it. I was thrilled. I haven't walked that fast in a very long time. Just a couple weeks ago, that would have put me in a lot of pain. So I am starting to feel optimistic that I am really recovering. I joined the YMCA this week and I went twice. I walked 20 minutes on the treadmill and then did elliptical for 10 minutes and I feel great. I just have to build up slowly and maybe I will be able to jog eventually.

The therapist thinks that my whole problem was my pelvis being uneven and that caused my muscles to shift and be all out of whack. So fortunately she got my pelvis evened out and I am now just working on strengthening my core and getting my muscles back to normal. I guess I had a lot of atrophy from all those months of no exercise due to the pain.

Government Shutdown

So, come midnight tomorrow night, we may stop collecting a paycheck until this congress works out a budget. I don't know if I want them to agree or not. If it shuts down, Mario won't go to Brazil next week, plus his work load will decrease dramatically during that time. That would be a very welcome change. But on the other hand, I have lots of friends who live paycheck to paycheck and the shutdown will be very traumatic for them. So I guess when I weigh the pros and cons, I should hope for an agreement. I just hope the GOP stick to their guns and walk away prevailing.

At Last...A Lost Tooth

Nathan finally lost a tooth. I think he had a little help knocking it loose a few weeks ago when he had a little collision with a something in the house. The lost tooth came just in time. I had just written his teacher a note that he couldn't complete one of his homework assignments because it required him to write about him losing a tooth. Now he will have to do that page.

Update...Nathan lost a second tooth today. We were watching his friend, Adian, play baseball and Nathan was able to pull that one out too. The tooth fairy is going to go broke especially since the very generous tooth fairy in our family gives $5 a tooth. Apparently he didn't realize that we have twins and they are going to start losing teeth at a crazy rate.

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