7QT: Wham Bam Edition

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These are going to be super fast, as I seem to be having a lot of days lately where I either have nothing to do or 10,000 things to do.  Today is a 10,000 things day.  For starters, I have to make a brunch casserole for our Philly Inker's gathering tomorrow, I have to finish prepping my shoebox swap, I have to get myself to the dermatologist this morning to follow up about the spot on my hip (it is benign), and also start tackling teacher gifts.  Monday is even worse, so I won't bore you with the details.

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This week also found me in the position of having to be in two places at the same time with two different kids for two different medical appointments IN THE SAME DEPARTMENT.  Their scheduler, not mine.  The idiot I talked to on the phone (nearly in tears with frustration at this impossible situation) could not understand why I couldn't work this out.  I tried to explain, Piglet is having surgery with your department at this time, and Boo is scheduled for an office visit at this time.  I have a sitter at home for Birdie, and my husband works all the time, and just isn't available.  THERE ISN'T ANYONE ELSE!!  Finally, I just gave up trying to talk sense to her and hung up.  The doctor called me a few days later to talk through Piglet's procedure and I explained the problem, and bless her, she said she could squeeze Boo in on a later day without us having to go to the back of the line and wait another three months for an appointment.

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Wednesday found me almost in tears again as I realized that Birdie had physical therapy at 8:00, my sitter was off for the day, Piglet had to be to school before 8:45, and my husband (who normally brings Piglet to school) had left for Washington DC early that morning to sit second chair at the Chaffin Supreme Court hearing.  Usually in this sort of situation our neighbor (whose daughter goes to school with Piglet) will bring him, but I neglected to set it up beforehand because my brain was elsewhere.  After some frantic e-mailing and phone calls, I did get in touch and they were gracious enough to take Piglet to school and save me another stress ball of a day.

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Piglet had his bronchoscopy and endoscopy/sigmoidoscopy on Tuesday morning and everything went very well.  He was dopey and out of it the rest of the day, but he bounced out of bed on Wednesday morning and went to school.  He has seemed fine ever since.  Nothing earth-shattering was discovered, except to confirm the tracheomalacia that we suspected.  He is on the same medicine as Birdie for the condition, and now we are trying to find an efficacious dose.  We are still waiting on the results of the biopsies and cultures, which may reveal more about what is going on with him.

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Mostly I just want my kids to stop being sick all.the.time.  Piglet and Birdie are prone to respiratory infection because of the underlying airway malacias, and it is just so hard for them to clear any infection.  Boo is pretty hardy, but his behavior issues trump everything lately and just make me so tired.

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And I want to stop being sick myself.  My husband and I have been passing a nasty respiratory virus back and forth for over a month now, and I'm so over it. Enough already.  I think we've been punished enough.

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I decided this year not to yield to my Scrooge McDuck husband on Christmas decorations (he doesn't want to see them until January 2nd at the earliest) and am going to decorate sometime this coming week.  We can't put a tree up because of the children and the layout of our house, but I ordered some nice garlands to hang from our big built in bookcases in the living room and will hang the ornaments from that.  I think it will look very festive.

(some Christmas cards I made this year)

--Bonus--

 

I am in the market for a Star Trek style replicator, to use on myself.  Does anyone have one for sale?  All offers considered.

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