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Saturday
Saturday, I recovered from Friday. D15 spent the entire day at rehearsal, and I spent the entire day sleeping. Aaron mowed. I did manage to stay awake for the last episode of Supernatural and am excited to start a new chapter of my marriage to Aaron. We will now watch Star Wars.
Sunday
Sunday IL6 was sick and spent the entire day sleeping. I did some laundry. Aaron cooked chili. M12 went to band rehearsal. D15 was at dress rehearsal. In the evening, we all played a game of The Night Cage.
Monday
Monday was exciting. It started with an IEP meeting for IL6. He was home sick because he’d had a fever the day before. But during the IEP meeting, he threw up 5 times. Because he had a fever and vomiting, I took him to urgent care. They gave him a strep test (negative), covid/flu test (he refused), anti-nausea med (he refused), a cup to pee in (he couldn’t pee, but managed to pee in it that evening, so it can be taken to the lab Tuesday), and a chest x-ray (findings consistent with a virus).
When I got home, dad told me that he’d had some chest pain, and had taken a nitroglycerin. I hung out with IL6, getting phone calls made and some reading done. Later, dad took another nitroglycerin for more chest pain. I told him if he was going to have a heart attack, have the decency to do it before 4:30, so we could get to the hospital before the tornado watch started. Sure enough, at 4:30, he took a third nitroglycerin, and we decided to head to the ER.
They decided to check him into the cardiac ward, and it was not clear if it was a heart attack or not by the time I left at 10pm. The tornado never appeared.
Oh. And IL6 has decided for the last week to refuse medications. So that’s a thing.
Tuesday
Tuesday was exhausting – mostly because I was stressed. It started with a Zoom appointment. Then I took IL6 (who was home “sick” again – he was fine, he couldn’t go to school because he vomited and had a fever the day before) to drop off his urine sample (that we have to redo because it wasn’t refrigerated) and visit my dad in the hospital.
My friend Liz came over in the evening, but D15 was at rehearsal, so we didn’t watch Doctor Who.
We are struggling to give IL6 his meds. He can apparently taste one of them quite suddenly, and we can’t figure out which one, but I think it may be his thyroid med.
Wednesday
Wednesday, I took IL6’s urine sample to the lab, then went to the hospital to wait for dad to be discharged. He was quite annoyed to be told that he needed to stop with his personal trainer and start cardiac rehab. He claimed he did cardiac rehab with his personal trainer, but he doesn’t. Cardiac rehab is on the treadmill but he weight lifts with his personal trainer.
He finally got released. They made a follow-up appointment for me without telling me they made it (last time they did that, and I only caught it by chance…this time I expected them to blindside me). They also told us to stop taking one of his meds by note on his discharge paperwork, but didn’t point the change out when they handed me the paperwork, nor did they explain why the med had been taken off.
Pretty quickly upon getting home, I took M12 to his dentist appointment (no cavities). He promised that if we sent him to the orthodontist, he would follow his instructions, so upon getting home, I scheduled an orthodontist appointment. I also made a cardiac rehab and primary care appointment for dad and called to ask why his meds had been changed.
Dad then walked to the gym, despite instructions to a) not go to the gym and b) not walk longer than 5 minutes.
IL6 had 5 values that were abnormal on his urine sample, so I called his primary care physician to ask if we should discuss that. Without forwarding the message on to the PCP, the nurse said that I should talk to the urgent care doctor, and forwarded the message on to her. The urgent care doctor’s nurse called and told me why a couple of the values were off, but only explained the obvious ones that I wasn’t worried about. When I asked about the other values, he just repeated himself about the two I wasn’t interested in. I decided just to make an appointment with the primary care physician because I was frustrated at getting brushed off.
IL6 didn’t take most of his meds – I got 1.5 of his 6 meds down him. One of the ones I didn’t get down is very important to his health, and it’s been about a week that he’s been rejecting it.
D15 had a great first show.
Thursday
Thursday I had two telehealth appointments (just me). Then I ran errands with my dad. D15 had a show.
Friday
Friday, as usual, I went immediately from work to IL6’s morning appointment and directly from there to his later-in-the-morning appointment. Then, just to spice it up, I took him immediately to a third appointment – a dentist. He wasn’t cooperating with the dentist, but we finally got his teeth cleaned and looked at.
Upon getting home, I wanted to relax a bit and eat something, but dad was going to throw a pouting fit if I didn’t go to Walmart with him. So I piled IL6 in the car again, and off we went.
In the evening I saw the musical revue that D15 is doing light box for. They did a really good job. There was a lot of talent.
Week’s Photos
Reading to myself
- The Week: To the Barricades
- Survey of Hinduism, by Klaus K Klostermaier
- On Human Nature, by Edward O Wilson
- Children of Anguish and Anarchy, by Tomi Adeyemi
Reading to IL5
- Secret of the Water Dragon, by Tracy West
- The Science Fair is Freaky, by Jack Chabert
- The Bad Guys in the Baddest Day Ever, by Aaron Blabey
D14 reading
- The Girl with No Reflection, by Keshe Chow
- Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
Media Completed
The dragon masters fight an evil spell. A good addition to the series.
Sam, Lucy, and Antonio battle science projects and a school. Another good book.
In this conclusion to the Marmalade story, the good guys figure out how to fight without their super powers. Very funny.
Wilson explores the idea of how biological group selection develops culture in humans. Wilson’s writing is a bit rambling, without giving a thesis in each chapter, so the meaning has to be gleaned by carefully listening to the audiobook. So it was hard to listen to while driving.
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