He was AWESOME last night. Struck out 10 batters...gave up 2 or 3 hits, walked a couple...finally ended up hitting a batter in the 4th inning. His arm had had enough. Comes off the field after the game POUTING...wanna know why? Because he struck out...twice. OMG - you're kidding me, right? You're going to be upset with your game because you didn't hit, even though going into the fourth inning there was no score and you had struck out 9 people??? I was a mess for those 4 innings. We lost to Lowell 4-0. The boys did awesome for their first game ever trying to hit off of a pitcher, their first game ever together as a team, their first game under the lights (game ended around 10pm)...We had the bases loaded at one point in the 5th, but we couldn't make it happen. I'm totally jacked to see what they do today.
Today he's with the Janet who is pumping him with fluids and taking him to the movies. Good ole' grandma.
Alex's ear is feeling better but his jaw still hurts. Weird, eh? I guess swimmer's ear can affect your lymph nodes, so that's probably what's happening. But he says he feels better which is good.
I have a follow-up appt with my ortho! Hurrah! And get this...THEY called ME! Mrs. Johnson or whatever-her-name-is called me to schedule my appt. But now that makes me worry...does she know something I don't? Did some radiologist see something evil on my MRI and now they NEED to see me? Did my bloodwork come back bad? Yeah, you're right, it's nothing...she just finally returned my 52 calls. So I go next Wednesday equipped with x-rays and MRI films (which are totally bad ass to look at, btw). With my medical degree from Google University I have already diagnosed myself, of course, as having severe decubitus degenerative degrading ecchymosis ectopic dystrophy.
Okay, so I know what all of that means...and that none of it really makes any sense. I really just looked up some fancy words in the medical dictionary and smushed them all together. I didn't get past the E's because it was exhausting. I think that makes me even MORE like a real doctor! They do that shit all the time!
"Ummm, yes, Mrs. Smith, your x-ray is showing a shmokken-flokken in the cortex of your such-and-such"
"Oh my gosh! doctor, is it serious???"
"Not if you fill this prescription of meds from the pharmaceutical company whose rep just dropped off a dozen donuts and four tickets to a skybox for the Sox home opener - you'll be FINE"
Friggin' seriously.
Gametime tonight 6pm.
The sisters and my shoulder seem fine in my fabulous new bra purchase, so maybe it was just coincidence? Who knows. We'll see how the rest of the day goes.
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I know how you feel when Owen pitches. Lived through it 3 times with the 3 boys. Nervewracking to say the least, but when they do well, you're on such a high that some might think you did take that shot.
Ah, swimmer's ear -- did I ever tell you about the time I was deaf for three days and the doctor found fungus growing in my one ear? That was when I was a kid and we had just moved to the dunes-late 50's early 60's. I thought they had done a lot since to clean up Lake Michigan. Must be going bad again. I though you weren't suppose to eat lake perch. Mercury or something.
Glad the bra is working out. Oh, yeah, Dr. Crum, ectopic I thought meant outside the uterus, like an ectopic pregnancy?
Ectopic just means "in the wrong place" ...
So far so good with the bra - I'm on day 3 and no significant changes with the shoulder. I guess I shouldn't say that. It's starting to hurt today...but not anything like last week.
Lake perch has been a favorite of mine since I was a girl chowing down at the Moose Lodge and Tiebel's - ocean perch pales in comparison. I don't know anything about the mercury...
And Joy - Alex had the nastiest seepage I've ever seen coming out of that ear...I guess it was a bad week for fungus in Lake Michigan...
I use to get Swimmer's ear all the time. It hurts like a son of a bitch. Jim use to think I was faking it and push on my ear.
God did I want to kick his ass every time he did that. I think over time I just got immune to Lake Michigan and the bacteria that lurks within.
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