Warning: this is gonna be a
long topic, but I will chop it up for you based on each injury being
discussed. No, I did not physically fall (thank goodness for small
favors), but this FALL was epic for moi.
I
am going to start out of
order (and just like that I think of my math teacher in high school
who died far too young), because I have a recipe request from all of you - but
that will not show up until the next post because this got crazy long and I am
doing a cut/paste job so we stay friends.
This
fall marked Laddie's senior year season playing water polo out east.
Several weeks in advance, I looked at the schedule with Coach and we chose
which games we wanted to attend. Coach has a harder time committing
because of work, etc. I have an easier time as it comes naturally to me
to craft ways to jump ship, escape the loony bin, ditch the disaster area,
etc.
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Great pants but crappy eye. If you did not read how I scored these pants at a deal, you should. Not many of you did, so here is your chance. This was senior game. I am holding the flowers they give the moms and standing next to my kid in the speedo. |
I
was going to attend three different weekends - one with the whole gang, one
just Curly and I, and one solo. Yea me. One of my visits would be
to Lad's senior night. I booked the necessary flights.
Coach
decided less than two weeks before the senior night game, that he might want to
tag along. That sounded perfect to me, save the fact that I now needed to
pawn off our lovely younger four kids on people who once considered us
friends. No prob - I got busy and the pawning was complete. Then I
baked myself into a tizzy, because people are owed treats for this!
I
made a mountain of meatballs right before we left. I find meatballs labor
intensive, so I do not whip them up all that often. Well, that dinner was
met with rave reviews. I told the kids that when they were allowed
re-entry to our home Sunday afternoon via key from my mom, they could heat up
leftover meatballs for dinner. Coach and I were not landing until around
7 or 8 pm.
Thanks
to Coach's last minute booking, we flew to New York from O'Hare about an hour
apart - but we landed at two different airports. Coach rented a car at
Laguardia and then came to get me - a few hours later at my airport. On
the way home, we both departed from Laguardia - I left a few hours earlier than
him. I landed at O'Hare, got a cab home, and then hopped in the car and
drove to get him at Midway. Yep. That happened.
I
ended up being incredibly grateful that Coach came along. I could not
have maneuvered around in a rental car on a bright sunny day trying to glance
at the GPS with . . . PINK EYE. Of all things! I
don't think I ever had this, because I swear something so insanely painful
would have stuck with me.
We
woke up Saturday morning and hit the workout room in the hotel before we went
to Lad's game. While on an elliptical my eye started to tear like
CRAZY. Then the burning. Then I considered scraping my eye out with
a spoon. As he drove to the game, I googled. Oh, shit.
We
watched that first 9 am game (well, less watching for me and more
blinking). I kept going out into the quiet hallway to call my
doctor. They agreed to call me in something which saved us hanging out at
urgent care during our visit. It also saved me from swearing like a
sailor into the phone in desperation mode and thereby forcing me to find a new
doctor when I returned home.
I
managed to survive the 30 second intervals of piercing eye pain for several
hours till God's sweet nectar in the form of drops saved me. Coach and I
hit the grocery store while Lad went to watch film with his team. Coach
had procured a list from Lad while they watched Lad's girlfriend play in a
softball tournament. I stayed in the car, reclined, begging the drops to
work some magic.
Off to the grocery store, which gives you time to consider what easiest crockpot recipe ever you will suggest for my college kid. Um, this adventure is not quite over.
12 comments:
Pink eye is HORRIBLE!!!! I'm so glad the doctor was willing to call you something in!
Yes, that was huge. When the pharmacist told me it would take a few days to feel better, I thought I might die. It started to improve by late that afternoon and by the evening game it looked horrendous but felt decent. I had to wear my glasses all weekend - hate wearing glasses!
Pink eye is awful - and VERY contagious! Am glad your doctor was able to call something in for you.
Oh no. Dang it woman....you've had just about every ailment available. Wait, did you ever have scabies? (LOL!!)
So funny about Dr. Oz; surely he would have suggested you put tumeric or lavendar in your eye. :)
So, I guess we won't consider this a romantic getaway for the two of you?
Waiting with bated breath....
Congrats on your son's goal! I don't remember when I last had Pink eye, but I do remember a nasty headache that accompanied it. Glad you got drops quickly.
Yes the goal was exciting and well timed. Thank you. Thankfully I did not have a headache too. The eye pain was enough!
I assume I caught it on the plane.
Ha. Yes, the Dr. Oz factor cracked me up. Oh how Coach enjoys 'hotel time'. Hotel time with pink eye, not so much. My next post is about the weirdness at the hotel. Nothing I have ever seen before.
I was 42 when I first got pink eye. Never got it as a kid, teen, or young adult but rather as a middle-aged woman. My kids gave it to me......HAVE KIDS, THEY SAID! IT'LL BE FUN, THEY SAID!
Also, you are some sort of blogging wizard to be able to add external links to your photo captions.
Heading to the pants story now.
You slay me! 'Have kids they said'- awesome! I do not ever remember having it before and my memory is like a steel trap. Dear Lord, if only I could cash in on that 'talent.' Anyway, I now feel guilty that I did not show more empathy to my offspring when they were SUFFERING with it. Like, thinking I should have bought them each a pony.
OMG- I never tried the link in a caption before but I just did it same as other links and it worked. No wizardary here, but ask me the name of every teacher I ever had and I am your girl!
Ugggggh I got double pink eye during Eve's basketball finals one year. It was horrific. I'm SO glad your son scored on smarmy Dr. Oz's probably-smarmy son.
I doubt I would have survived DOUBLE pink eye. I even asked the pharmacist if I should put drops in the other eye as a precaution and she looked at me like I was crazy. Nothin crazy about trying to avoid INSANITY.
Smarmy-son - hee hee!
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