a few days off

well we are taking a couple of days off from our Christmas Activity Tree and here is why...

a trip to the ER from 8pm to 2:30AM

yup, that is right. the teenager had a skateboarding injury three months ago. he tried to skate grind handrails and fell off his skateboard. He landed on the side of his board. He has downplayed the injury. Some days the pain was worse on other days not so much. Now he didn't tell us about the accident until almost a month later. He hates doctors and just never wanted to go.

So we picked him up at his girlfriends house friday evening, he was already feeling sick. the pain got really bad and we ended up going to the emergency room.

OH MY!!!

In 18yrs of being a parent and taking the kids to emergency rooms (due to asthma attacks, falling out windows, thinking "he" was a human bank & swallowing money and nurse maids elbow) I have never experienced an ER like that before.

The lobby was PACKED. We got there at 8pm and checked in. About an hour into the wait, they call his name and drew some blood and sent us back to the lobby. Around 11:30pm we FINALLY got called to the back. Now that was where the REAL fun began...it was real entertaining.

THE VERDICT...

He has multiple broken ribs, an injured splean and a possible ulcer. So he is on a low-residue diet for maybe a couple of weeks. he's on three medications.

So needless to say we are all tired and I feel like I'm in a fog. The two activities that we were supposed to do on Friday & Saturday night we didn't do. So Sunday night we will do 3 activities in one day.

well I'm really tired and I'm heading back to bed.

So Good Night Y'all.