New Years

Happy New Year all! Time sure is a fast mover when you get over the age of 30, Itellyouwhat. I’m just starting to get the hang of writing 2000 on the tops of my checks and now I gotta learn 2002. What the hell happened to 2001?

Minnie and Otto have finally made it out to the Pacific Northwest and spent a few days hanging out with us and enjoying all Tacoma has to offer. Spent last Saturday up at the pass inner tubing with the older boy and Otto. The older boy had been a little disappointed these last few years in the amount of snowfall we’ve had here in the low-lying areas. I had told him that if there wasn’t any snow by this Christmas we’d go up to the mountain and find us some, so that’s what we did. Sweetie and Minnie took the littlest one to a bar, did some catching up and had a drink.

Somehow in the midst of all the snow and parties and guests, the littlest one managed to come down with something. New Years Eve, Sweetie and I we’re all dressed up and ready to go when she decided that he felt a little warm so she took his temperature: °102.5, crap! Any time you have a kid with a suppressed immune system who sports a fever of over 102 you have to take him in. That meant a trip to the emergency room to get all his labs done and make sure it’s not an infection. Sweetie went and I stayed home with the older boy. I don’t like going by myself anymore cause it always seems like the shit hits the fan if it’s just me and the boy and we wind up in the ICU or someplace like that. Sweetie wound up bringing him home with an IV still in his wrist because there was no way in hell she was spending New Years alone with the boy in some hospital room making sure that his meds are there on time.

We took him back on New Years day for some more antibiotics and they took the IV line out and said we were free to go. I wound up taking both boys to our pediatrician the next day and find out the older one has Strep Throat! (See what I’m talking about when it’s just the boys and me?) So off we go with our prescriptions in hand to the Pharmacy to drop them off and then home. I had forgotten some tubing I needed to give the littlest one his anti-rejection meds so we ran home to get that and as I’m getting the boys out of the car I’m hearing this hissing sound. The front tire has a leak. So I toss the boys back in the car, and head out to Kirks place to get it repaired before it gets flat. Only problem is on the way there I’m stuck behind a driver that’s just wasted and is swerving all over the road driving the oncoming cars into ditches. I thought I was going to have to pull someone out of a head-on collision before I got there Itellyouwhat. I couldn’t tell if it was a man or a woman driving but they we’re out of their mind drunk. We managed to get there right before I started riding on the rims.

Minnie and Otto are visiting some other friends around here before they head back to the Midwest on Sunday. Said they would try and stop by again before they head out. Minnie did some work on my web page in the Past Forum part. It’ll make it easier for me to update so hopefully I can do that more often.

Here’s to hoping that all hospital stays are in the past and that the New Year finds us healthy, wealthy and mercifully a little bit wiser. Cheers!

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