My Lips Are Sealed!

Remind me to never mention the boring, routine days again. If I ever do, zap me.

My dad is back in the hospital, admitted this time (not just an emergency room visit). Tonight will be his second night. Saturday he never got out of bed (this is HIGHLY unusual behavior), Sunday he came down with a fever, temperature of 104. He couldn't even get himself to the car; my brother and a friend who was visiting their home at the time had to get him in the car. Anyway, he has an infection that they can't pinpoint and they're running yet more scans. Nobody has told him much of anything--what's going on, how long he's supposed to be there, etc. etc. I guarantee you he's gonna hie himself right outta there by tomorrow. Enough of that already. We shall see.

And then today around 2:15 while on my way to the school to pick up my two youngest, I got a call from the school. My youngest was in the nurse's office with two broken teeth. His mouth connected with a girl's head in P.E. and his two front (NOT baby) teeth broke---one in half, one chipped. He was in pain, in shock, afraid of what it meant to have broken teeth, etc. The lady in the front office---bless her li'l heart---went back out to the track and actually found the other half of his one tooth. She promptly put it in milk, I rounded up my kids and we headed for the dentist's office. Two hours later the dentist's magical repairs were done and he looks as good as new. HOWEVER....we have to watch for infection, in the one tooth especially (that broke in half). The break was very near a nerve and if it gets infected, they'll have to do a root canal which will be very difficult apparently. The roots are not fully developed or some such thing---at any rate, infection = bad. For two weeks he has to be extremely careful (no basketball? no wrestling? no running around? Riiiiggghhhtt) and eat soft foods. Even after that, he needs to be careful. It should be interesting. I imagine I'll be a bit nervous about his mouth for awhile.

And the girl? Who knows. Apparently she turned around when he bumped (?) into her, said "oh, sorry" and skipped off to her class. ??? Doesn't her head hurt? How could my son break his teeth and her head not even hurt? Weirdest thing ever. Could be that she's got a whopper of a headache right now, though. I wonder if she'll remember where it came from.

So. Zip. Zip. No more talk of boring days.