When asked this week what was new, the only thing I could talk about was my parents various ailments. It's occured to me that I'm extremely boring and that I've been watching entirely too much CNN for my own good. I was telling someone else that I was feeling strangely down this week, that there wasn't an obvious reason for it, and that it was bothering me that I was feeling so blah for absolutely no reason. That's actually when the suggestion that I was watching too much war coverage was made, till then I hadn't even considered that it would be an issue.
Earlier I mentioned my parents various ailments. On Friday my father was at work, putting in some overtime because they're incredibly busy right now, and there was an accident. I called him in the morning after I had my ultrasound, and he was fine. Apparently an hour later there was some sort of accident. He was wiring something, and because he wanted to save some time, he didn't turn the machine off. Stupid right? Yes. A fireball came out and burned his hand. So, he's off work on workers compensation. Thus far he's had to go to the hospital every day to have the bandages changed, and to have therapy on the hand. Last I heard though, they thought that he wasn't going to have to have surgery, also, they were hoping to cut the visits back to every other day rather than every day. I don't know how things went today, I'll find out tomorrow when I call him.
My mother has thrown her back out. She was walking down the stairs the other day and the cat got under her feet so to avoid stepping on her she moved quickly and wrenched her back. Luckily she didn't fall down the stairs, I imagine that would have yielded a result much worse than what did happen. However, she's in incredible amounts of pain and spend most of the weekend hopped up on my fathers pain pills. Oh, I forgot to mention, he stayed with us last weekend because my brother was away for the weekend and there wasn't anyone there to look after him.
So, the weekend was fun. We had a fantastic dinner on Saturday night, which immediately sent me into spasms of pain. I figured it was probably the mashed potatoes and my mom figured it may have been the gravy. So the next night when we had leftovers, I skipped the gravy and still had pain. Therefore...we assumed it was the potatoes. As it turns out, someone who had gallbladder problems told me today that it was probably the broccoli. And here I thought vegetables were supposed to be good for you!
Posted by Michelle at March 27, 2003 06:01 PM