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In other family news, Eli has been sick all weekend. He woke up vomitting around 4:30 Saturday morning. He thew up six times in the following 90 minutes. We were going to take him to the ER around 9am or 10am if he continued vomitting but he stopped after the initial 90 minutes. Whenever we give him solid food, he's thrown it up (we've only tried twice all weekend). He is holding down milk just fine so we're sticking to that for a little while.
Aaron has started lying more and more lately. He has generally been lying about things that he will be embarrassed about - pooping or peeing on himself mostly, hurting Eli sometimes. We're not sure how to deal with it, other than to continue the beatings (that's a joke, seriously; NOTE: we do not beat our kids). We'll need to do some more research but our initial thoughts are to reward the times when he does not have an accident, rather than make a big deal about the times that he does have an accident. This is something that I'll have to work on more than Meri.
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Obama FTW!
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Ginger is missing. Ginger is our cat. This is the most recent picture we have of her.
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She’s been missing since Sunday. I noticed that I hadn’t heard her meowing at me to feed her or change her water. We adopted Ginger from the Jacksonville Humane Society when Meri and I were still dating.
Right now, we are developing some signs that we’re going to put out in the neighborhood. We are planning on offering up to a $100 reward to anybody who returns her to us.
To develop the signs, I’ve been following some guidelines put together by Missing Pet Partnership that I found on the web.
I’m fairly optimistic that either Ginger will come home or that she will be returned to us.
Aaron was talking about Ginger quite a bit tonight. He asked us where she was and we showed him the above picture and said “look, she’s in your room”. We aren’t ready to have this discussion with Aaron yet. He loves that cat so much, we all do! I keep describing Ginger as Aaron’s mobile pillow when he was learning to walk. He would lay on her and fall on her. He would pull at her fur and tug on her. Most cats would run away from him or get upset and hiss or claw but not Ginger, she was always very good about being gentle, especially with Aaron. We are all hoping for her quick return!
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She’s been missing since Sunday. I noticed that I hadn’t heard her meowing at me to feed her or change her water. We adopted Ginger from the Jacksonville Humane Society when Meri and I were still dating.
Right now, we are developing some signs that we’re going to put out in the neighborhood. We are planning on offering up to a $100 reward to anybody who returns her to us.
To develop the signs, I’ve been following some guidelines put together by Missing Pet Partnership that I found on the web.
I’m fairly optimistic that either Ginger will come home or that she will be returned to us.
Aaron was talking about Ginger quite a bit tonight. He asked us where she was and we showed him the above picture and said “look, she’s in your room”. We aren’t ready to have this discussion with Aaron yet. He loves that cat so much, we all do! I keep describing Ginger as Aaron’s mobile pillow when he was learning to walk. He would lay on her and fall on her. He would pull at her fur and tug on her. Most cats would run away from him or get upset and hiss or claw but not Ginger, she was always very good about being gentle, especially with Aaron. We are all hoping for her quick return!
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Meri asked me to go to a Centra Care last night, when the symptoms first appeared. I didn't. Why? cuz I'm a guy and guys don't go to doctors [generally speaking of course]. So I finally went this morning.
So what does all of this have to do with the title of the blog post? Patience...
Well, when I finally got home, Meri was visibly upset about something. Whatever could it be I wondered?? So I did what I (now) view as a dumb thing, and I ...(wait for it)... asked her - woops.
So we start arguing about how I don't listen and I should have gone last night and blah blah blah. In the middle of arguing, I say something along the lines of "I don't need this right now, I'm sick" - wah wah wah. Long story short, childcare was the reason for the anger! My wife needed to dump her frustration and I was the moron that opened the door. No big deal, it happens all the time.
Still, you're probably wondering what all of this has to do with the post title, right? Ok, here goes.
Well, right after I said "I don't need this right now, I'm sick", Aaron hops off of the couch, with his Gameboy in hand and he walks over to us. Aaron put his hand on mine we had a small heart-to-heart talk:
Aaron: Daddy, do you know what will heal you?
Daddy (me): What will Aaron?
Aaron: Jesus. Jesus will heal you and make you feel better. My teacher prayed for me and ask Jesus to heal the boo boo on my knee.
[Mommy and Daddy start laughing, stop arguing]
So there you have it, straight from my 4 year old son, Jesus heals!
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We arrived at the the Arnold Palmer hospital around 8am and registered and finally went to the surgery center. We spoke to Aaron’s ophthalmologist, then met the anesthesiologist and finally all of the nurses that would be helping during the surgery. They were all extremely nice.
The surgery itself lasted about an hour and went well, by the book according to the surgeon. Aaron was in the recovery room, sleeping for about 90 minutes after the surgery, in which time Meri and I patiently waited in the waiting room until we could finally go back and see him. When we got to see him, he was eating an orange popsicle that the nurses gave him.
We now have to give him eye drops three times every day, for three to five days post surgery. His first drops didn’t go so smoothly and it took 45 minutes to apply them! We are doing much better with the drops now; we stop them tomorrow.
Aaron’s eyes are red on the outer left portion. Over the next 3 weeks, they will become more red, possibly enveloping the entire eye, then turn yellowish and finally back to a normal white.
Now that the surgery is over, I’m finding the most difficult thing to do is wait for 4 – 6 weeks to know of the surgery was successful. According to the paperwork we were given, 70% of those who had the surgery only required it to be performed once. 30% needed multiple surgeries. Of those 30%, 20% needed one to two more surgeries and the final 10% needed 3 or more surgeries.
Needless to say, Meri, Aaron and I are hopeful that Aaron will be in the 70% range.
Not to be lost in all of this is Eli! He’s our now 4month old chunky baby (17lbs as of this writing!) who had to be cared for during the procedure. Thankfully, Meri’s aunt Paline was able to come down and help us out! We were very fortunate that she was able to come down on such short notice (she flew in EARLY Thursday morning, around 1am.
I’m ready to stop talking about this now, it has been difficult for all of us. Ready for some cuteness in this post, here it is. Aren’t my boys just so handsome?!
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Is there a more perfect sandwich than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? The only thing better than a PB&J sandwich is two of them and the only thing better than two PB&J sandwiches is three of them. You get the general idea, right? I don't need to keep going. Here is a Google image search of PB&J. Yummy.
Someone emailed me the other day* asking me how you could spice up your PB&J sandwich. What the hell? Isn’t that obvious? Four words – peanut butter, jelly and cheese! Seriously (well, as serious as this post can/should be) though, why would a PB&J sandwich need to be spiced up? It is
the
perfect sandwich dammit, leave it alone. I guess you could switch between jelly and jam or change what flavor of jelly you use or you could not use jelly at all, but that would just be weird, amirite?
While I’m making my PB&J sandwich, I pull out three pieces of bread, peanut butter and some jelly. Instantaneously, I grab one piece of bread, spread peanut butter over 1/2 of it and then jelly over the other half, fold it in half and then eat that mini-PB&J while I continue to make the normal-sized PB&J. It’s as if the whole PB&J sandwich is much too time consuming to make and I need a smaller PB&J sandwich to tide over my need/desire for, I’m going to type it again, a PB&J sandwich.
I’ve got that Google image search of PB&J up in the another window on my screen and I think I’m going to have to make myself another one when I’m finished.
Finally, I leave you with the following video.
* That's a damn lie, nobody emailed me – about this or anything else.
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Is there a more perfect sandwich than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? The only thing better than a PB&J sandwich is two of them and the only thing better than two PB&J sandwiches is three of them. You get the general idea, right? I don't need to keep going. Here is a Google image search of PB&J. Yummy.
Someone emailed me the other day* asking me how you could spice up your PB&J sandwich. What the hell? Isn’t that obvious? Four words – peanut butter, jelly and cheese! Seriously (well, as serious as this post can/should be) though, why would a PB&J sandwich need to be spiced up? It is
the
perfect sandwich dammit, leave it alone. I guess you could switch between jelly and jam or change what flavor of jelly you use or you could not use jelly at all, but that would just be weird, amirite?
While I’m making my PB&J sandwich, I pull out three pieces of bread, peanut butter and some jelly. Instantaneously, I grab one piece of bread, spread peanut butter over 1/2 of it and then jelly over the other half, fold it in half and then eat that mini-PB&J while I continue to make the normal-sized PB&J. It’s as if the whole PB&J sandwich is much too time consuming to make and I need a smaller PB&J sandwich to tide over my need/desire for, I’m going to type it again, a PB&J sandwich.
I’ve got that Google image search of PB&J up in the another window on my screen and I think I’m going to have to make myself another one when I’m finished.
Finally, I leave you with the following video.
* That's a damn lie, nobody emailed me – about this or anything else.
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