It's such a beautiful day! I'm scheming to see how I can arrange getting out of town with (just) Larry next weekend. It's his birthday and it would be so nice to get down to the beach together while it's still so beautiful out.
I wish I could tell you what a breeze yesterday was...Krissy was scheduled up at Doernbecher to have her stitches removed, a very minor thing as we (all except Krissy) know. However because she was so traumatized getting her finger put back together, we realized it was going to be a huge challenge to get near her. I tried to talk her into it on Thursday night and she actually made it thru one of them coming out...but was just so anxious and it just seemed like she was unable to overcome that. So, the back up plan was in place and we got her up to the hospital around 1pm. We hoped she would breathe the gas thru the mask and that would be enough...but she hated it (kept saying 'take out the chocolate', which she's never liked) He put a fruit flavor in it, but that didn't work either. So the next try was an injection, which didn't work out any better. She jerked her arm away and the needle came back out before delivery of the drug. So....next came trying to convince her to drink Versed.....but by this time she was so upset, she knew anything we wanted her to do wasn't going to be pleasant. We even tried getting her just to hold still and let the nurse take them out, but again, she couldn't. So we had to hold her down while they gave her the shot of Ketamine....apparently a rather big dose. It was amazing. Maybe 30 seconds later, her eyes were closing and we lifted her from the chair to the bed. She was REALLY out. Long after the sutures were gone, she was still deeply asleep and they felt they should start an IV just to have access. Never anticipated that this was going to be so involved. When she started to make some noises, they quickly pulled the IV, so she still doesn't know she ever had it which is nice. In fact she's not talking about yesterday at all, so I'm hoping she really doesn't remember. Jamie and I sort of wish we couldn't remember too. The staff kept telling me when Jamie was out of earshot that they couldn't believe how wonderful she was with Krissy. She loves her sister so much and boy does Krissy love Jamie! We finally got Krissy upright, but she was so punchy...I don't know that I've seen someone act that inebriated without any alcohol....it had us all laughing. Unfortuately the medicine did make her sick to her stomach for several hours, so that made the ride home alittle more, uh stressful in Friday rush hour traffic. She woke up feeling like herself so, we can close the book (i certainly hope) on this injury. I think she's quite afraid of the bike at school now, which is fine by me.
The older kids are in their first weekend of rehearsals for the fall CYT shows. I'm sure we'll get thru it, but the forcast is quite involved/busy with them going in different directions and us having parental responsibilities on both sides of the river. Their shows open the same weekend (same night, in fact). David's last one, so I'm happy he got to be in the one he wanted.
Hope it's beautiful where you are....definitely September is my favorite month :o)
Love Janelle
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