Tanker Trucks, Doctors, and Spit Stones...

Well, yesterday was an interesting day. I had to drive myself to work because my dad, who normally drives me, was out of town on business. To start out, James had a really tough night Monday night. He woke up just as it was time for me to go to bed, and kept me up till midnight. Then he was up just a few hours later, and kept on getting up. I finally brought him into my bed, but that was not helpful. He squirmed and whined for an hour before I finally just got up with him. He finally went to sleep really good at about 5:15am. My alarm goes off at 5:30! I went ahead and went to bed thinking I’d take a 30 minute power nap. I got up an hour later and had to rush around to get ready for work. James was sleeping soundly, so I had to do a “scoop and run.” This is what we call it when I take him out of his bed, put a jacket on him, and put him in his carseat and go. He gets dressed and has breakfast with his Gammo. It’s been a long time since we’ve had to do that. So I ran in to drop him off and had to hurry in to work. I didn’t even stop for my usual breakfast biscuit and soda because I was too late. I wasn’t very far down the road when I heard on the radio that there had been a big accident very near my route, and it had traffic all jacked up everywhere. They still don’t know just what happened, but a semi tractor and its trailer somehow got disconnected and the trailer went over a guardrail and fell onto the road below. The trailer happened to be a tanker filled with over 8,000 gallons of butane! Ouch! So there were all kinds of police and fire and haz mat crews out and all sorts of road closings and detours had traffic messed up no matter what route you took. Thankfully, they were eventually able to clean up the scene without any injuries or explosions. Amazing!

I had planned to work half a day because I had a doctor appointment in the afternoon. Well, about five minutes before I was supposed to leave I got a call from a customer who needed me to make some revisions for him on a job I’d quoted that bid THAT DAY. So I had to get it done before I left. That meant contacting two different suppliers and waiting for their responses. Long story short, I left work an hour later! Grrr! When I called my mom to tell her I was finally on the way, she informed me that despite all the best efforts of her and grandpa, my precious baby had only eaten 2 ounces of milk so far! This was at 1:00. Needless to say, I got worried. I didn’t want my little guy to end up dehydrated. So, since I was going to be in the clinic anyway, I called up J’s doctor and got him an appointment as well. We had to rush just a bit, but we made it on time, and my grandma came along with me to help take care of J while I was at my appointment.

So J is perfectly fine. His ears and throat are good. Doctor basically said don’t worry.

I was going to the doctor because I had a strange lump appear in my cheek last week. It was large and very tender. By the time I got to the doctor yesterday it was almost gone. In fact, I felt like a total doofus because I almost couldn’t even find it to show him. It took him forever to find it after I did! In the end he concluded that I’d probably had a “stone” in my saliva ducts/gland. Kind of like kidney stones. Who knew that was even possible?! So when I told R, he was naturally very R about the whole thing. He is now laughing at me for having “spit stones.” LOL

After that we did a little shopping. I got J the most wonderful little board book about celebrating Jesus at Easter. Once we got home, J was a happy and active little boy. We had a nice evening together. And, thankfully, he slept through the night last night!