I took Brittanie to her orthopedist today and thankfully her feet are not broken. She has tendonitis in both feet....MUCH worse on the left. She has alot of swelling on the left and he told her she was in danger of a stress fracture so stay off of it completely. He wrote her a script for a wheelchair but she said she is not going to school in a wheelchair unless there are casts on both of her feet because people at school are going to think she is a wuss. He gave her ankle braces for both of her feet. She can put a shoe on the right foot over the ankle brace so she is just going to use her crutches. He gave her an anti-inflammatory and ordered her to do steroid ultrasound physical therapy....whatever that is. But he said she will be better in a couple of days and 100% back to normal in a couple of weeks.
Tom says he feels ok as long as he is laying down. But when he sits up, he gets nauseous. Katie stopped up the front toilet last night putting 1/4 of a roll in at one time and he went all over the house looking for the plunger but couldn't find it before getting nauseous and having to go lay back down. Well he got up again tonight and wanted to put the lymphedema wraps on my legs. I told him no! He went through the house looking for the plunger again. This time he found it, plunged the toilet, and had to go back to bed because he was nauseous again. This is what I was talking about in a previous post. He is not a typical man. A typical man would enjoy being able to sleep and relax. Not Tom. He is a work-a-holic and wants to pretend he isn't sick and can do everything he did before he got sick. But he can't! Tomorrow I will be taking the trash to the dump because if he gets up and sees that the trash can is full, he will want to do that too! Though he frustrates me because he takes GREAT care of us when we are sick but won't let me take care of him when he is sick, I must say that we are very lucky to have him because I know we will never have to worry about Tom not taking care of us. We are always his first priority. He's awesome....sick and everything.
On a happier note, I have a new picture of our beautiful niece, Leah. Look how big she has gotten! She looked like Jesse when she was first born and now she looks like her mom. She is just so precious. I can't wait to hold her. Since I'm the only one in the immediate family that hasn't held her yet, I want to be the first one to hold her at her belated shower next month!
Isn't she beautiful??
When I got home from my lymphedema treatment today, Brittanie's car was in the driveway. She had come back home because her right foot was now hurting her too and she couldn't stand to put her weight on it. Well with the left one in a splint, she has to put weight on the right. So she came home and went back to bed to keep her weight off both feet. This afternoon Tom called and told me he has the virus and is coming home. I love him but I'm not risking getting this virus again. I moved my pillows and CPAP into the guest room and that's where I'm sleeping till he is over this virus. He should have done that when I had it.
Well Brittanie is seeing an orthopedist at 9:45 tomorrow morning but Katie gets out of school at 11:50. Everyone has prior commitments and can't pick her up for me. So I called Tom's mom and asked her if she could pick Katie up and she did one better and offered to keep her for a few days so she doesn't get a relapse of the virus. I'm so grateful because I was really worried because I still can't put shoes on my feet because of the lymphedema wraps, Brittanie's feet are out of commission, and Tom is down for the count with the virus.....and if he has it as bad as Katie and I, he will be in bed for at least a week. So I was worried until I talked to Tom's mom. I am alot less stressed out now.
Please pray for us....especially Tom. This virus is AWFUL and he is not your typical man. I have always heard stories about men becoming babies when they are sick. Not Tom. He doesn't want me to take care of him at all when he is sick. He is as independent sick as he is well, which frustrates me because I want to take care of him. So please pray that he will get better soon!
Tom turned 38 today!! To celebrate, we met his parents at O'Charley's on Harbison for a late lunch. It was very nice. We had a very good time.
After we left his parents, Brittanie, Cameron, and I headed to the ER at Baptist to have a doctor look at her foot. The doctor thinks she has a stress fracture, which takes about to week to show up on an x-ray. Well no insurance is going to cover a cast when no fracture is showing up on the x-ray. So he put her in a splint and gave her crutches and told her not to walk on it for a week then go see Dr. Ugino and have her x-rays redone. We got home around 9:30pm.
Let me just say that I have been to several ER's and we usually go to Lexington Medical Center ER, which is weird because when it comes to surgery or anything else, we always choose Baptist. This is Brittanie's first trip to Baptist ER and it was a very pleasant experience. They are very professional and organized. The staff was very courteous. The waiting room wasn't full of thugs like you may expect being a downtown hospital. I was impressed that they took her vitals and talked to her about what the problem was and everything BEFORE getting her insurance information. That let me know that we were people to them and not money. And before we left, our nurse thanked us for chosing them for treatment. They made us feel like we were valued. That is very much lacking in the healthcare systems these days. I hope we never have to make another ER trip, but if we do, we will definitely be going back to Baptist.
Well prom night started out well but it didn't end that way. Brittanie's date, Jeremy, got nauseous and so did her friend, Eryka, who she had set up with her friend William. So Brittanie had to bring both Eryka and Jeremy home. Well they get home and Brittanie said "Mom my foot hurts." She took one more step and stop dead in her tracks and said "Mom, it hurts like it did when I broke my foot....and this is the same foot." Now she broke that foot in 6th grade. But she has been running alot doing training to get read for her Army PT test on May 16th. Soooooooooo Courtney, William and Michael went with her to the ER last night around midnight to find out if it is broken. She has an ankle brace and an ACE wrap on it and it was still killing her. She took a prescription strength Aleve before she left. She was not a happy camper. I told her that's life baby.
She called me and told me the ER is packed out and she doesn't want to wait. She wanted to wait till Monday to go to the doctor for it. I'm not waiting that long. I told her that if this is a hairline fracture, walking on it could turn it into a displaced fracture that needs surgery and she can kiss the Army goodbye. When I said that she teared up. She hadn't thought of that. So they came back here to play Rock Band on our big screen TV till 7am this morning! It is now noon and she and Courtney are upstairs comatose. lol
They did take some pictures at Finley Park after they ate at Grecian Gardens and before going to prom, as well as more pictures at prom. As soon as she gets those off of her camera, I will post those too.
Tonight is prom night for Swansea High School. As I mentioned in a previous post, Brittanie's friend, Courtney, is home schooled so Brittanie is taking Courtney to prom with her. Courtney lives with her friend, Eryka, and her family. Eryka is also home schooled and won't get a prom this year. So Brittanie set Eryka up with her friend, William so they can all go to prom together. But as time went on, Brittanie felt weird about having a female date and wanted a guy to dance with and take pictures with. So she is going with her friend, Jeremy, who also goes to Swansea, as well. So technically, Brittanie has two dates for prom tonight. William's friend, Michael doesn't have a date so he is going stag so Courtney will have someone to dance with as well. Confused yet? lolThey are all meeting up with other friends at Grecian Gardens before prom to eat. William and Michael were supposed to meet at our house and they would all go together to Grecian Gardens. They have reservations for 5:30 and by 5:15 they still weren't here so Brittanie left them. She will just give them directions to Grecian Gardens. So unfortunately I have no picture of William and Michael. But anyway, here are the pictures that I did take.
We paid almost $4000 for braces on those teeth and I couldn't get her to smile and show them. grrrr.
She has been blinking in anticipation of a flash since she was 5!!
Brittanie, Eryka, and Courtney
All dressed up and still can't resist beating up her daddy! lol
Brittanie, Jeremy, and Courtney
Best Friends Forever
Katie was still tossing her cookies yesterday before we left for my lymphedema treatment. I gave her a Phenergan suppository at 7:30am and by 12:30pm, she was tossing cookies again and couldn't keep anything down. I called Tom and was ready to take her to the ER. A couple of months ago, we took her to the ER because she was throwing up every 10 minutes and the doctor gave her a dissolvable tablet that took care of it immediately. With this latest round, I couldn't remember the name of that drug and ended up with Phenergan again. Phenergan works well but it is very oversedating and you have to be careful with small kids because it can cause respiratory distress. I didn't want to give Katie another Phenergan until it had been at least 12 hours from the first dose and even then, she was so oversedated. It was pitiful.
Well my wonderful husband looked on the internet and found the name of that dissolvable tablet that she as given in the ER last time and it was Zofran. Brittanie's back was hurting her yesterday so she was going to the doctor yesterday afternoon. Her doctor was booked so she was going to see Katie's. So I wrote him a note asking for Zofran...enough to keep on hand. He had never heard of using Zofran in little kids. (It is mainly given by ER doctors.) But he looked up her dose and gave me a script for it anyway. Within 15 minutes of giving Katie just 1/2 of a 4mg dissolvable tablet, the nausea was gone and she was perking up and asking for food. She was so sweet. She wanted Ritz crackers but we didn't have any in the house and she told Tom she didn't want to make him go to the store for her. Tom told her he would gladly go because she hasn't eaten anything since Saturday....and what she did eat Saturday didn't stay down. Once he had his shoes on and was ready to go, she started naming off other stuff she wanted to eat. One of the things was something that Brittanie ate and it came in blueberry and other things, you ate it with a spoon, and it was the same color as Tom's Red Hat Linux cap (khaki). I finally figured out she was talking about flavored oatmeal. Until I figured it out, Tom, Brittanie, and I were all playing 20 questions to figure out what she was talking about. It was cute.
She ate a cracker and then went back to bed....still reeling from the Phenergan. Well I got up at 5am this morning to start typing because I haven't been able to work much since I got sick last week and she is up and talking and making herself a drink and just about back to normal. That Zofran works GREAT!!! I highly recommend it over Phenergan. I didn't know that Phenergan is no longer recommended for kids under 2 because of the respiratory distress problem. Phenergan just scares me in little kids because of that. The only drawback to Zofran is the cost. It is only doable if you have a good prescription plan. We got 15 tablets of the generic and it was $245. We have outstanding insurance so it only cost us $10. Those 15 tablets will last a good while because we only have to give her 1/2 of a 4mg tablet.
Looks like we are at the end of this horrible virus. We are praying that Tom and Brittanie don't come down with it. Brittanie has her senior prom this weekend. Of course, we would have a virus in the house and her back would pick this week to flare up. I think she is going to need a breast reduction ultimately. Her back is constantly compensating for her front. Dr. Hicks gave her a prescription for a new back support but Hawthorne's was closed by the time she realized that is where she had to get it from yesterday. So she will go get it today and hopefully she will be back to normal by Saturday. She has to get her dress altered tomorrow and the rest of her prom preliminary stuff will be done all week long....nails, hair, accessories, etc. She definitely needs her back to be ok for that.
Katie started throwing up again this morning so I gave her a suppository before leaving for my lymphedema treatment. My wonderful cousin, Jessica, (ok so technically she is Tom's cousin but I have been in this family 19 years so I get to claim her too!) came over at 7am to stay with her while Tom and I go for my treatment. Between the treatments and the virus last week, I have lost 27 pounds in 2 weeks!!! YAY!! Makes having that virus worth it that's for sure!
Today she decided that the left leg was just about done and she wrapped my right leg for the first time. The wound on the left leg is considerably smaller. Another wound had actually formed above the original one and it is all healed up now. So things are going great. The first day that I was wrapped on my left leg, it moved so much fluid out that the wrapping literally fell off of my leg by that night. I'm hoping for the same thing tonight. We had taken the foam off of my left leg but she put it back on today to protect the healed wound from breaking open again. So I have foam on both of my legs and am walking like the Michelin man. But that's ok. I can deal with that. I'm excited about the progress my left leg has made and can't wait to see the same thing on the right!
When I got home, Katie had just gotten up. She said she feels fine but she kissed Tom and I and went back to bed. Well I'm going to go check on her before starting to type. Have a good Monday!
Saturday, Tom took Katie to her friend, Bryson's, birthday party at Anchor Lanes in Irmo. She had a blast. She didn't like being put on a lane with just girls. She definitely is my child. I never liked playing with girls. Guys were more fun and always had cooler toys. Katie feels the same way. Katie kept jumping over to the boy's lane and cutting up with them. She pigged out on hot dogs, cake, and candy. So it wasn't a big shock when she got home and tossed her cookies. But it wasn't a matter of indigestion. It was the virus I had. Tom knew I wasn't 100% better so he let me go to bed last night and he stayed up in the recliner all night long and tended to Katie, who was tossing cookies every 15 minutes all night long. He woke me up at 2 and asked me how much of the one Phenergan suppository we had in the house could he give her. I told him to just give her 1/4 of it. That held her off from throwing up for 45 minutes but then it started again every 15 minutes. Tom was charting it all night long and what she was drinking or not drinking between times. At 6am, he had looked up the dose of Phenergan he could give her and found that he could give her a whole 25mg Phenergan suppository so he gave her the other 3/4. That held her off till 10:30, which is when she tried drinking water again and couldn't keep it down. Tom had to work this morning from home, even after being up all night. I should mention here how sweet Katie was all night long. Tom said she was worried about him being up without sleep all night taking care of her. She wanted him to go to bed. He told her that he was ok and for her to call him if she felt sick. But she never would. She tried to take care of herself. But he would hear her and run in there. At one point after she had gone 45 minutes without throwing up, she asked him why he didn't go to bed then because she hadn't thrown up in awhile. She is soooo sweet when she is sick. It just breaks your heart how sweet she is when she is so sick.
Anyway, Brittanie and I took her to the doctor in Lexington when they opened at 1pm so Tom could sleep. I asked him for Tigan, which is what the ER had given Katie a couple of months ago when she was throwing up. It worked great and didn't oversedate her. I asked for the kind that dissolved on the tongue, which is what she had. He had never heard of that and he looked it up and couldn't find it. So he gave her Tigan suppositories. Ok fine. So I dropped it off at Walgreens and then went to Sonic to get something to drink to wait 20 minutes for the prescription to be ready. Well no sooner had we gotten there when Walgreen's called me and told me that Tigan isn't made anymore. HUH? I hadn't heard that and obviously neither had Dr. Scott. But ok. She said she called the doctor and left a message on the machine. I gave her another number and told her to call the service and have the doctor call her back. I waited 20 minutes and since she didn't call me back, I assumed it was ready. I was wrong. So I went home and Katie crawled up in her waterbed and went to sleep. So I hopped in the bed with Tom and took a nap. We were all pooped.
Let me inject here that this is the first time we had seen Dr. Scott. He is with Lexington Family Practice on Powell Drive in Lexington. Katie sees Dr. Hicks and Brittanie sees Dr. Konduros at Lexington Family Practice in West Columbia. We love our doctors. But if either of them retired, I would definitely switch to Dr. Scott in Lexington. He was so nice and so great with Katie. She has a temporary Pirates of the Carribean tattoo at the top of her arm/shoulder. The shirt she had on was cap sleeved so you could see it. (She hasn't been able to wear shirts like that since she got that tattoo because temporary tattoos are against the rules at Grace.) Well he commented on her tattoo and how cool it was and asked her where she got it from. She gave him this look like "Are you stupid?" and just didn't answer him. I had to hold back from laughing. She is just like her daddy. But Brittanie and I thought he was a sweet doctor and GREAT with kids. So if you are in the Lexington area and need a good doctor, he is family practice and I highly recommend him!
We all got up around 7pm and Katie curled up in Tom's lap and hugged him and you could just see in her face how much she adores her daddy. Check it out: 
Right now, Tom is on his way back to Walgreen's to get her prescription and get him some Mountain Dew. Brittanie went to church with Cameron and his grandparents tonight so she is in Sumter. Katie is back in her bed relaxing and I'm blogging. If Tom and Brittanie don't get this, it will be a miracle! Please pray for us. This is the most miserable virus I have ever had!
I'm so glad this week is almost over! It started with me getting a head and chest cold over the weekend. My doctor called in an antibiotic for me on Monday but it wasn't ready when I went to pick up Katie from school so I didn't get it till Tuesday. Tuesday, as soon as I got home from getting my prescription, I took one. Well within 30 minutes, I started itching. I have taken this antibiotic at least twice before in the last couple of years with no reaction but Tuesday, there it was. So I took an allergy tablet and a Prednisone tablet and that got rid of the itching but made me hung over. Tuesday night, Brittanie told Tom that her car was squeaking again. He checked it out and it is her brakes....again! He told her to call the two people who ride with her so they can make other arrangements and that she needs to get a ride to school also for Wednesday because her car is undriveable. Yesterday, I went for my lymphedema treatment and was told that I wasn't on the schedule. I was supposed to be on the schedule for everyday for two weeks. Luckily my therapist was there and was able to wrap my leg anyway and was out of there by 9. Well I had made an appointment with my sleep doctor at 10:20 so I hung out in my van talking to my mom on the cell phone till 10 and went inside and was informed that my appointment was the day before. grrrrrrrr I couldn't see the doctor because he was booked and had a plane to catch after he sees his appointments. So I went home and finished up the paperwork for Brittanie's apartment, picked her up from school, and took her paperwork to the apartment complex. When we got home from the apartment complex, I started feeling weird. My stomach was aching and I thought it may have been from all the coughing. But then it started feeling more queasy. To spare everyone the gory details, I had a virus. I was up all night long. I'm still not 100% better but now Tom is queasy. So chances are he will be up all night with it tonight. I was just lucky that he was able to take off work today to take care of me and to get Katie to and from school. I'm praying that Katie and Brittanie won't get it. There is a big chance Brittanie won't get it because she is usually upstairs away from the rest of us when we are sick. But Katie usually gets whatever we get, especially Tom because she is stuck to him like glue at all times. So yall pray for us that this virus goes away and stays gone!
I do have a funny story from yesterday to share. I was frustrated by not being able to see my sleep doctor yesterday and didn't feel like going home only to turn around and go back to West Columbia to get Katie from school. So I just went to get her out early. When I pulled up, they were just leaving the playground from recess. One of her classmates, Robin, came to the gate, which I was parked next to, and I had my window down telling her teacher I was taking Katie early. Robin asked me, "Who are you?" I said, "I'm Katie's mom." She said, "Is that a new car?" I said, "No." She said, "How many kids do you have?" I am not a kid person. I love my own and I love a few in the family and friends but as a whole, I'm not a kid person. So I just ignored the last question, hoping she was going to stop asking me questions. I was wrong. She persisted with "How many kids do you have that you need such a big car?" Again, I ignored her. Katie's teacher, Mrs. Stevens, then came to my van and was telling me that Katie told her about me having an infection on my leg. While I was talking to the teacher, Robin opened the sliding door on the driver's side of my van and said "What's back here?" Mrs. Stevens closed the door back and then walked around the van to help Katie in. As soon as she opened the passenger front door to put Katie in, Robin's head popped in and she was looking around my van. Mrs. Stevens moved her back and buckled Katie up. While she was buckling Katie, Robin opened the passenger side sliding door and said "What's back here?" Mrs. Stevens promptly closed it back and said "Robin! Nosey!" Just when I think Katie can drive me nuts, it takes me being around kids like the quiz master to know how truly blessed I am. lol
Today, Katie gave Tom an invitation to her classmate's birthday party Saturday at the bowling alley in Irmo. She was excited about going but said "But he's a Clemson fan." LOL We told her that's ok. She said "I don't have to wear orange to his party do I?" We assured her that she didn't have to wear orange. I just love her hatred of all things Clemson. hehehe
There is nothing he can do about it. From the minute Tom walks through the door after work, Katie won't leave him alone. She is definitely a daddy's girl. She thinks he is her human toy.
I went for my daily lymphedema wrap at Baptist and after watching Susan, the occupational therapist, wrap me every day this week, it was Tom's turn to wrap me because he will be doing it this weekend. She did the measurements and my leg is down dramatically and I have lost almost 2 liters of fluid already!
You have to start the wrap with rubbing lotion on the leg. Tom is a man with, I swear, twice the testosterone of the average man because he doesn't know the meaning of the word gentle....which explains why our girls love wildness and never cried when they got hurt growing up. They were tough like Daddy. Well he was rubbing the lotion on my leg and my skin is sensitive with all the wrapping so I had to tell him a couple of times "Gentle honey." Then the wrapping started and his fingers would dig into me with the free hand or the knuckles with the wrapping hand. I joked about him being a wife abuser and Susan told a very funny story.
She said a friend of hers, who was an officer at Shaw, was at home cleaning his gun and it went off and shot him through the hand. His wife took him to the ER at the Army hospital (Moncrief). They asked him in the ER how this happened. Well he is a jokester (like Tom and I) and told the ER doctor "She shot me" and pointed to his wife. But he passed out from loss of blood before he could say he was joking. By the time he came to and could tell them the truth, the MP's had already come and grabbed his wife and was down the hall with her taking her away. She said it has been many years since that happened and the wife still gets mad when that story is told because if he had died she would have gone to prison for something she didn't do. I thought it was hilarious.
Yesterday Brittanie went down to see the school nurse. It was Thursday, the uniform day in JROTC, so Brittanie was decked out in her class A's. The nurse wasn't in her office so she had to wait in the waiting area until she got back. While she was waiting, a parent, who turned out to be a hippie, looked at her, shook her head and said "It is sad that they are forcing our kids to dress like Army murderers." Brittanie looked at her and said "Excuse me? What did you say?" The woman told Brittanie that she hates that the school is forcing kids to dress like murdering Army people. Brittanie told her "First of all, I know all about JROTC because I run the program. It is an ELECTIVE class so no one is forced to do anything. Secondly, JROTC isn't recruiting for the military. It actually teaches you practical things you can use in life. Algebra is great but if you can't socially adapt, you won't have an opportunity to use it. And lastly, you are talking to someone who is going to be career Army. Where would you be right now without our military to stop Hitler? You would be at the mercy of the person he would appoint to take over for him when he died because would have taken over the world if we wouldn't have stopped him." She said "I'm not saying what they did was right either." Brittanie said "Then how could we have stopped them? You can't just stand by and tell them to stop. They won't listen." She said "You kids need to learn that there are other ways to resolve conflicts besides fighting." Brittanie answered (in true Tom form) "You need to learn to keep your opinions to yourself." She then gave the standard "Whatever" reply. Go Brittanie!
That's one thing you never do in front of Brittanie (or anyone in our household) is put down the military. We are a very patriotic family. My blood was boiling listening to her tell this story. Both of my dads (adoptive and biological) served in the Army; one in World War II and one in Vietnam. My wonderful godson, Jonathan, served 2 tours in Iraq and is stationed in Germany right now. They, as well as all members of our military, are brave heroes protecting our freedom. How dare people like this hippie call them murderers??? I will never understand people.
This morning we were on the way to Baptist to do my daily lymphedema wrap and Brittanie called me and told me that she had run out of gas in our driveway. She said "I don't understand. The last gas dot just went out as I pulled into the driveway yesterday and usually I can go 15 miles after the last dot disappears." HUH? I told her that she is NOT to let her car get that empty and that if this had happened on the road, she could have put herself in danger. 
To tell ya the truth, I'm being hypocritical because Tom and do this all the time and that's where she learned that from. When we lived in Gramercy, LA, our preacher rescued us all the time because he would always just happen to be passing by right after we ran out of gas and would give us a ride to the gas station. It was actually pretty funny. But I don't want her to start this bad habit too.
Check out my little redneck with her bare feet. She is just like me. I hate wearing shoes. I grew up barefoot all the time. Tom and Brittanie HATE being barefoot. But she was standing up by me and when she saw me grab my phone and hold it up, she knew I was taking a picture of Brittanie and she is such a ham that she had to jump in the picture. lol
Tonight we met with a National Guard recruiter because Brittanie is thinking of joining the National Guard in addition to doing the Army ROTC stuff in college. She would do basic training this summer (unless all the good jobs are filled then she would do basic the following summer so she can get a better job) and AIT the summer after basic. She would do the one weekend a month thing. But they can't deploy her for the first two years of college and when she gets to her junior year, she will sign her papers with the Army and from that point won't be deployed ever by the National Guard but will still do her one weekend a month stuff till she graduates. The advantage of this is money. She would get a $20,000 sign on bonus (1/2 paid after basic and AIT are complete and the other 1/2 3 years from the date you signed up). She would get a monthly stipend of around $200 and she would get the GI bill that would go directly to her and not the college. So basically the Army ROTC scholarship would cover her books and tuition and fees plus $350 a month in monthly stipend and the National Guard would give the tuition amount directly to her to be used for living expenses. Plus she will get the Life Scholarship that she can use on her living expenses as well.
The drawback is that if she decides to drop out of college, they can deploy her. If she decides not to sign up for the Army in her Junior year, she can either ask to be placed in Officer Candidate School or be deployed. So this is not a decision to make lightly.
While I will be extremely proud of her becoming a soldier in any shape or form, it still scares me to death and I wish she would just go to college and get a regular job. But it is her dream to be an officer. So I will support her in whatever she wants and just pray....ALOT!
The next step is to take the ASVAB. She took a practice one and scored a 76, which the recruiter said is really high and will probably yield ALOT of job choices. Then she has to pass MEPS. The recruiter told us that they have the toughest doctor on the planet doing MEPS in SC and she fails alot of people. So that made her nervous. But we will see how the ASVAB goes and take it from there.
I'll keep everyone updated.
Tom's little brother, Jesse, and his wife, Melissa, welcomed their first child, Leah Christine Sightler into the world this afternoon!! She was born at 6:30pm and weighed 7lb 12oz. We can't wait to see her!! Hopefully they will allow us to post her picture on our blog so we can show off our beautiful niece.
Congratulations Jesse and Melissa!!
Katie was just telling me that I needed to watch the new Spongebob because it is "hilarious and will make your buffers buff out of your head!"
I know alot of medical terminology and took 3 anatomy classes in college but I can't for the life of me remember where my buffers are in my head! LOL
Whether Tommy Bowden thinks he is gay or not....he's gay! (Not that there's anything wrong with that....Seinfeld quote! Sorry I couldn't resist.) I don't know any straight guy who would say what Bowden was quoted as saying.
Check this out:
On freshman Kyle Parker, who is having a really good season with the baseball team: “I’ve watched him practice and I’ve watched him play (baseball). He’s really good looking. If I was a girl, I’d be very interested in him. He wears those tight pants. When you wear loose stuff, you can’t tell the definition of a guy’s body. In baseball, everything’s tight and you can tell he’s very well put together.”
This just reinforces my belief that orange is a gay color! LOL
(Waiting for the rebuttal from my favorite Clemson loving heckler now. But let me say, if anyone doesn't find this gay, they must be gay themselves! lol)
We have finally resolved the problem with Mr. Johnson. I talked to Dr. Maddox Wednesday and he told me that he has to follow the state guidelines for withdrawing from a class, which is if she withdraws she will get an F. But he did say that he has administrative authority to remove her if she got a doctor's excuse saying that she is under undue stress from Mr. Johnson and it would be in her best interest healthwise to be removed. So that's what I did. Brittanie discussed this with her doctor on Valentine's Day, when she woke up throwing up blood from the stress she was under. He gave her Nexium and Levbid and offered to help her get out of that class then. She wanted to try to stick it out. Well she no longer wants to stick it out so we went yesterday and got a note on prescription paper requesting she be removed from the class and he will have a formal letter typed up and ready for me to pick up Monday. So she is turning in the handwritten one today and Tuesday she will turn in the formal one. So she never has to go back to that man's class ever again. I'm thrilled. Dr. Maddox told me that Mr. Johnson was told that it was not his job to play truant officer and hunt down kids who aren't in his class and that with all of this, Mr. Johnson is concerned about his evaluation. He should be. I hope it greatly impacts his review. He needs to learn to treat his students better. Brittanie has become the hero among choir students. She has been having students come to her and tell her that she is so cool for taking a stand against him. None of the rest of them have the guts to do it....or the mom to back them up. I feel bad for them but I think after what happened with Brittanie, he is going to be more careful in the future in the way he treats his students.
On to Katie now. We are big fans of Jeff Dunham and especially love his character Achmed the dead terrorist/suicide bomber. We all pick at each other at our house using Achmed's line "Silence! I kill you!" Well this morning Tom and I were talking and Katie told us "Silence! I kill yall!" She's a southern terrorist! LOL We laughed and then listened to what she wanted to tell us. It is pretty funny to listen to her talk. She talks like she is a Kindergarten teacher and we are her students....exact same inflections in her voice and everything. It is so cute!
I wanted to update on the latest incident involving Mr. Johnson and his lack of professionalism. Brittanie has been dating a guy named Cameron from Sumter who is in the choir at Crestwood High School. Mr. Johnson is friends with his choir teacher, Mrs. Horton. Yesterday, Mrs. Horton talked to Cameron after class and told him that she had spoken to Mr. Johnson and she doesn't want Brittanie's attitude to rub off on him and that Mr. Johnson told Mrs. Horton that Brittanie needs to learn to handle things in a more mature manner than she does. I am livid that this "man" is trashing my child's reputation. He is the epitome of immaturity and that is proven by the way he handles his students. At this point, I not only want Brittanie out of his class but I think he deserves a reprimand....best case scenario is for him to be fired! Brittanie has a good reputation and will be attending USC Sumter in the fall and now he is trying to trash her reputation not only in Swansea but in Sumter as well. I am dying to go down there and rip than "man" a new one but I'm going to let Dr. Maddox handle it because I know from speaking with this jerk on the phone that he will cop an atittude with me and I'll want to smack him. So instead of risking an assault charge, I will be the mature one and go through proper channels.
Funny how all of his students hate him but all of Brittanie's teachers, including the principal, really like her. She has had several ask her for a senior picture to remember her by. She also is a good daughter. She doesn't drink, smoke, do drugs, have sex, or even miss curfew. She is not a problem child and I resent him making her out to be one!
