The Past Couple of Days

The past few days have been somewhat difficult for us.  First, on Wednesday evening I started to have some pains in my abdomen and back.  I have had kidney stones before, but this was more painful than anything I have every experienced, and finally I had Marsha take me to the hospital.  Of course this had to happen when our hospital coverage is much lower than it has ever been (my new insurance is quite bad), but the pain was so intense that I had no choice.

Soon after we got there they took me in and after about a half hour they hooked me up to an IV and gave me some form of morphine.  After a few minutes the pain had finally gone away.  We were there for a few hours more and after some vomiting and an anti-nausea shot, I was on my way home.  Since then, I have been drinking a lot of water which seems to help me with the pain (I think keeping the system hydrated makes the stone move faster).

Then, yesterday, after two great days, Avi had an incident at camp and they asked us to take him home.  We do not know if we should be angry or not.  Perhaps we set him up in a situation where he was bound to fail.  I don’t know.  His therapist seemed happy that we were trying this, but it just did not work out.  Now for the next two weeks, Marsha is going to have to deal with Avi each day which certainly does not make her life easy.

Sometimes, though, some good can come from bad things.  Marsha and Avi were at Target today and United Way was sponsoring a school supply drive in the parking lot with free crafts for kids.  A local radio station was there (WMGQ) and they had this bean bag toss game and Avi got three bean bags in the hole to win us two tickets to see Sister Act on Broadway in Sept!  Avi Got Pokemon cards and a Dunkin Donut, and we get to have a night in the city.  Way to go Avi!

In three weeks we are going on vacation to Vermont for a week so Marsha will have it a little easier since we will all be together.  Then there will be a week home for all of the kids and then (finally!) back to school.

In honor of Avi winning us the tickets, here is a clip from the Tony Awards of Sister Act.

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Enjoy!