June 2, 2008
doctor, doctor!
Ask me what I did today! Go ahead, ASK ME!
I took both kids to the doctor. BOTH OF THEM.
Henry has strep throat. I know! How is that possible? But he does!
This afternoon I took Charlie to get his cast off. FINALLY.
First there was the cutting. Charlie has been fascinated by the fact that the cast cutter cuts the CAST but not his SKIN. Because cool!
Hello arm! I have missed you. Also you are really dirty and disgusting. Welcome back!
Charlie immediately started peeling the skin off his arm while the rest of us made jokes about molting snakes. Gross.
While Charlie was getting ANOTHER Xray (I hope he’s serious about not wanting to have kids, because I’m sure he’s going to father mutants after all these Xrays) Henry entertained himself by spinning around on the rolling stool until he was dizzy. And so was I.
Okay that? Is just disgusting. His hand was the worst part, but I will spare you and YOU WILL THANK ME. Seriously.
When we came home, Charlie had a long soak in the tub; we worked at the peeling skin (Wade: I learned a new word today! Exfoliate. Me: Uh, yeah! Good for you, honey.) and then slathered the arm with fancy body lotion. TWENTY EIGHT DOLLAR A BOTTLE body lotion. Because apparently only the best will do for the snaky arm.
(I feel compelled to say that the Terralina lotion is the BOMB — it doesn’t have any alcohol in it, so it didn’t sting at all, and it really did make Charlie’s skin feel better.)
$65 later (not counting the day of camp that I paid for and Henry missed) we’re all on the road to being better. At least I hope so because I can’t take any more days like this.
Posted by Susan @ 9:19 pm • those damn kids
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June 2nd, 2008 at 10:10 pm, ali Says:
ohmigosh! his shedding arm?? YIKES!
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:12 pm, Jenn @ Juggling Life Says:
Let the summer begin!
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 pm, All Adither Says:
Yeah, but they can read to themselves. And they’re so cute!
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:27 pm, gorillabuns Says:
I think I just vomited in my mouth a bit.
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:27 pm, Angella Says:
I should not have had a cocktail (or two)before looking at these photos.
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:43 pm, RubiaLala Says:
That arm is nasty. I have never had or been near someone who had a cast and then had it removed. And now I hope I never have to.
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:16 am, the planet of janet Says:
there is NOTHING nastier than post-cast arm yuck.
i take that back. there ARE nastier things, but i don’t want to think about them.
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:57 am, Colleen Says:
Yuck, we feel your pain!
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:42 am, Mary Says:
Hi… your boys look so cute and healthy in these pictures. You should have had the tech take a picture of YOU so we could see the greenish pallor. I once had the post cast peeling skin and unshaved!! leg syndrome…talk about gross.
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:35 am, heels Says:
Oy!
But dang, them’s some cute kids!
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:09 am, MaryP Says:
Oh, my LORD, does Henry look like you in that second-last shot! Which makes him WAAAAY prettier than that very last photo. Urgh.
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:32 am, Stephanie Says:
Hooray for you and Charlie for no more cast!
Yes, cast leg is worse than cast arm, but cast anything is pretty nasty. I imagine that the boy in the cast makes the yuck factor higher, than say, a grown woman. We tend to avoid mud puddles, grass, water and the outdoors in general when we are in casts, which helps, a little.
I must tell you, you make cute kids.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:40 pm, Heather Says:
TWENTY EIGHT DOLLAR LOTION?! Geeze it better work so good that I only have to use it once a month! Congrats on having both of your kids be able to use both arms again!!
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:11 pm, HeatherK Says:
We de-cast on Friday. Yuck. You’ve earned a boring summer. Seriously.
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:28 pm, Liz Says:
Bubblewrap!
[eyes go wide]
Yep, definitely investing in tons of bubblewrap!
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 pm, Aimee Greeblemonkey Says:
I can’t believe the cast is off finally! Dare i say I will miss it?
June 4th, 2008 at 2:09 am, Kirsten Says:
It’s not only the growing boys that have fascination with “cast-arm”.
I broke my arm a couple of years ago and after being casted from Thanksgiving til the week after New Year’s… I had major cast-arm, and something that resembled the worst peeling suntan of your life, only just on one arm.
I was also the bad, bad person that couldn’t stand the itch, and stuck things like plastic forks and pencil ends in the top of my cast to just.make.it.stop.
Hooray for the removal of the cast. Sorry the kidlets are sick again.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:51 pm, Susie Says:
See now I think Henry looks like mini-Wade in that photo of him. And Charlie looks like you but that’s just me.
Love seeing your boys. Can’t believe how much they have grown!
June 14th, 2008 at 8:51 am, Kelley Says:
so tell me, did you tell the doctor why you were taking so many photos? Were you all ‘get out of the way Doc I gotta get shots for my blog!’ or did you tell him you were a scrapbooker…
C’mon, own it.