My Cross To Bear

    This weekend has been great and I got to have a lot of laughs with my parents who came to town this weekend. My mother and step-father accompanied me to my doctor’s appointment this Friday. Actually I did not have much of a choice, my wife wanted to make sure they drove me to the doctor’s office so I would not be driving. Oh, and by the way she is still p!ssed at me. Anyway, I sat and waited in the doctor’s waiting room looking around at the dark brown fabric walls of the poorly lit waiting room while listening to some pretty good jazz and guessing what injuries other people were there to get checked on. After about 5 minutes I was called to the back office, and I got up, eventually, and made my way to the back. As I was close to bending the corner and removing myself from the sight of anyone in the waiting room, I could hear my mother’s voice over the office chatter and the jazz music saying, “Do you want me to go with you like last time baby?” I turned around to see her and my step-father having the laugh of their life time at my expense. Usually I would have a nice snappy come back but I must admit, it was pretty funny and she got me good.

    Well I made it to the back and the doctor’s nurse came in and removed my ace bandage and removed the sterile wrap from my leg so that the doc can get a good look at what was going on with my leg. I cringed a bit as she slipped the scissors under the material and started cutting, but my leg really started having phantom pains after I actually saw what was hiding under the wraps all this time. I was under the impression that I had probably had a couple stitches under there that were nice and symmetrical looking, and maybe slightly bloodied. But to my surprise, my leg looked like one of the pieces of paper I would let my daughter practice her stapling skills on whenever she comes to my job. I had 18 staples in my leg, I was amazed. I took about 5 pictures and of course it was kind of hard to get a good angle with the lighting and all, but I did get a couple good shots. The doc later came in and felt around a bit and he did confirm that I did not rerupture my tendon after my little incident at work. WHEW!!!

    I also got to get a good look at my leg as well and D@mn my leg got smaller. That atrophy stuff does not take very long at all. I have another appointment next week to get my bio-staples removed and hopefully the doc’s staple remover looks nothing like the one I have in my desk at the office, if so, these staples will be with me until my dying day. I have got to watch a good 5 movies and 2 seasons worth of Law and Order with my pops so I have a few stories to share later on in the week. I will try to get some more stuff on here during the week. Right now I need to go find out where my parents are because it is dark and the both went for a walk like an hour ago and it’s gotten dark and they are probably lost! lol    Till later…..