An assortment of nothing
Today is Pearlsky’s birthday and her class is having an outing to an organic farm. Don’t ask what that is, I have no clue. Anyway, I sing ‘Happy Birthday’ while getting her ready (why does she laugh hysterically when I try to sing?), put her in her chair, and … notice that one wheel is leaning against the side of the chair at the top, and wobbling. Why is it always something?
I call the great DME guy, Sandro, and leave a message on his cell. We do medicines, etc. and I put her on her play mat, and just as I start taking the chair apart, Sandro calls. We walk through the problem, I fix it and for good measure verify that the wheels on her old chair will work in a pinch, as long as I have the right tools, etc.
Now she is somewhere, doing something, in a chair that I am nervous about. Hey, what’s a birthday that goes too smoothly?
A couple of quickies.
- I don’t know about you, but I find the polls (on the left, and older ones here) to be very interesting. Please vote! Also, suggest new polls.
- There is lots of talk about the Ashley Treatment and Growth Attenuation. I am staying out of it (sort of) since Claire and Erika and others have it covered. But I did find this to be fascinating … check out a rebuttal to Ashley’s dad’s propaganda. The more of you that link to that rebuttal, the higher it will be on Google!
- Speaking of obscene female mutilation, there is a feel good (no pun intended) story in Newsweek about an awful topic. Some twists in it, very interesting. The Kindest Cut: In Colorado, a surgeon helps restore feeling—and so much more—to victims of female genital mutilation.
- Next post on finding Pearlsky’s diagnosis and maybe a lead on how to follow in our footsteps.
Finally, that dork Erica gave me some blog award. Generally I ignore these even though they are very nice. This one I will complete … if you care at all, hit the <more> tag (ed.note: changed to “continue reading …” for Claire) to see my honest one word answers (as she did) to 35 weirdo questions. My answers are nowhere near as good as those of The Disabled Kid’s Keeper.
1. Where is your cell phone? attached
2. Your hair? yep
3. Your mother? goddess
4. Your father? cool
5. Your favorite food? hotdogs
6. Your dream last night? explosive
7. Your favorite drink? very-dry-Southern-Comfort-manhattan-up-with-a-twist
8. Your dream/goal? crypt
9. What room are you in? bedroom
10. Your hobby? blogging!
11. Your fear? memes
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Nirvana
13. Where were you last night? unknown
14. Something that you aren’t? esoteric
15. Muffins? pass
16. Wish list item? cure
17. Where did you grow up? haven’t
18. Last thing you did? dumb-ass-meme
19. What are you wearing? smile
20. Your TV? off
21. Your pets? never
22. Friends? well-paid
23. Your life? Pearlsky
24. Your mood? moderated
25. Missing someone? often
26. Vehicle? life
27. Something you’re not wearing? stilleteos
28. Your favorite store? Amazon
29. Your favorite color? blue
30. When was the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? men don’t cry 😉
32. Your best friend? away
33. One place that I go to over and over? “why”
34. One person who emails me regularly? penis-enhancer-salesman – and I don’t get it, they ask me if I “want a larger penis” … what, if I say yes, they will send me one? They don’t ask if I want my penis larger. Very scary. Ooops, that’s more than one word, but size doesn’t matter, right?
35. Favorite place to eat? mom’s
35. Favorite place to eat? couch
Where the hell is the “more” tag? You keep talking about the “more” tag…that’s twice about the “more” tag and I can’t find it. Where? What? Do a poll about them, OK, and see if I am the only idiot to not know what that is.
Claire: What kind of geek are you?!!! Sorry, you see, inside the blog post, one can add a “tags,” signals for the ways things should be displayed. When one adds a “more tag,” the blog will display some hint as to where to click to see more of the post. The template I am using shows “(more …)” when I put in the “more tag” but I will fix that, just for you! (way too much info, no?).
I found it!! dammit! I just realized that the “more” button comes on if a person is on the “home” page and when the full post is not on the page. Man oh man…can you just smell the plastic burning? And I thought I was missing all sorts of dark and secret information. By the way, I did NOT steal the “enhancing” email bit on my meme from you OK? Just lucky enough to get those too, I guess.
I’m with Claire. Your blog is too sophisticated in the technological sense (not the enhanced sense). And I do love a poll. I’ve always loved to fill in those dots.
Happy Birthday to Pearlsky. : )
You seem to have a talent for the one word answers. I think I may have awaken one of my kids with the laughter from the stilleteos comment.
I see we have no “other” choice on this poll 😉
Happy Birthday Single “Sexy” Dad! You are the “Man of All Men”!