Author: Doris

Edda is pretty much back to her regular self.  A little bit hesitant on the eating, but lots of progress on the smiling.

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As she’s leaving next week for another host family, Keyla is saying good-bye to Edda’s teachers and  to Deb, Edda’s OT, today.  We held a tea party and just chatted and had fun during Edda’s last Friday session.

Keyla teaches us all about photo filters.

We had Georgetown Cupcakes to celebrate – milk chocolate birthday, key lime, cherry cheesecake and coconut.  Jeremy accidentally sat on the cupcake box at the Bethesda Metro station on our way home from the movie last night, so we were afraid some of them were squished, but only the coconut one was every so slightly mooshed.

This is a crazy make-up app.  It automatically puts makeup on your face.  Voila!

Saw this movie tonight!  I’ve never heard my name said so many times by strangers.

Good night!  See you on the other side.

Edda went back to school today, but we managed to bust out of there early.  I want to say it was because it we had an adventure planned for this glorious, gorgeous day – but really it was to see the oral surgeon again for a follow up.

Everything looks OK, though the “flaps” are still a bit swollen.  We are cleared for oral hygiene care and encouraged to toothbrush.

Girl still doesn’t really want to eat though.  She didn’t eat much at school.  She’s reluctant to open her mouth, so I spent some time shoving bits of egg in her mouth.   She’d eat it once it was in there, but it’s a bear getting it past her lips and teeth.

Kiki left this morning after a week of peaceful demonstrations and being peacefully arrested and peacefully released and peacefully paying fines.  She’s headed home to the NY primary.

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Vince is trying to teach me how to use Snapchat.  I’m all signed up and can chat with any teenager.

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Rockville cited me for having grass that was too tall.

Looks OK to me.

Sunday night dinner was a little sparsely attended (some last minute cancellations), though it is nice when the non-standard combination of people show up – the conversation changes when different people are at the table.  Jeremy, lucky for him, made only one gigantic lasagna and not his usual two, so there was only an inordinate amount of leftover lasagna and not an obscene amount of leftover lasagna.

We got a few chipmunk smiles from Edda this weekend, (pls disregard the slightly blood drool).

Though she stayed home today and will stay home tomorrow.  Yes, she’s wearing her Totoro outfit.  Vince is suppose to be doing his math homework.

No pictures!

I went out to see the usual suspects.  We booked two reservations because we were rotating attendees because of conflicting schedules – one table at 5pm for three, and another table at 6:45 for three.  They had tables for three, but not for four?!  I dunno.  We did not get seated at a triangular table.  We had a great time, but our waiter was the weirdest server ever.  He was trying to tell us that we couldn’t order coffee because no one else in the restaurant was ordering coffee.  Huh?  No one drinks coffee after dinner?

Soojung is the headliner in the following photos and we are her backup singers.

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I came home to find Jeremy and Edda in the closet.  Jeremy thought we should wean her off the narcotic and onto Motrin to get her to be awake enough to eat.  She slept though the night on the lighter pain management protocol and ate yogurt this morning.

Jeremy moved a TV into the closet.  We should just turn it into another living room.

We showed up bright and early on Friday morning 5:45 at Shady Grove Hospital.  I didn’t know they had a whole pediatric wing for day surgeries.  So we (and a bunch of other families) were ushered into the pre-op area.   Edda got settled into a pediatric bed which she is almost too big for.

Jeremy suited up to go into the OR with her.  It reminded him of the days he suited up to go into clean rooms when he made computer chips.  Edda was already woozy from the benzo she got about 30 min before she was wheeled into the operating room.

Everything went smoothly – first the oral surgeon took out all her wisdom teeth and an extra tooth growing through the roof of her mouth – he updated us at the hour mark.  Then our dentist took over and did – as she said – the best cleaning ever and sealed everything she could seal.  Hopefully all this will help us prevent dental problems in the future.  Our dentist was a little concerned that the extractions would hinder her ability to do the cleaning/sealants well, but she said that the extractions were done cleaning and weren’t bleeding very much.

Edda waking up….  she wasn’t happy.

Now we are home, resting.  All chipmunk swollen.

I just spent the last 90 minutes slowly syringing about 8 oz of milk into her.  She hasn’t eaten properly since Thursday night and we’ve been having a tough time getting her to eat anything.  We have applesauce, yogurt, ice cream, etc…  I want to keep her hydrated and with some nutrition to keep on going and healing.  Hopefully today is the most swollen day.

OK, now the taxes are really done.  Big, fat check in the mail to the US govt.  Now I can move on.

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I’m afraid Vince might be the kind of person who likes to study in study groups.  So not my style, but I can work with it.  Why study in a group?  You are either totally ahead or hopelessly behind and you need to book a study room at the library and then the whole thing devolves into eating potato chips and talking about the latest Bachelor episode.  And none of them start until 8pm when I’m already thinking about going to bed.

Sam came over to study math (throwing a football quadratically, throwing a basketball linearly and then seeing where they hit each other in the space-time continuum), social studies (memorizing 50 states).  I have to say the whole thing went smoother with a friend.  They both gave up their phones to me to study.  Interesting.  Some overt competition and one-upsmanship going on there.

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I picked up the Lortab for Edda’s oral surgery tomorrow, while I was waiting, I found out you can get your very own paternity test at CVS.  The Lortab was less than $2.  That was interesting too.

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I was trying to be helpful at dinner tonight, but instead of being helpful, I was the opposite of helpful when I flung the rice cooker full of hot rice halfway across the living room.  Whoops.  I dented the metal rice bowl.  No good.

Took Edda this morning to the pediatrician.  We talked a lot about her low platelets – she runs low, I run low, my mom runs low.  It’s just how we are.  But because we run low and are about to head into oral surgery, they wanted to draw blood again for platelet levels.  Low platelets means that one could be at risk for extra bleeding.  So I said if I’m going to go to the trouble to drive over to the lab, just throw that pregnancy test in there for me, OK?  So we did.

The platelets are as high as I’ve ever seen for Edda – 110.  (Normal range 150-450).  And I guess she isn’t pregnant.

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This evening we went to eat dinner at the retirement place that Bob and Katherine have a deposit on.  They had given a free meal coupon to Katherine, so we tried out their food.

Jeremy wore Donald’s hand-me-down Cole Haan blue loafers.

Keyla’s 24 birthday was today.  We celebrated with cinnamon buns from the can – you know, the kind that you pop when you unwrap them?  Mmmmm….

We also went to Magianno’s tonight at Friendship Heights to celebrate with a classic Italian meal.  We had the nicest server and the food was perfect.  We ended the night with a groupie.

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Edda is sleeping so well in our closet.  Until at least 5:30 am two nights in a row.  I have no problem believing that the closet is the solution to all our sleeping issues.   What is that?  Correlation = causation fallacy?

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Get this – the hospital wants us to get a pregnancy test for Edda – either pee or blood they said.   Hmmm.  Really?  Gee, thanks for giving us a choice.  Of all the hoops!  I could do the pee test at home – I’d need a pee hat for the toilet and a CVS dip stick – but would my selfie with Edda and the negative pee stick be good enough medical proof that Edda isn’t pregnant?  Or am I going to find myself tomorrow at the blood lab waiting in line to get a tube drawn which might take days and then we’d throw off the surgery schedule? Who does blood pregnancy tests these days?  Anyone?  Anyone?  Maybe just Edda.