Sad News

Today I had the boys in day care so that I could go get my eyes examined. Well to find out my eyes have gotten worse but not bad enough for glasses the doc said. My right is 20/50 and my left is 20/30 (used to be 20/40 and 20/10). Oh well, I guess I will save myself some money on glasses.

Anyway I got home about 20 minutes before I needed to pick up my boys so I was going to relax without my boys around for 10 minutes when all the sudden I hear a knock at my door. As I go to answer it there is a soldier standing there to inform me that my wife died by a mortar round during their training today. Then she proceeded in to take a shower since she was all stinky from the field. As I talked with her I learned that they first thought it was from a sniper but realized that was not realistic for a S1 to die from so they changed it to a paper cut then to a mortar round. Yes the soldier at my door and now taking a shower at my house was my wife. She was sent away from their current training for a few hours to see how the unit works without its top people.

Anyway to the sad news. right after she arrived I received a phone call from the day care center informing me that Andy has had a reaction on his arm and is having big blisters forming on it. I informed them that I would be right there which turned out to be a good thing. Backing up a few months, we had to spend 3 months getting all this stinking paper work done so that the boys could get back in the day care center and we had to get Epi Pens and doctor prescribed benadryl and now have to do monthly paper work just so they can stay a few hours here and there when I have a doctors appointment or teaching for AFTB.

Ok back to present day, because of all this ridiculous paper work the people there started to go crazy and had given him the benadryl and it was not immediately working. Luckily I was just a mile away so I came up there. When I got up there one of the people said that they were thinking about using the Epi Pen if I was not going to make it soon!!!!!!!!!!! First with that you got to bring them to the hospital not to fix the problem but to counter the Epi Pen side effects. When I got up there and looked at it I just smiled and asked if they tried washing his arm with soap and water, which they had not. So I brought him in there and explained a basic skin rash and how washing the area effected with soap and water fixes the problem. Once done a minute later the "big white blisters" as they put it were gone and he just had a red area were they were at. With an allergy skin rash you just wash the skin with soap and water to remove the irritation.

Andy was just fine with it but the people were then going crazy trying to figure out what caused it. Most likely a child did not wash their hands when they got there and had drank some milk or eaten peanut butter and then touch a toy before Andy did.

After all this the sad news is that in the midst of this and now my blog writing I missed lunch!