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My mom is finished with her tests but they didn't tell her anything. In fact, they didn't even tell her when she will have the results!She "forgot" to ask how long it will be before she will hear something. That would have been my FIRST question! She said she needed to call the oncologist "anyway", but she didn't tell me WHY she needed to call him.
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Unfortunately, none of the bone scans or other tests come back quickly. It's so frustrating, because I always felt like since it was MY mom, those health professionals should have been fitting her in immediately, reading the tests immediately, and calling us immediately. I did figure out that they do move things along the more sick someone is. So, I guess what I'm saying is I think it's still a good sign that they don't consider her health to be so bad that she's an emergency case. That being said, I don't blame you for not wanting to wait. Here's a
. I'm sending PD to her, her doctors and to you. I hope she makes the appt. she needs.I just spent the evening at our school PTA meeting. Apparently, the county budget is up for approval and if it isn't approved as it is projected then our school will lose 5 teachers. All schools are slated to lose teachers, our feeder HS will lose 15% of it's teaching staff. Our school superintendent sent over his projected budget- it includes $9 million to convert all of our football fields from grass to Astroturf. Brilliant, let's let the kids lose the wonderful teachers but give the football teams fake grass.
Our school is tiny, total enrollment is about 250 students, and old. If they cut 5 teachers, 4 of those are classroom then the classes will become overcrowded to the point that safety is a big issue. Right now we have 2 4th grade classes, 22 kids in each. One of the teachers up for "excess" is 4th grade. That means 44 kids in one class. And once you start upping the kids to teacher ration test scores drop. I see a lot of phone calls and emails in my future.
How frustrating! It is amazing to me how much schools will sink in to their athletic departments but cut the budgets for their classrooms.
I hope Hunter is better and that Nick isn't sick. It sounds like you are still making progress -- sorry for the set-backs. I hope the eval today goes well.
Today I had a long day at work. I was at the elementary school in the morning and afternoon and then to the office and then at a different elementary school at night.
So both of my assignments which are due by midnight are done. I almost thought they were not going to be, as while I was working on two separate files somebody accidentally hit a ground fault switch on one of the outlets, turning off the computer and losing parts of both files.Then the computer would not turn back on again at all. It finally decided to go back on and work.
So i quickly retyped enough for both and submitted. I am hoping that I receive a total of at least 86 points between the two assignments then I have an A in the class and can be done with the class.
Night all
Sending PD for your assignments.
We are supposed to have storms today again. We had them several times yesterday, but not enough rain to stop sports last night. I'm hoping we don't get enough rain to rain out the games on Thursday, but it's not looking good.
Jake's soccer game went well -- they won, and he scored two goals. One was really cool -- he was a ways away and kicked it on a diagnol line in to the side of the goal. He was pumped! We got in around 8, started doing wash (all the sports uniforms from this week/weekend) and finishing homework. More bad storms did come throught last night, but we escaped damage.
Andrew only had Kaleo tonight, but his rec baseball coach called batting practice -- we'll see if they call it off. I also need to get him to the library for a school assignment (they have to explore the library and have their forms signed/filled out by the local library).
I have to run to the school for "gallery" day for Andrew this morning. He's been on a six week rotation in art.
Have a good day everyone.
Now I'm allowing myself an hour to DIS, catch up on missed shows. Then I will have to get us ready to head to Colby's appointment. My mother and I both feel that Colby is becoming more difficult to understand. I think that he is talking a lot more and his vocabulary is growing, but he is so difficult to understand. The best case scenario would get him started with speech therapy within the next month and have it continue over the summer. That would give him some good skills BEFORE the start of school next year. Any pixie dust would be appreciated.
I hope Cassidy learned her lesson (at least partially) and can win back your trust, Theresa. That, to me, is the saddest outcome of these kinds of behavior. 
I am horrible with boundaries and I need to stop trying to force my mother to do things because she will just be more determined to resist. I have the knowledge, I just can't seem to figure out how to apply the practices to this particular situation. I will see how things go over the next several days. 
