Hey everyone.
Belle is up, feeling much better than last night. SHe had her second dose of the Tamiflu this morning. So far so good. Her fever is way down, and she actually just came skipping thru the room with her Hess trucks in hand. (Yes- she may be a pink loving girly girl, but she loves her cars and trucks, LOL).
As of right now- we are playing the trip by ear. We are getting everything packed up and planning on driving to NC's part of the state late tonight, stay the night, sleep in in the morning and do the rest of the drive tomorrow. That way, she isn't in the car for an extended period of time tomorrow and if by chance she wakes up tomorrow and has taken a turn for the worse, we'll come on home. The game isn't until 7:30 Saturday night, so if she is still with fever, one of us will stay in the hotel with her that night.
Her Dr is a University of Oklahoma alum, and he looks like Denzel Washington. He is so dang funny- makes faces like Jim Carey and is just a hoot. We love to go see him, b/c we can talk football with him. ANyway- we told him we were supposed to be leaving today and he started whistling and looking up at the ceiling and scrunching his face up. He said "I can't say 'GO GATORS', but she's gonna' be all right to go."
So now we wait it out.
Mark says she is a Game time decision. Our good friends texted Mark after he told them that and they came back with "ESPN has her listed as 'Probable'".
It made me giggle.
Shelly- I can't believe your DS would bust out with that. It's amazing what affects children.
NC-----
I seriously can relate. MCat decided that for her pre Ap Biology- she would half a** it. So she got a high 'B'. So I'm fussing at her and she says "You mean you want me to get an 'A'? You said if I got a B in that class, it would be like getting an A in a regular class."
She got set to rights realllllllllllllllllllllllllly fast on that one.
Did you by chance get that book I was talking to everyone about? That Dr would say that in order to teach Chris responsibility, there would be no more football.
Yikes. Drastic.
His logic is that since He didn't do the 'A' part (not taking the test after being told over and over again to take it-- which you're only supposed to tell them once, according to the dr-) so the 'B' (playing football or a sport, essentially- anything that is a reward) would be forfeited. ANd he'd take the hard hit of the B grade, without any interference from a parent.
And no matter how many times he says sorry or I won't do it again, you don't back down.
It's really a hard concept for me. I just want to bail them out over and over again, go to bat for them, but he says to teach them how to be responsible and know that what you say is what you mean, you have to be tough and not give in.
It's a work in progress for me- but I swear I have learned a ton form this one book.
Hope the conference and fall out from all of this is smoothed over very quickly.
Okay- off to finish up packing.
Mari-------------- hugs--- think each day as "This one thing (test, assignment, lab, etc) is getting me one step closer to my goal."
It is tough. I know exactly all you are going thru. once you get into the nitty gritty of the nursing courses- it won't get easier, but it will be more fun.
(well, sometimes...
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That is until you hit Pharmacology and you stand before your instructor before you dose your patient and have to say- without any notes-- what the drug is, the classification, the dosage amount, how it's metabolized in the body, what systems it can affect, what the side effects are and why the drug is being given to this patient--- for thirty or so meds......... ahhhhh. Honey, I feel your pain. I certainly do.
But you may do better than me in Pharm. No one told me how awful it would be. I hated it and trudged thru it. Sounds like you are doing very well right now though, so keep it up.
Now I leave. I'll try to check in when I can.
Ya'll have a great day and weekend.
Jo
Oh no JO! Poor Belle. How was the rest of the night? Are you going to have to cancel your trip? I sure hope she feels better soon. 
Maybe next year! 
Let me know if anyone needs anything, it can be shipped directly to you!
He usually doesn't start saying that this early. He was talking about it on the way to soccer last night!!
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I hurt every muscle in my body slamming on the brakes so hard. 
