Ask me what I did today! Go ahead, ASK ME!
I took both kids to the doctor. BOTH OF THEM.
Henry has strep throat. I know! How is that possible? But he does!
This afternoon I took Charlie to get his cast off. FINALLY.
First there was the cutting. Charlie has been fascinated by the fact that the cast cutter cuts the CAST but not his SKIN. Because cool!
Hello arm! I have missed you. Also you are really dirty and disgusting. Welcome back!
Charlie immediately started peeling the skin off his arm while the rest of us made jokes about molting snakes. Gross.
While Charlie was getting ANOTHER Xray (I hope he’s serious about not wanting to have kids, because I’m sure he’s going to father mutants after all these Xrays) Henry entertained himself by spinning around on the rolling stool until he was dizzy. And so was I.
Okay that? Is just disgusting. His hand was the worst part, but I will spare you and YOU WILL THANK ME. Seriously.
When we came home, Charlie had a long soak in the tub; we worked at the peeling skin (Wade: I learned a new word today! Exfoliate. Me: Uh, yeah! Good for you, honey.) and then slathered the arm with fancy body lotion. TWENTY EIGHT DOLLAR A BOTTLE body lotion. Because apparently only the best will do for the snaky arm.
(I feel compelled to say that the Terralina lotion is the BOMB — it doesn’t have any alcohol in it, so it didn’t sting at all, and it really did make Charlie’s skin feel better.)
$65 later (not counting the day of camp that I paid for and Henry missed) we’re all on the road to being better. At least I hope so because I can’t take any more days like this.
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ohmigosh! his shedding arm?? YIKES!
By ali on 06.02.08 10:10 pm | Permalink
Let the summer begin!
By Jenn @ Juggling Life on 06.02.08 10:12 pm | Permalink
Yeah, but they can read to themselves. And they’re so cute!
By All Adither on 06.02.08 10:20 pm | Permalink
I think I just vomited in my mouth a bit.
By gorillabuns on 06.02.08 10:27 pm | Permalink
I should not have had a cocktail (or two)before looking at these photos.
By Angella on 06.02.08 11:27 pm | Permalink
That arm is nasty. I have never had or been near someone who had a cast and then had it removed. And now I hope I never have to.
By RubiaLala on 06.02.08 11:43 pm | Permalink
there is NOTHING nastier than post-cast arm yuck.
i take that back. there ARE nastier things, but i don’t want to think about them.
By the planet of janet on 06.03.08 12:16 am | Permalink
Yuck, we feel your pain!
By Colleen on 06.03.08 7:57 am | Permalink
Hi… your boys look so cute and healthy in these pictures. You should have had the tech take a picture of YOU so we could see the greenish pallor. I once had the post cast peeling skin and unshaved!! leg syndrome…talk about gross.
By Mary on 06.03.08 8:42 am | Permalink
Oy!
But dang, them’s some cute kids!
By heels on 06.03.08 10:35 am | Permalink
Oh, my LORD, does Henry look like you in that second-last shot! Which makes him WAAAAY prettier than that very last photo. Urgh.
By MaryP on 06.03.08 11:09 am | Permalink
Hooray for you and Charlie for no more cast!
Yes, cast leg is worse than cast arm, but cast anything is pretty nasty. I imagine that the boy in the cast makes the yuck factor higher, than say, a grown woman. We tend to avoid mud puddles, grass, water and the outdoors in general when we are in casts, which helps, a little.
I must tell you, you make cute kids.
By Stephanie on 06.03.08 11:32 am | Permalink
TWENTY EIGHT DOLLAR LOTION?! Geeze it better work so good that I only have to use it once a month! Congrats on having both of your kids be able to use both arms again!!
By Heather on 06.03.08 2:40 pm | Permalink
We de-cast on Friday. Yuck. You’ve earned a boring summer. Seriously.
By HeatherK on 06.03.08 3:11 pm | Permalink
Bubblewrap!
[eyes go wide]
Yep, definitely investing in tons of bubblewrap!
By Liz on 06.03.08 3:28 pm | Permalink
I can’t believe the cast is off finally! Dare i say I will miss it?
By Aimee Greeblemonkey on 06.03.08 5:40 pm | Permalink
It’s not only the growing boys that have fascination with “cast-arm”.
I broke my arm a couple of years ago and after being casted from Thanksgiving til the week after New Year’s… I had major cast-arm, and something that resembled the worst peeling suntan of your life, only just on one arm.
I was also the bad, bad person that couldn’t stand the itch, and stuck things like plastic forks and pencil ends in the top of my cast to just.make.it.stop.
Hooray for the removal of the cast. Sorry the kidlets are sick again.
By Kirsten on 06.04.08 2:09 am | Permalink
See now I think Henry looks like mini-Wade in that photo of him. And Charlie looks like you but that’s just me.
Love seeing your boys. Can’t believe how much they have grown!
By Susie on 06.04.08 8:51 pm | Permalink
so tell me, did you tell the doctor why you were taking so many photos? Were you all ‘get out of the way Doc I gotta get shots for my blog!’ or did you tell him you were a scrapbooker…
C’mon, own it.
By Kelley on 06.14.08 8:51 am | Permalink
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