Blaine actually made it to a half day of work yesterday before bagging it and coming home …. and when he got home, he “relaxed” around the house instead of sinking into the recliner in a Phenergan-induced coma, which is pretty much where he spent all of Monday and Tuesday, covered with a Dora the Explorer blanket and eating a BRAT diet when he woke up long enough to eat anything at all.

I’m fairly certain the stomach bug was simply that, and not a side effect of radiation.  Although he e-mailed me yesterday (warning:  graphic imagery ahead and I quote:)  “Feeling better, but not 100%.  The smell and taste of burning flesh was enough to make me semi sick to my stomach during radiation.  That would be great.  Puking in my mask, on my back and not being able to roll over…asphyxiating.  This is just great stuff to experience, huh?”

The outside of his face is pretty burned so I can only imagine how the inside must feel ….. but I say if the sarcasm is making a return, he’s feeling better.

Anyway, this isn’t going to turn into an All About Blaine Blog, I promise … just that so many of you have been kind enough to ask, and keep him in your thoughts and prayers, that I wanted to be sure and update so you would know that it does, indeed, despite initial reports to the contrary, appear as though he will survive this week. 

In the meantime, the kids and I are gearing up for their back-to-school, which starts next Friday.  We have been school supply shopping (fairly painless) shoe shopping (painless for two, and one who believes you can never have too many pairs of shoes) clothes shopping (two out of three believe a closet full of t-shirts and athletic shorts is fine, which certainly makes my life easier) and backpack/messenger bag shopping (one who was only satisfied with a bag we found online and thank goodness the “3 to 6 business days” shipping time wound up being only 3 days because if I had to hear “is it coming today? today?  TODAY???” one single more time I think I would have had to start personally accosting the mailman every day.)

I’ve got one at home with an inner and outer ear infection, which means no swimming for ten days unless said child can get the hang of ear plugs …… which is probably just as good because a week of temperatures well over 100 degrees is wreaking havoc with the bacteria levels in our pool and I’m not sure anyone wants to get in there until we shock it again and get the “green” out of it, because that is just nasty and frustrating to look at   ….. one who started karate this week and even though said child is not the youngest or the smallest in the class, the cuteness is killing me …. except for that stupid belt which I cannot get the hang of tying correctly so it lies properly flat in the back, with the perfect little knot in the front, I’m sorry, Master Le, I JUST DON’T GET IT, to save my life …… and although the high today is fore-casted at 103, I am taking the kids to the local amusement park to ride roller coasters and bumper cars and we’ll probably never leave the River Rapids if that helps keep us cool, but good grief, let’s all cross our fingers that nobody gets sick like last time ….. because really, that might be the final straw that drives me to drink, but HEY, I’m not pregnant anymore, so I can now!!

The end.  (which is what bloggers type when they really have no intelligent or coherent way of wrapping up their thoughts …..)