What Next?

I have had an extremely eventful week. It started on Saturday afternoon when my Internet went down for no apparent reason. I called my Internet provider and they told me that they would have to send a service technician to fix the problem, but there wouldn't be any available until Friday, March 5th (today) to work on it.

Then on Sunday morning my 5 year old son (Alex) woke up with a sore throat, so my wife and I took him to Freeman Urgent Care. After being there for almost 4 hours, we found out that he not only had strep throat, he also had a seasonal flu. Not to big of deal, he just had to take an antibiotic for the next 10 days and stay home from school on Monday.

But this lead into the next complication of the week. My son also had a doctor's appointment on Tuesday at Children's Mercy Hospital (Kansas City) to see a rheumatology (doctor dealing with rheumatoid arthritis) specialist. This appointment was scheduled almost 6 months ago by our family doctor who thought Alex might have juvenile arthritis. We could not reschedule the appointment without having another long wait. The reason this might have been a problem is because the specialist might have had to draw blood labs which the antibiotic could mess up. Fortunately, the specialist found that Alex does not have juvenile arthritis without having to draw labs. It turns out that Alex's problem is that he is more flexible than most people. The extra flexibility in his ankles and arches of his feet are causing extra stress on his knees. This means that all he needs is shoes with good arch supports and for us to stretch the muscles in his legs 3 to 4 times a week. This was a great relief to us because Alex has had trouble with his knees since he was about 2 years old.

But that still isn't all. My mother was giving an irregular heart beat on Monday. So on Tuesday, while my wife, son, and I were at Children's Mercy, my mother was admitted at St. Johns in Joplin. Her situation also turned out better than expected. After arthroscopic surgery, the doctor told her that everything seemed in order. Her heart was healthy and she had little to no buildup in her arteries. Her doctor attributed her problem to an herbal energy supplement (which happens to be on topic with my English paper I finished earlier this week) she had been taking. So, without finding any major complications, my mother was released from the hospital Wednesday afternoon.

So now that my Internet is fixed, everything seems to be back to normal, thus ending one of the most eventful weeks of my life, but still not the most eventful. That is whole completely different story.