YESTERDAY at OUR HOUSE

Saturday, May 28, 2011
            Yesterday afternoon some of the kids were over for dinner. Niki and Alexa and Gavin and Sierra went swimming. I got my swim suit on but Corey called. He said that Stacey was running late getting off work and would I get Jayden and Bailey after school.
            When Stacey got home she changed clothes and the four of us came over in my van. That way they wouldn’t have two cars here. Corey came straight from his office.
            Jim of course was here.
            Corey and I (mostly Corey) grilled steaks and chicken while Judy and Jim and whoever prepared everything else.
            Greg showed up in time to eat.
            For a while, Bailey, Alexa, Gavin and I danced to my oldies played through my I-pod player. I taught Alexa how to use the remote to fast forward and return to previously played tunes, so we were in a constant turmoil of back and forth. Gavin wanted to use the remote but Alexa wouldn’t relinquish it and Gavie was constantly trying to get me to get it for him. I felt caught between a rock and a hard place. After the girls were tired of dancing, Gavin got his turn and was appeased.
            Sierra kept trying to get hold of her boyfriend Mark. He never responded. Finally, shortly before leaving our house Sierra learned that Mark had been in the emergency room with a migraine. It sounds like a double wammy to me. Sierra getting regular migraines and now Mark; if they get married their kids will get the tendency from both sides.
            We have enough migraines in our family; my mother, me, Chris and Niki, now Sierra and Molly. Yikes!
            Chris is/was in Brazil.

OH, MY ACHING BACK

Saturday, May 28, 2011
            I have been walking with a little running mixed in it since Tuesday omitting yesterday. This morning I no sooner walked out the door than my lower back tightened up and got sore. Soon one calf then the other got sore. So, I just walked for thirty-seven minutes not too fast and with no running involved.
            I came home and took a muscle relaxant and half a pain pill but they leave me tired/groggy.

JAYDEN'S BROKEN ARM

Thursday, May 26, 2011
                Last night, one hour into the first day of football practice, Jayden was running backwards, tripped, tried to catch himself with his hand and broke his arm; pretty much like Bailey did in basketball.
                This is after Grandpa Wayne paid $190.00 for his fees and I bought him new football shoes. Only $30.00 on my part.
                The last I heard he had left the InstaCare and was on the way to the emergency room at the American Fork Hospital because they were going to have to put him “out” to set the bone.
                I asked him over the phone if he was going to get a pink cast. He said no.
                We first found out about it as we were getting ready to leave for dinner at Olive Garden. Jayden himself told me. He sounded like he was bragging about it.
                Stacey e-mailed us from her phone saying:
Two kids, two broken arms. Please don't call social services.‏ it’s good she can laugh about these things. And it has taught the kids not to take stuff like this too seriously though they can be drama queens about some things.
I just talked to Corey on the phone. He said they gave Jayden an IV and morphine then put him “out” while they set the bone.
               They warned them that even though he is “under”, he will still kick around from the pain. Corey said that he was yelling out “ow, ow”. They weren’t expecting the vocal part. He was under for about five minutes and can’t remember any part of it; thankfully I guess.

                At least he will have something to show off at school the last few days.

Stacey sent me the following, ala my request:

Ok I sent some pics if you want.
The story goes like this, Jayden’s love for sports started pretty much the day he was born, and the need to be competitive started the day his sister Bailey was born. They have to best each other at everything including injuries; Bailey broke her arm a few months ago. Since that happened Jayden has been joking around saying "now I need to brake my arm" of course we laugh at his jokes and tell him "be careful what you wish for, it just might come true" Jayden has been talking about football for the whole year he couldn’t wait for it, nether could Corey, then finally it arrived, football camp, he put his new cleats on and ran out the door, was so excited to get there and see his coach and team mates. He eagerly ran out, said hi to everyone and grabbed a football. An hour of what they call fun past then they threw the ball to Jayden, Jayden ran backwards to catch it (they call it back pedaling) next thing he knew he was down. He only teared up for a second. Corey then called me. I called him a liar cause we had just gone through this with Bailey. Corey told me to meet him at the InstaCare. From there they called Baileys Dr. Baileys Dr told us to take him to the ER in American Fork, there we waited for the Dr to show up, when he did he told me the mesa they have to use could stop his breathing, I of course went in to Mom mode and started to cry and panic only a little bit, we ask the nurse if we could have a minute alone with Jayden so Corey could give him a fathers blessing. She of course said yes, this made me feel a little bit better. Then the nurse came in and told me that she does this 2 or 3 times a shift and never once has anything gone wrong. So the time came; they put him out and fixed the arm. Now they told me he wouldn't feel anything but his body would suggest otherwise. He started to kick the walls and moan in pain while they fixed it. They had to hold his legs down. It was not easy to watch.

Then it was over, and they sent us home. The coach called Jayden and told him he could still be part of the team doing what he could and helping out, this of course made Jayden very happy but still a little sad since we are not sure if he will be able to play in any games. All we can do is wait and see.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to YOU!

Monday, May 23, 2011

                I don’t know if you read my first entry Sunday  but I had a panic/anxiety attack in choir practice just before church and came home took a panic pill and went to bed. Well this morning I had another one though not as sever. I took the pill at the onset and lay down.
                Every time I got up feeling, as I thought, a little better, the effects of the pill would hit me and I would lie back down in short order.
                Finally Judy called and reminded me it was time for Gavin’s birthday party at Bouncing Off The Walls in Sandy (or however it is worded.) It was time to get up anyway so off I went, present in toe.
                When I walked in the door, someone yelled out, “Grandpa.”
                It wasn’t one of my grandchildren.
                It was the little boy that was playing with Gavin when I visited their house not too long ago. He was still wearing a cape and still going by the name of Superman. I can’t remember his real name…Matt?
                He and Gavin were all over me for five minutes or so. Superman even had me put his cape back on him instead of letting his father do it.
                Alexa was busy with her friends.
                I can’t believe how big she is and barely five.
                It was a party for both Alexa and Gavin with all their neighbor friends and younger cousins. First Alexa opened her gifts then it was Gavie’s turn.

                Niki was wearing an orange (I think) maternity top and looking a lot better than the last time I saw her in the hospital with a migraine and them not being able to do much about it because of the baby in her tummy!

ISABEL AND JAYDEN and cookies

  Sunday, May 22, 2011
                  Friday Corey called their house phone. Bailey I guess, picked it up. Corey asked to speak with me (first). He told me that he was going to ground Jayden for a month and went on to tell the following story; the best I remember it.
                  Jayden has a classmate both in school and in church that he can’t stand. Her name is Isabel. (sp) She, according to Jayden, drives him nuts. He hates/hated her. (After this I hope he is seeing her through different eyes.)
                  It got to whenever she would get near him in school, he would call out something about "Isabelitis."
                  Some of the other boys caught on and started saying the same thing and one boy, I forgot his name, started saying, “Isabel kisses girls on the mouth.”
                  I think there were other things said too.
                  Anyway, Corey wanted me to be aware of what was going on and be prepared when Jayden went nuts about the grounding.

Corey had gotten a call from Stacey.

                  I put Jayden on the line and Corey started talking. Jayden took it better than I was afraid he would but he was not happy when Corey accused him of doing all the things. At the time it was believed it was just Jayden…but it was him who got the ball rolling.
                  Stacey who heard about it first wanted him grounded from football for the summer.
  Following is the e-mail Stacey sent at my request telling the story as she saw it.
  "Ok, so the story goes like this, Jayden and Isabel do not like each other they never have. They just don't get along, so me and Isabel' s mom have been telling them both for three years now to just stay away from each other, well I guess they couldn't take it any more Jayden started a thing called Isabel-itis whenever Isabel would come near Jayden or touch something Jayden would yell "Isabelitis" out to the class. I guess she couldn't take it anymore she has been going home in tears. Her mother finally called and told me what was going on, needless to say I was so mad I wanted to ground him for a month luckily I was at work and had time to cool off, by the time I had gotten home Corey had made a plan. He made Jayden make Isabel cookies and was getting him ready to go over and say sorry to her and her parents. So we went over to do the deed and it was not easy for Jayden to do this, but it needed to be done. After it was done I turned to Isabel told her I loved her gave her a hug and told her that when boys come into this world they're not completely put together and that I was still working on him. She laughed hugged me back and we left. Hopefully we won't have any more issues. But we probably will. (Hopefully that’s what you’re looking for Fred) you can put this on your blog if you want."
   Stacey had said earlier that Isabel’s mother wasn’t there when they took the cookies to their house and that Jayden was going to apologize to “her” in church today.
  Stacey also said that both Isabel and Jayden were red-faced and looking at the ground but that after Jayden apologized, Isabel said, “Thank you Jayden for apologizing.”

WEIRD COUPLE of DAYS

Sunday, May 22, 2011

I had a panic/anxiety attack in choir practice just before church today. Thankfully I had been diagnosed with it recently and have medication for it. I walked home…slowly…took my medication and went to bed. It is supposedly, supposed to put me to sleep for hours.
I was able to sleep a couple of hours after a bit but not like I thought it was supposed to.

I have another story to tell.
Friday, I think it was, I was sitting quietly when I thought I realized/saw/felt that there were three of me or parts of my mind, one is on my right frontal lobe, one is the left frontal lobe and a smaller one in the middle above the other two. That one seemed inferior but at the moment "in charge." But, I had the feeling that it was in charge with the permission of the other two.
I started thinking that the right frontal lobe part of me was perhaps the introverted inferiority part of "me."
The left frontal lobe part of me is the opposite, the extroverted "me."
The smaller one is/was a balance between the two.
Today after coming home from church and lying in bed after my "attack", I thought/felt that the right introverted part was forefront and in charge. I started thinking also "You know what, that is the part that is dominant when I am having a migraine too."

NIKI

Friday, 20 May, 2011
Wednesday afternoon, Judy called and asked me where I was. I told her I was just pulling into home. She said "Go to Niki's" and went on to explain that Niki is having a bad migraine and needed my help.
When I was part way there Niki called me. She was bawling, the pain and upset stomach was so bad. She said she wanted me to take her to the InstaCare that is attached to the Riverton Hospital.
When I walked into her house she was throwing up in the toilet.
She got in my van and off we went; not fast enough for her I'm sure.
Because she is eight weeks along, there wasn't a whole they could do. They gave her an IV and injected it with something to stop the nausea. They put on oxygen, they said it should help her relax. They said that after the nausea medicine was working they would give her some Tylenol.
The IV made her cold. They were out of blankets so they covered her with two sheets. That wasn't good enough so they put on two more. Finally they got two heated sheets, placed them next to her body and Greg and I put the other four on top of them.
Greg was voice in giving her a blessing and she stopped shaking immediately.
When we were driving to the hospital, she was bawling and thrashing her arms about.
Greg called me before he arrived to check up on her. Alexa was in the background yelling, "Grandpa, it's my birthday, Grandpa, it's my birthday, Grandpa, it's my birthday."
She didn't understand the severity of the situation.
Lynn, Greg's mother met him at the hospital and took the kids home with her.
After Niki was calm and relaxed, she and Greg sent me home.

LIFE IS TOO IMPORTANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY

Oscar Wilde

EAGLE MOUNTAIN

MONDAY, 16 MAY, 2011
I received a phone call at 10:30 this morning from my granddaughter Bailey. She asked if I would pick her up  from school; that she was sick. She said that she was throwing up yesterday at Wal-Mart.
Mine was the only phone number she could remember besides I was the one who would get her eventually anyway since both her parents were working.
I got her and immediately she felt better (wonder of wonders). when we got to her house she grabbed her mitt and baseball and asked me to play catch with her in the back yard. I thought better about it but said yes. I'm leaving the parenting to the parents.
I did not realizing just how out of shape I am, huffing and puffing and all I did was catch and throw and SLOWLY chase down the ones I missed which was 3/4th of the time. But, I didn't even try to run.
I feel old.
Finally she asked, "Grandpa, do you need to go in and sit down?
I was able to wheeze out a feeble "Yes!!!!!!!!"
We sat on the outdoor furniture on the back deck and Bailey went through 30-40 matches trying to light two candles and two torches...TWICE. She finally lit them all once then blew them out and started over.
At least I wasn't throwing and catching baseballs.

Being Monday, school got out at 2:40 so I excused myself and drove down to the school and picked up Jayden.
We called Corey and he said he was leaving work early and for us to pick up Bailey and meet him at the TREK bike shop by the Best Buy in American Fork. They had taken Jayden's bike in because it had two tires that wouldn't hold air . We found out that he had run over two (?) thorns.
They put in two inner tubes with some kind of "slime" in them that fills in any new punctures he might get.
From the bike shop we drove across the street and ate a Dicky's Barbecue. It was pretty good.
When we were leaving the school Jayden said "Oh, there's Alysa (I don't know the correct spelling. Jayden says it is spelled "Alasa" but he pronounces it the way I have it spelled above.
Alysa was walking through the parking lot with her mother and two sisters.
Jayden said, "She is the hottest girl in school!" He sits by her in at least one of his classes.
Mikel (sp) got his heart broken by her. He had a friend ask her if she would "go" with him and she said, "No, he's not my type!"
It made Mikel cry.
Jayden thinks she is in love with another kid (we're talking 5th grade here) Connor(?) it started with a "C" but all he thinks about is sports.
Jayden thinks that his athleticism is what she is attracted to.
Jayden finally got the nerve to ask her who she does like and she said, "No body."
He is disappointed but keeping up a good face.
I think he is going to keep talking to her.
School is over in a couple of weeks.
He said that last year with Izzy it was easy. She asked him out.

After the bike shop and Dicky's I took Jayden home so he could ride his bike while Corey took Bailey to buy some longer pants. The ones she wore to school today where too short for the standards so they let her wear some loaners.

Jayden rode his bike around the block once at about 100 mph, screeched into the garage, parked his bike, grabbed his mitt and baseball and asked me to play catch with him in the back yard.
Of course I said yes and he is older than Bailey and a better throw and catcher so I didn't have to work quite so hard but pretty soon Jayden said, "Grandpa, are you OK? You know you don't have to play if you don't want to."
It wasn't long after that, that I quit and parked my wide body.

Later this evening, Judy, Jim and I ate pizza at Pier 49 in AF (American Fork) then saw the movie "Thor."
I enjoyed it.

NOTHING to SAY but SAYING IT ANYWAY

Sunday, May 08, 2011
Jim and Corey are smoking a brisket in our garage. It is too windy and raining outside.
The brisket is taking forever.
Chris had Niki and Greg buy a big nice bouquet of flowers for Judy.
There was also a big box and with the box there was a Mothers Day card signed from Sierra and Chris and the three Chazen Kids.
Three Chazen kids?
It went right over my head but Judy immediately asked, "Three Chazen Kids; are you pregnant?"
Niki is due the end of December but she says she is always three weeks early.
TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2011
Between all the different pills I am on I mostly feel dumbed up. No energy, no particular happiness, just want to lie around. I haven't the energy to get up and do anything. Albeit it has been rainy the last couple of days and sunshine makes all the difference in the world.
As I may have noted before, I always feel better at sea level though perhaps part of that at least may be the excitement of being on vacation.
If only I could spend an extended length of time in Barcelona to test out the theory.

Thursday, May 05, 2011

                I went in to see Shelly (my Doc) at 8:40 this morning. I was feeling tense and edgy as I often do. We decided to up my dose of PAXIL to 40 mgs a day and see how that goes. She talked about going as high as 50 mgs. She told me to be more liberal in taking my panic pills which I haven’t taken any of yet out of fear of never waking up. I guess I miss understood her when she prescribed it to me.

                     A month from now I need to call Shelly and get refills or if I think I need to, make another appointment to talk about where else to go.

                Shelly said that my false alarm heart attack and my continuing pains in my chest are anxiety or panic whichever you want to call it. She used the word panic.

                I realize now that what I have always thought was normal is moderate (more than mild) depression and Shelly seemed very optimistic that I can spend the rest of my life finally being truly happy.

                Judy, Corey, Stacey, Jim and I met at Sum Dum Luc (Joy Luck) for Mothers Day lunch.

                Later this evening I drove to the Townecentre Mall in Provo with the intent of treating myself to a new shirt. (So many of mine shrunk [yea right])

                I ended up getting me two of them both containing the color blue. I dislike blue but I have discovered that blue makes my complexion look good.

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

I had a bad day today aches and shooting pains and depressed so I decided I should at least go for a drive. That didn't take too much physically.

I drove down Pioneer Crossing to I-15. I decided to go north. I hadn’t gotten too far when the thought came to me that I should go to Niki’s and play with Gavin and Alexa.

I was taking a chance. I didn’t know if they would be home and I didn’t call first.

It worked out well. They were home and they had three friends over. Avery next door was playing with Alexa and her brother and another little, little kid were playing with Gavin. I asked the little one, who was wearing a blue cape what his name was. He said it was Superman.

Looking down on Avery from upstairs I thought she was Alexa. They look a lot alike.

We played and wrestled for a while then it was time for Alexa and Avery to get dressed for soccer practice. Avery’s mother came over to retrieve her. She was carrying a little one in her arm.

Superman’s older brother came and got him when I hadn’t been there long.

It's amazing what some quality time spent with grandchildren can do. Why didn't I think of it earlier?

I wish they didn't live so far away.