The Progeny
Take a Shakespeare and Call Me in the Morning
Because it will be too late to report when you get home from the play.
Carolyn and I were just about conked when we returned at 11:30pm last evening.
Given the 7:30 start and 50-minute commute I had imagined perhaps, 10:30.
Even the introduction from the chorus talks about "these next two hours."
But Romeo & Juliet in fact takes three hours, and that's a 5-hour stretch in which this old lady had to stay awake. Couple that with the morning's church services and Ma set new records for indolence.
Good play, though! So glad I got in a read-through beforehand. All along I kept making mental notes of quotes apropos for Facebookian situations :-D
My only complaint came about from my extreme cheapness. I booked seats along the second-tier side, thinking the moveable (less expensive) chairs would be both comfy and afford a closer view.
HOWEVER, when you account for the box railing, and the other box below you, and the people in that box who lean forward because theywere raised by cavemen wanted to see better, you end up having one third of the stage cut off.
Fortunately, it was not the third involving the balcony scenes, so we could decently see most of the play. But I will not make that mistake again!
I could have wished for period costumes instead of early 1900's dress....but oh well.
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In other news, Trevor came to me this morning and stated, "My mouth is sick."
(Hmmmmm....) "Does it hurt?"
"No, it's hard to swallow."....*cough, cough, cough*
So, in the space of one night, the kid has woken up with a full-fledged sickness. I listened to his lungs and they have this deep, bassy sound that the kids sometimes get (I don't know how else to describe it). A few rattles and squeaks, too.
And now he's running a slight fever, so I'm gonna keep my eyes on that boy.
I also have to keep him away from Loren, since the heart transplantee isn't supposed to consort with known fevarians.
And testing comes up two weeks from today.
*sigh*
I guess it was too much to expect that we'd only get one sickness this winter.
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Carolyn and I were just about conked when we returned at 11:30pm last evening.
Given the 7:30 start and 50-minute commute I had imagined perhaps, 10:30.
Even the introduction from the chorus talks about "these next two hours."
But Romeo & Juliet in fact takes three hours, and that's a 5-hour stretch in which this old lady had to stay awake. Couple that with the morning's church services and Ma set new records for indolence.
Good play, though! So glad I got in a read-through beforehand. All along I kept making mental notes of quotes apropos for Facebookian situations :-D
My only complaint came about from my extreme cheapness. I booked seats along the second-tier side, thinking the moveable (less expensive) chairs would be both comfy and afford a closer view.
HOWEVER, when you account for the box railing, and the other box below you, and the people in that box who lean forward because they
Fortunately, it was not the third involving the balcony scenes, so we could decently see most of the play. But I will not make that mistake again!
I could have wished for period costumes instead of early 1900's dress....but oh well.
______________
In other news, Trevor came to me this morning and stated, "My mouth is sick."
(Hmmmmm....) "Does it hurt?"
"No, it's hard to swallow."....*cough, cough, cough*
So, in the space of one night, the kid has woken up with a full-fledged sickness. I listened to his lungs and they have this deep, bassy sound that the kids sometimes get (I don't know how else to describe it). A few rattles and squeaks, too.
And now he's running a slight fever, so I'm gonna keep my eyes on that boy.
I also have to keep him away from Loren, since the heart transplantee isn't supposed to consort with known fevarians.
And testing comes up two weeks from today.
*sigh*
I guess it was too much to expect that we'd only get one sickness this winter.
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posted by Ma Hoyt | 8:11 PM
2 Comments:
You really listened to his lungs? I need to learn how to do that *sigh*. I mean, I have a stethoscope, but don't really know what I'm listening for. Took my "lady" to InstaCare today because she's been coughing after being sick last week. I figured I'd wait through the weekend and see if it got better... she was in the early stages of pneumonia - glad we went today!
Well, I don't really "know" what I'm doing.
(we went out and bought a stethoscope after Carolyn came down with bronchitis/early pneumonia around age 3. She also had a temp of 105.8. It think I was mostly worried because she'd had a febrile seizure at 18 months)
I just put it the same 6 places where I saw the doc do it for Carolyn.
Sometimes I think I hear things but it's only the movement of the stethoscope against clothing. And other times it's rather apparent, especially if there is wheezing, which is most often heard on the exhalation.
I think if you get used to how it sounds when they're not sick, the differences will be more apparent when there is stuff in the lungs.
Actually, the only time it was really useful was once when Loren was getting fluid on his lungs before transplant.
Most of the time I just do it to ease my mind and let the kids think I'm a good mom, ha, ha.
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