Shattered Sun

We took Zack in for another surgery today. Actually, it was the one that had been postponed from earlier this month when he was ill. Anyway, all went well or as well as could be expected. Sadly, we didn’t get the news we really wanted to hear. We’re told by his surgeon that his eardrum on the left side is extremely weak and elastic-like. This means that a normal ear infection just destroys the thing. And in the past month, Zack’s ear has worsened more rapidly than expected. His surgeon said that if the T-tube doesn’t work, then the next surgery will be drastic and there will be a significant loss of hearing. So much so that Zacky will most likely need a hearing aid in that ear. Now we wait and see what these latest developments will mean.

On the other hand, Zack chose to not do gas for this surgery and just stayed awake while they did the IV in his arm. He looked at everything while they were doing it and didn’t cry once. They told us that they’ve never seen a 6 year old take it so extremely well. Usually they don’t stop giving the gas to children until they’re around 12, which is why this was an odd request but not one they haven’t heard before. I guess that a lot of children who go in for multiple surgeries start to hate the gas.

Anyway, long story short, he did well. I’ll keep you posted, as always.

…they just aren’t up yet. I know, I know. Ask Rach, I do have them. And I will put them up. I’m aiming to get some up each day this week. I’m a slacker, I know. For now though, I think I’ll head to bed. And yes, I’ll be fixing the ugly contrast thing tomorrow. Hope everyone had a good weekend!

That’s all I wanted to say!

I’ve been neglecting the site again. I get off early tomorrow! Woot! So, I’m going to do stuff for the site. Finally. And I’ll be getting rid of the scripty font, too. Should be interesting. I’m so glad to finally have the afternoon to do something for me without eight million other things on the agenda!

My little brother is like the boy crying wolf. Or, rather, his “girlfriend” is a girl crying wolf. I should explain myself better, I think. My older brothers calls me on my cell phone at work at 3:45 pm today. This is not only not normal but very bad. He knows better than to call when I’m on the clock. So, I grab the phone and he’s crying. He got some strange call from a woman who said her name was Joyce (or Joy) and that my little brother has been in an accident and is in ICU in a coma. Talk about freaking a guy out! So, he can’t get a hold of my mother and so he calls me. I promise to find out what’s going on and get back to him. I get a hold of my mother and she had a similar message on her voicemail from my little brother’s girlfriend. I promise her to look into it also and promise to call as soon as I know anything.

Long story short, it was all a hoax OR everyone in Arizona dropped the ball and lost him. I called every city/town’s police, all county sheriffs around, Arizona DPS, and just about every hospital in Phoenix, Northern Arizona, and Laughlin area. Nothing. No run ins, no accidents, no John Doe’s, no Weikums. But somehow my little brother’s girlfriend can call and tell my older brother and mother. I think it was her that called my older brother because the number he was given and the number my mother was given are identical. I didn’t find this out til I had wasted 3 hours making a million phone calls.

Plus, turns out stories don’t jibe. I speak with the Girlfriend and she tells me that he was on his way to Laughlin and was in an accident near Wickenburg. She told my mother that he was in an accident in Phoenix and it was a Coca Cola truck that hit him. And after my mother calls the Phoenix police and they try to do a three way with the Girlfriend, she doesn’t answer. On top of that, the phone is now conviently sporting an “Invalid Number”. This means that the Girlfriend has shut the phone down with the cell phone company. Way too odd in my book.

Talk about a cruel trick to play on someone’s family though! Why would you do that to anyone? I’m not my little brother’s biggest fan. He burned that bridge a long time ago but that still would not stop me from looking for him. If nothing else, then it’s for the sake of my mother and older brother. But now, I don’t know. I’m so disappointed. Even my enemies would never dream of doing that to my family. That’s just horrible.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool my twice, shame on me.

This comes on the heels of my little brother calling my older brother and mother to tell them that I was calling him and threatening him. Um, hello. I’m an adult. I have so many other things I would rather do with my time. For crying out loud, get a freaking life. I didn’t even know he was living in Phoenix! And after tonight, I wish I still didn’t know.