Sorry again for the 2 week update but a lot has happened.
These were the last 2 weeks in my summer and because of that everything was going on.
Michael, Katie and Amanda all went tubing in the Delaware River. They said it was just like a lazy river ride at a water park but with paddles.
I went with Dad to drop of a Grease car in North Jersey and saw my old baby sitter, Lea. She was at Union High School when my dad was working there and we lived with my grandparents. She did stage crew and was one of the people Dad taught everything to and brought to help him when he had work at other places. I was maybe 6 last time I saw her.
This past Wednesday was my last doctors appointment and we finally figured out the trick. On the occasions where we got there early the office was over an hour behind so that day we got there just on time. I didn’t even have enough time to get out of the bathroom after checking in before we were called.
To bad it couldn’t be that simple for the whole appointment.
They took the bandages off and I noticed that a small area had blood stains. I told the doctor and after he removed the remaining stero-strips we found the problem. A stitch was still in the incision and created a stitch abscess. Basically he had to find it, remove it, clean the wound, and bandage it. He used some silver nitrate - felt really weird - and another stero-strip with a band-aid that I have to change every day.
In the end about an inch of the incision was still open that day.
Before I forget, here are some before and after shots of my foot. Look how straight it got!
(The left foot is still swollen but you can see the difference.)
Friday, my last day at home, was crazy.
Amanda had been at band camp all week - 13 hours a day - so Friday was the ‘End of Band Camp’ party at 3:00 after their early dismissal. I was allowed in the pool and actually went down the slide (that was a stupid move since I hurt my foot) but I spent the whole time on a floaty since I couldn’t kick.
Lost of people came. Three of my friends and about 50 people from the band. The food was good, the day was nice, the only problem was that the people wouldn’t leave. It finally got to be 11 pm when we went down to the pool (my friends and I had gone inside) and more or less told everyone to go home.
Regardless, it was nice to be able to go in the water.
So Saturday comes and my mom and I have this plan: get on the plane, get the rental car, pick up my car from the storage unit (most likely jump it), check into school, pay the tuition, and move into the room.
Basically everything went wrong.
The plane was an hour late, a guy ahead of us for the rental cars was an ideate who took almost half an hour, my car was dead but after using the rental car and a guys big pick up truck we still couldn’t jump it and had to move on. At the school I could check in but couldn’t pay for the term since the offices were closed. AAA came to the car, got it working but found that my battery was at 0 charge so got to the car shop to re-charge it fully. There they tried to save it but it was beyond dead so I needed a new one. We finally get to the room, get help with the boxes, and I only have an hour before my feet feel like they would fall off. I went with mom to the hotel for the night, took off my shoes and saw that my left foot was nearly twice its normal size.
Yeah, not a fun day.
Today was better though. After breakfast we went to Target and BJ’s to get everything for the ‘apartment.’ Then we went back and mom worked on the kitchen while I did my room. A break for Panera and 2 more hours before everything was done. We even had half an hour to relax before Mom had to leave to get to her flight home.
As it is Sunday we had Sunday Night Dinner. Just pizza since we were all still settling in, but it was great. We also had a cake from BJ’s to celebrate Paige’s Birthday.
Everyone hung out for 2 hours and it was nice to see everyone again. While I do have to start classes tomorrow I don’t start until after lunch. I’ll tell you all about it next week!
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