{"id":9572,"date":"2013-07-22T17:36:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T00:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=9572"},"modified":"2013-07-22T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T00:53:12","slug":"surgery-and-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=9572","title":{"rendered":"Surgery and Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the thing about today: You&#8217;d think I could make it sound more interesting than I did, considering that there was an epic, rite-of-passage surgical procedure on the agenda!\u00a0 Still and all, after a collossal amount of running around today, I can only manage to throw a bunch of bullets up on the screen and go off somewhere to collapse.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Took Megan to the orthodontic surgeon to have all four of her wisdom teeth removed. It took a little longer than the 40 minutes he predicted, however she was finished and walking out to greet me with an icepack on her cheek in a little under an hour.\u00a0 And not feeling to poorly at all by then.\u00a0 In fact, she exclaimed she felt &#8220;Awesome!&#8221; and was determined to come along on our major shopping excursion.\u00a0 I suspected that might change as the nitrous wore off, but was glad she was feeling perky at that point, anyway!<\/li>\n<li>Came home and it was around noon by then.<\/li>\n<li>Loaded everyone up to do some errands, including getting Megan&#8217;s Rx&#8217;s filled.<\/li>\n<li>First stop, gas station, as we were down to about 1 pt. of gas.<\/li>\n<li>Next stop, CPS, to hand in some paperwork for our possible foster care placement.\u00a0 That took a half hour &#8212; who knew you had to stand in line just to hand in some papers!!\u00a0 Laurent graciously did the standing and waiting, and we were thankful that it was a cloudy day so the car remained cooler than it might otherwise have done.<\/li>\n<li>Next stop, the pharmacy, only to find out they had none of either drug, and were sending us to another location three miles away.<\/li>\n<li>By that time, the otherwise feeling-fine Megan decided she needed to head home for a bit.<\/li>\n<li>Dropped her off, got her settled with the Roku button and some water and Ibuprofen and hoped it wouldn&#8217;t be too long until I returned.<\/li>\n<li>Off to the other pharmacy, dropped off the Rx&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>FINALLY grabbed a quick lunch at the Golden Arches next door &#8212; by that time it was nearly 2pm and I was surprised everyone had not completely melted into a puddle of hunger pangs on the van floor.<\/li>\n<li>Went back and picked up the Rx&#8217;s.\u00a0Made a beeline for Wal-mart in hopes of a &#8220;quick trip.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;First thing inside the door, I was reminded I had promised a haircut to Geneva before the Montana trip next week, so I got her situated with a stylist, then motored off with Laurent and Jacob in tow to complete our shopping at that end of the store.<\/li>\n<li>Picked her up in the predicted 15 minutes with her snazzy new cut (I would have told the stylist to go shorter, but oh well, it&#8217;s very cute).<\/li>\n<li>Continued on our way, but got waylaid by the back-to-school displays.\u00a0 They get me every year.\u00a0 Not that we don&#8217;t need the stuff all over again every year, but it always takes me by surprise, and it&#8217;s the element of surprise that adds stress to my shopping sojourn.<\/li>\n<li>Finished with the school supplies and knew that the two carts we already had were going to be very full by the time we finished.<\/li>\n<li>Was able to get the rest of the shopping done in none too rapid order, making sure I got plenty of yogurt and pudding and protein drinks for my darling invalid; and got home around 4:30, much to my chagrin.<\/li>\n<li>Walked in the door hoping against hope that Megan wasn&#8217;t moaning in agony, only to find her springing off her bed to come help unload the car.\u00a0 So far, so good with the whole pain management thing I guess! \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 (And that was before the percocet &#8212; please God may she need but little of the hard core meds!!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now I am thoroughly worn out, and need to think about supper.\u00a0 I&#8217;m suspecting Tuna Melts are on the menu tonight&#8230; for the rest of us that is.\u00a0 Megan will be having yogurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the thing about today: You&#8217;d think I could make it sound more interesting than I did, considering that there was an epic, rite-of-passage surgical procedure on the agenda!\u00a0 Still and all, after a collossal amount of running around today, I can only manage to throw a bunch of bullets up on the screen and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,49,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-health","category-out-about","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9575,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions\/9575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}