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I just found out some interesting 'extended family' news! The movie Monster was directed by Patty Jenkins, and it turns out that she is my brother, Gerry's, niece! She is the daughter of his wife's sister and his best friend from the AF Academy! They were married pretty soon after Gerry and his wife, but divorced about 10 years later. They had two daughters, and Patty is their youngest. I didn't even remember what she looked like, so when I saw her on TV at the Golden Globes, she didn't look familiar to me, and I wasn't connecting the name! Her dad died in a training accident when he was flying fighters in the AF when she was in her teens, and I hadn't seen her since. When he died, his new fiance was pregnant, and THEIR daughter became friends with Patty, and was her assistant on the movie. Gerry's sons (my nephews) are in the movie in bit parts. I was planning on getting it from Netflix when it comes out on DVD, so I'll have to look for them!

You will NOT believe the weekend I have had.

I got a call at work from the school nurse at 2:00PM on Friday (I was scheduled to work until 6PM). She tells me Jeric is in her office screaming that his ear hurts and from the looks of it her has stuck a rock in his ear!!! She said it looks bad and needs to come out ASAP.

So I call his pediatrician and he said he does not have the tools it will take to get that out so we must take him to the ER.

We spend THREE hours there (needless to say I didn't make it back to work), they dig around in his ear while he screams bloody murder and find out there isn't anything the ER can do because they don't have an ear nose and throat specialist on hand. All they can do is confirm there is a rock in there and it has been there for a while. It is covered in wax and it has become stuck to the side of the ear canal. They give him some drops to numb the pain and give us a prescription that will begin to soften the wax and another for pain to get us through the weekend until Monday. They told us to call a specialist on Monday and make an appointment to get it removed.

I am like, You have got to be kidding me! I can not believe this is really happening!

We get home and I call mom and every other prayer warrior I know.................okay GOD ID SO GOD! Are you ready for this?????

Saturday morning we get up and I ask Jason to give Jeric his meds while I used the bathroom. Jason immediately starts screaming......Dana come here now the rock has come out! He had taken the cotton swab out of Jeric's ear and the rock was right there on the edge of his ear hole. We tell Jeric to turn his head over while I run to get some tweezers. We slowly and carefully pull out the rock!!!!! It was amazing.

I called mom and you know she was doing some holy rolling cart wheels and somersaults in her living room. Even Jason's mom was like, "Praise God"! I just knew I was going to have to take more time off work cuz of my crazy child. Between a rock in his ear, his toe getting stuck in the jet of the spa tub, breaking his teeth on candy, needing 4 crowns and 1 filling for a total of 7 crowns now....I am at my wits end. There is NO way I could have more than one! :-) really!