We had a busy day today. We planned on
\n getting lots of chores around the house done, but instead spent
\n 2 hours at an OR Open House at the hospital (very interesting!)
\n and then a friend’s 40th birthday party.<\/p>\n
My aunt organized the (first?) OR Open House at our fancy
\n hospital. I had no idea what to expect from it and it was
\n great. They had lots of different room (20 or so, I think) set
\n up with examples from different types of operations
\n (cardiovascular, open heart, eye, costmetic, etc.) Each room
\n had displays about that type of surgery and nurses everywhere
\n to explain procedures, fancy new replacement body parts, and
\n what the nurses and machines all do. They also had little
\n things for the kids to play with, demos of surgery tools, and a
\n display of their (new?) training dummy that has all the
\n appropriate vitals and responds to input and actions by the
\n staff. It was really neat. Lex was tired, but fascinated as we
\n walked around looking at everything. We met the grandparents,
\n Katie, and even a woman from my old A&P; class. She’s in the
\n surgery technician training program now and loving it. Great
\n job Katie!!<\/p>\n
After Lex’s nap we headed
\n out to a friend’s party. There were lots of little boys and
\n their house is nice and big with a circle to run around. The
\n kids were thrilled. They also have a nice big staircase in the
\n corner (where it’s hard to see) so Lex took advantage of my
\n trying to be social and climbed up and down the stairs
\n (unaided) as much as possible. At one point I found him and a
\n 3yr old little boy upstairs. I said, “Is anyone up here with
\n you?” He said, “No”. Me: “Ok, I’m going to take Lex down now. I
\n don’t want him upstairs unsupervised.” 3yr old: “It’s ok, I’m
\n watching him.” …. Hmmm… somehow that didn’t really reassure
\n me :) Lex loved running around with all of the older kids
\n though. Towards the end of the night I decided to just let it
\n be (I’d seen him successfully maneuver the stairs several times
\n by this point) and hope for the best. Cake was served. It got
\n late. I went to find Lex to start getting ready to head home. I
\n come around the corner to where the stairs are and find him
\n sitting in the dark, on a little mattress under the stairs,
\n watching TV and eating cake. Fork in one hand, chocolate
\n frosting all over his face :) It was hysterical! The kids had
\n set up a little cozy corner to watch a movie and eat their
\n cake. One by one they had left (went home, got a drink, etc.)
\n and Lex must have been left alone or happened across unguarded
\n cake. Either way, he was thrilled. When I walked in he gave me
\n a brief look of “Am I being good or bad?” but it didn’t last
\n long as I quickly burst out laughing. So he grinned a big cakey
\n grin. The kid cracks me up.<\/p>\n
Maybe
\n tomorrow we will get some chores done around here. We’ll see.
\n The best news, of course, is that our Internet access came
\n back. Yay!! They are still a little confused in the billing
\n dept, but we can work on that. For now I’m just happy to be
\n back in the real world ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We had a busy day today. We planned on getting lots of chores around the house done, but instead spent 2 hours at an OR Open House at the hospital (very interesting!) and then a friend’s 40th birthday party. My … Continue reading