So like, I had this tumor removed from my arm last week...

[mickill]

...non-life threatening, apparently. It'd been scheduled for about a month prior to, so I had lots of time to prepare mentally for the doctor to be cutting my arm open and extracting this small grape-sized orb from underneath my right bicep. A couple of days before the surgery, my wife had started ensuring me that I'd be spending the rest of the week recovering, laying on the couch watching tv, knocking back a few cold ones etc, in an effort to, you know, ease what ever anxiety she was certain I was feeling at the time.

Quite honestly, I wasn't very worried at all. But now I was kind of anticipating this great week of relaxation. However, the night before the surgery, my wife started coming down with something. By the next day she was stuck in bed, on antibiotics, with some kind of viral infection. So my parents watched the kids while I had my surgery. I come home, they leave, everything is going fine. I don't mind taking care of everything while my wife recovers. But then my son starts coughing and sneezing and crying. So now I have two sickies on my hands.

The next day, my daughter goes to throw a ball at the wall and starts screaming in pain. So I eventually take her to the hospital (3 hour wait), and it turns out she has a subluxated (partially dislocated) joint in her arm. The doctor starts asking if someone had been pulling on her arm, which is fine (he's just doing his job). But my daughter's delayed answer of "uhhh, no" seemed to indicate that I had trained her to deny any wrongdoing on my part for me. So anyway, he tried to snap it back in place, but it didn't work. So she had to wear a sling for the next couple of days, continue to endure the pain, and wait for it to go back in on its own.

Aaaaanyway, the next day, my already sick son gets bitten on the arm by the dog. Yet more turmoil ensues. A lot more strife than I really want to get into. By now, my still-healing arm with the stitches and the bruising and lack of local anesthetic is the absolute least of everyone's concerns, including mine. Which is understandable.

But I'm jus sayin.

[b i o n i c]

bad-arm luck there.. just have your wife's arms amputated now to be safe

[Nuzzolese]

Awww, poor you! How does your arm feel? Does it hurt now? Are you feeling stressed? When was the last time you took some time for YOU?

[mickill]

My arm has more or less healed. But the point is, I never got to take advantage of the state I was in, or really milk the healing process like I had hoped to, because I got trumped by the kids. Which is fine. I love them like a nut. And the wife was in no condition to tend to them.

But I'm jus sayin.

[b i o n i c]

maybe you'll catch what they have on the tail end? drink from their cups, eat with their utensils, bust a stitch or two.. something like that

[mickill]

I usually catch everything from them. Alas, no dice. Everybody's doing better already. A stitch opened on the first day, during all the bedlam. Nobody cared. But hey, what doesn't kill us...

[hpdrifter]

Wow, sounds like a brutal week! Sorry you missed your down time, dude.

[saz]

further confirmation to not have kids.

[mickill]

I prefer to think that the tumor was still the main culprit here.

[Lyman Zerga]

that was one of the better general hospital episodes, yeah

[ms.peachy]

I think you should hold onto this all for now, put it on the back burner, then bring it all back up front again a few weeks before Father's Day.

[HEIRESS]

how's that whole gang-war thing treating you. is it near your hood?

[mickill]

Yeah Heiress, on top of this, I got two fatal shootings within 2 blocks of my house and three in the vicinity of my parents' place stressing me out. Can't even bring the rugrats to the playground.

I think you should hold onto this all for now, put it on the back burner, then bring it all back up front again a few weeks before Father's Day.

I fully intend to. I was thinking I could probably utilize this on at least two special occasions and during a minimum of three arguments.

[HEIRESS]

dang yo, I automatically think of you whenever that shit is on cbc.ca

you should move your clan to white rock or new west yo!

[mickill]

White rock, hopefully. New West isn't a huge step up. Hard time to sell the house, though. I'm just gonna do a search for children's body armour on craigslist for now.

[HEIRESS]

yeah true. new west is just a hop skip and a jump away.
well, white rock is too but it's like there is an imaginary fence surrounding it which keeps out all the bad elements.

I do not envy your attempting to sell a house right now at all. sucks dude.

[mickill]

Yeah, well, at least we have our health, right? Oh!

[hpdrifter]

There's a gang war in British Columbia? What kind of gang makes their home base in the BC suburbs?

[saz]

an extremely long yet informative article (http://www.macleans.ca/canada/national/article.jsp?content=20080507_26032_26032) which should provide the answer to your question.

[hpdrifter]

Crazy. I was thinking like a marauding band of guys wandering around a housing tract drinking Kokanee and saying oot.

Actually, this kind of explains a lot. I had a scary incident in Vancouver once. I went up there with a girlfriend to party and we went to the club then went to this restaurant for munchies afterward at like 2am. This group of 4 guys sat at a table near us and were talking all kind of vulgar shit. So we finished our pancakes and left. They actually followed us out of the restaurant and for another block where they started to catch up to us. So we started running and they actually chased us. Luckily we were almost back to the hotel and we got away from them but shit was that freaky.

[mickill]

There's a gang war in British Columbia? What kind of gang makes their home base in the BC suburbs?

Yeah, go figure, huh?

28 shootings since mid January.

7 shootings (http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/hospital+after+more+Vancouver+area+shootings/1357554/story.html) in just the last 2 days.

Among them, a mother of two, who was shot dead with her 4 year old son in the carseat behind her.

[hpdrifter]

Wow, that's fucked up.

Move to Seattle. It's like Vancouver's less cool, more pretentious cousin. We don't have gang wars, just hipsters (which are almost as bad).

[saz]

saying oot.

nobody here talks like that. maybe rural minnesota.

[mickill]

I love Seattle. But I love health care more.

[hpdrifter]

Touche'

[venusvenus123]

A lot more strife...

But I'm jus sayin.
you know that strife is cockney rhyming slang for wife? (trouble and strife)

just sayin.

hope all is back to normal soon.


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[beastieangel01]

dang man. way to have life throw you a bunch of doody at once!

sounds like you'll get through it though. just crap timing all around. good thoughts. (y)

[Dorothy Wood]

dang man. way to have life throw you a bunch of doody at once!



I read that fast and though it said "bloody dunce". I was all, wha???


anyway, that sucks mickill, you need a do over.

[mickill]

I'm over it.

But thanks guys. This week was much better overall. Other than the guy getting shot in the face at the strip mall near my house.

[Myu-to]

How are your children's arms doing?

[kaiser soze]

hope you're feeling swell!

[na§tee]

seriously bad arm karma there.. ouch! i hope you feel much better and can get some relaxation now. through beer or other means.