Saturday, June 25, 2005

Gigantic mosquito bites

Thought I would have a quiet weekend to clean the house. No. Yesterday Evan got some mosquito bites at outside playgroup. One was on his cheek. It swelled up a bit as his bites usually do but he went to bed fine and slept all night. This morning I went in his room and found Quasimodo. Or Igor. His left eye was swollen shut and the bite area was huge and full of fluid. So we spent all morning waiting to see a doctor. It's nothing serious but he has to take antibiotics for 5 days and benadryl and eye drops. He's doing well with it, acting his usual self, which is good.

Yesterday I picked the red van up from Firestone. Supposedly all fixed. OK. I got 1 mile down the road and something started going crazy in the engine. bang BANG crack WWWHHHIRRRR kachonk, kachong, bang, BANG. So I pulled into a parking lot and checked and it seemed to be a loose belt. Of course I was on the way to Al's important dr. appt. Luckily Mike answered the cell phone and came and we switched vans. He rode in the tow truck back to Firestone. It was a belt put on improperly. They fixed it and paid the tow truck. So it worked out. No major tragedies but a stressful, busy week.

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