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Well, after spending the afternoon in the hospital Monique is home with yet another prescription – this one should fix her eyes by tomorrow. I would be happy about this except for the other things the doctor said.

I was pretty excited for her until she told me the story of what happened with the doctor. When he looked at her eyes he said:

Doctor: When did this start?

Monique: 5 weeks ago

Doctor: How long have you had it?

WTF are you talking about, you idiot!

Monique looks at him and says:

Monique: Since the start of May

Doctor: (Counts the number of weeks on his fingers) Wow, that’s a long time!

Monique: Do you know what it is?

Doctor: Yes!

Doctor: Well, no. I know what it isn’t.

Oh goodie, I’ll give you a cracker!

At any rate, the doctor then told her it was some non-infectious thing that I can’t even say, let alone spell.

This is what kept me busy for the better part of two weeks. Macworld News: Adobe talks: Photoshop. This is only the first part, we have enough to post one everyday for the rest of the week.

I really like doing these longer stories — really interesting to take a look at a suite of products after they’ve been on the market for a little bit.

More tomorrow — I could tell you what’s coming, but I won’t

Nicole left on an end of the year school trip today. She didn’t go far; there is a camp about an hour away that she went to with about 100 other kids. Damn glad I’m not a chaperone on that trip! Monique drove some of the equipment and bags down for the school, but unfortunately ended up in the hospital on the way home.

Monique’s sickness that I talked about last week hasn’t improved any. On the way home, her eyesight got so blurry, she had trouble seeing the road. I would have gone to get her, but we don’t have a second car and I had no way to get to her.

She called and said she was going to wait at the doctor’s office until she could get in to see someone – not the best way to spend an afternoon, but this has got to be fixed!

The doctor took one look at her eyes and into the hospital she went to see a specialist. Why the hell didn’t that happen before this?!

So, she is now in the hospital and we are waiting to hear back from the doctor. Hopefully it will be good news – we could both sure use some.

Well, Father’s Day turned out to be really busy. Besides spending some time with Monique and the kids to celebrate my day, we also went to see my parents and then to see Monique’s family.

My parents live about 45 minutes away from us, so we left at 11:30 am to go down and take them out to lunch at a little restaurant not too far from when they live. The place is a bit bigger than a hole in the wall, but they have really good food.

When we got back from lunch, my Mother took the kids out to the garden to plant their flowers and vegetables – something they do yearly – while Dad and I went for a walk and played with Twiggy.

Then we drove back home and I got an hour of work in before we left to see Monique’s family. Her sister had a fired up the grill and we had hamburgers and hot dogs – a really good dinner.

Michael and Nicole and fun too – they were outside on the trampoline with their cousin most of the time we were there.

When we got home, I went back to work and Monique got the kids ready to go back to school – their last week before the summer break.

A tiring day, but it was all good.