Happy

Flag

Day!

Here's Thomas, enjoying the Flag Day celebration at Maddie's elementary school. I wish I'd photographed all of the flowers that our little hard-core PTA group planted on Monday afternoon ... they were a hit with the crowd.

Less popular were the giant welts on my wrist, where some demon insect bit me as I planted, and the angry red lines which radiate out from said welts and up my arms. I went to the Urgent Care Facility (read: "Doc in a Box") Tuesday evening, and the lovely physician's assistant there looked at my arm and said: "Oooh, you're gonna need to go to the ER for that!"

At the ER, they pumped me full of IV antibiotics and sent me home. Where it promptly got worse, and the pain in my elbow really began to concern me. And so, today, I went to see my lovely primary care physician (he really is). He gave me a shot in the ass of still more antibiotics, lest I wind up with sepsis (read: "blood poisoning") and croak.

Shit, and I thought the poison ivy was a pain ...

But, Happy Flag Day ... and thank God for antibiotics!