So I come home to Michigan to visit with my family (first time all 6 of us have been together since Christmas).

Within the two days since I've arrived, Jim has poison ivy sores all over the place, Dan got his wisdom teeth out and is high on Vicodin (he woke me up in the middle of the night thrashing around because of a "spider"), Mom's got a nasty ear infection in her good ear (she's clinically deaf in the other), and Steve is celebrating just replacing his boot with a brace for the foot he broke skateboarding (and marvelling at the fact that his M.D. told him he looks like a dork when he walks) :-p. Dan went in the same time Steve did to get both his ankles x-rayed from a water-skiing accident that left him with an enourmous bruise near his groin and several torn tendons in his right foot when the rope got tangled, he was dragged under water (the boat driver accelerated, assuming Dan had let go), and his skis didn't come off.

Then this morning, we visit my grandparents, who both fell within the last two days during separate incidents involving their dog and tore their skin.

I'm feeling pretty happy for my good health, and am kind of wondering what will happen next.




(A week after the waterskiing accident)