Ugh. And just as I was starting to eat soup.

I just hate having dry heaves. So, I tend to eat, even when I'm pukey, 'cause I hate the dry heaves part.

Teppy, Hubby asked last night how your back is doing. He tries to keep up with how my "invisible friends in the box" are doing.

Something that our pediatrician told us for the barfy kids: no food, teaspoons of water to stop the barfing, then BRAT = Bananas, Rice, Applesauce, Toast in small amounts.

Teppy, Hubby asked last night how your back is doing.

My back is still top-notch. Thank him for asking! How's *his* back treating him?

Bananas? I haven't been able to eat those since the concussion. My brain just goes "slime!" Sadly, I buy them anyway.

I can't recommend ginger enough -- ginger tea (brewed from bags or from the root) if you want to avoid the sugar. I also used diluted gatorade.

How's *his* back treating him?

Not nearly as well as yours. The degeneration keeps creeping up through his spinal disks. They relieve the pressure further down, and the ones above give out.

Still, he can drive again, and his shoulder's doing very nicely after that last bit of roto-rootering.

How's *his* back treating him?

Not nearly as well as yours. The degeneration keeps creeping up through his spinal disks. They relieve the pressure further down, and the ones above give out.

Yeesh. He needs a full copper repipe.

Still, he can drive again

So, it sounds like *some* progress, then?

Yeesh. He needs a full copper repipe.

Oh, yeah.

The improvement is good. I think what was so horrible about the last round of damage was that a disk the doctor wasn't even suspecting had actually split in two. The neurosurgeon actually apologized for dismissing how much pain Hubby was in and said, "You shouldn't have been able to move, you essentially have had a broken back for the last six months."

Vikings, if it doesn't involve pulsing aterial wounds and foreign objects sticking out of them, they don't think they're hurt.

Most disappointing event of the weekend?

Em CRIED when I put her birthday tiara on.

I almost followed suit.

I'm going to hope this is just cause she is wee and will like them next year.

Maybe she just doesn't like stuff on her head right now, Aimee. Her reaction to that Little Mermaid birthday hat was cranky times ten. According to the pictures.