random musings

What a day!  Today was B's physical therapy day as well as an appointment with his orthopedic.  I'm whipped!  We've had a set-back with his shoulder.  He apparently tried to do too much too soon and irritated the scar tissue.  He has to back off for a few weeks, give it a chance to rest and then he can go back to his throwing program.  We went to watch a few of his old team-mates play in a tournament last weekend.  He told everyone that he doesn't miss playing at all.  I don't know if that's true of if he's just afraid that he'll never play again so he's trying to convince himself.  He might even be afraid of the pain that he went thru.  That needle they stuck in his neck for surgery was huge!  It would be a big loss for him to not be able to play anymore.  He has more knowledge of the game stuck inside his 14 year old brain that most men I know - including ones that coach.  (I still can't believe that my baby is 14!)  As we were sitting there watching his friends, he was calling the pitches that the opposing teams pitcher was throwing as they came out of the pitchers hand.  Yes, he's that good.  And we weren't sitting behind the batter- we were sitting on the side.  I will be very sad if he never plays again.  Watching him mow down batters as a pitcher or throw them out when he was catching was beautiful in my mommy eyes.  And watching him steal home and lead the team in steals knowing that he was the slowest runner on the team was a laugh for me.  That's baseball sense there.  

So, I had an interesting phone call today.  I'm not sure if it's a hoax or not but I'll give you a few details.  I wrote a post last month about Sears Customer service.  My opinions that I gave in that post have not changed.  The guy tried to rip me off.  However, apparently Sears has a whole department of people who check the web looking for the Sears name.  And one of them emailed me on my blog about the post I left.  He requested that I give him a call.  Now, I was at the new place when I got the initial email and honestly- I thought it was someone's idea of a joke.  So, I emailed him back asking they wanted.  Another email arrived with an 800 number to sears.  I finally called it today and spoke to a very nice man named Brian (yes, his real name).  He said that he was the manager of the department and he was very sorry that I had had such a bad experience with the company.  We spoke for a while and he seemed to listen and then he offered me a $75 gift card to Sears for my trouble.  I, of course, accepted.  So, as it stands, he says I should receive my gift card in 12 business days or less.  If it's not a hoax and someone's not pulling my leg and I actually receive the gift card- I'll let y'all know.  Will this be enough for me to call Sears repair again?  Well, I doubt that.  But, it might get me back into Sears to spend money on other things again.  I used to buy all the boys pants there because they had the kids warrantee program that if the kids ripped out their pants before they outgrew them, then Sears would replace them.  Same size, same brand pants - but if the kids ripped them out- you got a new pair.  And my boys were hell on pants!  One time, I got Hurricane a new pair of levi's and he promptly slid down the porch rail the first time he wore them and ripped a 6 inch hole in them.  Sears replaced them.  No questions asked.  I don't know if they still have that program or not but it was great when they did.  I bought all the boys clothes from sears for probably 10 years.  

Well, Good luck to Danny and Michael tonight in American Idol.  I know my idol addict friends and I will be glued to the tv tonight (well, as soon as I get home from taking B to watch another one of his friends play).  Next on my hit list is XBOX company who sent my son's xbox back to us still broken.  Yes, my friends, I sent his 5 month old xbox in for repairs and the company sent it back to us still not working.  They'll be the next people I have fun dealing with.  NOT

I'm bad

Took B to a sports medicine pediatric specialist.  Gotta love the long titles don't ya?  She feels fairly secure in that the injury is not a "separation in the rotator cuff".  This is good!  If it were torn in 2 - he couldn't raise his shoulder at all.  There is some pain in movement in 1 finger of the cuff (there are 4) but she didn't find that the most problematic.  She was more worried about the pain in the back of his shoulder where there are some small ligaments.  She would like to TRY physical therapy.  We're hoping that given time and appropriate exercise- his body will mend.  His pain level on a scale of 1-10 is hovering at around a 6-7 with certain movements.  She told him that the goal is to NOT have pain so if it hurts- don't do it.  His problem is not that his joint is too tight but over-stretched.  There is too much movement in the joint.  It hyper extends.  She asked him what his goals for therapy were and in typical B fashion he mumbled "I don't know".  She finally got out of him that he'd like to not only play ball again but to be able to return to pitching.  No idea if this will be possible or not at this point.  I'm not really sure how to handle it with the coach that caused the issue.  Not sure if I should talk to the league or the coach or both.  That coach definitely does not need to be coaching at that level again.  

Was talking to Aunt C the other night and heard Ex told her son that he will "kill himself before going back to prison".  Great!  Just what I need.  A suicidal ex.  NOT.  His chances of avoiding prison are somewhere between slim and nil (they really frown on selling large quantities of drugs to under-cover policemen).  If he does something as ignorant as he threatens, it's a finality for the kids.  Whatever hopes they've harbored for him to grow up and make things right in their lives would be gone.  I don't want my kids to have to go through that. Ugh!  

B and I went to see High School Musical 3 last night.  He really wanted to go.  It was a good movie and we really enjoyed it.  

Fair is done and I'm back on my vagabond schedule so I'll be online more.  I've spent the last week playing catch up.  I was behind on all my blog reading and did that before moving on to posting.  Maybe I was backwards?  Just nothing has happened here.  Just boring - Dr visits- misbehaving teens and more Dr visits.  Hope everyone else is doing well!