Another little ditty from our Christmas letter last year:
Jesse, in denial about his advanced age, had a fun little trip to the ER recently. I knew something was up when our hair stylist dropped him off at the house. He was getting his hair cut when he suddenly had a kidney stone attack. He couldn’t drive or think. After a few pain killers, he thought it had passed so he went to work at his office. I should have known better because a few minutes later I was picking him up on the way to the ER for the real drugs. He got a good old shot that supposedly should knock out a horse but he was still in pain for several more hours. We only wish we could have had a video camera to capture his craziness on film.
“Would everyone quit touching me?” he calls out in a drug induced fog.
“No one is touching you honey,” I explain as gently as possible.
“Well stop thinking about touching me O.K.”
As the children erupt in laughter I say, “No problem hon, we won’t think of touching you.”
“Tell the kids to stop thinking about touching me. I can tell when they do it because it makes me itchy,” the man in loo loo land says earnestly.
Luckily after a few more hours, a priesthood blessing and a lot of sleep he has recovered nicely. Life as the principal teacher, administrator, curriculum developer and janitor of a private school is never boring. We finally have a real name for the school, Legacy Leadership Academy, and the 18 students who attend there are all top notch. It is a full time job with part time pay but he is enjoying it a lot.
He also is working afternoons in his chiropractic practice so he rarely has a spare moment but he has decided that sleeping really is not optional. We are hoping to win the lottery or have some anonymous donor give us a lot of money but that hasn’t happened yet. He is still slowly working towards his PhD in Constitutional Law but he is getting an awesome education simply by preparing and teaching each week.
He is still serving as the Young Men’s President in our church and he and Andrew had an incredible time on a 4 day pioneer trek last summer. He also got to attend a few days of Scout Camp and several other miscellaneous campouts.
Even with his crazy schedule he always has time for a good wrestle with the kids, a philosophical discussion about the mind, spirit and the body, his daily practice of the hymns on the piano, peanut butter no bake cookies and a movie with a lot of explosions.
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4 comments:
What is the ER? That is weird that he doesn't like to be touched or people thinking of touching him.
Bionicle Joe
The ER stands for Emergency Room. He was totally crazy and out of his mind. He said some really funny stuff.
It would have been funny if you had gotten a video of him in his touchy condition. Does he remember the expirience? Has it happened more than once?
I wonder if it would have bothered him if someone next door or in another state had thought of touching him. That is too funny!!!
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