New Doctor for Tommy

I'm going to TRY to keep this short today - I've been in a really rough mood lately and I think stress is starting to have physical manifestations - I've been getting headaches again and yesterday I couldn't not remember or focus on ANYTHING. I forgot to roast the chicken for last night's dinner until 5:15pm, it was just good luck that it turned out the chicken only needed 1 hour to cook and not the 2-3 hours that I was thinking it did, or we would have been having dinner at midnight. Anyway, I hate making these entries negative because the truth is that life is pretty darn okay and I don't want to let the day-to-day stresses color the picture at this time. Overall, I am so very fortunate and feel blessed. I have my family, we're all healthy, and I have my [almost,haha] perfect little boy who is growing by leaps and bounds virtually every day, so what right to have to grouse about the the little stuff? I just need to get myself together - I feel like my head is in a fog this week and I'm having a really tough time coping. I really hope I can shake this off and refocus my energy. I think going back to work will help enormously. I called in sick yesterday and that probably was not the right thing to do.

Anyway, Thomas and I had a doctor's appt. yesterday with his new doctor, Dr. Haskin. Dr. Haskin works out of St.Luke's hospital. My timing was terrible yesterday - I noticed that Emmett had left his car in the street sweeping zone and was going to acquire a $35 parking ticket, but he had the keys with him at work. So I drove downtown to get the keys, but it took 20 minutes longer than I had planned, and then getting back took longer so we ended up being 30 minutes late to Thomas's doctor appt [which meant that by the time we got out of the appt., Emmett's car had already been ticketed, making the entire trip pointless, can you see my frustration?!?]. Anyway the doctor is older than Methuselah, but that has its advantages. For one thing, he takes his time, which is incredibly rare in doctors today. And the second thing is that he prefers to deal with healthy children, which makes me think that should something unusual come up he will not be resistant to abdicating Tom's care to a specialist. In any case, it was really nice to be working with someone who has more of an old-fashioned approach to patient care and takes the time to really work with his patients. He also does everything himself and doesn't have a nurse/medical assistant do everything and then breeze in and out in under 5 minutes like most doctors these days. All in all, I was happy with the care we received. We have another appt with a different doctor in Sept. and I think I will keep that appt so that I have more of a comparison, but I have to admit I'm happy to be away from that doctors office in Laurel Heights which was crowded, impersonal, and full of cell-phone toting, nanny-abusing, uptight "power Moms" that I couldn't relate to even if they got off their cell phones in the waiting room long enough to say "hi" to me or even interact with their own children. Wow, that sounded venemous, didn't it? :-) Anyway, the new office is much better, and the only other Mom that was waiting was really nice and the service felt extremely personal. I was happy. Thomas was like a wild man, though. He was running all over the place and wrestling with this stuffed lion like he was in the WWF or something. Grandma Hazlet would have been proud! haha It was fun, but he sure was a handful. I had to physically restrain him in my lap while I was talking to the doctor and he was flailing around and screaming the whole time. It was like someone shot a load of caffeine into his morning oatmeal or something. Afterwards I took him to the Salvation Army to do some shopping, and it was more of the same. He was running all over the store like a maniac. At one point he was running from me at full tilt and managed to trip over his own feet, fall down, and scrape his little nose on the carpet. It barely even slowed him down. We went to the shoe section and I was trying to find some cool boots, he was pulling the shoes off the shelves left and right, at one point putting on these adult shoes and clomping all around in them, it was really cute. Finally, I just couldn't take it anymore and so we left. I did manage to get him a new Gap sweatshirt though for $1.60 which made me pretty happy. You pay at least $10 for those things on Ebay -USED!!!!

The rest of the day was just so-so. I need to get my head together and try to refocus my energy.

Bye for now.
Love,
Melissa