Wednesday, both LK and I had medical appointments. Amanda and his old PCP, Dr. Carol Stanley, has unfortunately for us retired from seeing patients (though not from working), so we saw her replacement who had just started at Group Health. Amanda had applied for that position, and I think she probably would have gotten it, but Amanda wanted to work for a community health center-type place and Group Health’s patient population does not fit that profile.
As it turns out, my PCP, Dr. Thomas Horst, is also retiring, so I decided to go ahead and switch to Dr. Megan Reitz so that we all had the same physician. She was very nice; she is five years out of residency I believe.
Anyway, LK was there for his four month checkup and vaccinations. He was fine. We talked about sleep stuff, diet, and whether or not he had a lazy eye (not apparent at this time). He is almost 16.5 pounds and 26 inches. He was then left for his shots.
I talked about weaning myself off the meds I had been on since my a-fib episode. Which I will be doing. We also talked about my blood pressure, which had been high before I started doing CPAP therapy. I thought it had gone down again before my a-fib episode, but now it is at its lowest ever, undoubtedly due to the drugs I have been taking. Hopefully it will stay down in the coming months, although since LK has been around I have not been able to use my CPAP machine regularly.
I got out in time to see LK get his shots. He screamed. Oops. I did not have to hold him down this time at least. He took it a lot better this time, and recovered very quickly.
I also got a DTaP/Tdap booster because it is now recommended for adults to get pertussis boosters if they are around kids or somesuch. And practically no one carries pertussis only vaccines, so I got everything. I needed another tetanus booster soon anyway. I barely felt the shot, but a few hours later my shoulder hurt like hell. It calmed down, though.
We had our parenting meeting in the evening. It was remarkable in that it was the only one that I had been present for the entire meeting as usually we either left early or I was trying to calm him down. Two other kids had gotten their four month shots, too, and one got a very high fever, which made us wary.
LK was very twitchy during the evening, and as it turned out he has a slight fever as well. He is sleeping now, though.
I went to the gym very early this morning (before 6) since I had gotten up at ten to five to attend to LK. Amanda is at work. Hopefully LK will sleep a long time today.

Today is my wedding anniversary; the most beautiful Amanda has not gotten tired of me yet. Looking back at my weblog entries, I again realize I never finished recapping that trip.

Happy anniversary Amanda!

My mom left last Sunday. It was good to see her for the last two months; I have not been around her for that long since high school.
Amanda’s mom arrived for a week a few days ago. She is here for a visit and to attend Amanda’s residency graduation.
Amanda’s graduation was interesting. Although it was probably interesting only if you knew the participants. It was on the informal side with a lot of talking as might be expected. We brought LK, but he and his grandmothers left early because it was way past his bedtime.
I have managed to go to the gym and/or exercise for the past couple of weeks. It was predictably painful when I started, but it was interesting in that my upper arms and back were not in that bad of shape; carrying LK around has had its benefits. On the other hand, my chest and legs lost a lot of strength. I shredded my hamstrings after a set of squats and had problems bending my legs for a few days. Cardio-wise, I am still in OK shape, but not great.
I will be watching LK for the month of July. I have been doing a bit of consulting the past few weeks and will continue to do so, but I will mainly be looking for more permanent work this month, although I won’t be able to really do a face-to-face interview until August.
I still have to do our federal taxes, too.
While Amanda did go to her graduation, she still has another month of residency. She has finished all of her calls already, though, so I think she only has to catch up on clinic hours and perhaps finish her R3 project, so perhaps it will be a relatively relaxing final few weeks for her. She then has August off.
I signed up for a Group Health catastrophic health plan. I will be under Amanda’s plan until the end of August. Hopefully I won’t get denied; that would suck. I might have to get a job solely based on health insurance benefits later (hence why I am looking for more permanent jobs as opposed to consulting or contract stuff).

The scooter got 93 mpg on the last tank (which is pretty much a little over a gallon). And that was after I spent over an hour warming it up and twiddling with it once. Superlative!

Baby piglet seems OK, but she is still having urinary issues. I did retrieve her from the vet yesterday, so she did not have to stay the night, but I have not heard back with regards to her urinalysis. I will have to call the tomorrow.
I really need to do a stream-of-consciousness entry to get some events of the past month+ down here in the weblog.