Month: February 2020

I made the decision very early on in my first apartment that I would not have bleach in my house because of it’s catastrophic results with clothes! It had done damage to clothing when I was growing up and with me only using natural cleaners, the smell is kind of crazy! When Sean was growing up and when he played peewee football, I should have invested in stock with Shout! because I used so much of it and so often!

But then, Sean got sick. With my motorized wheelchair, it is extremely difficult to maneuver around my kitchen. I can no longer wash dishes and that really bums me out! Because my Mom was vehemently trying to prevent me from getting sick as well, she started washing the dishes with a little bit of bleach.

This morning, just after my Mom got me out of bed, she had to run to her car and she told me to wait to wash my hands. I figured I could just do it myself at the kitchen sink. I use Palmolive Free and Clear dish soap.

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It is clear. I turned the water on so it could warm up and I grabbed the small bottle of my dish soap. I poured a little bit onto my right palm and realized that it was extremely watered down. I put it back by the sink and saw a different bottle. When I squeezed some into my hand, it was just soap. I proceeded to wash my hands and rinsed them and I was wondering why I smelled the pungent smell of bleach.

it was sometime later when I finally realized where that smell was coming from. The first dish soap bottle I squeezed into my right hand was not dish soap but in fact, bleach. I found out it was bleach because it bleached my shirt!:

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Sean let my Mom know why I was so upset once I discovered this. I was wearing my favorite shirt! My GMFB shirt!

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The picture on the right shows how much this shirt is loved because I wear it all of the time! Sometimes, two or three times a week. When I saw the bleach stains, I was completely devastated but I still have to wear the shirt! Bleach stain and all!

As my Mom and I completed our morning routine, I kept saying, “Roont, roont, roont!” like my Dad used to! But, can it really be roont even if I still plan on wearing it?! This was the exact reason why I did NOT want bleach in my house at all!

Sean suggested the TV show, Prodigal Son to me a couple of months ago as a show we could possibly watch together. I had seen the previews and it interested me but we never got around to watching it.

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Well now, since Sean has been quarantined in our house with pneumonia for the past two weeks, I was willing to watch it and Sean really didn’t have a choice so we watched it together.

Sean is NOT a, “Super Binger” like me so I was concerned that it would take some time to catch up. However, my concerns were unfounded because we did just that today! We binged 14 episodes in five days! Once we realized that we had caught up, I raised my fist in there and yelled, “Success!”

Now, we just have to wait until next Monday at nine to find out what happens with Martin Whitley! I think it kind of stinks to wait until next week but that’s what happens when you have a successful binge!

Sean also let me know that Malcolm Bright, or the actor who plays him, Tom Payne, is 37, just like me! Well, technically, I am 10 months and nine days older than him but that’s okay with me!

This morning, I thought about a specific picture of my parents, Me, and Sean when Sean and I still lived with them. It was before we got our first apartment. I’ve been thinking about it all day long and this particular memory of this picture was prompted by a video my cousinT shared a little while ago:

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This picture was taken in the summer and when Sean was two. In the video my cousinT shared, he is waving at the camera and his hands are so little and he barely can control them. If I knew how, I would have shared the video here but I can’t. The picture is of me and Sean in the summer was taken after the picture I thought of. It had to be in the winter months because Sean is wearing a longsleeved shirt.

I have been thinking of my parents taking Sean and me to dinner, mostly at Lonestar (Which Sean called, “Cowboys”) or to Ponderosa that was near to my parents’ house. Neither one of these restaurants are still there but I’ve been thinking about that.

In both these pictures, I am standing and more able-bodied than I am now so I think that kind of has me thinking about them as well:

I shared this picture on Facebook for my #TBT picture but I think it was when the video was posted a couple of weeks ago, it ultimately prompted this blog post.

Yesterday, I had an extremely vivid memory! I remembered that my Mom read, James and the Giant Peach to my brothers (Dave and Jimmy) and to me before bed:

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I’m not sure what prompted this memory because it’s not even reading month but I asked her if she remembered reading all of the voices to us. She smiled, nodded, and told me that she did. I asked her why she read it to us and she told me that she heard it was a good book and she wanted to expose us to good literature. She said that she wasn’t sure if my brothers liked it but I told her that, “I LOVED it!!!” Because I really did!

Okay, so I’m really diggin‘ being able to watch TV with Sean and it continues this week! Let me backtrack, I think, no, I KNOW it is awful to have Sean continue being sick and not being able go to school again this week because his pneumonia continues!

I am able to watch a couple episodes of, Prodigal Son with him though. He ends up getting tired after two episodes and I get freaked out at the craziness of the show so works out for both of us I guess.

There is a commercial we constantly see that Sean kind of finds musing. I have to wait and pay attention the next time I see it because I’m not even sure what kind of commercial it is but I know that he has liked these commercials in the past:

He likes this one better. I believe if Sean was ever a surgeon he would be like this guy:

I can’t find a clip of the guy in the tub with the AT&T T-shirt on but I guess these two will have to suffice until maybe I can find out what kind of commercial it is tomorrow. Hopefully Sean and I can watch two more episodes of, Prodigal Son.I told him that I can’t watch episodes by myself because it’s so scary!

My cousinT, Shannon, posted this short video Sean and me on Facebook on Thursday. I can’t figure out how to share this shirt video but I remember taking it end it was 16 years ago at the Livonia Spree. Another Facebook friend screenshot it for me:

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I took my breath away! I reposted it with my thoughts:

“My cousinT, Shannon posted this and I cannot stop watching it! I am pretty sure that I was standing in that video and I can’t believe my baby is so little! I can’t get over how young I was! Thanks so much for sharing this, Shan!!! What a great #TBT!!!”

My friends‘ reactions to this post on Facebook keeps showing up in my notifications which causes me to watch the video over and over! I absolutely love it!

*The screenshot she sent me is my profile picture on both Facebook and Twitter right now. I am standing in this video and an so much darker than this kid! Man, I LOVE HIM!!!

The medication Sean has been on for the past five days were not working. It was painful to hear him cough so vigorously in the morning! I was concerned that even though it dried out a little bit, it still sounded wet. A wet cough could mean continued pneumonia. He wanted to go to school today. It was the final day for the antibiotic and he really wasn’t sounding much better.

He had a follow up appointment today. His new internist has seen him three times in the past three weeks. He was also concerned that he was not getting better and he told him that he looked worse. I know he said that because my Mom went to the appointment with him. I was so grateful that she went with him.

Sean does not think that his premature birth is the big deal and he just dismisses me when I tell him that he was born with underdeveloped lungs and two months preemie IS a big deal!

They were at the doctor’s office for a while and when they got back, my Mom and Sean, (But mostly my Mom) let me know that he got two chest x-rays and they drew blood. The doctor was surprised that he was none better and he prescribed a stronger medication.

Sean took his new medication and went to sleep so I made the follow up appointment for next Friday. When I spoke with a nurse from the office, she told me that Sean needs to finish all of his medication before seeing the doctor next Friday and the doctor will decide if and when he can go back to school.

My Mom let me know that hospitalization is NOT off the table yet so Sean needs to be home. Being a young man, he doesn’t really appreciate that but I need him healthy! We got to watch two episodes of Prodigal Son today. Sean is not a big-time Binger like I am but I like to watch TV with him whenever I can! He doesn’t really have a choice right now anyway!