Author: Jen Rios

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!

Today, Sean and I watched, The Longest Yard on Netflix. Not the Adam Sandler movie; but the original one with Burt Reynolds in it from 1974.

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I actually fell asleep watching it for a little while but both of Sean and I finished it strong. It kind of was a ridiculous movie! Sean and I laughed at the, “High-tech” cinematography. I just liked watching a movie with my son. It was like the old days.

We also watched the pilot episode of, The Prodigal Son. He was interested in it just as I was. I told him that I wouldn’t watch it unless I was with him because he told me I would binge it all in a day. That IS totally like me; but, I prefer to watch TV with my son if and when I get the chance. He retreated to his room to rest after that. He wants to go to school tomorrow but I told him that he can’t go until the doctor clears him. I don’t think it sounds very well at this point.

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Yesterday, Sean let me know that, “Pneumonia sucks!” I completely agree with him even though I have never had it. My Mom is making sure that I don’t get it by pumping me full of vitamins and making sure I drink my tea every day:

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This tea is to reinforce my immune system. Sean stays in his room most of the day but we have watched a little bit of TV today. He came out this afternoon and watched, Leap Year with me. He told me that it is a tolerable movie that I watch on the time. I’ll take it!

It really stinks to hear him cough so much but it seems like the cough is drying up a bit because of the medicine. Because of all of the congestion, he has a slight headache as well. It hurts to hear all of his pain! I agree, “ Pneumonia (MUST) suck!”