Poor Connor spent a good portion of last night throwing up. So he stayed home from school today and we cleaned out the master bedroom closet. I did the cleaning part, and he did the lying-around-and-looking-cute-in-between-throwing-up part. There was one exciting moment when I found a lavender sachet we missed in the Great Lavender Roundup of 2009 (Connor is deathly allergic to lavender, for those who don't know) but otherwise the day was about as scintillating as you might expect of any day in which closet cleaning is the highlight of the activity. At least it wasn't very exciting in terms of what I did.
What Jeremy did, however, is a whole other story. My husband got back behind the wheel of a vehicle for the first time since August! He drove himself to the gym, to physical therapy, and to a bicycle shop (he's considering taking up biking to replace marathon running as his main outdoor hobby). I must admit that I was a bit nervous about the whole thing-- I sort of carried the phone around with me the entire time he was gone. I am happy to note that I refrained from calling him eight billion times to ask him if he was fine-- something that took a great deal of self-restraint on my part. I managed it by reminding myself that he has a good twelve years of prior driving experience to rely on so smothering him might not be a good idea, and also that he wouldn't be picking up the phone anyway as talking on a cell while driving is sort of illegal in this state.
But I shouldn't have worried, because Jer didn't kill anyone or get into any horrific accidents or anything! And I'm really excited about him being back behind the wheel because it means that I'm no longer responsible for getting two people to all of their appointments. Also it gives Jer a lot more freedom, which is probably pretty nice for him. It's got to be really frustrating to be dependent on someone else whenever you want to pop by the store. This is one more step down the road to complete recovery for him, and I'm so excited about it!
As an added bonus now I can totally send him to grocery store for more ice cream rather than having to make up an excuse to go get it myself. I can claim that it's good practice or something. Score!
~Jess
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What a fantastic bit of progress! (Um, I mean Jer's driving, not so much the lavender thing...) I hope you got a picture of his maiden voyage? ;-)
Good. now he can start training the velociraptors. :)
Woohooo! And now he finally gets control over the car stereo, too. Is he using the pedals normally, or some sort of adaptive rig?
Awesome news! Though he wasn't really going to the "store." He was visiting his secret Predator Breeding facility.
Lemee know if Jer needs any cycling advice. I'd be happy to put him in touch with Ryan, who as you probably know is a complete cycling nut. He worked at the dallas bike mart for years so he probably has tons of advice about what brand/style/etc would be best for whatever Jer wants to do.
Jer actually used to ride a lot when he was younger ... did the "Hotter n Hell Hundred" once or twice and the Muenster ride several times as a passenger behind James.
It's important to have more than one ice cream getter in a household - a back up ice cream getting strategy in place - in case of an ice cream emergency. We have a lot of those around here!
Not to mention he stopped and got breakfast too. Although that better not mean you're not coming in anymore!
That is great news!
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