What is WRONG with kids nowadays???

Today at school, we used funds from a MELMAC grant (you remember that name Sistas...they held our school loans for a time) to hold a career/college fair day. I have this group of sophs. who could not give a rat's patootie about their education/futures whatsoever! They soooo tick me off!
Can't tell you how many presenters asked me what was up with them...Jeesh. Here's an opportunity to observe direct hire companies, colleges, and a variety of other job and post high school situations, and they sat on their hands, some even uttering the dreadful 'I wish we had classes instead of this today' comments!!!! "Oh my GOD, Magnum" what is wrong with these kids!!!???

Ok...that's off my chest. Not that I feel better, but.....I think my son is seriously considering a lot of options at this point, so feel good about that.

Family issues are at the forefront this month....two nieces have gone away to college, one for the first year, the other for her third. I love them dearly, and always think about how they are faring, though have no doubts that they will be fine.
Brother #2 (or is that 3 with Bob in the mix?) is now "engaged" but no date is set...a good thing.................I guess. Wish him well, certainly, but don't really know this girl, except for a few not so wonderful experiences she has had with Drew. We shall see....like I said, I hope it works out for him/them. Kyle is fine...doing very well this year so far in school....spoke to his football coach tonight about a few concerns...something I rarely do, but Kyle has a hard time being assertive, and now I know his coach has seen that too. He is a good man, and Ken was his major influence in being a coach to begin with, so he knows me very well. Ken knew the family well, coached both brothers in fact, and would be pleased that Don is Kyle's coach. He is very concerned with Kyle and wants desperately to find a role for him....hope he does. Hard to be a wide receiver in a running type offense though...suggested more defense and special teams, but we'll see. "It's a dog-eat-dog world and Kyle's wearin' Milk Bone underwear" at this point...not a snow ball's chance in He@* in other words!

As for me...have a second opinion meeting in Portland with Super Sib #1's referral, Dr. Haney, on the 20th of Oct. Now to just face the music of requesting my medical files and telling my Doc here that I am looking elsewhere on this one! Hopefully, he will understand why...if he doesn't, too bad! Need my whole body to do my job...not just my hands like he does. Who knows though, I may not hear what I want anyhow, so it's still so up in the air.

That's about it on the Brewer front kids......Ciao!

Kimmie

And the hits just keep on coming...

Well, it seems my super sibs are finally back on line again, so I guess it's my turn(?) Alas, I have larger fish to fry than Sarah Palin...sorry girls, not even going to waste my time there. Personally, I think we should be able to throw all four of them back and tell this country we want new candidates all around!

Kim is a bit jaded these days...her health triangle has been off balance for too long. Finally, I got some good news on the infected right ankle...it is healing just fine after a bit of an ugly scare...but, as I said, "the hits just keep on coming."
I told my Dr. that I was more concerned with the two time repaired left ankle as I still cannot bear the weight of my own body on my toes there yet, something I can already do on my right. He said he knew that and didn't "want to concern me until the other one was out of the woods." Great...in other words, he has known this is not good. Apparently, to make a long story short, my left achilles tendon is too long...or "stretched" and will not, therefore, allow my calf muscle to contract properly...it is misfiring, or rather NOT firing. Now, a stretched ligament and/or tendon indicates a clinical sprain, but that is an acute injury that I would surely have felt...and I did not. He gave me no explanation (as usual) about why it is like this, only that another surgery would have to be done to shorten it....HUH??? I don't think so, Doc. Not by him anyhow...he had two chances already at it, and I still need another surgery? What the heck?!!!

Emotionally, he didn't suggest I do this now...(ya think!). The problem is, I HAVE to be able to run to do my job, and by run I don't mean miles at a time like I REALLY want, but simply up and down fields, courts, and just to escape injury from flying objects on any surface! So, somehow, I need someone to fix this....again!

I am seeking a second (or more) opinion at this time, and thank you Gretch for your contribution. Portland is really the closest that I dare go, as these guys here will simply circle the wagons around this man, and I may not get the honest answer that I am looking for...of course I am being skeptical at the moment, but come on...realistically, if I totally ruptured it the second time, as in laterally, it ought to be shorter now anyhow! Furthermore, if he hadn't put me in that damn boot to begin with, THAT wouldn't even have happened. Yes, Kimmie is just a tad irritated. Ken's friend Joe, also my lawyer, will also be called....just in case. I know it sounds odd, and in a way inappropriate, but my body IS my livelihood at this point in my life. As much as I love to be physically fit, I also HAVE to be.

Anyhow, that is where my head is at these past few days. To add insult to injury, I have also been walking around with a partially torn hamstring and/or tendon in my right butt...it hurts too! Not sure if it is from over compensating or an "acute injury"....I think the injury is probably more likely since I was just getting back to being able to do things again last May when I started feeling it. The MRI showed a tear... I guess I really AM going to have to face aging once and for all. I was hoping the damn reading glasses would be enough though!!!hahaha

Enjoy!
Kim