BALL GAME YAY, EXCITING-GRAMMYS BOO, BORING

Colby is going back to school tomorrow. I think that's a good idea. It is, isn't it? He's been on his antibiotic for 6 days now. He still has a tremendous amount of secretions/snot/whatever you wish to call it. I have suctioned his mouth and nose more times today than I care to mention. He was do for a trach change tomorrow, but we went ahead and did it tonight. But he has no fever, acts like he feels fine, and his trach has stayed clear. So we shall see. It'll be fine, won't it?

I have a confession to make, so here it goes. I dropped Colby yesterday. Ok, it wasn't a real drop, maybe more of a plop. Or it was sort of a dump actually. Regardless of what you call it, it sucked. I was trying to transfer him from his bath chair to the couch, which is something I've done, on my own, a blue billion times. And this time it just wasn't working. I couldn't hold his head and he started sliding, and sliding. I don't know how, but he ended up going plop, face down into the couch. You can only imagine how freaked I was. I just knew I hurt him, or his trach was going to be messed up, or I broke a bone because of his low bone density. I checked him over from head to toe. Stretched him out. He never cried, or whimpered, or winced, nothing. He was un-phased. I cried hysterically for over an hour, but Colby, just fine. You'd never know he took a tumble. So if you're going to tell me to stop picking him up by myself, save your breath. Trust me, I'll never take the chance of that happening again. God love him, that Colby is a one tough stinker, that's for sure.

I'm watching the Grammys right now, although I don't know why. I'm quite unimpressed with it all. Think I'll go read to Colby for a few minutes once his nurse is done with his cough treatment. I was impressed, however, by IU's performance today against Ohio State. Lovin' me some Hoosiers. They played awesomely awesome today. Colby even watched the game with me. For some reason he wouldn't have anything to do with eye gaze today. I mean nothing, he just wasn't going to do it.

Guess that's about it. Colby and I took it easy yesterday. That's a nice way of saying we didn't do diddly jack crap. I went to Wal-Mart tonight once his nurse got here. I've been asking myself why ever since. It was a mess. For some reason, it was packed. It looked like the week before Christmas in there. I almost just walked out, but there were some items I needed for Colby, so I toughed it out. Got him the cutest t-shirt. Well, Colby didn't need that, but I thought he might have just wanted it, so I got it for him.

I'll let you know how Colby's school day goes tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed. Later, gators.