I left the house this morning at 8:15 to take Brynja to town for her PKU blood test and a check-up with the pediatrician.\u00a0 Our appointment was for 8:45;\u00a0 you’d think that they wouldn’t have had time to get terribly behind schedule at that hour of the morning, but you’d be quite wrong.\u00a0 The doctor didn’t show up until 10:20, by which point I’d already nursed the baby twice, read every pamphlet in the place more than once, and been out to feed more money into the parking meter.\u00a0 Seriously, would it kill them to get a magazine or two?<\/p>\n
And if all that waiting weren’t bad enough, once we got in to see the doctor it took them four<\/i> sticks to get enough blood for the test, and I had to hold my four-day-old babe down for every single one.\u00a0 They don’t just poke in the needle, either … they poke it in, then move it back and forth and wiggle it around under the skin, trying–mostly in vain, ha!–to find a vein, then squeeze, hard<\/i> to get their few measly drops of blood.\u00a0 Her poor little hands and arms are going to be black and blue tomorrow.<\/p>\n
I would gladly have sent Olof in my place, or at least taken him along for moral support, but he was home waiting for the washing machine repairman, who had arranged to come at 9:30.\u00a0 Turns out he was late as well, but Olof was lucky enough to be somewhere with a well-stocked Nintendo Wii while he waited.\u00a0 And though it set us back a pretty öre<\/i>, we did get an almost fully restored washer out of the deal (apparently the water pump may be on its way out, but that’s a worry for another day).<\/p>\n
That was all sorted by the time Brynja and I got home, but when I pulled into the driveway I noticed the chimney sweep’s truck in the driveway.\u00a0 I’d known he was coming today, but he was scheduled for between noon and three o’clock;\u00a0 it was just past eleven when I arrived, and he’d already been here long enough to be all but finished with his sweeping and whatnot.\u00a0 “Timetables be damned!” was our theme for the day, apparently.<\/p>\n
In any case, his early arrival and departure left us enough time to run to town for a quick lunch before Lydia came home from school, and I have to say that sitting down to a toasty Subway melt and a bag of salt-and-vinegar chips made all the earlier craziness of the day slip right away.\u00a0 Well, that and the two-hour nap I lay down to–all by myself (not counting two dogs and a cat, of course)–nearly as soon as we walked back in our own front door.\u00a0 Thank God for paternity leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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