Well, the week was dominated by medical issues, just not the usual kind. The kids all went to summer PE on Monday as usual, but Natalie rolled her ankle during warm-ups...badly. Then the teacher rolled her eyes, said "there's always something wrong with you," and wouldn't send her to the nurse. Made her run on it. Told her to just stretch it out and she'd be fine. Well, after all day at PE when Beth picked the kids up, she took Nat straight to the ER where they found out she has a broken 5th metatarsal. And in serious pain. Ooooooo are Beth and I pissed. So she's going to have a walking boot for about a month, after which she'll be re-evaluated to see how it's healing, and the doctor gave 50-50 odds that he'd have to put a screw in her foot at that time. Sheesh. I was at the school the next day demanding of the teacher's boss to know why this happened. So yeah, the teacher never should have made a diagnosis herself, should have informed the nurse, etc etc and they're very sorry. (It even got back to Nat the next day that the teacher was overheard in the hall saying Natalie should have just sucked it up). So she's hobbled, and summer gym is over for her. However, turns out that there is such a thing as an online PE course, believe it or not, and she can finish her summer gym requirement that way. She has to enroll online and will read a bunch of information and take a bunch of quizzes on it, and since she had a week in the class she doesn't have to keep logs or actually do any exercise. They'll give her credit for time served, it seems. So we'll just have to keep her at that, and it'll finish her PE requirement without ever having to take gym at school.
Tuesday the softball team lost again, after giving the other team a good run. We led for a while but couldn't hold it and lost 11-10. Nat walked to the ball diamond but was in too much pain to walk back so she got a piggyback ride from me.
This was Father's Day weekend, but it didn't exactly work out that way. Friday was Missy's birthday, and she had a pool party (finally it got warm enough). I picked up the pizza on the way home and then picked up Missy and a bunch of other girls at the movies where they had gone to see "Incredibles 2" which everyone said was awesome, just as good as the original. Then party duties in the evening (cutting cake and all). Saturday, we took the cats to the vet (again) to get them some of those flea pills, since the FrontLine again doesn't seem to be working and we're getting  a lot of fleas off them. Just like last year, not what we want. Later, Natalie's half-sister was having a birthday party for her son up near Milford and wanted Natalie to come, so I brought her over. I was going to stay there just in case things got panicky for her but she said she was fine and didn't want me to stay. So I left her, and as soon as I got home I had to run back there to bring her her bathing suit which she had forgotten. A bit later on she called and asked if she could stay overnight at Cara's, and we decided to let her but we did run her meds and other things over to her. I took Alex out driving later on in the day, we drove around for around half an hour..his first time on the roads! Sunday was the real day. Natalie called in the morning and asked if she could go to Deep River Waterpark with Cara (her boyfriend's parents had surprised them with tickets to the park and were paying for her too). Despite better instincts, we let her go. We really want her to have some positive relationships with her family and we thought this would be nice for her. Anyway, meanwhile Beth's had a cyst on her chest that apparently got infected, it's been hard and red and sore and Dr. Dick told her to go to the ER if it got worse over the weekend, which it did. So we were in the ER on Sunday afternoon, with her getting the abscess drained (gross) and getting a scrip for some heavy duty antibiotics. That took a few hours, and almost immediately after we got home Natalie called and asked us to come get her. And hurry. She was very panicky and hurting. So I made the 3 hour round trip to get her. She slept in the car a good part of the way back home. We grilled steaks for dinner (all me) to celebrate Father's Day.