What a day...

Oy Vey... What a day....

This morning started early and ended late.

Yesterday as I arrived home I was greeted by a sheriffs deputy who informed me that our car tags had been suspended due to something with the emissions. Well that totally changed our night. Zach and Ellie had to miss the after school Lemonade War Activity and Book Fair. Poor kids were so upset and I do not blame them. They were kind of okay with it when they were allowed to get into a water fight.

We still had to go pick Celidah up from her drivers ed class anyway. There was no other way to get her home, so dad left to get her.

This morning I left early with Corbyn for his neurology appointment because he needed to get his blood drawn.  Knowing the tags were suspended and the car would fail the emissions again, I had to take it in anyway and see what would happen.

Taking the car in turned out to be a good thing because another failure, extended our time to work on the car and lift the suspension on the tags. With the emission test done, Corbyn and I left and headed to his neurology appointment in Baltimore.

Using the GPS I got onto the freeway, then turned it off because I knew where I was going. During the drive there, the University of Maryland called to cover the needed information for Jade's scopes tomorrow (Thursday) and while talking with the nurse I missed the needed exit because I was on the toll road. I normally do not take but today I did, because I did not have time to deal with traffic.

Taking the next exit, I figured I could turn around and get right back onto 895, then take the correct exit. This is not what I did. Instead, I hopped onto 95 heading towards NYC, the EXACT opposite direction that I needed to be heading. Baltimore was now in my rear view mirror. At least I was not heading into the toll road and into the tunnels. So I drove for about 5 minutes (maybe more), hopped onto 695 heading towards Essex and hoped I could take the 1st exit, turn around again, get back onto 95, go back to Baltimore, and then be back on the right path. Good thing, I was right.

However, by this point we were already late and I had tried calling neurology to lat them know we were late (very late now) and lost, but still coming, but I did not have their number in my cell phone. So I had to teach Corbyn how to use my phone and totally talk home through it while driving, so I could contact his doctor through the scheduling office. We could not connect. Instead, We got the message "This office is closed for lunch, call back after 2:30" ?????

Oh goodness, I was not having a good day so far. I had already lost it at the emissions office, yes, lost tears there. The lady was wonderful and helped me understand the process, re-grip, recollect, and gather myself again. She was wonderful. Got lost driving to a hospital I have been to a million times and could probably drive to in my sleep. Arrived and discovered we were 40 minutes late for Corbyn's appointment 0_o

His doctor did not have a 2:30 appointment, so she was able to see his after all. We had a good appointment and a game plan set in place. He will have a 4 hour EEG, if nothing is captured then he will have an in-patient EEG with hopes of capturing something. If they still do not capture anything while in-patient then we will know that his passing out episodes are not cardiac or seizure related. However, like his neurologist said, it will not help us know why he is spacing out, and passing out like he is. But until we know what is up he still not able to participate in golf, archery, any sport other than swimming. He can still do his music, drama, and art based things, just nothing with running, contact, unless he has close supervision and nothing with quick movements.

We left Johns Hopkins with just enough time to grab Celidah and Frank, get Celidah to her drivers ed class, for Frank and I get the house paperwork signed and notarized and in the fed-ex drop box, run home, grab the rest of the kids, and get Zach to the Elementary school for his concert.

One spring concert and 1 play down, 2 concerts to go.