A good day

Today is a good day even though it is Monday. It is early out day at school, a short day in a short work week before a holiday that includes family getting together. Who could ask for more?

I did have a couple of glitches, but they were ok. The pharmacy messed up and someone forgot to order my prescription. I am the only customer they have that uses this particular medicine and they have to have it drop shipped to them. They are supposed to have one as a spare at all time. So they order two, give me one and then order another. Someone didn't order the spare so when I filled my prescription last month, I got the last one and when I went in today- no medicine. They can have it here on Wed. It is an injection and it will be ok to inject 24 hrs. later than normal, but it would have been a problem if I had been going on vacation this week. The pharmacist was unhappy with his staff. But it will all be good in the end.

Also, I had my first real emergency as a first responder at school today. I have dealt with a couple of sprained ankles and hurt wrists and "I'm not feeling so well" but this afternoon, we had a student have a seizure in class. The teacher and other students were more upset than anything, but it was ok. I guess this student has seizures frequently, at night when he is asleep so it wasn't in his profile. His parents hadn't even filled out a medical emergency sheet for him. That is what upset me the most! How do you let your child go to school without emergency numbers in any case, but especially when they have a medical disorder! I guess because these seizures happen at night, they figured it wouldn't happen at school, but he had one last night and didn't sleep well and was tired and fell asleep in class.

Got home and there was a message from the Public Works Director for the city. He wanted me to call him. He could not apologize more for the flower problem. The city is going to pay for me a new peony bush for my front yard. He then asked how it could have been handled differently. I told him that if the crew had just taken 2 minutes to walk to my door and ask what I wanted them to do with the flowers, then there would have been no problem. So maybe he could have them just be more aware of what they take out of yards as they do this project that would help. We are all friends and all is taken care of, and I am a bit more happy about the whole thing. I even found a small piece of the peony bulb- very small- but I might be able to eventually nurse it back into a nice flower.

Saw this in the paper today and thought it was appropriate:

Not what we have, but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
J. Petit-Senn