This weekend all of us (except Heidi) ran in the Twilight 5k. Tru did the 1 mile run in about 12 minutes. I was so proud of her. Now that I know she has such stamina, she’ll have to run with Erin and me. Here is a video of the event:

And as an extra, here is a funny video of Heidi and her blanket:

(For both videos, click on the button at the lower right to change from standard 340 to 720p HD (higher quality).)

About 5 minutes later, the doorbell rings. It’s the real estate agent. They hadn’t even seen the house yet! Apparently, they spent all that time while I was waiting on them at some other house. Grr. I race to clean up the house, shuffle Seiko outside, wake Heidi up from her nap, and go on a walk. Seiko poops in the yard of the nicest house on our block, which happens to be having its roof replaced at that very instant; thus, the yard is full of witnesses to Seiko’s offense. I have to scrounge up a scrap of shingle packaging to pick it up and go all the way back to our house to throw it away. I get poop on my finger in the process. I can’t go inside to wash my hands, though, so I just have to wipe it on my jeans! BARF. I drag the kids and the arthritic dog kicking, screaming, and whining around the block, stopping at Susan Sibley Beams’s house to wash my hands. (I LOVE YOU, Susan.) The last block of our walk, Heidi is so sleepy that she kneels to rest every 15 feet. We finally got back a few minutes ago. Now I’m off to wash my poopy jeans.

ETA: Just got a request for another showing today! I’m glad for the interest, but I am sooo tired!

We called 911 and got her out. She may have been complete knocked out for a second, but we’re not sure. The salesman pulled the door off of her, and she looked so tiny crumpled up on the floor. It really looked like she was very badly hurt. By the time we picked her up, her eyes were halfway open and she was flailing, quiet, and unresponsive. As she became more responsive, she began grimacing with only half her face, twitching one of her arms, and flexing her legs together very severely. She started crying about 2 minutes after the door came off. She and Tru and I rode in the ambulance to the hospital, which took forever and a day. When we got there, they did a CT scan and X-ray of her head, chest, back, and arms and didn’t see any injuries. I am just flabbergasted that she didn’t have any broken bones.

She acted lethargic for the rest of that day, and sore and tired the next day. She got happier though, so we were surprised when she spiked a 103.5 fever on the third day. We took her back to the hospital, and the doctor told us there was a small possibility that a tiny skull fracture could have been invisible on the X-ray but still been large enough to allow spinal meningitis to develop. We were to wait it out. Luckily, Heidi didn’t develop any more symptoms and eventually got over what was apparently just a virus. Unluckily, the rest of us caught it from her, and we are just now beginning to feel better. A real estate agent warned us this would happen! It’ll take you 2 weeks working your butts off to fix up the house to sell, she said, and as soon as you list your house you’ll all get sick!

Tru had to have two fillings last week and has to have three more in the coming weeks. Her dentist says that the location of the cavities tells him that better brushing could not have prevented these cavities. She’s just inherited Mike’s teeth and may have issues her whole life. I sure hope that Heidi inherited mine! I’ve never had a cavity in my life. Her experience was hilarious, though. We’d told her ahead of time that she’d have to smell some yummy-smelling air during the procedure. Somehow she’d gotten the idea that they were going to stick things in her nose to make that happen, so she was very relieved to find out that it only involved breathing from a small red nose covering. The dentist called her Rudolph the whole time! She got very relaxed and very happy on the nitrous. She kept saying funny things like “Mommy! I looooooooooooooove yoooooooouuuuuuuu!” and “I’m DIZZZZZZZYYYYYY!” After we went home, she bit her lip pretty badly, so it’s all swollen in the only snow pictures we managed to take this year.

We had half an inch of snow the day before her dentist appointment, and amazingly, some of it has stuck around. I believe today is day 6 with snow on the ground. Many lakes iced over, and the temperatures were in the teens and twenties many days. Tru had a blast playing in it. Check out the pictures section of our website for new pictures.

Update #1 5:00 PM: I’m home! I’m sore, but otherwise, I’m fine. I’m in pain when I’m not medicated, but I have lots of fun drugs to help me with that. Thanks for all the prayers and thoughts!

Update #2 Nov. 18th: Got confirmation last week that the tumor was benign. Yay.

Please pray first and foremost that God’s will be done in this situation. Secondly, pray that this is indeed a benign tumor that can be removed easily.