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Last Thursday, we got serious medical news about my mother-in-law. We quickly arranged a flight to the east coast.

We flew east on Friday, and arrived to find my mother-in-law starting to rally.

Saturday, we celebrated her 82nd birthday, with her looking better than she had in months.

We spent much of Sunday at the hospital with her as well. I pulled a muscle in my back lifting my wifeÂ’s wheelchair out of the trunk.

Monday we flew home, my back aching. I was not a happy traveler. We also ran in to the TSA screener from Hell (more on her in another post).

Tuesday I saw the doctor. Pain pills and muscle relaxants left me pretty giddy after that visit.

Wednesday morning I was still hurting, so I played one more day of hooky from school.

I was really looking forward to school on Thursday – and made it through first period. That’s when I discovered that the back spasm had dislodged a kidney stone, which was taking that moment to work its way through the urinary tract. Back to the doctor. And for the morbidly curious, it passed late in the afternoon.

Finally, yesterday, after a good night's sleep, I went back to school. I have never been so happy to see a room full of kids in my life. After school, I took my darling wife to early vote in the Democrat primary here in Texas -- she couldn't stand in line for over an hour (and I'm not quite ready to lift that wheelchair yet), so needed me to do so in order to have the voting machine brought to her in the car. In the end I found myself so fatigued that I couldn't write.

But I'm back now. Let's see if I can get back into the normal flow of things.

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