What a couple of days!

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OK, I'll get back to my unanswered discussions soon, I promise, but what a couple of days... Everybody's been sick for weeks. First Dearra came home with a cough, then Cary got it really badly, then Tony, then me, and now Naomi. Problem with Tony getting it is that he has copd and kidney disease, so you have to watch him really carefully. Meanwhile, he was drinking lots of orange juice, hoping he wouldn't get a high fever or bronchitis. Yesterday at lunch he got a call from his coach that his potassium was high, too much orange juice. And for the last couple of days his legs have been hurting. Last night at dialysis his chest started hurting and they told him to go to the ER. So that's what my night was like last night. Drove him up to Kaiser and sat while they did test after test. Bronchitis. So they decided to keep him overnight, and I went home because I have children that I have to get to school. Got about 3 1/2 hours of sleep when the alarm woke me up from a dream about hospitals. So I dropped the kids, called in sick, went back to sleep, and was woken up after less than 2 hours to go pick Tony up. Got home, went back to sleep. After I woke up, I had lunch and watched my soap, then went to pick up the kids. I went to the middle school first, mainly because the high school has too much traffic at that time of day. Texted Naomi that I'd meet her by the gym, because Cary has track. Waited and waited, didn't realize that track doesn't get out until 3:30 (cross country last fall got out between 3 and 3:15). Naomi came by a little after 3. At 3:30, no Cary. So Naomi went and looked in the gym. No Cary. She asked a teacher, who looked in the boy's locker room. No Cary. Meanwhile, Dearra had given up waiting for us, and had walked over. So, a little worried, but not panicked, we drove over to the teen center. There was Cary, happily playing video games with his friend. Apparently he had fallen during school and scraped his knee, told a friend he wasn't going to track, and walked over to the teen center. Sigh. Told him that next time he was to go and tell a teacher, a track teacher specifically, if something like that happened. Sigh. Both girls commented that this was why Cary needs a phone. Also why Cary can't be trusted with a phone. Tell me again why it's illegal to strangle your children? I need to be reminded...