Why marry a Doctor, if he is not home when you need him?

Today I needed the services of Dr. Knight two times. Well, three if you count the alcoholic drink I will be sipping in twenty minutes that only he is good at making.

This morning Claire woke up puking. She puked up her water and Superfood. The only things that she put in her stomach. Then she had a serious case of the runs. She slept all morning long, only waking up to puke more, and had a slight fever. Where was Josh? At the hospital, most likely saving lives. What a bum.

Then, as strange as it started, it stopped. Around 1 in the afternoon, she seemed to miraculously get better, her stomach didn't hurt anymore, and she wanted to play. Crisis one averted.

A few hours later, Levi and his buddies where building a fort near our swamp. As Levi was holding up a piece of wood, something fell into his eye. He was in a lot of pain and crying. We got him into the house, but he could not open his eye or tell me what happened. I finally pried it open, and saw nothing. But he was still in a lot of pain, so I called Josh and told him to meet us at the Emergency Room.

There, Josh took a look at Levi's eye. He did not see anything either, but Levi still could not open it, it was watering up like crazy and it was really red. We decided to flush it out. Josh got a syringe with solution and then, in the ER parking lot, with me holding Levi's body down with my legs, and prying his eye open with my hands, we managed to get a few drops into his eye. He was screaming like a banshee.

After that, it didn't seem to really solve the problem. We decided to wait a few minutes to let him rest. A couple minutes later, he fell asleep in my arms (ah, bliss!) When he was asleep, I lifted up his eyelid and right there on the top, was a big piece of dirt. Well, not too big, this is his eyelid we are talking about!

So then, Josh went back into the hospital and got a sterile q-tip. Once again, we lifted the eyelid of the sleeping Levi, and Josh was able to get the dirt in one quick sweep. Levi woke up about 30 seconds later and immediately said "hey, my eye feels better!" He was relieved when we showed him the dirt that was in his eye.

That saved us a $75 co-pay for an ER visit!