Rain, Rain...

Well, guess I really don't mind the rain since I don't intend to go anywhere today. After that trip to the eye center with Ethan... The trip Thursday went by super fast. I was a bit disappointed when I found out that his arrival time at the hospital on Friday was to be 10:30 -- which meant he probably wouldn't be taken back to the OR until noon. Then Friday morning at 7:00, the hospital called -- there was a cancellation, would we mind coming in at 9:00 instead -- WOO HOO! We'd get home earlier!! Not so. After sitting in OR waiting area - where he gets his gown and pre-medication and all (a little 7x7 foot room with chairs and computer/monitors etc) for over 45 minutes before anyone ever came by... Then we're finally told around 10:45 that he's next, get ready... Whirlwind of events and nurses scampering about chaotically... Um, sorry, he has to wait. Gotta do a cataract surgery first and it will be at least 2 hours. So we sat in that tiny room for over 4 hours. Ethan wasn't taken back into the OR until almost 2:00. He hadn't eaten since 6pm the night before. He kept asking for ravioli and crying. We didn't pull out of the hospital parking lot until 4:11. But they let us have free parking because of the wait. Gee, thanks. Traffic was rough for a while. We stopped at one place to eat - all we could find on the interstate - a chicken and BBQ place -- thinking they'd have something Ethan could eat. But no. So I had to put the starving child back into the car as he screamed asking for potatoes. We finally find a Bojangles 30 miles down the interstate and get him some mashed potatoes and a biscuit. Poor thing. We didn't get home until about 9:45 last night. And he didn't go back to sleep until a little after 11. But we're doing okay this morning -- and when I asked him what he wanted for breakfast this morning, he said ravioli. : )