Our Life Lessons: Week 13 - Concussion, Great Sand Dune, and LDS General Conference

We got on a plane to come home on Palm Sunday. We got to the airport super early.

Underfoot tried to take of all the details so I wouldn't have to read the boards and not tire my brain. Sweetheart called before we left to fly home. Underfoot took the phone away from me and said to Sweetheart, "Mom needs to go to the Urgent Care immediately when we get home. Do you understand?" I found it was very sweet.

We arrived home. All our bags arrived before we did, and we went directly to the urgent care. The doctor came in, and Underfoot said, "My Mom doesn't take medicine ever. She has taken it the last 2 days. I think she has a concussion." The doctor took him seriously. We did the concussion screening. He started to ask questions about dates, presidents, events, and such. I have the same birthday as the doctor. He was trying to figure out what to ask. I just gave him the events that were to coming up. The only one I struggled with was subtracting 7 from 100. I got stuck in the 70s.

He recommended no screens, no reading, limited appointments, limited driving, hydration, and rest for the week. If I began to throw up or pass out, I would get a trip to ER. We returned home, and they put me to bed. Sweetheart helped me to cancel, reschedule, or ask for a substitute for the appointments for the week.

Sweetheart had ordered one part for the car three times. It came on Tuesday, and he replaced the part. He scheduled an alignment for Thursday. We were a 1 car family until Thursday. Our week was take Sweetheart to work, take boys to school, I would come home and go to bed then pick up the boys and then get Sweetheart.

There were some appointments we couldn't cancel like piano, orchestra, and the dentist. Underfoot had a baby tooth that was pulled since it was a little loose and had a cavity in it that was super deep. I was more cost effective than fixing the cavity.

We made the decision in January to go to the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Pagosa Springs for the weekend.

Before we left to go, the boys wanted to attend the Parent Teacher Conferences. We arrived right when the conferences started and place the boys in lines to meet with their different teachers. Parent Teacher Conference is our health gym with the teachers on the outside of the gym for parents to meet with them. We met with all five teachers in under one hour. It must've been a record. The boys teachers reported that they are doing well and are progressing.

We were excited to see the Great Sand Dunes National Park. We arrived close to sunset and had brought a piece of cardboard to use as a sled. At the Sand Dunes, sledding is a summertime event. We learned as we were traveling that the cardboard most likely wouldn't work. We could rent a sled but it was 40 minutes away.

The boys still wanted to try and carried the piece of cardboard out to the Sand Dunes. We had a lot of fun seeing those natural phenomena. A professional photographer it was set up to take pictures along the side of the road.

He snapped a really nice picture of us.

We came to Pagosa Springs for LDS General conference weekend. On Saturday morning, we attended the solemn assembly at the local chapel. We had the opportunity to sustain Russell M Nelson as the prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We hope that our boys will remember that experience. Many other wonderful things were announced during conference such as changes in how we minister to each other, temple announcements, and that the men will meet together and not be separated by their office in the priesthood it any longer.

Between sessions we watched movies, went swimming at the swimming pool, found made yummy food. One of the things that we did was to die Easter eggs with onion skins. There is a story of the grandmothers who would dye Easter eggs after World War II and share this with their grandchildren that lived in eastern Europe. We watch the movie Wonder with Sweetheart.

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