So i get this call

... at 8am this morning.

T says "are you sitting down? "No, no one's gone postal at school. No, i don't think you need to run to the emergency room...."

Seems #1's knee cap decided to take the circuitous route while she was bending to tie her shoe - and it ended up way east of where it should have been as she went sliding to the floor! They wheelchaired her to the office (posse [of boys] in tow) where her counselor - giving new meaning to being a "whiter shade of pale" - notified her father whom, after seeing her, was now calling me. By now... i was sitting down.

me? i called the doctor to get a referral to an orthopedic surgeon, whom we saw this very afternoon. End result... that's one messed-up knee cap.

#1 spent the evening being fitted for an immobilizer brace which she is to wear 24/7 for the next two weeks in addition to three visits a week to the physical therapist. There will be a re-eval then and - we'll see what we see. Until then she's an unhappy and uncomfortable babe who is getting a LOT of attention.

Now i have to figure out how i'm going to fit 3 two-hour sessions of PT a week into the family schedule!!

Exhausted and signing off.