Balance

Required listening:
I searched for an appropriate balance song but couldn’t find one. If you have suggestions please send them. I may have to write one myself, until then listen to these, they're kind of on topic and are just great songs.

The Weight – The Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfyjhtOTy1s

Tightrope - Stevie Ray Vaughn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e0pO2fBGLY

Tightrope - Leon Russell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Z9qN8R9Bg

Baseball season has left us. The Yankees take their rightful place at the top of the heap and balance can now return to the planet. If you’re paying attention you’ll notice things have been off center since the season following the Yanks 26th World Series victory in 2000. It is now time for the rest of the world to get back on track.

This is what we are trying to do here on our little slice of earth - center, balance, return to normalcy, or at least to the level of functionality we enjoyed before Renee’s organs began piping out disharmony. We thought we were getting all of this under control. We thought Renee was on track to return to work following Thanksgiving break. And then …. and then … the letter came.

Renee got selected for jury duty the first two weeks of December. Maybe Big Brother knows better than us when Renee should return to work. Maybe the great and good government realizes that the daycare center, uh hmm, I mean pre-school, is nothing but a germ-inator. They are teaching the kids letters and numbers like H1N1 but when the swine invades the temple you know it’s a good idea to stay away, at least until they can get a kosher flu bug to spread.

Medically, Renee makes progress daily, except for those days following the iron infusions then she is asking if I got the number of the truck that hit her. Three more intravenous helpings and her stores should be filled. When the post-op body trauma has calmed the iron storage mechanisms should return also.

We got word this week that her B-12 is way below where it should be though. B-12 deficiency is definitely not what you want to hear when you are in post-op recovery. When this little vitamin stops being absorbed it can cause a dozen problems. We’re waiting on the blood doc to tell us what the course of action will be to deal with this. Hopefully it is just a blip but our radar is working overtime.

The accountant in me is trying to work in a balance sheet metaphor but this is about a different type of reckoning. It is all just a balancing act by a confirmed klutz who is angling for the scales to tip her way. Maybe she needs one of those poles the highwire artists carry - Yes! The ideas for the mandatory giving of useless presents season are formulating.