OT: Why I am up and reading rctn at 4am

Trish Brown · 2008-11-08T17:29:37+00:00

It's a long story. I'm too antsy to sleep, so if you wanna read my long story, then settle back while I type it all out, OK? If not, then please skip this post.About six months ago, DS was rostered as cantor at Mass. I wasn't going on that particular weekend, on account of an endearingly attractive conjunctivitis, so my saintly DSS offered to transport DS (who doesn't drive) up to the church for me.'Oh great!' I said, 'I'll make an apple pie for dessert if you'll do that for me!' And I set about doing so.Not five minutes after they left, both boys were back again, DS holding onto his right arm and looking for all the world as if he were about to fade away before my very eyes. He was nearly transparent and his teeth were shattering as he sat shakily down. Apparently, he'd stepped out of the car and his foot landed on a recently-felled tree branch which was poking onto the kerb. It rolled, he fell, he tried to break his fall with a stiff arm and - KRUNCH!!! - dislocated his shoulder!The pain must've been pretty bad, because DS has Asperger's and, like many other Aspergetic people, has an extremely high pain tolerance. He was *gibbering* and could barely string two words together! We didn't mess about. DH whacked him straight in the car and took him up to The John (local hospital) where they gave him morphine and a heavy sandbag to hold while the joint settled back into its socket. It was painful, time-consuming and very scary for poor DS, who doesn't do large public places very well at all.Back to the present.DH and I had sat up far too late, so were pretty bushed by the time we fell into bed at mumble-mumble am. I was having an interesting dream about water-filled balloons when one of them exploded and I heard Matt (DS) cry out! Sitting bolt upright in bed, I heard a loud commotion and DS croaked 'Mum! Dad! Help me!'The bloody, *bloody* cat had leapt off the wardrobe onto his desk, dislodging one of his unframed paintings propped against it! DS had heaved himself...