My wife took my son to emergency on Sunday. He had a blocked bowel and could not make poo. This is a very common occurrence among young children especially after Halloween. It seems the amount of dairy products in children’s diets increases dramatically due to the chocolate collected. Chips do not help matters either. They left for the hospital around 10AM and returned around 6PM that night. (How long does it take to administer an enema or an "eminem”, as my son would say.)
First thing Monday morning I get a call from the Family doctor. "We noticed your son visited the emergency ward on the weekend and we would like to do a follow-up appointment, when can you come in?" I have to admit I was impressed. I proceeded to book a time for today at 4:20PM. So after picking the kids up at school, I proceeded to the clinic. We arrived about 5 minutes’ early and waited 20 minutes in the waiting room before the nurse/helper escorted us into an examination room. While I was in the waiting room I noticed a bulletin for lack of a better word that explained the funding cuts to healthcare would affect our visit and how we may have to wait longer because there were less dollars available for staffing.
(I wanted to ask the doctor if the sign were going to be edited due to the .7 billion dollars in Federal funding that was about to come down the pipe but decided against it.) Next we take a seat in the exam room and continue to wait another 20 minutes before the doctor comes in and asks me "what brings us here today?" to which I responded, "you called me regarding the emergency room visit on the weekend!" She proceeded to ask me questions regarding the consistency of my son’s poo and seemed miffed when I did not know the answers. I was then schooled on poo-ology. I now know to make my kids sit on the can for 10 minutes in the morning.
(Lucky we have more than one toilet) Oh yea NO FLUSHING!!

Exercise
Walk 8 min (warm up)
Jog 17 min (new time record, the previous was 16 min, I figure 7 hours is where I need to be for the triathlon still some work to do)
Walk 5 min (cool down, weird thing, this was harder on my legs than the jog)
Swim 30 min ( I had to share a lane with Mark Spitz today and I can't tell you how much it sucked)

Diet
Breakfast
Corn flakes, banana, skim milk, coffee
Snack
(argh out of V8)
Lunch
2 eggs, slice of diet toast, slice of cheese, coffee
Snack
V8 (YMCA snack bar)
Dinner
1/2 a 12 inch, deluxe, rising crust pizza
Snack
many little chocolate bars-I'm gonna start tossing the little puckers in the trash