Two weeks later, I was sitting in my room with Mark, while doing our homework. Yeah you got that right, I was doing his too. I was supposed to be helping him, but somehow, he talked me into doing it for him. Actually, he does that a lot. Anyway, like I said, I was in […]

Try as he might, Damien couldn’t sit up on his own and needed me to pull him up. I suppose that I could have just helped him to his feet, but instead, I went ahead and lifted him into my arms, carried him to the door and pushed it closed before lowering him to the […]

Damien puckered his lips and began to kiss me repeatedly. “Eeeww, stop, gross, eeeww I have Damien germs!” I teased. And then he kissed me right on the mouth. “Hey, not on the mouth!” I said and whipped my lips with the back of my hand, but as soon as I did he kissed my […]

As the doctor was leaving, this really cute black nurse walked in. I’m talking HUBBA-HUBBA here! The doctor told her something, and she went over, put something into the IV that until then, I’d not known was stuck into my arm, and before the nurse left, I was out cold again. I later learned that, […]

 Thirty-Fourth Encounter ~ Apparently, I slept all the way through the whole x-ray procedure because I don’t remember any of it at all. I woke up back in the ER of Providence University Hospital, the same hospital my brother had been in only a few weeks before. When I woke up, Dad and mom were […]

While all the Kings Horseman and all the Kings Men attempted to put my head back together again, I happen to have yet another hospital encounter. Yeah, no kidding! Maybe it’s a sign that I should study medicine when I go to college? Anyway, the encounter was quite brief and I never actually saw the […]

This skinny guy came over and took the box out of our cart, he couldn’t have been more than 18 yet, but he acted like he was the king of K-Mart. His name tag said, Assistant Day Manager in Training. He walked it through the doors without the alarm sounding. I don’t know where the […]

This next encounter happened on a Saturday at K-Mart. And yes, it is the same K-Mart where I had my very first encounter so long ago, but this wasn’t an encounter like any I’ve had before. To be honest, I hope I never have an encounter like it again. Okay, let me explain. My dad […]

Even after we gave Mike his share of the money the three of us had made that second afternoon, Mark and I still had over ninety-dollars between the two of us. Mark tried to insist that I keep all of it to use for the Super Hero Diaper Kit supplies, but I forced him to […]

That second day, a while after lunch, Mark and I had shoveled so many walks that we had plowed all the way over to Mike Rabur’s house. However, we didn’t shovel their sidewalk, because Mr. Rabur, Mike’s father, owns one of those enormous self-propelled snow blowers and had already cleared their driveway and sidewalks. Mr. […]