===chapter three===






---OK...LOVELY READERS....HOLLEY AND I HAD BEEN PUTTING OFF UPDATING OUR DOCTORS AND THE SUCH FOR AS LONG AFTER THE BERKSHIRE MOVES AS WE COULD.

WE HAD TAKEN CARE OF LEE AND MY MOM AND WE HAD DECIDED TO USE THE SAME DOCTOR --- DOCTOR CHERRIPITT, HIS OFFICE WAS ONLY ABOUT 10 MILES FROM OUR HOUSE AND HE HAD WORKED WITH US AND OUR PAST DOCTORS TO GET OUR MEDS UNTIL WE COULD SEE HIM....WHICH HIP HORRAY FOR US WAS MONTHS AFTER THE INITIAL CONTACT...BUT LOW AND BEHOLD, THE CALENDAR DID TEAR OFF IT'S OWN PAGES, TIME DID NOT STAND STILL, AND OUR APPOINTMENT DATE CAME BUZZING IN ON US LIKE A HERD ?? OF BEES, AND A DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING!!!

HOLLEY WAS GOING ABOUT PREPARATIONS LIKE SHE DIDN'T HAVE A WORRY IN THE WORLD BUT I, ON THE OTHER HAND, WAS SECRETLY, FALLING APART, AND I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF....SO I WHIMPERED, AND THEN YELLED...UPLIFTERLAND, TAKE US AWAY!!!!!!

THE NIGHT BEFORE GOING TO THE DOCTOR, I HAD REALLLLLLY TOOK A LONG SHOWER, SCRUBBING SPOTS THAT I DIDN'T KNOW I EVEN HAD. THE HOT WATER SEEMED TO CALM ME DOWN TO THE POINT THAT I SIMPLY MELTED FROM THE BATHROOM TO THE BEDROOM AND MY NIGHT CLOTHES SIMPLY FELL ON ME...I WAS SO RELAXED I CHECKED MY NERVE MEDICATION TO MAKE SURE I HADN'T TAKEN THE WHOLE BOTTLE.. WE BOTH WENT DIRECTLY TO SLEEP AND HAD VISIONS OF SUGARPLUMS DANCING LIGHTLY ALL OVER OUR HEADS...I WONDERED WHY OUR DOGS WERE HOWLING, BUT IT WAS LIKE A LULLABY TO US AS THEIR HOWLING WAS IN PERFECT PITCH WITH THE SOFT TREMORS OF HOLLEY'S BREATHING AS SHE SLEPT LIKE A BABY PRINCESS NEXT TO ME...AND I FELT LIKE "THE INDREDIBLE HULK" IN ALL HIS GREEN GLORY...

THE NEXT MORNING CAME AND WE BOTH SPRANG OUT OF BED PRACTICALLY BOUNCING OFF THE PADDED CEILINGS, AND HEADED OUT DANCING AND SINGING "FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD" HOLLEY HAD HER HAIR IN PIG TAILS AND I WAS STUFFED TO THE HILT AS THE NOSCARECROW GUY....

AS WE WALKED INTO THE MEDICAL CENTER, THERE WERE DOCTORS AND NURSES ALL AROUND SMILING AND GREETING US AND ASSURING US THAT WE WERE "IN GOOD HANDS" SO TO SPEAK, SOMEHOW, WE JUST SIGHED AND SMILED AND WENT INTO OUR EXAM ROOMS---THE DOCTOR SMILED AND SAID BEND OVER, KJM....AND THEN I WOKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE YELL OF MY VOICE CRACKED WINDOWS WITHIN A THREE MILE RADIUS OF THE MEDICAL CENTER AND SUDDENLY I REALIZED I WAS NOT IN JAIL AND EVERYTHING WAS GONNA BE HUNKY DOREY....

I HEARD THE POP OF THE RUBBER EXAM GLOVE GO OFF AND THE PLOP OF IT HIT THE TRASH CAN AND THEN DR. CHERRIPITT GRINNED LIKE AN EVIL GHOST AND TOLD ME --I WILL GO OUT WHILE YOU PUT YOURSELF BACK TOGETHER AGAIN....

SO I DID, IN THE NEXT ROOM I COULD HEAR HOLLEY GRUNTING AND COUGHING AND A FEW LOW KEY NOISE I COULDN'T MAKE OUT...

SHE LATER TOLD ME THAT SHE HAD OPTED FOR UPLIFTERLAND TO TAKE HER AWAY DURING HER VISIT THAT WENT LIKE THIS....

THE DOC WALKED IN AND PINCHED HER ON THE CHEEK AND SMILED AND GAVE HER A LOLLIPOP AND TOLD HER WHAT A GOOD GIRL SHE MUST BE...HE CHECKED HER BP AND IT WAS 119 OVER 70...PERFECT....HE CHECKED HER WEIGHT BUT THE SCALES DIDN'T GO THAT LOW SO HE JUST WROTE DOWN "FEATHER" AND SAID, THAT IS CLOSE ENOUGH!!!

SHE GAVE HIM A LIST OF HER MEDS AND HE LOOKED AT IT, AND TORE IT UP AND SAID...WHY MY DEAR, YOU ARE AS HEALTHY AS A HORSE.

JUST AT THAT MOMENT, THERE WAS THE SOUND OF SIRENS AND THE DOUBLE DOORS POPPED OPEN AND THEY HAD AN EMERGENCY DROP OFF OF A 12 GENERATION COUSIN OF "BLACK BEAUTY" I THINK SHE SAID THE NAME WAS "OMAMMA" OR SOMETHING POLITICALLY CORRECT LIKE THAT....ANYWAY, AFTER THE FOUR LEGGED CELEBRITY CAME IN, HOLLEY WAS EXCUSED...WE LEFT THE MEDICAL CENTER AND HEAD HOME...

...AS THE BILLOWLY CLOUDS WENT AWAY, WE REALIZED THAT IT WAS GETTING LATE, THANKSGIVING EVE AND HOLLEY HAD LOTS OF COOKING, BAKING, CLEANING, BEGGING, AND BORROWING TO DO BEFORE THAT SPECIAL "EAT UNTIL YOU REGURGITATE" DAY WAS HERE...

SO HOLLEY, HEAT, AND JIFFY DID ALL THE KITCHEN CHORES AND MOM, LEE, T-REX, THE DOGS, CATS, AND I DID THE MOUTH-WATERING WAITING, AND GRUMBLING BECAUSE THERE WAS NO TIME FOR A BIG MEAL THE NIGHT BEFORE AND AFTER ALL THE ACTIVITIES OF WEDNESDAY..EVERYONE WAS FAMISHED...

I DECIDED TO JUST GRAB SOMETHING FROM THE FRIDGE AND GO UPSTAIRS AND TRY TO RELAX SOME MORE, SEEMS LIKE I DID ALOT OF RELAXING WHEN I COULD RELAX, SO MAYBE THAT IS WHY I WAS TIRED ALOT, NOT TOO MUCH TIME TO "RELAX" IN THE REAL WORLD!

BUT WE DID MAKE IT THROUGH OUR FIRST DOCTORS VISIT, HOLLEY HAD SEVERAL FOLLOW UP TESTS TO TAKE, SO DID I, BUT SHE HAD MORE, AND I WAS NOT A BIT JEALOUS OF THE FACT THAT SHE HAD MORE PRODDING, ULTRASOUNDS, BLOOD WORK, VISION TESTS ETC, TO DO THAT ME.

THE WAY I LOOKED AT IT SHE WAS A VERY IMPORTANT ASSET TO THIS FAMILY AND I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT WE WOULD DO BY OURSELVES.

...AND SPEAKING FOR MYSELF, THERE IS NOT ONE BIT OF MALE DOMINANCE IN MY GENES...WOMEN DO IT BETTER AND I FIND NO FAULT IN THAT.


--- [The following Series is based on True Happenings, but may be changed from time to time, to enhance the reading of the story.
Written by Kenny Mitchell and ® nov2008 by Uplifterland Ministries.]

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