Monday, January 21, 2008

Stress Cleaning

Scout is doing something right now that I call Stress Cleaning.

When he starts worrying about something he can't do anything about, the house suddenly smells like Pine Sol and the dog hair floating around disappears.

His mom is sick. She's been having chest pains and feeling weak. And all we know is that her EKG wasn't "normal", whatever that means. She avoided going to the doctor for a week or more, and now they're not sure if she had a heart attack or if there's some other cause.

And there's not a damn thing he can do about it. Or a damn thing I can say to make him feel better.

And so, the Stress Cleaning begins...

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

scout & erin

bruce and i are praying for your mom and especialy for scouts peace of mind in this situation.

remember "when two or more are gathered ....

p.s. love the smell of pine sol
reminds me of days gone by

god bless

aunt penny

Vonn** said...

You are your family will be in my prayers tonight. Think positive....

The thought of Pine Sol makes me want to mop right now.

Anonymous said...

She might have suffered a mild or even a major heart attack. My dad suffered a major heart attack on Christmas day 2005, but he didn't realize it till January, when his golf game was off a few strokes.
Go figure.
Hang tough guys. You have my thoughts.

Don

ABW said...

That sucks. Thinking of y'all.

Only $19.95 said...

I'm so sorry. Hopefully it's nothing. Or something small that's no big deal.

I stress clean all the time. When you can't control the outside, you can sure control the inside....