ARRRRGGGHHHHH !!

 

I’m not totally sure what exactly it is about the male um…hormone level, or psyche, or physiology that makes them incapable of noticing that a dishwasher is NOT a funny looking cabinet.

 

Today, we had two dentist appt’s scheduled.  We ALSO have two young girls who’s mother has a severe bleeding disease called Von Willebrand’s Type II Milwaukee.

 

For those of you not in the know, that means that the Mom’s body does not produce a clotting cofactor called Ristocetin.  Imagine in common language, that you have a computer, and the internet CAPABILITY, but you have no modem.

 

So this means that you have the ability to send a signal from your computer to the WWW, but there is no way to GET the signal there…

 

That is basically what the mom has.  She has the ability to clot blood, but is lacking the particular chemical that tells the clotting cofactors WHERE to go and WHEN to go there.  The clotting cofactors are perfectly willing to go and help the blood to clot, they just have no idea when a bleeding episode occurs, because there is no Ristocetin to tell them  “hey, go to the right arm, location right 3rd finger, end of finger, and go to work, there is a cut there and it’s bleeding.”

 

So, the dentist won’t see the girls. 

 

They have not been tested for this disease because, well, it’s complicated.  To test, it requires a blood test.  And, for the blood test, a child CRIES.  And when a child CRIES, a lot of bleeding co-factors that are normally stored in the cellular WALL for when a bleeding episode occurs, well, the bodies response to stress is to let down out of the cellular wall all the stored co-factors.

 

And, since a child CRIES when blood is drawn, all the co-factors are then present when the blood is drawn since the child cries BEFORE the blood actually is drawn into the tube because, like the egg and the chicken, the NEEDLE comes before the tube.

 

So you cannot reliably test for just about any bleeding disease except hemophilia which is a complete lack of Factor 8, until the child is old enough to have a blood test without crying.

 

So, what? Age 20 something??? LOL.

 

Anyway, so the Dentist office calls and won’t see the girls until the hematologist clears them.

 

Cancel dentist appt.  But Baby had rode out with her Dad last night after he went in to babysit ¾ Pint.  And, she left her truck at her big sister Nursey’s house, and had to be back in town by noonish.

 

So, I ran her into town anyway.  Hey, it’s only like a TEN DOLLAR drive into town and back. What the hell!!

 

When I left, the dishwasher had just finished washing.

 

When I returned, the dishes were STILL in the dishwasher, last night’s pots and pan’s were STILL on the stove and nothing had been done in the house.

 

Well now, THERE’S a surprise. NOT…..

 

I woke DH this morning.  At approximately 7:55 A.M. With the door being opened roughly.  And, some banging.

 

He looked up in his sleeping stupor. WHAAAA?  (I am not the one who stayed up till 4 A.M. watching TV)

 

I said, (and I quote..)

 

“Remember last week when you said, Honey, I think I am going to start getting up with you in the morning and helping out?”

 

“JUST WHEN EXACTLY IS THIS SUPPOSED TO START!!”

 

He immediately got right up out of bed.

 

And took Monster out.

 

Good thinking that.

 

I honestly just don’t get it.  It must be in the DNA/RNA of the male of the species.  An email cartoon yesterday showed a woman at a wishing well.  She wishes for no housework, no dishes, no laundry and no childcare and immediately turns into a man.

 

That about says it all.

 

And, before everyone comments, yes, I do know there are men who perform these tasks on a daily, sometimes hourly basis. They are just not in my family.