Shake Rattle and Roll

November is starting off with a bang. Thursday, we left the house at 5am for ear tube surgery. Aiden was the first one of the day. The intake nurse mentioned us staying the night... um, okay. Apparently, Dr. Happy Drugs went ahead and reserved Aiden a suite at the Panda Palace. Shortly after 7am, the surgical nurse came in and retrieved a sedated little boy. 20 minutes later Dr. ENT was calling and letting us know that all went well and follow up in a few weeks. We've been through this so many times now that he doesn't even bother coming in after surgery and talking to us face to face. We went back to recovery around 8am. There was a little girl also in recovery for the same surgery, however it was her first ever surgery, and she was not a happy camper. Aiden on the other hand, really didn't care. Once we were back in his room, the nurse started going over aftercare stuff. Chris and I both stood there and said everything she was telling us word for word. She asked how many times we had done this. Chris answered "Oh, 4 or 5 now" and the nurse asked if we were getting a discount.


After surgery, we went to breakfast at Braums and then did a little bit of shopping. Aiden was starving and ate a side of scrambled eggs, bacon and some hashbrowns. Since he was doing so well, he went to school on Friday and had OT after school.

The weekend was supposed to have been uneventful. However Oklahoma sits on a few fault lines. And we had earthquakes. Not the typical magnitude of 3 or less we normally have and no one feels. Nope, big ones. The record earthquake in Oklahoma was a magnitude 5.2 in El Reno (western OK) on the Meers Fault line back in the 50s. Was being the operative word here. Saturday morning, I woke up and watched the news in which they informed me that we had a 4.7 shaker that I apparently slept through. Okay fine, didn't feel any after shocks the rest of the day. Then I went to bed....

Did you know that an earthquake starts off sounding a lot like thunder? Then it gets freaky sounding. Oh crap, here we go. Now keep in mind, I know that OK has earthquakes all the time. I keep track of what the United States Geological Society posts. I'm like addicted to their website. I also knew that we weren't scheduled any thunder storms over the weekend.

The next thing I know the equivalent of a freight train is passing through the bedroom, right next to the bed. I get up, pull up the USGS site and lo and behold an earthquake of 5.2 unofficially struck. How the child managed to sleep through it is beyond me. A few minutes later, the seismograph recording had been reviewed and it was upgraded to a 5.6 making it the largest earthquake in recorded history for Oklahoma.  That was also time change night, where we were supposed to get an extra hour of sleep. Pretty sure that didn't happen for most people living in the states that felt it - TX, KS, AR, and reports some in NE.

Sunday night was pretty quiet, but Monday night brought us another earth moving experience and a few tornadoes, which yes the child managed to sleep though. Oklahoma is now officially the home of the Quakenado.

Personally, I am ready to move.