Well, twitter was supposed to post here automatically while I was gone, but alas, did not.
Grandma is doing great. She’s moving about as well as she did pre-surgery. This morning she got up and got dressed and then we all sat at the kitchen table for breakfast.
Things I learned while there.
- One of my uncles was afflicted with night terrors.
- One of Grandma’s aunts had a daughter, but from the time she was born they knew something wasn’t quite right. A year later they made a tiny cut and a boy’s privates fell out. She said that it was like they had a funeral for their little girl because they had all of these girl clothes and suddenly they had a little boy.
- The local FOX affiliate is hosted by a zombie
I’m heading back over tonight with Mom.
I saw all your “tweets” (I don’t like that word) last night. Sounds like you had an informative and interesting evening. What is the local Fox affiliate out there? I need to see a picture of the zombie on their website! 🙂
Fox 61, but the headshot on the site looks totally normal. Either pre-zombism or a nice cover-up.
Of course, I’m back there with the tiny tumbling-out boy privates. “They made a cut.” Who is “they”? Doctors? Or did some relative say, “Honey, I’m just gonna make a little cut here with my jackknife and see what the heck falls out?”
I’m so glad your grandma is fine… I don’t think your tweets show on LJ, though.
Ha! I believe it was medical professionals.
Grandparents just have the best stories to tell, don’t they.
A year later? How did that poor child urinate before that?!
I don’t know. I suspect that it was a variant on undescended testicles.
You are not following me so you probably didn’t see my response on Twitter. But I was revealing the conspiracy behind FOX News.
Did you know that FOX News is run by zombies? That’s right. That’s why their news programs aim to turn people’s brains into mush. Apparently that’s the way the zombies like to eat the brains, much like the way we eat potatoes. So don’t be too surprised to see a zombie appear on a station that’s run by zombies!
Okay, somebody should write that story.
I didn’t get anyone’s response because I forgot to set it to send texts to my phone. But that all makes perfect sense.
This uncle… from TN? Blame the Bell Witch hauntings. Hands down, the creepiest.
The Bell Witch hauntings? I’m totally unfamiliar with them. ::heads off to google…::
Indeed, the notion of this hermaphroditic cousin is completely fascinating… With all the rigid issues around gender and childrearing at the turn of the century, this must have been an amazing mental journey for the parents, and perhaps the child as well, though one year is still young for gender identity… Edwardian infant gowns were structurally gender neutral, they would not yet have been putting “her” in training corsets. Any idea how this cousin eventually wound up?
I’m completely fascinated as well. According to Grandma, he married and had several children.