So another week and Dad Bozyk was discharged from the hospital and sent to a nursing home facility for rehab/therapy. I told Mom Bozyk now they know first hand what I have been doing for 25 years! I keep pestering Mom to question the doctors. She was asked to bring Dad back to the hospital to see the urologist last Tuesday after he was discharged the day before only for the urologist to ask Mom and Dad if they wanted the catheter removed or not. Frankly, even Mom Bozyk seemed to think that was a rather stupid question.  Mom is not a doctor and neither is Dad, so how are they supposed to know if it should or should not come out? How are they supposed to know if it is ready to be removed or not? They were not told the prostate was any smaller even though apparently Dad is on medication to shrink it. One of the doctors said it would take 6-7 weeks. Anyhow, MOm went off to the hospital first thing Weds morning back to the urology office and demanded to speak to a doctor. She also mentioned that Dad was at the hospital the week before,  but they did not complete the biopsy on his scheduled day. Some urologist spent several hours with mom looking over his medical reports and told her not to allow anyone to remove the catheter! (Wish these doctors would get their act together). The nursing home was hassling mom on wanting to remove the catheter too. Anyhow, Dad is going back to the urologist this upcoming week and they will try removing it and seeing if he can go again. I was a bit concerned though when I heard that they were putting DAd on Cipro the week before. I told mom to double check on that medication for Dad since it was the antibiotic that sent me to the hospital. At least DAd seemed to be feeling better as Mom found him walking up and down the hallway with his walker when she came to visit Sunday. This has certainly been an education in the health field for both Mom and Dad.

Meanwhile, the kids wrapped up their last week of school. Scott was basically done last week and just had a few half days to clean out his desk, clean up the classroom, assemble for an awards ceremony and meet for the last school mass. I took a half day off work last Monday to help out with the school's Used Uniform Sale. I love to work the sale because I get first dibbs on picking out clothes for Scott for next year. It is nice to have extra shirts, pants, etc and not have to pay full price at the uniform store. I even got SCott to help when school let out. He managed to finish his year with A's and B's. He also was wrapping up his swim lessons this week, but the Y had to postpone until next week since a thunderstorm rolled through and they had to close the pool. Looks like we missed the last of the gymnastic classes since we spent last Friday night in the basement as(now 12 confirmed tornadoes) rolled through Maryland(a record). Instead, I took Scott off to help volunteer(as a Boy Scout) with the luminary candle sales at the Relay For Life Cancer Fund RAiser. We have been helping sell the luminaries-paper bags with candles that line the track for several years now. Participants usually buy the bags and decorate them in honor of someone they know that has cancer or died from cancer(even pets). Several years ago we got started volunteering by making the bags and we earned free tickets to Disney. Now we just help sell the bags and set them up. I usually have Allison helping out as a girl scout, but she had to work. So Scott took over. He mostly enjoyed taking breaks and playing the carnival games they have set up as fund raisers, not to mention sampling all the junk food! He did get to his Boy SCout meeting last week with Tom and is working towards preparations for summer camp. He would like to work on 6 badges this summer.

Allison was busy studying as she wrapped up her last week of school and her final exams up until Friday. She pulled off all A's except for a B in Spanish. Foreign Language classes have certainly gotten a lot more difficult and a lot more complicated than when Tom and I were in high school. She even had a Field Hockey meeting after school last week. They are trying to get ready over the summer for the fall season. The coach wants all the girls to start running so they can be in shape by the time school starts. Guess what Allison will be doing this summer. She also had to work on Friday night and Sunday afternoon.I think the rollerblading helps with her endurance.

 On Saturday Allison and I headed off to DC early in the morning for the 100th Anniversary Girl SCout Sing a Long and concert called Rock the Mall. There were 250, 000 Girl SCouts from all over the country and the world visiting DC. WE had to be down there by 8am for a rehearsal with our Girl SCout choir. We were singing 4 songs only on a small stage next to the National Monument. Allison was a bit disappointed since we went on at 9am and really did not have a big crowd. I was excited to see that 60 choir members showed up! I was also happy to be done so early so we could go explore. We set up our blanket in front of the main stage with the choir and Allison and I headed over to the National History museum. Allison especially enjoyed their display of the War timelines from the REvolutionary War to the Vietnam War since she just finished studying WW11 in World History. We headed back to our group to pick up our lunch that was preordered from Hard Rock Cafe. Unfortunately, it was so crowded it took over 3 ours for our leaders to get our lunch! We did not eat until 3pm! We did get to enjoy most of the concert, but we were hoping to get a chance to do more singing. And it was unbelievably hot-in the 90s. 63 scouts went to the hospital for heat stroke and dehydration. We were told to bring bottles to refill with water. But they did not have enough water stations and I stood in line for several hours refilling our bottles.  At one point Allison and I walked over to put our feet in the fountain of the WW11 memorial. People were wading into the fountain because it was so hot. The poor lonely park ranger had his hands full trying to get them to come out of the fountain. I think he finally gave up, and out came the firetrucks to cool everyone off. They started hosing down the girls in the streets around 4pm when the event was over! It was quite a scene and very funny to hear hundreds of girls screaming as they ran through the hoses. I think the firemen really enjoyed that! Allison and I tried not to get soaked. Instead, we headed into the Air and Space museum to cool off and rest. WE watched a planetarium show since they had discounted tickets for the scouts. IT was very nice to sit down and listen to Whoopi Goldberg talk about Stars and our Sun in the dark and air conditioned theater. After a very long day it was time to head home. Here are some photos from Rock the Mall-our small stage where we sang next to the WAshington monument, and the Main Stage, the White House, the WWII fountain and the fire trucks hosing down very hot girl scouts.

On Sunday we kept busy with yardwork. Tom and SCott spent the weekend putting down the rest of the mulch, trimming trees, repairing the landscape lights and Scott got the chance to learn how to cut the grass all by himself! Tom pushed it though and tried him at trimming, but the weed whacker was a bit too heavy for Scott to handle. I was busy cleaning up my flower garden and planting a few more flowers and veggies in pots. 

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