Okay. So I am looking into grad school, with the intent to work on my Master of Education and Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education Certificate so I can be a Developmental Interventionist for wee ones with Down Syndrome. (What a MOUTHFUL!) Therefore, I realized I would need to take the Graduate Record Exam. In short, it stinks. I took it yesterday after very little studying and scraped my way through several hours of torture including word analogies and antonyms, reading comprehension, two essays, and math problems. I did finish with above-average scores, but it is my observation that the very essence of the test is not to test actual knowledge, but how well you take a test. Basically every question is a trick question. At $140 a pop it most surely is a money making scheme. The good news is that I can take it several more times this year if I want to improve my score. Yea, right.
Now I have to figure out how to fund grad school. Or maybe I ought to go into the standardized testing business and become a millionaire. Sounds good to me.
Onto other more important issues. Jeff's fake eye has been steadily getting more irritated, goopy, droopy, and generally gross. He finally broke down and went to have it checked out. Apparently the fake "eyeball" that is back in the socket (not the cap that "looks" like an eye) has worn through the flesh that encloses it. And apparently that is because of a general defect in the material from which it is made. The Dr. said they have seen a lot of this with this brand of prosthetic,, folks coming in years later with the thing wearing through. So, Jeff will have to get a whole new prosthetic ball in there. That entails pulling the old one out, re-wrapping tissue around it, possibly getting some extra from his abdomen, then placing the new tissue-wrapped ball back in the socket. Gross. Then, he will have to possibly get a new anterior cap if the old one doesn't fit anymore (which cost $1000 back in '01) and get some work done on his eyelid that has become saggy. Of course, he loves all of that. The good news is that it's fixable and he won't have to deal with a perpetually runny, gross eye. Jeff's always very patient with that kind of stuff but I know it must get old. People stare at it and wonder why his eye is droopy and runny. I close one eye a lot when I'm doing things just to see what Jeff's world is like; it lets me not forget. Please pray for his good soul.
Oh, if you're wondering about the hand x-ray, take note of the pinky. That's Jeff's more recent mishap where he chopped the end of it off when he smashed it in a trailer hitch here in the driveway. It looks fine now, just a tad shorter! ;-)
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