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The sky was just flaming as I drove home from work, so I had to stop at the Dog Beach to watch for awhile...

Dog Beach, looking toward L.A. Harbor and Palos Verdes
Huntington Beach CA
Sharp VE-CG30
15 October 2008

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The sky was just flaming as I drove home from work, so I had to stop at the Dog Beach to watch for awhile...

Dog Beach, looking toward L.A. Harbor and Palos Verdes
Huntington Beach CA
Sharp VE-CG30
15 October 2008

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Fire season again. Luckily not too near us, not really any obvious smoke in the air, but enough to make the air quality bad. The fire I mentioned last week at Camp Pendleton got it started; in an article I checked out about it, someone commented, "Does anyone know why it smells like burning plastic?" - on a military base, you never know what is catching on fire, so even though that's an hour's drive south of us, it was enough to get runsamuck started on the wheezing cycle. With the two fires that started north of us over the weekend, and the Santa Anas putting lots of particulates in the air (even without visible smoke), it kept getting worse, and we wound up in the emergency room again Saturday night. They found he also had a slight fever, and a bit of bronchitis, so along with the breathing treatments and steroids, he got some IV antibiotics as well, plus a prescription for both.

Then, half an hour after we got him breathing better and home, Angus galumphed down the hallway in the dark and stomped on a barrette his sister left on the floor - no shoes on of course. A piece of metal broke off the clasp, and went right into the ball of his foot like a fishhook; I tried to get it out myself but it was stuck fast, and the only thing to do was back to the emergency room - at a different hospital, the one our insurance actually prefers (when John isn't breathing well, they have us go to the closest). They numbed up his foot and had to actually slice a little skin to get it out, then cleaned it thoroughly with a syringe, and sent him home with prescriptions as well - one for pain, which isn't really needed. They did do an xray to see if everything was out of his foot, and the doctor pointed out a circle on his heel, to have checked out by the pediatrician (whom we went to yesterday and he referred us to a podriatrist - most likely a bone cyst (?) but not an emergency).

John is still not breathing the best -probably won't until all the fires are out and the dust settles. He's supposed to see his doctor Friday, meanwhile he's been wheezing off and on for a week. I wish he could get in sooner, but as his doctor is not part of a group, he's hard to get in to see. I'm making him a list to take with him, because half the stuff he needs to talk to the dr. about, he always forgets.

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Fire season again. Luckily not too near us, not really any obvious smoke in the air, but enough to make the air quality bad. The fire I mentioned last week at Camp Pendleton got it started; in an article I checked out about it, someone commented, "Does anyone know why it smells like burning plastic?" - on a military base, you never know what is catching on fire, so even though that's an hour's drive south of us, it was enough to get runsamuck started on the wheezing cycle. With the two fires that started north of us over the weekend, and the Santa Anas putting lots of particulates in the air (even without visible smoke), it kept getting worse, and we wound up in the emergency room again Saturday night. They found he also had a slight fever, and a bit of bronchitis, so along with the breathing treatments and steroids, he got some IV antibiotics as well, plus a prescription for both.

Then, half an hour after we got him breathing better and home, Angus galumphed down the hallway in the dark and stomped on a barrette his sister left on the floor - no shoes on of course. A piece of metal broke off the clasp, and went right into the ball of his foot like a fishhook; I tried to get it out myself but it was stuck fast, and the only thing to do was back to the emergency room - at a different hospital, the one our insurance actually prefers (when John isn't breathing well, they have us go to the closest). They numbed up his foot and had to actually slice a little skin to get it out, then cleaned it thoroughly with a syringe, and sent him home with prescriptions as well - one for pain, which isn't really needed. They did do an xray to see if everything was out of his foot, and the doctor pointed out a circle on his heel, to have checked out by the pediatrician (whom we went to yesterday and he referred us to a podriatrist - most likely a bone cyst (?) but not an emergency).

John is still not breathing the best -probably won't until all the fires are out and the dust settles. He's supposed to see his doctor Friday, meanwhile he's been wheezing off and on for a week. I wish he could get in sooner, but as his doctor is not part of a group, he's hard to get in to see. I'm making him a list to take with him, because half the stuff he needs to talk to the dr. about, he always forgets.