First Track Meet, Baseball Game, and Diarrhea!

We had a busy day on Thursday last week! After I finished teaching my classes, I drove 25 mins to Henry's first track meet! He'd been fighting a knee injury for the last few months, so he really only got in ONE hard workout since cross country season last fall. So he ran a leg of the 4x800 relay without his spikes:

Go Henry! He took off NICE AND FAST!


Finishing with the 2nd fastest time of his team: 2:33 for his first 800.

(I should say he had the 2nd fastest time on the "B team" relay he was a part of, as his school also had a "faster" team. I think his time was better than 2 of the "faster" team runners, so Henry was around the 4th fastest of the 8 on his team to run the 4x800. No times were amazing as his team ran 10:44 and the "fast" team ran 10:08.)

Then I shot back into St. Paul to watch Charlie's baseball game:

He was part of turning a double play at 2nd earlier in the game!

And finally, Charlie and I stopped by the University where I teach because the art gallery was having an opening of the student juried exhibition, and maybe 1/3 of the accepted works were done by current or former students of mine. And the art gallery is literally the building in the background above Charlie's head in the photo above. So we just walked over to see the exhibition and eat some snacks:

I had some of the seafood dip.

And I think it was the seafood dip that wanted back out of me around 10:30 that night.

Yep, it wasn't pleasant. It started with lots of stomach gurgling right around when I was trying to fall asleep, and I knew shortly that I'd be parked in the bathroom for a while. The good news is that I slipped out of and then back into my night splint (which has 3 plastic clips that make a slight snapping noise) without waking my wife! I "set up shop" in the bathroom from about 10:15 until close to 1 a.m. Luckily, I had my phone and was just watching whatever videos my Facebook algorithm wanted to show me - I was watching a guy pan for gold for 20 minutes at one point.

I poop OFTEN. Usually 3-5x day. And after that, I didn't poop for 36 hours (1.5 days), and it was NOT NORMAL when I first pooped. A slightly more normal poop happened after 2.5 days (mid-day on Sunday), but things were't truly normal for about 4 full days. Yikes.