Here’s the guest post you’ve been waiting for! Floey’s account of her tenth birthday celebration in Chicago Monday…
by AnnMarie Florence Czerwinski
Here we are at Chicago’s Christkindl Market after the polishing.
I experienced a birthday of a lifetime. I got to go to the ocularist with my great ol’ Aunt Betha.
It was a little freaky but it was really cool. First probably the weirdest part. The doctor pulled out her eye with a suction cup thingee! Then he let me watch him clean it.
He rubbed this gooey stuff on it rubbed it on different wheels and then rinsed it off then we left.
We walked to the Christkindl Market to eat some good food and then walked to the Bean.
By the way I fixed Betha’s cell phone, too.
The end.
Back to Great Ol’ Aunt Betha: It’s true! Floey did fix my cell phone – the VoiceOver app I use to make it talk wasn’t working, and like all ten-year-old kids in America in 2015, Floey knows how to slide and tap her fingers on an iPhone screen to make it do what it’s supposed to do.
PS: Janet, Floey’s mother, asked me to add one detail her ten-year-old neglected to mention in this guest post: before Floey and I left his office, the ocularist did remember to use that “suction cup thingee” to pop my prosthetic eye back in.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, Beth. And a wonderful new year with many more shared stories from you and Mike. Lee
And to you, too, Lee. Merry Christmas!
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I know this will be a birthday AnnMarie will not forget. She did share with us later that she was concerned that you weren’t experiencing any pain when all the suctioning was going on. I’ll bet her brain is just whirling with things she learned that day and questions coming up in your future;)
She was very sweet about that during the appointment. “Does that hurt?” she’d ask. “You sure it doesn’t hurt?” A fun and sweet girl, that Floey.
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Thank goodness, they put the eye back in. Floey was probably conducting an interview with the Doctor, or perhaps critiquing techniques at that point, or wanting to get the heck outta there, so she could eat some potato pancakes at the German Market!
I think that last guess is right. She was dreaming of potato pancakes by then.
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The Christkindlmarket and the Bean. What a perfect ending to an extraordinary day. Thank you Floey and great ol’ Aunt Betha for adding to the joy of this Holiday Season. And a belated Happy Birthday Floey.
Thanks, Mel –I’ll forward your belated wishes to that big ten-year-old …
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Too, too funny! Glad y’all had fun. Merry Christmas Beth & Mike, and Floey & her/your family too…
And Merry Christmas to you, too Sue. I’ll forward your good wishes on to Floey and folks.
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What a fun insight into the time at the ocularist. I had never thought about the need for ‘maintenance’.
I wonder which of the day’s events Floey enjoyed most?
Good question. I’ll ask and get back to you…
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Hi Beth, I am one of your former memoir students at CLL and really enjoy the blogs that you and Mike write. Keep them coming. I am planning to see “Good for Otto” because of Mike’s review. I forwarded the piece to John Gawlik at the Gift Theatre because he had not seen the blog praising the play.
My computer tells me that today is your birthday. If that is correct, I hope that you had a great day!
Vivian
Vivian Fernbacher vfernbacher@me.com 847.924.8471
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You have a very smart computer. *Thank* you for the birthday wishes, and especially for the compliments on our blog posts. I love that you sent Mike’s on to the folks at Gift, and please send us a note after you see “Good for Otto” to let us know if/how you liked it. Happy holidays, Vivian, and keep writing those memoirs of yours.
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Merry Christmas old friend. I enjoy reading your blogs, and I hope that very soon we will get a chance to get together.
Stipe
Geez, can’t spell my name right
Tried to fix it– how embarrassing!
Je pensei que c’était ta nom de plume….
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Bien sur…
Sounds like a good time was had by both of you!
Well, I hthink she’d happily return for a visit to ChristKindl Market and the Bean , but the ocularist….? Jury still out.
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