A bit of a mishap this morning.  It all started yesterday.  My tongue got caught on the edge of the packing on the stitches in my mouth form my gum surgery.  I was able to push it back up but it hurt a bit because the stitches were stuck to the packing and the stitches were pulled a bit.  No blood, so all was well.

Then, this morning, the packing came off again, hanging down from the roof of my mouth, pulling hard on the stitches.  Real hard.  I rushed to the bathroom to break the packing apart but the stitches were being pulled hard.  A lot of pain.  I started to feel nauseous and faint.  I tried to eat the oatmeal.  Bad idea.  I walked to the bathroom and my legs were like jello.  I had to dry my hair sitting down with my head between my legs to not faint.  Multi-tasking at its finest.  I couldn't walk back to the oatmeal, so I crawled.  But there was some packing stuck to the stitches dangling, pulling on the roof of my mouth.  Amazingly, there was no blood.  Phew.  Blood and apples & cinnamon oatmeal would not mix well.  Then the rest of the packing came off.  But there was a long piece of stitching hanging down into my mouth.  Oh well.  PARCC testing.  I must go in.  Can't call out.

Then, while talking to a co-worker before school, the dangling piece broke off.  I didn't want to swallow the stitching, so I picked it out and threw it out.  However, over the course of the day, more has become loose and I now have a one inch long piece of thread dangling.  Luckily it is eighth period and I get the stitches out after school.  The fear I have had all day is that a piece will break off and come out my mouth while teaching.  I had to scold fifth period for not gathering round and quieting down for a demonstration by giving them all the gory details of my morning.  I ended with the fact that if they were quiet and ready right away, I would not have had to tell them why I don't want to talk loudly.  I think they got the idea.

No matter what happens, most of us show up for this PARCC testing, whether we are administering it, proctoring, or just here for back up.  No matter what.  Yesterday, the testing website went down.  The WHOLE site in the WHOLE state.  Testing has been pushed back a day.  Yesterday will be made up May 6th.  We show up but PARCC can't.  Hmmmm.....