Dudleys Diary

we are getting around here. I don't think the high temperature got much above freezing yesterday. Where is all of that Global Warming I keep hearing about? Sure could use some of that about now. It was so cold yesterday they cancelled Dudley's daughters soccer game. I use to love cold weather, it invigorated me. Not anymore, I suppose it is due to my having muscular dystrophy. This after all is a muscle wasting disease and it just seems that the muscle I have lost used to insulate my bones from the cold but not anymore. Now in the winter time it seems I am always cold to some degree. I am ready for spring time and the summer weather. I can take the heat better than the cold. At least as long as the AC is working.

Changing the subject, could someone please explain to me how a teenagers brain works again? Dudleys son who is away at college started the spring semester last week. I had communicated him briefly via text message earlier in the week. He has a brand new cell phone we bought for him during the Christmas break. Over the three day weekend we had tried to call him to check on him and ask about all of his new classes. His phone appeared to be turned off and he was not returning repeated messages. By Monday night, Dudleys wife was about to lose it, and was letting her imagination run wild. I called and talked to one of his friends from high school and he said he had not spoken to him in nearly a week and that he had been trying to call him as well. I then became worried and called the campus police and explained the situation. The lady I spoke with was very nice and said they would send an officer over to his dorm to check on him. We got a call from a campus police officer about thirty minutes later. He said I have your son here, he is fine, I will let you speak with him. Frank said he was ok and that he had dropped his new cell phone and it had quit working. I let him know it would have been nice if he had called or sent us an email. Apparently the thought never crossed his mind.

No wonder my hair is turning gray.