Sad start and a happy ending for today!!

Today has been very frightening. Mac woke up with severe pains in his muscles all down the back from his waist to his calves. I gave him too much medicine for them. The tramadol I gave him at first wasn't strong enough so I added an Aleve and he went to bed and didn't get up until 4. The pain was gone after awhile and he was just out of it on the drugs. I am taking him off of Lovastatin, which is a drug associated with muscle pain, and we will see if that helps him at all. I am playing doctor, but I just don't want him to suffer.
We had to cancel our plans to go to Wis. tomorrow. We will see if he thinks he can do it on Sat. Right now the thought just overwhelms him, as much as he wants to see his grandsons skate.
He was much better tonight and I got the nicest phone call from Shannon. She told me that she had passed her CNA licensing exam, and that it wasn't an easy test. During the test a very touching moment had occurred. One of her classmates had requested an oral exam and had paid an extra fee for it, because she was from Thailand and didn't understand written English as well as oral. They forgot to bring a reader for her and she was toughing it out and another of her classmates (an aging hippy) got everyone (and they sounded like a very diverse group of classmates) to hold hands and pray for the poor girl who was having the trouble with English. One girl was only 17 and just out of a group home and needed this certification to be independent, another was middle-age hispanic, they were all women, but from all different types of back grounds and they held hands and prayed for their friend and it worked. All of them passed the test!!
The other thing she told me that just touched my heart, was that the paper doll set that I had sent to my 7 year old grand-daughter had created a storm of paper dolling out there in California and that Sofie had copied my technique and made a doll for Shannon's friend Thalia by cutting up a photo with THalia's picture on it and using that for the face. Sofie was also using a photo printer that I had given them last year and made a bunch of photos to send to me. I feel like a sent out a creative seed and that it took root in some well fertilized soil and that a huge creative flower was in bloom.
Last week Anja called to tell me how much she had loved her birthday present, which was a pair of DVD's about dragons, and had come by mail from me. She won't be that thrilled about dragon DVDs much longer, she is 12 now and I love that she is still a little girl in any way at all.