Lock your doors…
My girlfriend, her son Mikey, and I went up to Edgerton, Minnesota last weekend for her side’s family Christmas. We stopped in Orange City and picked up my 2 year old son, Cody. It was a good weekend, we had fun and Cody was pretty much well behaved. He’s learning sign language to help him with his speech. It’s working pretty well. He also learned to say Mikey over the weekend. It actually comes out “Ikey” but that’s pretty close!
But, we had an episode Saturday night. About a week ago, Cody had been bitten by a bug of some kind and had been to, according to my ex-wife, three different doctors. Well, when I went to take off his shoes and socks, he began screaming like his whole body was on fire! And he wouldn’t stop! I tried everything to calm him down, but nothing was working. Even Dawn tried to comfort him, but to no avail. So, while she was holding him, I looked at his toe and it was really swollen and inflamed and green (not gang green) and even a spot of black, so we rushed him to the nearest hospital and had the nurses look him over. It was only a 15 min. drive (driving normally) to the hospital, but Dawn made it in under 6 min. but to me it felt like 6 days! There is no worse feeling in the world than when your baby is screaming his head off because he’s in so much pain and you know why, but you feel helpless to do anything to stop it! I just comforted him the whole ride there telling him he was a brave boy and how big he was and he would look me right in the eye and scream because of the pain. My heart was aching so badly! The nurses soaked his foot in some warm water and iodine, and then scrubbed some of the bad skin off. They put him on a different medicine because the one he was on before wasn’t killing the infection obviously, and bandaged him up. He was just fine on Sunday. We left him shoeless because the doctor felt his shoes were too small (and I agreed. When I tired to put them on, they were very hard and wouldn’t zip up.) so she suggested going to a wider shoe and bigger.
It was about 8:45pm when we got back to our own home in Council Bluffs. We walked in tired and ready to go to bed. I had bought the new Indiana Jones PS2 game at Best Buy in Sioux Falls the day before and was looking forward to playing it! Dawn turned on the light and looked around. “I tripped over something,” she said. “It’s my scrapbooking folder. And it looks like the cats knocked everything on the floor.” I looked around the room and noticed the clutter. I remembered it being kind of messy when we left, but not that messy. And it was kind of chilly in the house.
Dawn drops her bags and say’s “Oh my God, we’ve been robbed!” My senses popped back to normal and I took a closer look around the room. Every DVD we owned, Mikey’s Playstation 2, and a DVD player out of our bedroom was missing. We called the police and everyone we know to tell them what was going on. We filed a report and sent Mikey to his dad’s that night for safety reasons.
Apparently, the cowards pulled the trim off the back door and just took the window out. They didn’t break it, just took it out and came in that way. The only took those small things and $200.00 in cash, and just made a mess of the house. The one thing I don’t get is that they pulled our curio cabinet out of the way and unplugged the fridge. What was the point? Did they just want to be destructive? Was it a revenge thing? So many questions ran through my mind. Then I remembered, I was recording some things on the VCR in our bedroom Saturday night, so I went in to check. The VCR went scrambled blank at around 9:00pm that night. (Good thing I memorized the TV schedule!) So, that told me what time they were in the house. I have talked to a couple neighbors and asked them if they saw anything and told them to keep alert.
More than likely, we’ve lost those things, and we should consider ourselves lucky that was all they took! But the fact that stranger people were in our house going thru our things and touching our stuff sends the creeps up your spine! It’s a weird feeling to be robbed! But at least no one was hurt! But if I ever catch the cowards who broke into my home, I’m going Batman on their ass! So lock your doors, bolt your windows and look into security motion lights and alarms. Because you always hear about this happening to someone else, but to someone else, I’m a someone else!