Her Bone Marrow is Bouncing Back

After reaching all time lows on Friday of last week, her bone marrow is back working. It sort of goes like this:

1. M-E's over achieving bone marrow produced too many white blood cells in an attempt to keep up and surpass all the other bone marrow in the class. (This is akin to padding of high school applications. Lots of that is about to begin in ernest among the 7th grade class.)

2. To curtail over achieving, strong toxic chemicals are dumped into the body to teach the bone marrow more reality based cell production. The treatment does its job because the dumpers have lots of experience. They understand what is going on and can bring a halt to the marrows bad behavior. ( People that review high school applications know that a potential 9th grader does not: play 9 instruments at concert performance level, speak and write 22 languages including Matueati, volunteer at 12 soup kitchens and knit bandages for the war in Iraq.)

3. Once the dumping is finished, the bone marrow is given a rest to see if it has learned to behave. Like all overachievers, the bone marrow believes that no one is watching and begins to work again. It starts slowly at first but then gets reved up. If left alone, it will return to it's bad over achieving behavior. (When the 7th graders begin to have nightmares and ulcers, they enter much needed stress therapy but only after dropping one of three "traveling team sports" to clean a few moments a weeks for therapy and the required 2.3 hours of sleep recommended by the Educational Consultant. )

4. Once good production begins and heads back to normal, the process is repeated several more times. More Chemicals, more non-production of cells to be followed by normal production. ( Speech, tennis and how to sleep while walking between class lessons are added for more rounded presentation.)

Bottom line: Hopefully somewhere along the way we get it right. The Bone marrow decides to just be normal. Because we all know normal might be good after all.