Kidney Infections Abound

My little nephew isn’t apparently the only one fighting off a kidney infection. Mary-Kate Olsen is in a NYC hospital after getting one.

The Mayo Clinic says people get kidney infections “When bacteria enter your urinary tract through the urethra and begin to multiply. Bacteria from an infection elsewhere in your body also can spread through your bloodstream to your kidneys.”

At last update, both Spencer and Mary-Kate were in the hospital recovering. Of course, they’re not in the same hospital.

Spencer’s sickness may prevent him and his family from coming to Thanksgiving at my apartment. He already apologized to his mother for ruining everyone’s holiday. What a kid! Keep him in your thoughts and prayers. He shouldn’t have to deal with this at this point in his life.

What’s In A Name

Before I get to the main story, I have a funny aside. My name is Todd, it has been my entire life but for some reason people think it’s Scott. It started, as I remember, back in kindergarten when my teacher constantly called me Scott. I didn’t have a friend with that name but for some reason she passed that confusion on to people who would come in contact with me for the rest of my life. High school teachers, college professors, bosses, co-workers… Del Donahoo still only refers to me as Scott solely.

Today on a whim, I asked my mother where she got Todd from. She said “It went with Tonya”. For those of you doing the math, that’s my younger sister. I said “But I came first!” But that didn’t matter to my mother, she’d met a little girl when she was a teenager named Tonya and decided if she ever had a girl she’d name her Tonya. So instead of my parents naming me first and then deciding on my younger sibling’s name, it was the opposite. It’s the things you learn when you only ask the correct questions.

Who were you named after?