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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Good and not so good

Well the not so good .... as always it is health crap for me I am apparently an expert at injuring myself in different ways. I had an infection going on around my eye and had gotten up after being asleep to go check on it (was thinking of calling dr) and go to the bathroom. All was otherwise fine. Went to leave the bathroom and had the most excruciating pain in my rib cage. I actually thought it was a pleurisy attack at the time (HOMG those frikking HUUUURRRRTTT...I've had cracked ribs before and they rank right up there with that) anyway...so just to be on the safe side woke hubby and told him I needed to go to ER (I also couldn't get a good breath because I couldn't breathe in very deeply) The car ride there was absolutely excruciating and getting out of the car when we got there put me in tears. It was more than I could take almost. They did an EKG (I didn't think it was my heart so it wasn't much of a surprise when that was fine) but they seem to think it was a pulled muscle (a badly pulled one) and gave me something for pain. Thought I was supposed to get muscle relaxers too but I didn't and some antibiotic for my eye. Soooo we came home and I have trouble kinda sitting up it continues to hurt more (I've sat up too long really right now) I went to bed after taking the pain medicine and then had to make a couple of phone calls and when I went to roll over HOMG it seriously felt like I was breaking everything trying to do so. (one of those kinda funny because you are thinking how ridiculous it is at the time but you are in too much pain to laugh things....) so I lay there. Stuck. No one in the next room can hear me. So I kind of slide over to the side of the bed and slide my legs off thinking I was going to get up in a sitting position to get up. Nope. I wind up sliding down forcing my back into an arch and pretty much dying some right there. No fun. Somehow I manage to get up enough to get to the door. Told my hubby (this was later in the day and he was in the living room) what ever it was I was going to tell him...went to lay back down and promptly discovered laying flat on my back is not going to be an option so then I had to have him help me sit up til I could get pillows behind me. This really sucks for me because I hate being down that low that I can't even do something so simple as roll over or get out of bed. Nothing drives me more batty. In any case they said I'd probably be like this for a week so I am trying to take it easy but not let myself stay too stiff at the same time. They said I would have to watch for pneumonia because I can't take deep breaths. I am having to put off my last few sessions of PT because I can't move. (though I may ask if there is anything I can do about that) So anyway there is that. 

Now for the sorta good. I can now elaborate some on one of the two situations I couldn't do so with earlier. My 2nd oldest had an incident with a severe infection a year or so ago. She got over the infection or so we thought. She moved to another state and wound up finding she still has the infection in her body showing up in another spot so she had to go in and get it taken care of. It was a scary experience because this is an infection that is known to become pretty dangerous if left very long at all and is actually a pretty big deal. She seems to have caught it in time so hopefully it is going to be okay. She is on meds for it and had a wound it made that had to be cleaned out. Can be there for her via phone or internet but too far away to be there personally which kinda sucks. She and her fiance also recently both got jobs working at the same place so congrats to them both. Pretty awesome.  They seem to be getting their future planned out now and have some pretty good goals in mind if they can stick with them all should be pretty good.

Had a parent teacher meeting with my youngest's teacher. That went pretty good. We get tickled because she comes home telling us these stories about "field trips" she goes one. Usually involving a giant eagle that flies the class around. We told the teacher about this and apparently when she talks about home we live in a zoo with peacocks and zebras and such. Very imaginative. The class got to go see a circus tent being put up today. (for real not one of my youngest child's tall tales LOL) So that is pretty cool. We are going to be having Frontier days here soon. Our town's local yearly celebration. Kinda excited about that. Dunno how much I can do due to pain but going to try. 
at the free fair this is a big tank they do demonstrations in. I missed the demonstrations but this guy was pretty cool. He was all posing and everything.

Monday, September 15, 2014

Well I do have to keep this one short but for starters went and saw my foot dr. He released me though I do have to finish up my PT (5 sessions left that I need to set up) Foot is doing a lot better. Have some preventative stuff that I do at home too now. So anyway yay for that. I got hit with a whole bunch of news at once today and really not sure how much of it to share and how much of it to stay pretty vague on (though it seems I need to stay vague for now on all of it) but part of it involves a family member that is having some pretty scary health issues. Sadly they aren't close enough (physically) for me to do as much as I'd like but please keep them in your thoughts, prayers, light and love appreciated for them.  I may share later as I know more and I know it is okay to do so. 
Got papers in the mail today that took me completely by surprise. Don't know what to make of that just yet. Nothing bad really just sort of a wait and see what happens sort of thing. (dunno how else to put that. Not directly about us but can affect us indirectly) Again may say more as I know more on that one. So long story short... keeping it short because I can't share too much as of yet on anything yet I am feeling a lot of emotions on this. As for the family member.. hopeful but nervous for them will feel better when they know more. As for the papers... totally up in the air... curious...surprised....still in shock as it came out of the blue... just really not sure what to feel about it. Could be a good thing but have to wait and see I guess.  Anyway sorry for the vague postings but while I wanted to say SOMETHING I can't say too much yet on anything. Kinda frustrating in a way :P  

In other news... working on my fall cleaning. Wanting to work on my crocheting (need to make arm warmers and such). Working on a drawing for a friend that I have started just need to complete and see if it was what they were wanting. Got distracted today. I am not a morning person and to be out and about to my appt on top of lack of sleep it kicked my butt. My youngest has a hard time with allergies despite being on prescribed stuff for them and whatever is in the air sucks right now. It has been waking her up at night and way too early in the morning.  I think hers has developed into a cold and well my hubby and I have it some. My son and his awesome immune system has thankfully won out against it for now though he suffered a bit at the start of allergy season. Doing fine now though. 
I am working on learning more German and maybe some Spanish. I found I retained some Spanish while helping my son with his Spanish class and also from Abby watching Dora. *sigh* Anyway trying to expand on that. My son has been getting interested in computer coding and he does really well with complex ideas so he learns faster with things like that. He tends to get bored if it is too easy and loses interest. 
Hoping we can get to go fishing a few more times before it gets too cold. My son likes finding fishing gear (bobbers that strayed off etc) when we are there, taking pics, and catching lizards. (yeah he does actually fish some) he got my youngest using a net to catch minnows and I think she wound up liking that better than actual fishing. It is kind of relaxing. Other than that trying to get going with my fall cleaning and getting ready to start doing some winterizing. :/ I want to enjoy some in between weather though first. 
Taken at the fair when we went to enter our stuff. It was raining on the actual fair day but the kids still had fun. They had some kind of inflatable ride thing inside. My youngest did it but my son wasn't so keen on the idea LOL He was having too much fun harassing me :P