You Know They're Really Your Friends If...

they spend a "fun-filled" Friday night helping to put together your two year old's new play kitchen. Thanks Kevin and Miq! Of course, now Cavie calls the thing "Quel's Kitchen" because in her mind, Miquel gave it to her. Just because Mommy spent years researching, tracking, eyeballing, watching the sales, doesn't mean baby knows where the present came from. Ah well, she loves it anyway...

So, yesterday was Cavanaugh's 2nd birthday! We spent the day with my sister taking the kids and I through the drive through at McDonalds for Apples (they still don't know about the "dippers" part, don't tell 'em!), taking me to my plastic surgeon to get a drain removed (yea!) (Side note -- he said my surgery wounds look great and that I should be really happy with them, I felt much better since I trust his opinion immensely), a trip to Target (at which point Mommy decided it was time for a nap), lunch that Grammie made, and then play time at Grammie's house so Mommy could get that nap! We had cake and ice cream after supper and Kevin and Miquel joined us for that.

I spent this morning vacuuming up the Styrofoam box from the play kitchen which my darling children discovered before Eric and I were awake. Totally slept through my 3am meds wake up call, so I was four hours behind on those, but since the pain didn't wake me up, I took that as a good thing!

The computer dizziness is getting better -- I can handle about half an hour now -- and as of yesterday I can actually read a book again, so that will help time to pass. I'm thinking I'll be on the major drugs through the end of next week, or until my last drain is out, whichever is sooner. Hopefully after that I'll feel well enough to be able to pop in at school a little and take Kile to preschool. Since I can't lift anything over 10 pounds and the 2nd anniversary of her birth appears not to have potty trained her, it will be a while before I can handle the kiddos on my own for more than a couple of hours. But, hey, we're getting there!

Kids and Eric have a birthday party in Cedar Rapids today (me too, but yesterday's doctor/Target excursion was enough to convince me that I'm not yet ready for major outings), so I'm planning an afternoon on the couch to catch up on my sleep. Ha.

Carpe Diem! -- Trela

Meds, Meal, TV, Nap, Repeat

So, life is exciting. Ha.

Periodically things get shaken up a bit by a visit from my kids (who are still staying at my in-laws since I can do absolutely nothing with them), a phone call, or a DVD, but beyond that, life is calmly routine.

I'm headed to my plastic surgeon at home tomorrow to get one of my three remaining drains removed which is rather inconsequential, but will be a step in the right direction. When they're all gone, I'll feel much better.

My strength is getting better -- I can sit up rather easily unlike the strange roll to the side, twist, violent shove with my right arm of earlier in the week.

My appetite is better, too, though I have a weird hour of nausea every morning between about 10:30 and 11:30. Today was better, Dad called and reminded me to premedicate at about 9:45, so we'll see if that helps again tomorrow.

I still spend most of the day on the couch with trips to the bathroom and to check my email every two hours or so... I could do more, but the scenery doesn't change much, so why burn the energy? Plus looking at the computer screen for too long does genuinely make me dizzy, so I need to ration myself because of that, too.

I took a walk outside several times yesterday and the day before, but today is rainy, so I think I'll content myself with wandering from the living room to the office. I picked up the kitchen a bit, but I can't open and load the dishwasher yet (a weird muscle combination, I think), and I might hang on to that "disability" for a while.... maybe Eric won't read this post....

Anyway, I'm down to the minimum in my pain killers, and I'm really not in much "owie" pain at all -- just if I do something stupid, which I'm doing pretty well at avoiding.

Just thought I'd post an update since people keep asking my friends and family, "How's she doing?" She's doing well!

: )
Carpe diem -- Trela

Daffy day.

No, the medication is not the only reason for the title. As we stepped out onto the very warm porch this morning, we saw that the spring flowers had begun to bloom, and interestingly, the only flowers in bloom were the ones directly in front of Trela's porch chair. We'll take that as a sign.

She wanted me to post the pictures. As you can see, she is looking great already, and she's getting pretty good at giving orders around the house :)



Carpe Diem,

Eric

No News Is Good News

I think my dear husband should be in the cliffhanger business... "Trela and I had said Monday morning that we just needed to get through the next 3 days with no bad news. So far, so good."

Those of you with any math ability may have noticed that it is now at least three days beyond Monday (6 by my count, but I'm an English teacher), and thank the Lord, we made it through. The worst thing to happen was me blowing 2 IV's within about 5 minutes (which didn't hurt, just was frustrating, especially when it took about a dozen sticks and two hours to get a new one started... and I was still on IV pain meds). Ok, really, the food wasn't great either, but I wasn't exactly on a cruise.

My ride home yesterday was decent (I even walked into Chipolte myself to order my lunch, which I informed them I'd be eating in a day, so I'd liked it packaged MY way), my evening short since I fell asleep on the couch (twice) after a visit with Grammie and the kids. They were really good -- knew not to touch Mommy too much, but I showed both of them my blown IV bruises on my arm in order to get the point home -- that's about the scariest thing they'll need to see to get them to leave me be! They're good at kissing my hands and hugging my feet! It was just good to see them!

Ready for a day of movie watching/snoozing, and though these pain meds are working much better in terms of both pain control and lucidity, I can tell I've been on the computer enough -- time to sign off and eat breakfast.

Have a good day!
Carpe diem -- Trela