Early morning thoughts

It is early here and the house has settled down. Turns out all the things that have been happening to Mom is the result of her having Shingles. Yep, good 'ol chicken pox virus. Seems both the local hospital and ER missed the huge a$$ rash on her back. Treated her for other things and not the root cause. Gave her Dilaudid for pain. Medicine was WAY too strong for her, causing her to get totally confused and disoriented.  Our local family practice doctor saw the rash and KNEW it was Shingles. I got to put Calamine lotion all over her (kinda like payback from when I was a kid). They now have Mom on Neurotin for the nerve pain. Tonight, around 1 am, she rolled over in bed and rolled off the side onto the floor. She did not have the strength to lift herself, so I had to call 911 and they got her up. They are gone and she is slowly relaxing and trying to go back to sleep.

Me, I am wide awake wondering if I should stitch or go back to bed. Smart thing says bed, as we have a busy day planned for tomorrow. You know, house cleaning, laundry and yard work, the usual stuff.

Leg wise, the calf is healing nicely and there is only a little left over knee pain. I see the orthopaedic doctor this coming Wednesday and I will ask him to send me over to PT to get exercises for calf strengthening.

Have a great weekend;
Joanne

Mending

Last Friday, while stepping off a curb, my leg gave out, searing pain happened. Went to see an orthopaedic doctor this past Tuesday and I have torn the calf muscle and strained my hamstring. On prescription anti-inflammatories and told to rest. Yeah, right. Thursday morning woke up to Mom telling me she had been having chest pains for 1 hour. ER visit went to a hospital admit. Final result.... pleurisy. She is now home. Me, I am beyond tired. too tired to stitch, too tired to work on photos, too tired to even shoot photos. Right now all I can do is sleep and go to work.

Here's to a better week...

Joanne

Gee, had to reset my passwword

because it had been SO long since I have written.

Yep, I am still here. Still working 6 days a week. Still not stitching, but the weather is beginning to cool off (well, this weekend anyway). I did however, add to my stitching stash. Even bought a Daylight stitching lamp. It is set up by the stitching chair and table and I am going to try it out this weekend.... even if it is just to get colors organized.

Have a safe and happy Holiday weekend.