What a week!

I'm glad that this crazy week is finally winding to a close.

What seemed like an average Sunday took a strange turn when we lost power to the house. We were lucky that power was only out for 3 hours and that our favorite Chinese restaurant had power so that we could get dinner. Jonnie had no clue what to do since he could not watch TV. Once the NASCAR race finished on the radio, we ended up going to the basement to watch Jon clean his guns by battery operated lantern. Power came back on shortly there after although phone, Internet, and cable did not come back until Monday. Given what others suffered through, we won't complain about one fried cable box which Jon exchanged on Wednesday.

The building where I work was on generator power Sunday afternoon through Tuesday night. I was tasked with keeping all of the staff updated with the current status of the power outage. I went in Tuesday and Wednesday at 6 AM to make sure my department was open early so staff could call in for status. Wednesday, I did triage after the power outage and came out fairly unscathed. Jon's building never lost power although Jon did have a few long days dealing with campus buildings that were without power and security services.

As my husband predicted, I crashed hard and by Thursday, I ended up staying home from work at least for the morning. Jon was able to get me in to see his doctor for a consultation on my medical situation. Since I was down the street from work, I went in and put in a half day. Jon's doctor could not believe how much larger my left side is than my right with all of the swelling. He said he has never seen anything like it. He has no answers and thinks that moving forward with seeing the GI doctor next week and getting MRIs is the right thing to do. With my situation, the way to approach it is to run tests and check off what it ISN'T and then try another test. I see the GI doctor on Wednesday afternoon and I have thoracic and lumbar MRIs scheduled for Thursday night.

Prior to my illness, it has been common for me to come down with a horrible headache for 2-3 days when I get run down. Unfortunately, I am running down sooner with my illness. My headache finally cleared today after starting on Wednesday. Alleluia!

I am trying not to miss work but I've not done such a good job at it. Over the past couple of weeks, I've turned over the car keys to Jon and had him do the driving so that I could at least be present at the office. Some of those days may not have always been productive but I was at least present and accounted for.

I was hoping to be cured by now but that has not happened. The custodian at work reminds me that God has a plan for me and that he has me in His hands and is protecting me. I have a sign on my door with the cartoon character Maxine that says "If you woke up breathing, Congratulations, you have another chance". I have to admit that over these past weeks, I feel grateful for every day that I wake up breathing even if I'm tired and/or hurting.

Jon has a trip coming up where he'll be gone for several days. It will be an exciting time because our son starts Parish School of Religion (PSR) or at least I think he will; I'm not sure the woman who was heading up the program is still with the Parish. It will be challenging because I'll be working full-time and being a full-time Mommy without Daddy for help. My doctor has exempted me from heavy lifting (yeah, no more furniture or equipment moving at work) but since I feel obligated to follow these same rules at home, Jon's trip means running laundry to the laundry room a few shirts at a time.

I need to wrap up this posting for now. I need to get a good night's rest as we're going back to the zoo tomorrow to see the half of the zoo we did not see a couple of weeks ago. We're going on Saturday so that I can have Sunday as a recovery day since the last trip knocked me out.

Have a great weekend and GO BUCKS!