It's me, Charity

 The words to describe last week would be Snow & Snot. Sunday I started feeling like I was getting a cold. Monday when I got up it was clear I had one. It had snowed over night, so I got to use my new to me borrowed snowblower for the first time! Despite not feeling well I was pretty jazzed to try it out!  Don't ask me about the weird gloves I'm wearing.  I have no clue. After a slight technical difficulty with the extension cord not fitting the plug in, I got it going, and managed to clear my driveway and sidewalks and my neighbors sidewalk. My cord didn't get me to his driveway. Which I felt bad about until I was teaching later and heard a snowblower. Someone had come to do his driveway!  Wednesday. Oh Wednesday. There were numerous times that day when I wanted to sit down and bawl I was super sick by Weds, and realized I needed to see my Dr. So I made a same day sick apt for later that afternoon. I got ready in the hopes I could ...

Well let me tell you.... Week 40 was not exactly a banner week. It started out bad and ended not the greatest.  Last Sunday when I got up for church I could tell I was getting sick. As the day went on it was clear I wasn't getting sick, I was already there. Monday I got up and slowwwwwwly got ready, i was determined to teach even if I had to breathe out of my mouth. Well, After taking a shower and putting on the bare minimum of makeup. I was sitting on the couch forcing myself to eat (should have been a sign right there) and I dozed off while eating! What am I, 90? No, just really miserable. I finally reluctantly cancelled all my lessons and laid down on the couch. I was miserable. Just miserable. I really have no words about Monday and Tuesday other than misery, coughing, sneezing, BLECH. My cold moved into a Sinus Infection and Bronchitis  in the blink of an eye. Which was not surprising with my sinuses.  Wednesday I was back at work, and wearing alll the c...

If you read last week's recap, it was chock full of sickness and misery. This week started off still feeling the effects of the sickness of death and struggling to get over it. Eventually though I did and we can all rejoice for that!  The weekend and Monday were still spent on the couch. My goal for Sunday was to do the dishes. I would have to take breaks inbetween washing dishes, to rest. I was SO weak from being sick and really not eating for days, being dehydrated, it was bad. I knew I was in no shape to teach Monday, and I was right. So I worked on hydrating and calming my still upset stomach down. Sickness when you have a chronic illness are longer lasting and more complicated than if you're a "normal" healthy person. Thankfully I have learned the hard way to listen to my body and know what it's capable of, and rest even when my mind is feeling better. I was getting SO bored, but was as energetic as a newborn baby. ha! Needless to say there was a LOT o...

To say I have had a busy summer is putting it lightly. I am not a fan of cold weather or snow, but I was happy when school started and even happier when September 1'st rolled around.  Granted today is the hottest day of the year at 94 degrees and I feel like I am sweating in the ac. Minor Detail. Part of my busy summer were my Allergy Shots. Earlier this year I got tested and discovered the reason I had a sinus and ear infection from Sept- Feb was because of my Allergies. In March I started allergy shots at my former ENT's, with a not nice allergy lady who made me leave crying after my first apt. I learned how to do my own shots and did them at my house once a week. I was not that good at giving myself shots and had huge bruise spots on my arms, and then on my stomach. When I went back to the office to get another batch of medicine, my insurance had changed and they refused to see me. I left the office again in tears and raced home to get on my insurance...

So today I got the privilege of going back to the ENT for a scope! I know, the thrills and excitement of my life are never ending!! It's been three weeks and one day since my surgery! However it feels like a long time, even though I still remember the pain, and am still in some pain, but tylenol takes care of that! So I show up at the ENT at 12 ( missing Apes goodbye lunch with co workers at Logans :( ) And I find out he is running late. An hour later I find out that he is running an hour late. But knowing that getting upset and rude about it wouldn't help anything and would make those poor people's day worse, I decided I was going to be super nice and try to make up for all of the other people that were rude to them!! It must have worked because all three of them thanked me at different times for being so nice to them and patient and having a good attitude! YAYS! That made me feel good that I had in some small way, made their day a little better. So the nurse took me back ...

When I am left alone in a Dr's office for an HOUR AND TWENTY MINUTES!! Only to find out that I have to have stinking sinus surgery, SOON, to remove some of my ephnoid sinuses and open up the rest.. sigh..