June 9, 2009

• Another Long Night

  Oh my goodness!  What a looooooonnnnng night!

  I fell asleep at a reasonable hour, but awoke at 1am with another headache.  For someone who has spent all of her life headache free - life sure is catching me up quickly!  That's 3 headaches in the past 10 days.  HIGHLY unusual for me.

  I finally got up at 1:40am and got in a hot bath.  Anything to relax my neck and help my headache.  It didn't!  Around 2am I took 2 headache pills (Fiorinal #3) and went to sleep a little after 2am. 

                                  
                                                    Abreeana and JoAnn - fresh off the plane!

  2:30am, Annamarie came in to say her nose was stopped up.  Jesse picked her up from Stephanie's place yesterday afternoon because she tested negative for strep and the doctor felt it was an old fashioned cold, maybe allergies.  She's back home, but banned to her bedroom with her nasty cough.

  I gave her a Sudafed and fell back asleep rather quickly.  BUT . . . at 4am she woke us up saying she needed the "throw up bucket" - a pink hospital bathing tub I had by my bedside.  I handed it to her, Jesse went to the bathroom to check on her and I fell asleep again. 

  At least I was able to keep going back to sleep!

    
              (I'm not sure if Annamarie was getting Sushi away from Abreeana or forcing her to kiss Abreeana!!!)

  I woke up a little before 6am and that was the end of the night for me.  I waited until 6:30am to get out of bed; but, clearly, I wasn't going to fall back asleep.

  "Walking zombie" would be a good description of me, today!  Well, I've never actually *seen* a zombie, nor have I "seen" a *walking* zombie, but I feel pretty out of it!!!   Does that qualify as "zombie" material????   LOL

                                        
                                                  JoAnn saying good bye to her son, Santos.

  Jesse isn't working today.  He and JoAnn have gone to the store for a few items and some fresh vegetables.  I had planned to make a pasta salad for tonight and then marinate some chicken in Zesty Italian salad dressing for dinner.  I just left the kitchen where 2 packages of ground beef and 1 package of ground turkey are thawing.  Someone, obviously, has plans for tonight's dinner that don't include my idea!!!!!

  They better let me cook while I can!!!  After Thursday's chemo, it will fall on JoAnn again!

  Little Abreeana and Luci have gone with JoAnn and Jesse to the store.  Annamrie is in her bed and Rissy is in her room watching "I Love Lucy" DVDs!  Oops!  I just remembered, Rissy is grounded from TV or videos today.  Her room was in total disarray last night and we are tired of reminding her to be tidy.  Oh well, she is no longer watching "I Love Lucy" - sorry Riss'.

                                        
                                                    Santos' oldest girls, Espie and Noelle.

  We have a chance of rain all week (higher chance tomorrow) and I wonder if we will ever get our small pool purchased and set up.  It will be too late before you know it.

  I spent this morning trying to get appointments for Rissy set up.  She never has gotten her shoes or leg brace.  AND, the pedatrician's office has never referred us to the orthopedic surgeon.  We've been waiting for both things since late April (rolling my eyes).  I finally was able to get an appointment next week for the shoes and brace to be given to us.  I'm still waiting for the ped. doctor's office to call back.  At 8:30am she said, "Let me make a quick call and I'll call you right back."  Glad I didn't hold my breath!

  Luci finished her math book yesterday.  Yay, Luci!!!!  The first one to be done with school!!! 

  Annamarie doesn't feel well and her few pages await her. 

  Rissy is doing a bunch of pages each day in her math book so she can be finished with the last math chapter ASAP.  Unfortunately, she will still have to do several weeks of spelling before she is totally free of the burden of school! 

  I'll let them go without school in June and July and won't start up again until the first of August.  I'm suspecting my surgery will be in September, so they will have a short break at that time, too.

                                 
                                                       Abby and Luci - so cute together!

  I really don't have anything I *have to* do today - a good thing, since I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer!!!  I might read more in my book.  This one is taking FOREVER for me to finish.  It's interesting, but I don't think I am dedicating much time to reading books.  I have mainly been reading my Bible and then vegetating or staring into space.  I'm pretty sure that's where I'll fix my gaze today - space - seeing I'm sleep deprived again!!!!

                                  
                                               One of the last pictures of me before my hair loss!

  I need to help Rissy with her school work - the dreaded MATH BOOK!!!!!!

  Be Blessed  ~

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