July 11, 2009

• Doing Alright - More Pictures

  I am doing okay, today.  The doctor was a little worried about me reacting to the extra bag of IV bone strengthening  stuff hung on Thursday.  I've had a bit of bone pain in my pelvic area, legs, and knees.  It started early this morning, but NOTHING like I had 4 weeks ago when they hung the same stuff and I was in agony all weekend.

  I woke up at 6am and took one Morphine tablet at 6:15am (it only works for 3 hours) to get me by until I could start my Percocet schedule  (9:30am, 3:30pm, & 9:30pm), which seems to work for me.  That allows me to take the least amount of Percocet and is a dose I'm most comfortable taking.  I slept like a rock again last night.  I'm so glad the steroids aren't rendering me sleepless this time!

                             

  I made 4 loaves (a double batch) of friend, Emily's, 100 year old banana bread recipe for Karen this morning.  We will eat one and I've frozen the other three for her to take home Monday.  I baked it fairly early this morning, before I began to hurt, and I let the KitchenAide mixer do all the work!  We ran the dishwasher and did some laundry - well, JoAnn did the laundry, until the thermostat in the front of the house started to rise above the desired temperature.

                            

  There are parts of Oklahoma that have been hitting 115 degrees - that's up in the Panhandle.  We've been over 100 degrees in our area for several days.  There is talk of a "cool front" coming through in a few days that will lower temperatures "down" to 99 degrees.  That DOES sound rather appealing!  So, you know it must be hot!!!

                                   

  One of our pastor's family (the ones we were friends with before attending their church) are bringing dinner tonight.  I asked Jesse if he was clear with them about how many people are in our house today!  We have a lot to cook for, if you aren't used to cooking for large numbers of people - 8 of us, in all.

  We look forward to their company, always, as the pastor is as silly and funny as Jesse.  If I feel uncomfortable from bone pain, I may have to excuse myself and go back to my bed and lie down while everyone else visits.

                                     

  I read a book, so to speak, today.  It's an easy read, written for teenagers, and has something like 4 or 5 short stories compiled under one cover.  Each story is only 150 pages (or less) and easy to zip through in a few hours.  It was entertaining and distracted me from my pain.

  I should explain what I consider pain.  On a scale of 1 - 10, "aches" rate at 1-5.  Then, somewhere around 5 and rating upwards, from 5-10, it becomes "pain."  I would rate this as "aches" today, rather than "pain," and around a 3 -4 on my pain rating scale.  Of course, it isn't constant, but just twinges here and there.  Very bearable.

                                  

  I just cleaned up the bar in the kitchen.  I wrapped the banana bread for the freezer and put away the big pans that had been hand washed last night.  I refilled the flour and sugar bins and just kind of tidied things up.  Jesse had the girls empty the dishwasher, but I'm sure the sink is still full of dirty cups, etc. from today.  Oh well - I'm not going to look and then it won't bother me!!!

  JoAnn and Karen went to JoAnn's & Jesse's mother's house so their mom could see Karen before she leaves Monday.  Abreeana was cute and told JoAnn she wanted to stay with her Uncle Jesse and go swimming with the girls.  JoAnn told her to ask her Uncle Jesse and Jesse said she was just darling asking if she could please stay with him!  Right now, she is asleep next to him on the sofa while he watches TV.  Dressed and rediapered - thanks to her Uncle Jesse.

                                

  Well, I have just been asked by my husband to go back to the bed and rest a bit before people start arriving.  JoAnn just called and she and Karen are stopping at Wal-Mart, but are on their way home.

  Hope everyone is having a nice weekend - mine is definitely relaxing!

  Be Blessed  ~

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