It’s okay for me to post this now, ten days late, because my decorations are still up!
Aside from EVERYTHING else, one of the worst feelings I had when they diagnosed me with the blood clots was the idea that I might miss Christmas. I had no doubt in my mind that we would still celebrate but I was very unclear as to what capacity I would be able to participate.
Thankfully, after a week or so of intensive treatment, my condition improved and we slowly got into the Christmas spirit. And I couldn’t have been more grateful that on Christmas morning, I was healthy enough to go to my parents house and eat delicious food, exchange gifts and watch movies with my family.
The thing with being as sick is that I was forced to reorganize my priorities. In years past, I’ve stressed myself out to the point where I couldn’t even enjoy the holidays because there was baking to be done, cards to be completed and mailed, presents to buy, travel plans to fulfill and just general chaos surrounding what was supposed to be a joyous and heartwarming time. But this year – this year I had an amazing holiday! I had to step back and pick only the most important things because my body wouldn’t let me push myself to that breaking point. It was already there.
I pretty much spent today in bed and I don't feel bad about it at all. I've been fighting a pretty nasty cough the past few days and have been just generally feeling run down and exhausted. On Saturday, the house needed to be cleaned up because there were still remnants from the party laying around (all I can say is that I'm glad we stuck with laminate as there were random spills EVERYWHERE!). So I fought hard to get things straightened up and even manager to go through ninety percent of the cabinets and refrigerator in the kitchen
Read MoreI think part of my problem is I don't make time to write. And then, when I finally do, I don't know how to make the mundane sound interesting. Or how to make a month or two's worth of information readable without it being a laundry list of this and that. I always say, "I'm going to do it this month. I'm going to write about something, anything, every day". Then I spend all day at work on the computer and little tasks at home get in the way and before I know it, the day is over and I can't
Read MoreSo it's Autumn and I guess that officially means Summer is over. Ninety-percent of me wants to jump and shout but there's that other ten that's always sad that the carefree days and lazy nights are gone. But with Autumn comes crisp evenings (yes, we've actually had these in Charleston the past few days! See the grin from ear to ear?), football, Halloween, sweatshirts, fuzzy socks, and things like this (that's not a paid endorsement - that's me telling you to go buy the Leaves stuff now!). Some days I look at the date and am still amazed at how quickly the days
Read MoreLife is sort of back to normal, I guess. They say life is a rollercoaster - you have your ups and your downs. I always try to remember that when life is good. Not necessarily to bring myself down but more to ground myself and realize that I need to relish in the good times because there will be bad times. And the only thing that's going to get me through the rough times is to remember that life will be good again. It's just the waiting for the good times that kills me. The floors are still messed up. We are waiting
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