It will be 4 weeks tomorrow since my operation. I feel better, but not best. I don't feel better than I did before my surgery, but the stomach pain is completely gone. Two more weeks and I head back into the world of the working. I try to do some little thing productive each day, but I know my body, and I can do ONLY one substantial thing per day yet. Yesterday, my husband and my son helped me clean house. I laid down for a nap at 1:30. At 2:00 pm, our good friends stopped by to surprise us! I was so relieved we took the time to clean up a little! It made the visit so much more enjoyable since I didn't have to fret over doggy hair, dust, dishes, or dirt. Last night, I got really sick. Around 7 p.m. I started feeling really bad. My temp started creeping up, and I felt like someone had shoved a marble into my sinuses. My head was throbbing. I took lots of medicine to help, and I slept all night and most of today. I missed church. I have only been once since I had surgery, which was last week. I wasn't ready then either. I started feeling better around 5 or 6 p.m. tonight. It is 2 a.m. now, so apparently I slept enough that I am not sleepy. I will be working the next two weeks to get myself back into the correct day/night routine. Maybe it will be easy. Probably, it won't be. I hope tomorrow to get at least one productive thing done. Wish me luck!
So in my last post, I mentioned that our renters gave notice that they would be leaving for a bigger home. They came today and finished cleaning up, and they did a great job. There is some little work left to do; wash walls, shampoo carpet in one bedroom, clean air conditioner. Just little things. As we inspected, we decided that we don't want to re-rent the place. At least not for a while. We want our house to be just our house for a while. We looked at the finances, and the pros and cons of both options. Michael convinced me easily. With my increase in pay at work and with the money we will save on the energy and water costs of running two households, we will be able to pay the house payment ourselves. I will get to have my music room again! We will continue mainly living upstairs, but again be able to have a guest bedroom and a living area where we can entertain our friends who have allergies to our pets. I may go back to using the bigger kitchen as well. We will get to go back to having plenty of storage for all our stuff. I just have to remember not to get too much more stuff!
My few dreams for the place will have to come about slowly, due to my healing. But I like to go over the dreams and see the end result in my head. There's no weight limit on lifting when you dream! One of the dreams is a bit pragmatic, but it is going to be super cool if we can get it done. I want a spiral staircase. We removed the old staircase when we divided the house to rent the lower level. Now there is no way to get up and down from inside the house. I priced them. They aren't cheap. It costs around $2,000 for a kit. I am hoping that maybe building our own will be possible. If not, I did find one very small, that is to say narrow kit for $610. Whether or not this is possible remains to be seen, but it is at the upper tier of my dream list!!
I was supposed to take Riley to Children's hospital for three appointments tomorrow. ENT, Audiology, and Vision. I'm not physically ready to make that trip. My car is not physically ready either. I think I may reschedule for some time after the first of the year so that I can spend the rest of this one doing a really good job of healing.
I have started writing some on my other blog. I hope you like this one, and if you like exposition, poetry, and humor, that is what I am shooting for there. http://itsjustusinhere.blogspot.com/ is the link. This blog will continue as well, at least for now. It may be that I change its focus over time to my music. What do you think? Let me know!
God bless you in all that you endeavor to do!
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