What's Been Going On
Wow......has it really been that long since my last post? Ok...yes, yes....it really has. At first...I was trying to ponder what to write for the big "100" post (although for reasons I am sure that I will never figure out, blogger double posted my last post and now thinks this is post 101). Should I write something politically or socially relevant or maybe I'll finally come up with a new poem? It seemed momentous that I had reached (although it took me longer than I thought) my 100th post. Well, felllow bloggers, instead of something inspriring, you get a "catch-up" post. (Which I in in way, shape or form claim is going to be either brilliant or interesting!).
While I was doing all this pondering, I was assigned to a new multi-divisional team. The short of this means a lot more work. First came the three day trip to the sales conference in Sarasota. I now know what their aiport looks like and saw the water from the hotel room. Work-related trips tend to be a big of a drag since you rarely get to see anything outside of the hotel (since we have our meetings where we stay). You might get to have a meal that isn't at the hotel (we had dinner 3 miles from the hotel) so even if there are wonderful sights to be seen they go unseen by us. Then there was the almost two day trip to Boston (up one morning, back the next evening) so I almost got to see the Boston airport. I got myself up & to the airport before the butt crack of dawn and managed to make it to the plane where at take-off time we were still sitting at the gate with the door open. Looking around, the plane is full so they aren't making us wait for some last minute person to run up the stairs and find their seat. After a host of people come off and on the plane huddling in the cockpit, someone finally tells us that there is a small mechanical problem (a light isn't working) and that instead of making us wait on the plane, we're unloading and going back in (this was in the post-Jet Blue Valentines week debaucle....we actually took Jet Blue to New York and it was great so I was sad to hear that they had such terrible issues) and even though they anticipated a very small delay they would start working on alternate connections just in case. They were very effeciently working on those who had the earliest connections (and I'm actually not being sarcastic) while waiting for the mechanic and were almost up to me when the mechanic showed up.....where he proceeded to begin taking larger sections of the plane apart....flight cancelled. And there were so few connections and remaining spots, that it became useless to even attempt to go. The bottom line...work has had me very busy trying to manage all my new duties along with the ones that I already had.
Then came the parental situation. My mother "tripped" over an extension cord and hurt her leg one Friday evening. She refused to go the emergency room, preferring the urgent care center which meant waiting until Saturday. They did an x-ray to discover that she had broken her leg at some point (though she has no clue when it happened as she was never treated for a break) but couldn't tell what was wrong with her leg now. This meant waiting until Tuesday to see the Bone & Joint doctor's who agreed that the x-ray didn't show anything and scheduled her for a CAT scan on Thursday. On Wednesday, we found out that she never tripped. Her neighbor was with her when she "tripped" and came over while my brother was at the house and said that she just stood up and the leg gave way....why she felt the need to tell us that she tripped when she didn't....who knows. Her neighbor, and friend, used to be a nurse and heard my mother coughing while talking to my brother and said that we needed to take her to the ER. So my brother and I spent the night in really uncomfortable chairs, getting really aggravated with the way these things work. They decided that they wanted to admit her (her O2 level was about 80 and her BP was around 85/58), but that they couldn't...her regular doctor had to do it (?????). They don't do admitting in the middle of the night, but use a different practice to handle that.....so after they got there, asked her the same 1000 questions for like the 100th time, they admitted her into the Heart Tower saying she had heart failure. So nothing could be done about her leg and after 5 days in the HT they decided she didn't have heart failure, but that between the leg trauma and the lung infection, her heart became stiff from all the work. So they finally manage to do the surgery on her leg, move her to the rehab hospital where she gets an infection and is sent back to the hospital (another night in the ER) where she stays for several days, then back to the rehab hospital and eventually home (after about 45 days) where she's still taking PT. Whew....
In the meantime, we still have her dog. An 11 pound mini-schnauzer that's blind in one eye, has a heart murmer, a skin condition and an issue with incontinence. She has cut down on how much she chews on our dog's ears, but the cat is still pissed off. And my mother spends 1/2 her time worrying that her dog won't remember who she is.....so I arrange visits when possible so the little dog can remember where her home really is.
So I've been busy with a lot of necessary, but not necessarily fun or interesting things. But such is life sometimes.
On the up side, I am getting very excited about finally getting to take our honeymoon! And we're taking the trip I have always wanted to take for my honeymoon...an Alaskan cruise. For as long as I can remember having a preference about this I've said, "If I ever get married, I'm taking an Alaskan Cruise and if my husband wants to come, well that'll be nice, too." We leave here on 6/29 for Seattle with my sister driving us to Vancouver the next day to hop aboard the big boat for our cruise! And now, there will be all the planning for that, but that's planning that I will very much be looking forward to!
While I was doing all this pondering, I was assigned to a new multi-divisional team. The short of this means a lot more work. First came the three day trip to the sales conference in Sarasota. I now know what their aiport looks like and saw the water from the hotel room. Work-related trips tend to be a big of a drag since you rarely get to see anything outside of the hotel (since we have our meetings where we stay). You might get to have a meal that isn't at the hotel (we had dinner 3 miles from the hotel) so even if there are wonderful sights to be seen they go unseen by us. Then there was the almost two day trip to Boston (up one morning, back the next evening) so I almost got to see the Boston airport. I got myself up & to the airport before the butt crack of dawn and managed to make it to the plane where at take-off time we were still sitting at the gate with the door open. Looking around, the plane is full so they aren't making us wait for some last minute person to run up the stairs and find their seat. After a host of people come off and on the plane huddling in the cockpit, someone finally tells us that there is a small mechanical problem (a light isn't working) and that instead of making us wait on the plane, we're unloading and going back in (this was in the post-Jet Blue Valentines week debaucle....we actually took Jet Blue to New York and it was great so I was sad to hear that they had such terrible issues) and even though they anticipated a very small delay they would start working on alternate connections just in case. They were very effeciently working on those who had the earliest connections (and I'm actually not being sarcastic) while waiting for the mechanic and were almost up to me when the mechanic showed up.....where he proceeded to begin taking larger sections of the plane apart....flight cancelled. And there were so few connections and remaining spots, that it became useless to even attempt to go. The bottom line...work has had me very busy trying to manage all my new duties along with the ones that I already had.
Then came the parental situation. My mother "tripped" over an extension cord and hurt her leg one Friday evening. She refused to go the emergency room, preferring the urgent care center which meant waiting until Saturday. They did an x-ray to discover that she had broken her leg at some point (though she has no clue when it happened as she was never treated for a break) but couldn't tell what was wrong with her leg now. This meant waiting until Tuesday to see the Bone & Joint doctor's who agreed that the x-ray didn't show anything and scheduled her for a CAT scan on Thursday. On Wednesday, we found out that she never tripped. Her neighbor was with her when she "tripped" and came over while my brother was at the house and said that she just stood up and the leg gave way....why she felt the need to tell us that she tripped when she didn't....who knows. Her neighbor, and friend, used to be a nurse and heard my mother coughing while talking to my brother and said that we needed to take her to the ER. So my brother and I spent the night in really uncomfortable chairs, getting really aggravated with the way these things work. They decided that they wanted to admit her (her O2 level was about 80 and her BP was around 85/58), but that they couldn't...her regular doctor had to do it (?????). They don't do admitting in the middle of the night, but use a different practice to handle that.....so after they got there, asked her the same 1000 questions for like the 100th time, they admitted her into the Heart Tower saying she had heart failure. So nothing could be done about her leg and after 5 days in the HT they decided she didn't have heart failure, but that between the leg trauma and the lung infection, her heart became stiff from all the work. So they finally manage to do the surgery on her leg, move her to the rehab hospital where she gets an infection and is sent back to the hospital (another night in the ER) where she stays for several days, then back to the rehab hospital and eventually home (after about 45 days) where she's still taking PT. Whew....
In the meantime, we still have her dog. An 11 pound mini-schnauzer that's blind in one eye, has a heart murmer, a skin condition and an issue with incontinence. She has cut down on how much she chews on our dog's ears, but the cat is still pissed off. And my mother spends 1/2 her time worrying that her dog won't remember who she is.....so I arrange visits when possible so the little dog can remember where her home really is.
So I've been busy with a lot of necessary, but not necessarily fun or interesting things. But such is life sometimes.
On the up side, I am getting very excited about finally getting to take our honeymoon! And we're taking the trip I have always wanted to take for my honeymoon...an Alaskan cruise. For as long as I can remember having a preference about this I've said, "If I ever get married, I'm taking an Alaskan Cruise and if my husband wants to come, well that'll be nice, too." We leave here on 6/29 for Seattle with my sister driving us to Vancouver the next day to hop aboard the big boat for our cruise! And now, there will be all the planning for that, but that's planning that I will very much be looking forward to!
posted by Hope at 7:31 AM
5 Comments:
Hi sweetie, you have been missed! Congrats on your 100th post.
Glad to hear that your mum is now recovering... that is indeed worrying! And now you can constantly remind her not to lie about things so you can get proper medical attention right away.
Have a good honeymoon! When do you leave?
We leave the last Friday in June for Seattle and then hop on board on Saturday....so we'll be cruising over our 4th of July holiday!
My parents have always wanted to do that cruise -- the only cruise they say they'd like to take.
How long is it and how long will are you gone for?
All that time in airports hould leave you time to blog, no?
At least write it as a word document (if you can't get an Internet connection), then copy and paste later.
All this flying... sounds both fun and tiring. I like to fly, but I also like to see the places I'm flying to.
I hope your mum feels better soon. She told you she tripped becasue she didn't want to worry you, or seem old, most likely. My dad refuses to get his hearing checked, because a hearing aid will make him 'old'. He's only 74, which, I think, is a good precursor to being old.
blackcrag: This is so the trip I've dreamed of so I'm beyond excited. We fly to Seattle on June 29th and my sister will drive us to Vancouver the next day where we'll cruise until the next Saturday with three ports of call. Plus we'll spend the day in Anchorage as we get kicked off the ship in the AM, but our flight doesn't leave until 9:00PM that night. I actually am not thrilled at all about the flying and hubby is less thrilled...but we'll just have to suck it up! It's kind of a good thing that Sunday will be an "at sea" day so we can just sit back and relax before the excursions start! The laptop will be staying at home so I'll have to do some major picture posting and blogging when I get back.
As for the parental unit...I guess she thinks it's better that we think she's blind...she "tripped" over an extension cord that she put down and had been there for several months. She turned 76 while she was in the hospital and I've always said she's going to outlive all of us...just for spite!
Hi Hope
Great to have you back and congratulations on happybunnyhopes 100th...
Both my parents are in bad shape, both have had strokes, broken hips, heart attacks, diabetes, etc. (the list goes on) and have lived for years with a lot of these ailments. They are reaching their 80's and there doesn't seem to be much that can stop them...
I have a friend who's husband planned an Alaska cruise for the 2 of them on their anniversary. She was none too pleased with this as he also planned hunting & fishing excursions for himself on the cruise and it seemed to her that this was his real reason for wanting to go, not to be with her on their anniversary. When she got back she raved about what a wonderful time they had (he didn't spend all his time fishing) and she couldn't wait to go again...
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