I am now off my pity party. My nervous breakdown is officially over. I figure I should give you all a background to my little breakdown I had last week. So..... I got pneumonia. I mean I have been SICK. Still not quite over it yet. I was so sick my lung capacity actually went down to 60%. So you can imagine, I couldn't breathe, was exhausted, coughed so much my chest hurt all the time. Well, the night before, my new manager gave me a hard time for calling in sick for the next 3 days. She actually made me drive in to work at 11:00 at night with a doctors note.
So Saturday comes, and Aaron goes fishing for the WHOLE day. I was OK with that, he'd been planning this trip for weeks, but it was hard on me. My children could smell that I was weak! I lay down to take a nap with Shaun, and when I wake up, the girls had a food fight. They had ground popcorn and graham crackers into the carpet in the family room and the hallway and the kitchen floor had a fine powder covering it. OK, breathe deep, I don't yell, I just hand them the broom and vacuum and go downstairs with the baby to work on my blog. Well, then you know what happens, I lose it. Of course it only got better. When I got upstairs, the girls pulled every blanket, pillow, sheet, and stuffed animal off their beds and made a fort in the middle of the graham cracker-popcorn sand dune.
I ended up just sitting down and crying. McKenna just looked at me and said: "Oh, Dad's gonna beat our butts!" And suddenly they were furiously cleaning. I called Aaron and he came home early to help me out.
Of course, there's still no sheets on their beds. I haven't gotten enough energy to do that yet. The pneumonia is clearing up. Sometimes I have a hard time breathing. I'm on a lot of steroids to try to bring down the inflammation that has built up in my lungs. I tried to go back to work last night. That didn't turn out too good. I'm gonna wait till next week to go back.
So my house isn't perfect, but I'm starting to feel better. I'm no longer insane. And I don't cough so hard I puke. So it IS getting better. Hey, at least I don't have to mop Ike out of my house like some people I know. And Julie, Ruthie, you guys are in my prayers. At least your safe!
4 years ago
7 comments:
Glad to hear that you are feeling better. Sounds like you had a really rough time there... Just take care of yourself. Get yourself fully healthy before you go back to work! It will always be there waiting for you :)
So glad you are feelin better! It sucks being sick!
If the blog background isn'twhat you had in mind, let me know and I will redo it! Mom said you wanted outdoors with a femine touch.If you don't like it, just tell me a little more what you want!
hang in there! We love you!
So does this totally mean we get to party? Batman all the way! Wahoo. Love ya girl! Let me know if you want to get away, we'll make Aaron babysit (if that's ever possible) and then we'll hang! :)
I'm glad you're feeling better, but still take it easy getting back in the swing of things! Thanks for not giving up on blogging -- it's the only way we have of keeping up with you all!
Be careful not to overdo or you will relapse. I don't know why kids always do such rotten things when we aren't feeling well. It never fails. By the way, I love the new blog look.
i'll take the hurricane over the (much deserved) breakdown! glad everything is looking up or at least horizontal rather than down. love you, get better and give that shaun a huge kiss for me tomorrow! it makes me want to cry that i am missing his first birthday :(
I love your kids!! They are so normal. Mom is out let's torture her more!!! :D Give them all a big hug from me then Aaron can beat them. I love you! Wish I were there.
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