Hanging on…

…barely!

I’m sorry that my blog post before an unintended break was such a downer.Hope nobody new came to read and found that! Thanks so much to my friends who have checked in on me. I read my email tonight, but haven’t responded yet. I promise I will. I spent just a few minutes online tonight and don’t have much energy.

We had an amazing Christmas and I will blog about it with photos AND Video (finally!)  because Mattix was incredibly sweet, adorable and hilarious, as always. Do you know a kid that yells and signs “DONE! DONE!” when he is halfway through unwrapping gifts? Me either, until Christmas day, when Mattix had enough, I guess. And he meant it. He. Was. Done. He left half of his gifts under the tree and walked away. My mom tired to FORCE him to unwrap another gift and he was pissed! The day after Christmas, he decided he would open a few more, before he was once again “DONE!” And on the third day after Christmas, he decided he’d finish up…and then didn’t have enough apparently, because he helped himself to a gift that I had put under the tree for a friend’s daughter. I’ll have to re-wrap that one.

Don’t worry, I couldn’t possibly sum up our first “real” (as in: not just off the plane, traumatized, exhausted) Christmas together. I’ll blog when I’m over the whooping cough/Ebola virus. Even though I was pretty sick, it was a wonderful holiday for our family.

Yup, still dying. I’ve taken on the life of a 90 year old, sleeping at least 18 out of every 24 hours. I went to bed Christmas afternoon and pretty much stayed there until this afternoon.  I’m going to need to find someone to turn me so I don’t get bed sores soon.  My mom finally made me go back to urgent care this afternoon. HOPEFULLY the end is in sight. Truthfully, I’m not sure I’ve ever been this sick for this long. There was a distinct period of time when I was an undergrad that I was much sicker than this, but it lasted about three weeks. I’m working on five weeks, with one week off, and it’s getting old. I usually sleep six hours a night. Lately, I’m AWAKE six hours a day. Ed flew back to DC today, so my mom came over to help me tonight/tomorrow morning.  She took Matty for me when I went to Urgent Care because the last thing we need is a crazy two year old touching all things nasty and contaminated at an urgent care center, thus picking up all sorts of new nasty viruses.  He fell asleep on their way back to my house…at 6:45! If you know Matty, you know that’s crazy early. Grandma wore him out!

Hopefully I’ll be on my way to normal soon. It’s gotten so bad that cold meds like Sud*afed and Day*Quil don’t do a thing.  I’ve never taken cold meds until this recent black plague and for them to stop working…well, it’s not good. I was ready to crush up the Sud*afed and rub it into my gums and snort it. Good thing Mom made me go in, huh? 

The really great news is that Matty is not sick and has managed to stay well since Tuesday. We’re going to make a few appointments and start follow up testing, but I feel confident that the icky nosebleed (and resulting trauma for ME!) was a fluke. Bad luck/timing. Kelly let me know that the same thing happened to her Lucy, who was also really sick. I’m certain that he just had a regular old nosebleed, but we will see the hematologist and finish testing for bleeding/clotting disorders justincase. I’m not overly concerned because I really do think it was just a nosebleed with bad timing on the heels of bleeding that resulted from (a denied) surgical error, but my experiences in life have taught me to be thorough.  

And with that, I’m going back to sleep. I’ve been up for, like, eight hours, which is way more than I’m used to lately, so back to bed I go! I think my body is doing its best to make up for year’s worth of no sleep.