I am! I read through the words of this immortal Elvis Presly song. They really don’t apply to my situation, but the 1st 2 lines do. “Are you lonesome tonight? Do you miss me tonight?” Tiff and I are both missing our homes/families. I’ve never been apart from Greg for this long before and she has never been apart from Bruce and Trenton this long before. They are missing us too. We knew that this would be difficult in many ways, but nothing prepares you for this length of time apart. We’re not even halfway there yet either! Greg was in the Army when we met and did go away for 2 months for in field training in the desert of California. We had only been dating a short time and it was long before we were married. Anyway, we will press through. The ability to talk as often as we want and do facetime now and then is helping.
Today we went to “Snakes and Lattes”. It’s a place where you pay a cover fee per person and you can stay as long as you would like and play games. They have a large assortment of different games – old and new. We played 3 rounds of Sequence and 1 game of Scrabble. Hannah won Sequence and Tiff won Scrabble – being the great mom that I am I let them win. They would never believe that though. We like to play games. While raising our children Friday night was usually pizza and family game night at our home. We played all kinds of different games. Sometimes I really miss the years of raising children. Those thoughts usually lead to their teenage years, and I praise God that I’m not raising them anymore! 😊
We are going to try to see more of the city of Phoenix over the next few weeks. It’s a very busy city, but we both like it. Driving here is a bit scary, and when Hannah drives I choose to sit in the back seat so I don’t have to see what’s happening. I did sit up front the first few outings but found myself wearing out the carpet on the passenger side constantly pushing my imaginary brake! I’ve been letting Tiff use my car more often as I’m just plain tired of going to the grocery store and she doesn’t seem to mind.
I continue to see improvement in her. She is now going on our walks without balking at the idea. She is enjoying the juice. She is still resting every afternoon but I’m good with this as I don’t want her to overwork her heart. Did I tell you that we think we got to the bottom of her dizziness/lightheadedness? When in the hospital she was put on a medication called Zetia – it’s for cholesterol. The spells had been less intense and less frequent, but were still happening. She looked up the side effects of this medication and listed at the bottom of the list of side effects, in the section marked rare, it said that it could cause dizziness. We checked her recent lipid panel results (in her MyChart) and all of her results are normal with the exceptions of her HDL which was just slightly low. Makes me wonder why she was put on it to begin with. As a nurse I’m aware that sometimes medications have good results in other areas so providers will often use them for “other effects”. Anyway, we stopped this medication, and she has not had any dizziness/lightheadedness since. We will continue to monitor.
Day 18 is done, day 19 is on it’s way. In the words of Winston Churchill “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often