I lost 6 hours of planned studio time yesterday. My great grandmother, who is 92 and has progressed Alzheimer's, had fallen Friday night and was taken into the hospital. She was sent home that night with a sore leg, a fractured rib and some pain medication. Saturday morning after breakfast my mother found that she was all of a sudden unresponsive and called an ambulance, she was taken into the ER again. I wasn't sure what was going on an,d in her condition, I also wasn't sure if this would be the end or not so I felt that I needed to go into the hospital to see her, if I hadn't and something had happened I would have regretted it. After 10 hours in the ER they still weren't sure what was wrong with her and admitted her into the hospital, she stayed last night and is staying again tonight, they still don't know what is wrong. I suppose this is weighing on my mind pretty heavily.
I'm also thoroughly exhausted with the battle I'm going through with my 4.5 year old daughter. Since October she has not been able to pass a normal bowel movement, she has been on laxatives daily since the beginning of December. Two xrays and a couple of "cleanout cocktails" later we still have had no luck, she is very blocked up. After finally seeing a specialist last Monday we had to start a more aggressive regimen of laxatives and are not really able to send her to daycare. The "cleanout" portion of the new regimen hasn't had much impact and we are now implementing a schedule of laxatives 4 times per day. It is now a matter of coordinating schedules between my fiance and I, since she can't attend daycare right now. There are so many times in the schedule that he is working and I have to be in class, I have had to choose wisely which classes to attend and which I cannot...he has had to try and switch his schedule around a good deal as well. Things are just super crazy, hectic, and a huge juggling act... At this point I'm not sure what to do, where to go, or how to stay sane...
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
I need serenity.
Sorry for all you and your family are going through. Hope you get a break from it soon and can find some time for yourself next week during the break. If you need someone to talk to, I'm willing to listen. Hang in there...
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