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3/10/2006 - Ok, so a month has slipped by since my last ramble. Truth is, I just don't even think about this until I'm almost asleep and since I've been able to pretty much sleep through the night, well, sleeping wins! Work is keeping both of us busy, but that's ok with us. Hopefully we will be able to get some gas money together and score some time off work to visit family this summer, especially since Scott didn't get to see anyone this past Christmas. I'm still finding that I'm really tired by the end of the work day, but I don't know if it is due to my medication or if it is because I just don't exercise AT ALL. My friends at work talked me into walking with them during our last break today ... and I thought my lungs were going to explode, or maybe it was my heart ... at any rate, I am extremely out of shape. I know, Scott has been harping on me about this for the past couple months, but I think he pretty much gave up on guilting me into it and is just waiting for me to come around on my own. Today I was actually excited to go out walking because the weather was perfect, not really warm yet, but not very cool either - you know a wonderful spring day! Let me think, what else is there to yap about ... hmmm ... Oh, Jessie has not had a seizure in over a month. I suppose she could be having them during the day, but there hasn't really been any evidence of that, so I think we're ok. The vet wanted to put Jessie on some drug (have the name written down upstairs, but can't remember it) that is also used to treat people with epilepsy, but since Jessie hasn't had any further episodes I am just going to keep giving her a children's aspirin every night. (Thanks to Mom & Dad for that idea.) I was given my annual review for work yesterday. I sort of expected it to be a little less positive because of all the time I missed this past summer and being out of sorts and moody so much until we got my medication straightened out, but it was one of the most positive reviews I think I have ever had. I truly enjoy working with and for the people I do. I think I would still do well in the job if I was working out of a different office, but I've worked with some of these people for 12 years now and I just can't imagine myself being happy anywhere else. 3/12/2006 - I knew I shouldn't have said anything about being able to sleep, because that very night I went to bed around 9:30pm and was awake again by 1:00am ... and couldn't fall back to sleep. So, Scott and I sat up and watched the latest Harry Potter movie "Harry Potter and the goblet of fire". I thought it was a great movie, but not for younger viewers, however this is not a movie review so I'll stop there. Anyway, I finally got back to sleep just after 5:00am Saturday morning and was back up by approximately 8:00 to take the dogs out. I stayed up the rest of the day, except for the hour nap I took around 3:30 because I just couldn't keep my eyes open any longer. Last night was better, sleep wise, as I slept from about 10:30 straight through the night! The Sioux Falls area is supposed to get about 8 inches of snow today, but I will believe that when I see it. It did start snowing earlier and has not stopped yet, however it is not snowing as hard as it had been. I don't think we'll get more than a couple inches, at most. It is pretty though - I would rather look at a snow covered lawn than the crispy brown lawn that is under the snow... The snow is wet and heavy, so shouldn't cause much of a visibility issue once the wind picks up, which it always does, this is South Dakota after all. The trees are really pretty, so I took a couple of pictures of the back yard through the kitchen window. There are about 3 weeks left to go until it is "safe" to start planting annuals, so I picked up a book called "All New Square Foot Gardening" though I am not sure that I'll get any farther with this than I did with my Lasagna gardening. I do have some ideas already about how I could incorporate the two ideas. Since it will be several years until I can afford to have my yard completely fenced in, I would like to plant 3 or 4 clematis plants along the north wall of the dog kennel. Hopefully I will glean a few practical ideas and some tidbits of new information from this book about how to make that happen with little effort. 3/15/2006 - And so our luck continues ... Jessie had another seizure on Monday night, albeit much milder than the first one we witnessed. It was about 9:45 Monday night and I had just gotten comfortable in bed and was reading the square foot gardening book I yapped about a couple days ago. Anyway, I heard a scuffling sound followed immediately by Scott shouting down the hallway "Mindy, it's happening again". Scott was going to take Sadie into the basement when I reminded him that we didn't want to be trapped in the basement again and that Sadie would be fine if left alone with Jessie in the kitchen. This seizure only lasted about 5 minutes and Jessie recognized us right away, but she was still shaken up enough to keep me up for the next two hours, whining every time I left the room. Finally, around mid-night I decided that I needed sleep even though Jessie was still whining. Either she quit whining or I fell asleep before 12:30 because I don't remember anything until the alarm clock went off at 5:00am. All of this, plus my birthday coming up next week, has gotten me started thinking about how much I can't do now that I didn't think twice about doing even 10 years ago. It used to be normal to stay up until bar time and still be at work on time the next morning, now I can't even stay awake much past the 10:00pm news cast. Mind you, I'm not complaining, just noting some of my thoughts. I am just more reliable and responsible - and I'm glad for that. It snowed on Sunday, we didn't see the 8 inches that had been predicted, but there was about 5 inches in my back yard before the drifting started. It is really quite windy tonight and there is another winter storm predicted to hit this area over night ... but we are only supposed to see about an inch of accumulation. Again, I'll believe it when I see it. Love & hugs, 3/19/2006 - Have you ever been trapped in a car, on a rather long trip, with people who just would NOT stop talking, dropping the F-bomb and making inappropriate racial statements? Even after being reminded that they were not the only ones in the car, they just kept going, and going, and going... And about the time you are finally able to ignore them someone starts actually talking to you and you have to start paying attention again, only to find that nothing about the conversation has changed. It about makes your ears bleed as you contemplate the ramifications of tossing them out of the moving car's window. We thought Jessie was having another seizure last night, but after watching her and listening for a while we realized that she was just having a really active dream. I was very relieved. Personally, I've just been exhausted and crabby all week. I sincerely hope that this coming week is better..... Maybe the new butterfly theme will help a bit? Love & hugs, 3/22/2006 - Yesterday I celebrated my 39th birthday. How did I celebrate you ask? It had snowed the night before, so I decided to avoid the interstate and took the gravel road that I've taken for the past 12 years. I've never had trouble on this road, but yesterday I hit an icy patch going up a curvy hill and started to slide sideways. The road is narrow with trees on either side and not much room for maneuvering. So, anyway, to celebrate my 39th birthday I started by rolling my truck 1.5 times. Thankfully I was wearing my seat belt and came away from the wreck with just bumps and bruises and a huge lump on the side of my head. My truck has damage on 3 of the 4 quarter panels and we are fairly sure the frame is bent because of the damage sustained on the cab. It is not drivable. I'm grateful because I was able to walk away from the wreck, literally since I don't have a cell phone and the accident occurred in a rural, unpopulated area on a road that is seldom traveled. I collected everything that I didn't want ruined or stolen and started walking to the paved road, which had a fairly steady stream of cars... but once I got up to the paved road it took several minutes for me to get anyone to stop. I suppose I looked like a crazy woman, but finally someone stopped to see if I needed help. Of course he didn't have a cell phone either, but was willing to give me a ride up the road to the camp grounds where there is a pay phone. I dialed 911 and thanked the man for giving me the ride and sent him on his way because he didn't see the accident so wouldn't be any help to the sheriff. The sheriff arrived within minutes and his front seat was full of stuff, so I had to sit in the back. While I was sitting there I finally started to relax a little bit and answered all his questions. The EMT crew arrived and escorted me into the back of the ambulance where they started taking my vitals and asked more questions ... and then other rescue people arrived, including the paramedics. I declined a ride to the hospital because, except for the lump on my head I felt fine and was fairly sure that the lump was just that, a lump. So they asked me more questions, one of which was "What is the date today?" to which I responded "Tuesday, March 21st ... my 39th birthday ... happy birthday to me" They all left shortly after that, but not before letting me use one of their cell phones to call work so someone could come pick me up. Thankfully, Pam S. travels the same roads I do and knew almost exactly where I would be. The sheriff packed me back in his truck and we drove to where I had left my truck ... and the reality of what had happened started to sink in a little more. I started to remember more details about what had happened. I could remember starting to slide and then I just saw white and felt like I was in a barrel being rolled along the ground. I remember after the truck came to a stop (back on all four tires, well two tires and two rims) I looked around and saw clumps of my hair everywhere. There was hair in the overhead light, the seatbelt, the driver side door ... it was just everywhere. And while I was checking for bald patches I brushed my hand over the lump and wondered what I could have hit my head on to cause such a lump... then I noticed my satchel was missing (found that on the ground later). I remember thinking I could just drive out of the ditch, but decided to get out and check the damage first and was freaked out because everything was blurry - which was when I realized that my glasses had fallen off and were laying at my feet. When I saw that both passenger side tires were off the rim I decided there wasn't any way to get out of the ditch. That was also when I decided that I needed to start walking because, as I said earlier, the road is very lightly traveled. Once I arrived at work, everyone seemed to breath a collective sigh of relief. As the day wore on and my head started to hurt more, my mom and several of my co-workers encouraged me to not take any chances and go have my doctor take a look. I took their advice and made an appointment to go see the doctor in the afternoon. (I borrowed a car so I wouldn't cause more of a disruption at work.) Dr. Briggs a couple X-rays of my head taken and discovered what he thought was a small fracture, so sent me to the hospital for a CT scan. So, off the the hospital I went ( I much prefer the CT scan to the Gamma scan, but I'm sick of those machines!). I was only there for about an hour and learned that it was not a fracture, YAY. So, ice-packs and non-addictive pain medication are in the mix for the next couple days. I lived through my 39th birthday!!! Love & hugs, 3/24/2006 - Not going to type much, just going to post the pictures of my truck that were taken by the folks at Nordstrom's when it arrived at their shop:
Scott took pictures while he was at Nordstrom's last night - jury is still out as to whether the insurance damage adjuster is going to total it or not, but I'll keep you posted. We have to have my ring inspected tomorrow, so Scott wants to swing by the Ford dealer to see what they have to offer while we are in the area. The lump on my head is now more of a bump, but is still tender and really hurts when I yawn (so I try to not yawn, which only makes me want to yawn more). I found a couple of new bruises Wednesday night, one on my tummy and one across my right breast - both right under where the seatbelt rests! I also found a new bruise on the top of my left shoulder, but it's not really a bruise (at least not yet). The muscle relaxant that I've been taking seems to have really helped, but I'm still pretty stiff. Scott has been so attentive and worried the past couple nights. I don't feel like I really deserve the extra attention, but I'm glad he has been so concerned. Love & hugs, |
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