Update December 16, 2023

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Saturday

Saturday was mostly relaxing. I slept in and had our weekly Skype call with my mother-in-law. Then I went to urgent care and (due partly to the save my spot function) was able to get seen right away. I had a small ear infection – most of the pain was due to pressure build-up. Then I rested the rest of the day.

Sunday

Sunday Aaron, D14, and M11 went to an escape room. They got out with 1 minute 36 seconds left. My ear was feeling a lot better in the morning, but I was pretty exhausted by the end of the day.

Monday

Monday was a cheerful day for me. It was clear skies, and I was feeling mostly better (my ear is still clogged, but no longer hurting). I took D14 to her appointment and ran Malcolm’s trombone to maintenance to remove the pen cap he’d dropped down it. They removed it for free! IL5 had swim lessons and M11 had a Boy Scout party.

Tuesday

Tuesday was a pretty quick day. I had a dentist appointment to fill my ground-down teeth (I even wore my mouthguard the night after that). Then I took dad to his PT appointment.

Wednesday

Wednesday morning I got up super early and got a CT scan of my tailbone. The purpose was to check if the tumor down there is attached to the bone or not, and if it’s attached to the bone they’ll want to remove it to biopsy it. However, the CT scan didn’t clearly visualize the tumor, so we still don’t know if it’s attached to the bone.

Then dad got the rest of his teeth removed. After that I !!!!took a nap!!!! OMG. It was glorious. Dad had an appointment with his orthopedic doctor after that. He said we didn’t have to get the potential cancer scanned in again till February, when his arm wasn’t broken anymore. So yay for that.

The day ended with Aaron’s Christmas family experience. He’d kept it a secret from us (though my Facebook ads gave me a big hint after he purchased the tickets), so it was a huge surprise to the kids that we were going indoor skydiving. Everyone had a great time. IL5 was pretty skeptical, and didn’t end up flying. But he did stand in the wind tunnel when it had a healthy breeze going. And he loved watching everyone else fly.

Thursday

Thursday was exhausting. I had my bariatric doctor appointment, even though I don’t think I’m technically bariatric anymore. I will probably see her until I reach my goal weight.

Then I took IL5 to his poop physical therapy (we worked on core strength – homework is for him to kick stuff with both legs and continue the daily sitting on the toilet relaxing). Then we went to poop psychology, where I was told he could just focus on PT and not come to psychology anymore because she had nothing to add. We made one more appointment 3 weeks out just in case, but I should cancel if he’s making progress.

Then I took D14 to her knee PT, where she was given a smaller set of exercises since she’s struggling to do all her exercises daily due to mood.

In the evening, dad was having chest pain, and took 3 nitroglycerin in sequence (the most he can take) and when that didn’t work, he chose to go to bed rather than call 911. So I went to work and slept poorly.

I’m pondering not going on the vacation to Oregon with the rest of the family over Christmas. I don’t know if dad should be alone with these chest pains. Except he’d be pissed if I stayed back for him. Royally pissed. So I think I might tell him I was dreading the flight anyway (untrue) because my tailbone will be like torture after 30 minutes of sitting in that seat, and usually for shows I am able to stand for 15 minutes during intermission and temporarily releive the pain, but I can’t do that on a plane. After 3 hours of that, I’ll REALLY be hurting, and then I’ll sit in a car driving for an hour to get to my in-laws’ house. (After this excuse occurred to me I AM dreading the flight.)

Friday

On Friday, I took IL5 to speech and then feeding therapy. He, Aaron, dad and I then went out to eat.

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