My mom celebrated her 88th birthday today with her closest friends.
2-3-22
I am still eating a very restricted diet due to my bladder problem. This is a cookie I created from five ingredients- cashews, coconut sugar, oat flour, salt, and water. It's so good, I eat them all in one sitting!
1-18-22
I'm teaching a class on the science in crafts this semester and her my students are processing clay dug up from the pit next door.
1-5-22
This is baby Winston. He is very little- only 10 weeks along, which make him only 8 weeks since conception. Look how little and cute he is floating around inside his mommy, Jes. I think he is on his side on top of his placenta, as we shall find out later down the road.
1-1-22
New year, new day... visiting with my mom at the hospital.
Squirt and Panda on the first day of the year the get married.
Here is our family on the first day of 2022!
12-30-21
J wearing his mommy's nightgown from 1986.
Snuggles with Nana in Aza's overalls from 1988 or 1989.
Aza's overalls look good on Baby J!
We had a baby shower for Aza today in the carport. We were worried about Covid and it was raining so we had it in the carport.
J is walking! Note the childproof locks- we had to put them on everything because J likes taking everything out of everything.
12-29-21
Mom had surgery on her leg. It looks gross, but it sure feels better to her. The yellow is iodine, I think.
My sister is in town and we take turns going to see her every day.
12-27-21
Aza and Supbra came to town and we went shopping at Target for items for the diaper cake! I got to take a picture of her with the "Half Baked" ice cream since she is 20 weeks pregnant!
12-25-21
An accidental photo I found on my phone to remember our Christmas, 2021. We went over to Panda's parents' house. I could only eat chicken soup that I brought with me. My mom was slated for surgery the next day. Our kids were coming home soon and we were just exhausted.
12-24-21
We are back in the ER.
The leg is really bad off and we just have to get Mom admitted to the hospital so they can help her. We were successful and she stayed for several weeks. I was recovering from bladder surgery, Mom was not sleeping and was getting daft, and it was just awful.
12-23-21
A peaceful moment in the days we spent at home with my mom after her leg break. Note the red sock on her toes to warn us not to bump into her leg. The five days we spent helping her were anything but peaceful. She was in terrible pain and we could not move her easily from bed to chair to toilet.
12/20/21
My mom fell and broke her leg. This is a photo of her leg right after it happened. We rushed over and found her on the kitchen floor. We dragged a mattress into the kitchen and got her up on it waiting for the ambulance. She was taken to the ER and I stayed with her until they released her to go home with a cloth brace on her leg from groin to ankle, a bed pan, and some Vicodin.
12-12-21
Set back today. I had my URJ class at 10am and really wanted to attend it, so just listened curled up in bed with a heating pad. Taking amitryptiline and benadryl to try and sleep. So depressed. So so depressed.
12-11-21
I was eating different this weekend and even though I had to take something to sleep each night, I was doing ok generally during the day.
12-10-21
I took those pills last night and woke up to pee, and next thing I knew I was waking up on the bathroom floor. The next day I was in bed taking Vicodins. Scared, worried, and in pain. Horrible. I got an appointment to see a urologist on Monday the 13th so I was hanging on to that hope that he would know what this is.
12-9-21
This was the day that shit hit the fan.
Culture negative.
Saw gynecologist.
Went to ER for a CT scan.
Got catheterized.
Pain went through the roof.
Got morphine and dilauded.
Sent home with 5mg Vicodin pills and Flomax and Ditropan with diagnosis of "cystitis."
12-8-21
I had a meeting on Zoom today and did OK, but I was not doing well. I was thinking maybe I had an antiobiotic resistant UTI. I decided to cancel my walk with LK the following day. I sent Dan to Wal Mart late at night for this but they did not have it. I was desperate.
12-7-21
Tuesday, I'd been on Bactrim for 24 hours and was worse. No sleep without a sleeping pill. I was taking cranberry pills and drinking water and eating a lot of potatoes.
12-6-21
12-5-21
Last night of chanukkah. I was still feeling the sensation of a UTI and treating it with OTC meds and water. Planned to call the doctor in the morning for a urinalysis.
12-3-21
Friday of Chanukkah, I made challah bread but did not feel well. There was an online department meeting today, and I ate a ton of this bread. I was taking over the counter meds like Azo antibacterial and cranberry, thinking I had a UTI and would just push water and clear it up.
12-1-21
Last day of feeling well before the illness. Dan and I went out to dinner to celebrate our 36th anniversary.
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