Good grief, BA. I'm so sorry to hear this. I'll bet all of this stressed you out. Big time.
You, too, are in my prayers.
So what gives on this medical stuff here in Surviving? I'm heading to my dentist in awhile for an emergency appointment. I've had jaw pain for about 6 weeks and it's now unbearable. My sister was treated for TMJ/TMD and said on Sunday that I need to go get some relief. I really don't have money for this sort of stuff (see speeding ticket on Kat's thread for my latest), but I can't live like this any longer. I can't even begin to count how much ibuprofen I've inhaled in the past month. It's awful.
It made singing in the car painful as well. 4 days of nonstop singing is usually enjoyable, but not this time.
I made it home with D20 and her BF at midnight on Monday/Tuesday. While I'm really bummed I didn't get to hook up with Kat (and please know that if Olathe keeps dragging it out, maybe I'll just drive out there myself this fall), it was good to be home. After we peeled rubber out from her university Thursday evening, we had a whirlwind trip through Kingston (cold and rainy but beautiful), Toronto (ditto) and Niagara Falls (ditto), downtown Lewiston, NY (uh huh, ditto), Erie, PA (cold and pouring, plus stayed in a hotel with a bunch of pyschos whose center of the universe is the Splash Lagoon), Indianapolis (FINALLY sunny!) and back home to Denver. Yep, a front is moving in now and rain is in our forecast tonight.
I guess my diatribe prevented all of you from seeing me dance the happy dance to have my baby girl home for a few months? If so, well, I'm doing the happy dance. She went grocery shopping for me yesterday, before she and BF took the light rail down to Coors Field to watch the hit parade. I really miss her! Her BF is wonderful. I'd adopt him faster than you could say... adopt him. He's sweet, funny, respectful and just plain adorable. It will be nice to have him here through next week. Then it's back to cold, hard reality.
I've been busy with estate matters since I got home. Tomorrow's fun will be meeting bug people at the house to deal with new construction of a wasp's nest on the front porch. Just in time for the estate sale on Friday. The estate people are there today, frantically pricing things. I'll say that the reality really hit me... seeing price tags on everything he owned made me really sad. Sad enough to cry. My guess is that Monday will force the same types of feelings - seeing an empty house. I think I'll be glad when it sells. The For Sale sign goes up tomorrow, but it won't hit the MLS until Tuesday. Blech.
No wonder I have TMJ.
Then tonight I'm going to my first of 6 classes on the steps to transition D17 to adult services at 18. That's going to bring other, deeper and yuckier emotions to the surface. Wow. I need BA and his scotch. Where are you when I need you, BA????
Speaking of alcohol, just in case anyone needs a referral... D20 and her BF and I went to a lovely winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake called Chateau des Charmes. It was breathtaking. I came home with a bottle of ice wine (which is very sweet) and a simple rose'. I'm probably going to break one out this weekend. If not before.
So that's it from Colorado.
Hope everyone is on the mend soon!
Betsey
"There are only 2 ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
