September Update

Just a few things going on in my life:

Foot: The bone in my foot has completely healed. The sprain is almost healed, it aches from time to time but overall it's back to normal.

School: School starts for me in 2 days, and I am more than ready. Case in point, my backpack is already packed with my books, pencils, pens, calculator, highlighters, & notebooks for day one.

Friends: I've seen a number of my friends over the past few weeks. 2 of them came up to visit and I went to see 2 others who live an hour and a half away. The 2 I went to see are expecting a baby in 3 weeks. It's a girl and they are very excited! Her name is going to be Marina Lorraine. I will post pictures when she's born.

Work: Work is going well. My charge goes back to school tomorrow. I have a rant about the public school system around here and their lack of organization. I will save the entire rant for another day. Papers were recieved by parents-(emergency contact papers, health papers, what teacher the children have been assigned too, lunch menues, etc.) on Friday. School starts on Tuesday. The school isn't having a "Meet & Greet Your Teacher!" until September 11th. It really doesn't make sense to me considering school starts on the 4th! It should be an interesting week, if nothing else. I'm picking up my charge from school on Tuesday, yet I have no idea where her classroom is.

That's about all I can think of. Have a great week everybody, and Happy Labor Day!

So it's finally Saturday. I have been looking forward to this day since Monday. :) So why is it that on this particular day, 5-year old girl decides to have a Jekyl & Hyde personality? It was a very long 5 hours today, and quite honestly, I couldn't wait for it to be 1:30 so I could go home and away from all moody/sick children. Now I'm sitting here avoiding my homework.

In other news, aparently 3.5 month old boy doesn't have croup, he has bronchialitis. I would just like to point out that the ER at the local hospital diagnosed him with croup. So I'm still having to give him breathing treatments every 4 hours. He can absolutely not have tummy time and is only allowed limited back time, he hates his swing and carrying him around in the snugli all day is taking a toll on my back. He's currently 17 lbs and 29 inches long. It's not so much the length that's the problem, but the weight is just too much. In addition, he was getting SOOOOO close to rolling over before he got sick, now with no tummy time and limited back time, we're pretty much back to square one. It's frustrating really, but that's life I guess.

My step grandfather isn't doing to well. I don't really understand the whole thing but basically his pancreas is inflamed, his blood sugar is off the charts, and he is orange due to the excessive amounts of toxins in his body. His abdomen is distended and he looks like he's 6 months pregnant. My grandmother has been taken off of all chemo and radiation because she is bleeding somewhere in her GI tract but they don't know where. I think she's going in later next week to be scoped.

It's still snowing here, so I'm off to shovel, AGAIN. Have a great weekend!

Brrrrrrrrrrrr.....

We're in the midst of a blizzard here right now and it's a doozy. There's blowing snow, white out conditions, roads are closed, accidents at every major intersection, and the temperature is -16F. For those of you in the southern states the average freezer operates at -18F. Yeah, it's cold.

In other news, between yesterday and today I worked 25 hours with one 30 minute break. That's gotta be illegal! Oh well, it made for a nice paycheck at least. Tomorrow is a full day of studying, seeing as how I have had no time this weekend to do anything other than work.

I have decided that my family is the most dominant stressor in my life. Unfortunately I can't just omit them, so I've taken the easy route and now I just avoid them.
My sister and brother in law live in Florida and, if you watch the news, you know that the humid hurricane attractor had a bunch of tornadoes go through the other day. My sister and brother in law live in one of the counties where there were a significant number of tornadoes. Nobody has heard anything from them even though we've all called multiple times. I'm a little worried, but I'm trying to not get too worked up because they typically check their answering machine once a month.

My grandmother-(the one I wrote about in the previous post)-overdosed on narcotics early this morning. It wasn't an accidental overdose either. She has a history of abusing prescription medication and alcohol. So now my mother is handling the situation because she is the main caregiver for my grandmother. The upside to this is that my mother was a phenomenal nurse back in the day and is very effective with stubborn elderly people. The downside is that my mother has a history of abusing over the counter medications and has taken my prescription painkillers in the past. So my grandmother was in the hospital early this morning, I am assuming that she had her stomach pumped, though my mother wasn't able to give me a lot of information when I talked to her because my grandmother was in the room. The plan of action now is that my mother is going to keep all medications under lock and key and dispense the medication to my grandmother. Again, it's a double edged sword--my grandmother will not be able to overdose again but my mother now has complete possession and control over some very powerful prescription pain killers.

So that's the news from the blizzard stricken North. I just have one favor from all you southerners----Remind me what the sun looks like! :)