I am so thankful tonight. I have a wonderful family who loves me. I am so glad to have them here this weekend. I wish that my entire family could all be together at one time. Maybe one day we will all live closer to each other. I would be lying if I said I'm not thinking about how I thought this Thanksgiving would be. I thought it would be very different. I still have hope. I am so blessed. I have a Savior who loves me. He is our Hope. Bryant and I are so thankful this year for Jesus and the sacrifice He made for us.
Thank you for all of your prayers. This has been a very challenging week for me. I feel like my body can't take being sick for much longer. I know it really can but being as sick as I've been this year has worn me down mentally. I went back to the doctor on Monday. My ears are still both infected and the sinus infection hasn't gotten any better. The sinus headache/migraine induced vertigo has been horrible. I started my third round of antibiotics and steroids yesterday. I am on a very high dosage and I feel a little bit better today. I really mean it when I say thank you for your prayers. I am so ready for a new year - a fresh start.
I cannot believe it's almost 8:30 pm and I'm still awake. I have been going to bed between 6:30 - 7:00 pm every night for the past two weeks. I guess being sick and then having a body that wakes up at 4:45 am every morning will do that to you.
I really wish I was closer to my family tonight. My grandmother isn't doing well. She has played such a huge roll in my life. (I'm named after her..my middle name is Irene) I am so glad that we will get to be together next week.
Today I am thankful for:
- Sleep - To have a job that I love - Being able to spend some quality time with Miss L. - going to sleep for the first night in about two weeks without a migraine
- I am thankful for the rain today. - I am thankful for my husband. He makes me laugh. A lot. - I am thankful for the big, overstuffed, two big for our living room, comfy sectional that I had to fight for. It is perfect on days like today. - I am thankful for Bryant's pajama pants. It's just the thing to wear on rainy days when my head is hurting. - I am thankful for benadryl. - I am thankful for pumpkin spice candles that cover up the smell of wet dogs. They have to come inside on days like today. - I am thankful for hot chocolate. - I am thankful for text messages. - I am thankful for a DVR full of my favorite shows. - I am thankful that I have nothing to do this afternoon. well...I could always do laundry or clean the house but my head and sinuses have a different idea.
I hope that you have a long list of things to be thankful for today. I'm trying to be thankful for the moment. I'm trying to be thankful for where I'm at now..not always hoping for where I want to be. It's not easy but I'm trying.
Sometimes I just don't get it. I just don't understand. We have choices to make every day. I don't understand why some people make the choices they do. I talk to my kids at school about making good and wise choices. I hope that I'm making the right choices. It's hard to figure that out sometimes. I feel like for every choice I need to make I have an equal list of pros and cons. I am finding out more and more that so far I do not enjoy being an adult. I would love to be a kid again. To go back home... I know that isn't a realistic thought but it would be nice...at least for a few months!
I enjoy the cold weather. I wish that it would stick around. It's cold for a few days and then we have weather almost in the 80's. That's Alabama. I want to wear scarves and gloves and hats.
I'm tired of coughing and feeling exhausted. I'm hoping that the antibiotics will clear all of this up. I'll just have to wait and see. I've been going to sleep by 7 pm (thanks to Nyquil). Nyquil is the only way I can lay down flat in the bed without coughing my head off. It will be so nice to make it through one month without being sick. I know that sounds crazy but that is the reality at our house. Health is something I've taken for granted my entire life until this past year.
I am sick again and I'm not happy about it. I'm hoping and praying it's just a really bad head cold/cough/sore throat and not strep or the flu. I don't need to miss work. When I miss work I don't get paid...that is not good.
Mama and Daddy came up this weekend. We went to the game. They had a really fun time so that made me happy. I had taken some cold & flu medicine right before we left the house. I took the night time medicine instead of the day time medicine. I was very tired.
I am so glad that Halloween is over! I'm tired of looking at ghost, goblins, tombstone and all of the other scary stuff. I'm hoping that November will be a good month for us. The weather is beautiful today. I hate that I won't be able to enjoy it. I'm about to head back to bed. I just thought I would post a little something on here today.
