Fighting the good fight

I have been insanely busy lately with work and life and everything else. Things are slowing down a little bit and I still have plenty of things to catch up on but I'm getting there. I will have a CT scan done on my chest on Friday to see what the damage is there. Hopefully they will find something that will explain the pain I am having and make the car insurance understand that it is legitimate pain. I don't think they doubt that and they have no reason to, but it would still be nice to have some "proof". At least I think it is improving and my neck is finally improving so that is a major bonus. I have a busy few weeks ahead of me and then I hope it slows down a bit. Nedra's benefit is this weekend and I got the quilt all finished and it looks great. I am hoping to finally get the spare bedroom painted next weekend since it is a long weekend with Memorial Day. Then the weekend following that we have a wedding to attend for Steve's cousin. Well, only the reception actually as the wedding is private. After that it should slow down a bit, I hope. I know there is a million other things going on but I can't seem to formulate them into words on here so I will leave it for now. Perhaps I will add more later.

Falling Apart

I am beginning to think that I am falling apart physically. I am still having quite a bit of pain from the car accident. My chest has been hurting especially badly the last few days. I have been gaining weight back that I was losing and that is especially annoying. But I can't even do sit-ups because it hurts so badly. Then today my ear has been hurting whenever I yawn so I am hoping I am not getting an ear infection. No such thing as growing out of those for me. But I am going to be going to see my doc on Monday so hopefully he can get me straightened out. I am not looking forward to the possibility of another MRI but if that is what has to be done, well I will do it.

Work has been super busy this week, and I have already billed 19 hours this week and it's only Wednesday! But I feel like I am doing my part so that is a good thing. The whole office went up to a conference last week and while the conference wasn't that informative, it was fun to go up with everyone. I am blessed to work with wonderful people.

So I am going to relax now and chill out now.

Almost Easter

I went to a wonderful church service this evening at the First Christian Church here in town. I never thought that I would like going to a DOC church because I honestly didn't like the one in Eureka that we had to go and sing at frequently. But, a friend invited me to go to the Saturday Night Alive service and I figured why not. So after a full day I went to the service. It was great and full of contemporary music and honest to goodness truth about God.

Otherwise we had a full day as well. My older brother came down last night and stayed here so he could go to lunch for my little brother's birthday. So I got up this morning and had to go to the bank and close out the savings account that has been open since I was like three years old. Unfortunately it's at a bank in IL and I rarely go over there on weekdays so it was dormant and they said to put money in or close it out. So I went over today and just closed it out. Then we went to lunch for Thomas' birthday at Pizza Hut. I can't believe how much my nephew has grown in the week since I last saw him.

When we got home, we cleaned out the goldfish pond out back. It was really gross with rotting leaves and nastiness. Steve helped me a lot since I can't pick up heavy stuff and we got it all scrubbed down and cleaned out and then filled up again. So it will be all ready for fish once it warms up a bit more. Then I went to the church service and then we went out to eat. It makes for a full day that has left me feeling quite accomplished.

Now I just need to buy some rocks to circle the tree out front, purchase some mulch to put around the trees, flower beds, and my rose bush. After I get my planters out and get those planted with flowers, and get my other plants in the ground, then my outside stuff will be pretty much done.

I still have quite a bit to do inside the house, and it's hard to not want to do it all at the same time. I have another room that I want to paint upstairs that will be a guest bedroom/my craft room. Then I have to do something with the stairway area. After the upstairs is done, I want to paint the living room/dining room. Sometime after that I want to pull up the carpet in that same room and redo the hardwoods under it. I also want to change the hardware (handles and hinges) in the kitchen and possibly repaint in there as well.

So that's my project list for this year basically. I love having projects to do and it really gives me something to look forward to. I have noticed that I get a bit bored/down when I don't have something to work towards. So I try not to move too fast so that I always have something to do and look forward to.

Tomorrow is Easter, a celebration and remembrance of the sacrifice that Christ gave for us on the cross. We have breakfast at the church at 7am and then church at 8am. While it is early, I look forward to seeing my family. My mom has Trevor tonight too so I will be able to see him again. Then we have the rest of the day to ourselves.

I hadn't planned on making this quite this long, but oh well. It's what's on my mind right now I suppose!

A Short Update

Things are going pretty well here. My arm is feeling pretty good finally. I think this is my final week at the chiropractor so I hope that my neck holds out and stays in place. Eric is STILL moving out his stuff. I am trying hard to not get annoyed at the slow pace. I'm not doing so well at the not getting annoyed part. I want to be able to get the house cleaned up and prepped for painting. If I wait until it is really humid outside it will take forever for the paint to dry. I also want to get to work on the floor. Oh well, I guess it will happen eventually. I just hate working on other people's time tables instead of my own. That's about it in my world.

In pain yet again

I had been doing pretty well over the past few weeks and my arm has been healing up well. Then I tripped and feel at my church on Saturday and of course fell in such a fashion that I braced myself my right arm (my left hand was full of stuff). So it is sore again and I feel like I set myself back a couple of weeks. It is really frustrating to not be able to do things that I normally could.

Steve and I bought a couch and chair this weekend. We ended up finding a set at Ashley Furniture for a really reasonable price and even got 10% off for paying cash. We should be getting it at the end of the month. So I am hoping that Eric will get his stuff out so I can paint the living room and not risk getting any paint on his stuff. Hopefully we can get that room done in one day. I know we will have to primer it because the paint on there is somewhat dark and different shades. I am debating on painting the trim. I think it would look nice, but it's just that much more work to do. So we will see once we get the paint on the wall if the trim needs it or not. I am looking forward to getting the upstairs room made into a guest bedroom as well. I pretty much know the colors that I am going to use for it. But again, Eric has to get his stuff moved before I can get that done. That will be an easy room to pain because the walls aren't really tall and I can reach without having to use a ladder or anything.

I have to finish up some stuff now for work and then get to lunch.

The MRI

I got my MRI results back today. I have a small tear and a strained muscle in my right shoulder from the car accident. The doc says that as long as I am careful, it should heal itself without any problem. So I have to be careful not to lift anything heavy or strain it and I should be okay. I wonder what it would have looked like right after the accident when it was really sore. I think it has already healed up quite a bit in the past two weeks. So I got that taken care. Now I just need to see my chiropracter and get my neck and back straightened out and I will be good to go. Then I can be done with this whole mess. They are giving me a settlement for "pain and suffering" along with lost wages for the days of work that I have missed. It will help with some stuff that I wanted to get done but couldn't when we used the money for down payments on new vehicles. It was beautiful out today and I am looking forward to working a little outside tomorrow if my arm permits.

Update

These past fews weeks have been pretty interesting for sure. First of course, was the car accident on the 19th of February. I am feeling much better from that and most of my bruises are gone or a lovely shade of yellow. The only problem is that my right arm still hurts. It does feel like it's getting better but still hurts if I try to do anything like picking up heavy objects or pushing semi-heavy doors. So I went to see my doc and he wanted to do an MRI on my shoulder to make sure nothing is torn. So tomorrow morning at 11am I am going to get an MRI done. I will be glad to know if something is wrong or not so I can hopefully be done with all this stuff. I am deciding if I want to go to my chiropracter or not. My neck and back have been bothering me a little but I want to make sure nothing is going on with my arm before I let a chiropracter pop me and push on me. I don't want to exacerbate anything in my shoulder. I miss being able to pick up my nephew and hug him!

So after the accident and resting all weekend. Early Monday morning I woke up in horrible pain. I have felt the pain in the past when I had kidney stones. So I woke Steve up and told him I needed him to take me to the emergency room. He got up and got dressed and took me on a not bumpy route this time. It seemed like it took forever to get checked in but they were good about getting me some pain meds and an IV because I was really really dry. They did a CT scan because I was concerned that something else could be wrong since I was in a car accident just four days before that. It was just a kidney stone and was apparently getting ready to be passed. So I had yet another day off of work on Monday.

I took Wednesday off so that Steve and I could go get our new cars. We started at 8:30am and headed to the dealership to tell the guy that we wanted both vehicles that we had been looking at. We talked to him for awhile about trading my truck in and prices on the vehicles. They were reasonably priced to begin with but we wanted to see if he would come down a little in price so that we could afford them. At one point we had to walk away because he wasn't willing to come down on my truck. It was more than what I could really afford to pay and I thought we should get a good deal since we were buying two cars on one day. So we left and brought back the Focus that Steve wanted from our mechanic who was checking it out. When we got back, the dealer came out on the lot and talked to us a little more and was willing to meet me in the middle of our price difference. I was happy with what he proposed so we got the deals written up. I got a black '07 Ford Escape XLT and Steve got a silver '05 Ford Focus hatchback. They are both very nice vehicles and we are very happy with our choices.

Weight wise I have gained a few pounds back and was starting to get worried. However, when I weighed in this morning I had lost 4 lbs since last week. So that is a big plus. Once I get all this car accident stuff figured out, hopefully I can get back to working out. I don't want to risk further damanging myself right now.

Eric got an apartment in the town where he works. He has been living with us since we bought the house. It has worked out pretty well and provided us with some extra money to pay bills. But I think it is time that he wants to have his own space and we would like to have more privacy back. I am planning on using his room as a guest bedroom/craft room. It will be nice to have some space to do my craft projects and not shove them in the closet. It will open a lot of space downstairs as well and that will be nice. I think he will like being closer to work as well.

So that's what's been going on with me. Exciting right!