Yes--- i'm alive. Sorta.
i know there were two people expecting something from me --- well over a month ago... and i did start to work on both projects...
a few mornings later, i woke up viciously sick and basically lived in bed for the next two weeks... i made it back to work, but the days were long and exhausting and so much to get caught up on.... i'd come home and crawl into bed... flip on the TV and let its drone assist in my sleeping... because tired as i was, i wasn't sleeping and i refuse to take anything to knock me out --- except for a glass of wine or a couple of shots of something, but even those didn't work...
slowly i got to feeling better only to be knocked back with a couple of nasty bills for some lab tests and imaging tests i had done to see if they could figure out what's wrong with my knees... nope, still no solid diagnosis yet... tests were negative for blood clots, arthritis, gout... Well the lab tests and imaging tests, the doctor's office had royalled F'd up but sending the lab tests to a lab that my insurance doesn't recognize and pays like ... 30%. And then they didn't electronically send a referral to my insurance for the imaging test and they refused to pay that bill. I called my doctor and told him that his office staff need to pay those bills, since they screwed up -- and I WILL hold his office accountable....
And the stress of all this hasn't helped much............. and so i took time off from work to fly out to Oregon to see my new granddaughter... i arrived the day before she was born, having that "rattt-y sense" that she was going to be born within a few days' time despite the fact the doctor told my daughter the baby would not be premature...
But she was... 6 weeks early, but a chubby 4lbs 12 oz, 18" long born on May 5th... she did so well that she was discharged the same day as my daughter on the 9th... i stayed out there until the day after Mother's Day... Pictures are here:
www.moonproductions.com/Aubrey/!
i'm home now, with a zillion things to catch up on at home, such as sleep and relaxing and doing a lot of nothing... and at work, dragging stuff home to work after i leave the office at the end of the day, often stopping at Tony's office to hang out and work on what i brought with me, and then drive home together.... somehow vacation doesn't much feel like vacation now that i have three times as much work as when i left.... i forsee the next couple of weeks, maybe a month, working from home at night, as well as the weekends, until i do get caught up...
but at least i breathe....
i take that back... hayfever is especially bad this year.....
changes that to, at least my heart still beats...
It is highly doubtful now that i will get to attending this year's Gathering.... Tony wants me to go though and perhaps may be kind to help on the expenses of sending me off and away for a few days out of his hair... i don't plan to make reservations, however... i probably won't know for sure up until the night before i actually set out on the trip... my Cherished, just duck at the skillet toss as if talena were there with one in hand...
and i apologize that the projects have not been completed nor at this time do i know when i can get them done...
~simply talena still going ... ~coffs~ round and round...
~leaves a tail swish for my Cherished~ ~winks~
