Progress

There is so much I want to tell you all! First, I made the decision to come into the hospital. I think some of my lingering pain is lung infection, and the respiratory therapists who listened to me agreed. So it was a smart idea. I need to gain weight (I'm 106 currently, but I'm positive a lot of that is water as I've swelled a bit), and I need to get muscle back, as I'm very weak.

I realized I never got to tell you about Thanksgiving, and there was a pretty funny story there. I was still in pain from the operation and on my pain meds then. My family goes to a restaurant for Thanksgiving with my mom's brother and sisters, and my cousin Lisa has a son named George who is a royal pain in the rear. He's a sweet kid, but is getting a backwards upbringing. Anyway, my family wanted to keep George AWAY from me, so they said they were going to have a special talk with him before the meal. Well, I don't know WHAT they told him, but he spent the day STARING at me, all mournful, and trying to get close to me to touch me. Cute, to a point. The grand icing on the cake was during the meal- every bone he found, he would break and wish for "Jenn to get better" because he didn't get what the wishbone was...so he's break the same bone over and over and over while wishing for my health. While staring at me. Hard to enjoy a meal that way. Funny now, but that day, I was ready to run screaming, hahaha.

Christmas was basically more of the same- didn't feel great, on pain meds, laid low. I bought myself a brand new camera from the Home Shopping Network (pain induced insomnia will make you watch lots of shopping TV, I've noticed, at least for me), and it's FABULOUS. I love it. Andy got me a pink iPod Nano, which is also fabulous and I adore so much. Omg, that pink! It's just the best pink ever and makes my inner girl squee.

For New Year's, I spent it at my parents' house. It's been really hard on Andy to work, deal with his own stress, take care of our apartment, and then play nurse to me. The stress was really getting to him, so I stayed with my parents for a few days, which worked out great since Mom and Dad are both partially retired, and have slightly different hours, so someone was almost always home. And then I decided to come in here. During my stay at my parents, QVC had a special on mini notebooks, and I got a really small HP notebook. It's supposed to come on Monday. I bought it because my current laptop is about 500 pounds (not really, but it's got a large widescreen and is very heavy) and I wanted something nice and tiny for when I'm SICK sick like I have been, and feel too weak to work on my big laptop, or too weak to get up to work on my desktop. This works out well, as Andy's laptop died awhile ago, so he can put a few games on my big clunky one and use it when he wants.

Still though- see why I should stay away from QVC and HSN? In the course of a month, I've replaced all my major electronic toys.

I hope this finds you all well- I love you and miss you, enjoy your comments even when I can't answer because of fatigue. I hope your holidays were awesome.