Sweet Girl

This past February, my sweet Sierra girl turned 10. I cannot believe I've had this dog for ten years! It seems like a lifetime ago that I brought her home, and in many ways, it really was. So many things have changed in my life, but she has been through it all with me, and she's taken (most) all of it in stride. I still don't think she'll ever forgive me for bringing home a pug puppy a few years ago, but I'm pretty sure we made up for that once we brought Mason home for her.

Sleepy

It is now 11:13pm and I am still awake. I'm not exactly sure how this happened, and I'm definitely not happy about it. For some crazy reason this happens to me sometimes, this random insomnia. I am so tired and would love nothing more than to be asleep right now....but, alas, sleep escapes me. The worst part is that the longer I'm awake, the more frustrated I am that I'm not sleeping, which just makes me even less likely to get any sleep.

Normally when this has happened in the past I just take a little Benadryl or something to help me sleep. Tonight that isn't really an option for me because Todd is at work (probably getting more sleep than I am). I suppose if there is a silver lining here it's that I don't have to work tomorrow. And, in fact, all I really have planned tomorrow is taking Mason to daycare. So now I guess my plans will me take Mason to daycare and take a nap.

Hope you all are having sweet dreams.

Watch where you're going!

Wednesday was another normal day at work for me. I was assigned to the OR (as usual) and things were going pretty smoothly...until I was run into by someone pushing a patient on a gurney. It hit me right on the back/outer side of my right ankle. I usually like to think I have a pretty high pain tolerance, but this literally made me break out into an immediate sweat. 

I initially wasn't going to get it checked out, I just iced it and filled out my employee incident report. Unfortunately, it just kept hurting more and more, so yesterday I had it looked at. 

Not much to report at this point. I was given a boot to wear for when I'm out or at work, but I can stop wearing it if it makes things worse or gets in my way too much. I go back in two weeks to have it checked again. I'm hoping it will be just fine by then, but the PA I saw isn't planning on it. She thinks it will be sore for up to 8 weeks. If in two weeks, though, it isn't "significantly" better, she'll order an MRI and go from there. 

In the mean time, I'll hobble around with my silly boot on, keep ice on it and watch out for those run away gurneys. 

Good old brother/sister bonding

A couple of weeks ago, Todd and I went bowling with my baby brother, Cameron and his girlfriend, Sarah. It really was a lot of fun, and of course it was an awesome opportunity to embarrass my brother in public. And to make it even better, his girlfriend joined in on the fun, too. Of course, the best part of the whole evening was that I had the high score for the night! Whoohoo!

The photo quality sucks, but it was neon bowling
and I only had my iPhone. Oh well, still a cute shot!

Just had to document this

Breaking my heart, kid

I know he doesn't know what he's reading, but this seriously broke my heart tonight. Mason always "reads" in his car seat and I had honestly forgotten this was in my car.

As much as I've come to terms with my MS diagnosis, I HATE that Mason has a mommy with MS.