Another Day (October 2010)

From October 13, 2010

Well, another day has gone by and several more boxes have been unpacked and things put away, which is a nice feeling.  There is still a lot that needs to be done and furniture that still needs to be arranged, and curtains or drapes to be hung which we don't have.  No one likes to spend much time in the living room for the lack of window treatments.  They like their privacy and I don't blame them-- its a big window!

Still need to speak to the Oak Harbor public school administration and to the dance studio...  it seems like every time I get one thing crossed off my list there is another item added.  I still need to find work and talk to the Nursing Department at SVC.  

I still need to contact the DSHS to get the kids on Medicaid which is something really low on my list of things I want to do, but have to do.... ranks right up there with getting a root canal.

One step at a time, each and every day...  

With my sister at a family reunion
Anacortes, 2010

Side Note:  Tonight is another NO CLONAZEPAM night for me (every other night for a week) and that usually means tomorrow is not going to be a good day physically or emotionally.... this is the hardest medication of which I have ever had to wean myself off, and there have been many medications over this past year.  It is hard to believe that it will have been a year since the ER merry-go-round began on October 26.... and after all this time, nobody has still figured anything out--- only what it is not, if it is anything at all.  I have had several EKGs, an ECC, a CT scan, a 3-day heart (Holter) monitor, skin biopsies, bone density scans, and every blood test imaginable, among other tests.   And all I ended up with were drugs used to treat anxiety and depression: something totally out of my norm.  Lets hope this chapter is ending and not continuing.