What a crazy week it’s been!!

Guess I’ll start with last Friday.  I had planned to go out to eat with my friend Kerry.  It was some place I hadn’t been in a while and was really looking forward to it.  Right up until the time I got in my car and pulled out of my garage.  Got to the end of the drive way and was like “Something doesn’t feel right”.  I got out of the car and, yep!, flat tire.  SO – had to cancel with Kerry.  I just parked the car outside and locked it up.  I had plans the next day, but didn’t end up going to the family brunch.  I was able to keep my manicure/pedicure plans with my friend Kriste.  Tommie went out in the 100+ degree weather and removed my tire and then he took me to meet with Kriste.

I was so stressed, it was nice to get pampered a bit.    Though, I felt a little guilty that Tommie was having to deal with my tire.  While I did that, he went off on a quest to find a place to repair it.  The nail place was really nice.  They were clean inside, used tools that were sealed.  They had a little kids room with character chairs.  You got a free alcoholic (or non alcoholic) drink with your treatment.  I enjoyed it.  I decided to get my hands done in addition to my feet this time.  Ended up they started chipping the next day though, so that is the last time I’ll get a manicure, I’ll just stick with pedicure’s. 🙂  Those last longer for me. Afterwards, Tommie came up and met us at Corner Cafe and we were able to eat lunch together and visit some more.  On our way home, the tire place called and said the tire was ready to be picked up.  It ended up, a piece of wood had punctured the tire, causing my flat!  We’ve had SO MANY flat tires the past several years, it’s just ridiculous!

Sunday was a good day to be lazy. 🙂  In the evening, I met with Rachel and Anthony to take some engagement photos.  They were wanting a photo to send with their wedding invitations.  She had seen the waterfall in Riverside and really wanted some photos taken there, so we met up in the evening and took some photos for them. They were a nice couple to work with.  It was still really hot, that late in the evening.  We’ve had a rough summer, temperature-wise!

Wednesday I went in to get my results from the MRI on my foot.  ((Everything has been happening all at once with me, health-wise, lately!))  He told me that the MRI had shown I had a small cyst on the bottom of my foot (at the base of one of my toes).  He told me I had two options.  #1 – a steroid shot.  He said it didn’t have a large success rate and people end up usually needing surgery anyway….or #2 – Surgery to remove it.  It’s not causing me any pain, and is hardly noticeable.  He wasn’t able to tell me what type of cyst it was or anything.  He named off three different types it could be, but said from an MRI, all it does it let him know SOMETHING is there.  He said of coarse, there is that very small chance it’s cancerous, but he’s never seen that personally.  Since my hand had been bothering me and I was having the bariatric surgery at the end of the year, I told him I think I was going to hold off on either at the moment.  He assured me that would be fine, and he’d be there when I was ready to something about it.  If it starts hurting or grows more, I’ll go ahead and go back, but for now, I want to get these other things out of the way.  Who knows, it might go away on it’s own before I end up going back.  (He said that was a possibility too)

Wednesday evening I had my sleep study.  It wasn’t really a wonderful experience for me! I went in and the lady told me she was going to have to take my blood.  I’m used to that.  She said though instead of taking it from my vein, she was going to take it from my artery.  I said, that sounds scary!  I told her I was a tough stick. She said it’s just deeper and she was going to just stick me once and if she doesn’t get it, she wouldn’t try again.  She said she wouldn’t go digging around.  OK.  SO – she had my lay on the bed and held my hand down and was feeling around my wrist and she commented. “Wow, it’s really faint.”  (yeah, I know) and then stuck the needle in my wrist.  It was taking a long time.  (she WAS digging.)  I’m used to getting blood taken though and was trying my best to hold still and let her do her thing.  After a while of digging around she hit something that made me jump!  She commented “Oh, I had it, but then you jumped!”  Suuuuuuuuuure you did!  I apologized for jumping, but told her she it something really painful.  She said there was a nerve there she probably hit.  She sat there for several minutes putting lots of pressure on my wrist.  It hurt for another 30 mins or so after she left.

Got all the wires around me and she turned out the lights.  I kept waking up during the night., I think mainly because of the wires behind my ears.  When I would sleep on my side, it would make them press into my ear and was very uncomfortable.  Finally, when I got tired of tossing and turning I lay awake for a while wondering what time it was, since there’s no clocks and no windows.  I eventually sat up and was sitting there a while when she said over the microphone. “Are you going to lay back down?”  “No.”  “Well, it’s 5:30, earlier than you wake up, is that OK?” “Yeah”  “You want me to unhook you?” “Yes, unhook me, I’m done.”  She came in and unhooked everything and told me I could use the washcloth to wipe the stuff off my face, which I did.  When she left, I went in and used the bathroom and came out to wash my hands and she came back in and said “Shhhh, be quiet, I don’t want the other person to wake up.”  Really??  Me flushing the toilet and washing my hands are going to wake up the person in the other room with the shut door??  I was so done with everything by that point.  I grabbed my things and left.  I ended up leaving some stuff and had to go back and knock on the door.  I know that didn’t make her happy either, but I’m not leaving my phone.  I couldn’t wait to get home and wash all that sticky stuff out of my hair and take a long nap!!

Thursday afternoon I took my Grandma Joan out for lunch.  I took her to Red Lobster, which I had owed her since she took care and cooked for me when I had my last Thyrogen scan.  It’s one of her favorite places to eat.  So we had a nice lunch and I made it home with a little time to spare before I had to go back out to the doctors.  I had a follow up appointment for my new blood pressure meds.  The one’s I had been on before had caused swelling in my feet and ankles and I just hated that!!  Luckily, when he checked my blood pressure, the new meds seem to be working!  I’m so happy.  I so love my doctor.  It took a while to find one I like.  I also told him about my hand hurting me so bad.  I was thinking he’d send me somewhere else, but he told me it didn’t sound like carpal tunnel, which I was worried about.  He said it sounded like either a pinched nerve or tendinitis.  He told me the wrist support I had been using was the wrong kind and to get a wrist support with a splint in it.  (I need to find one this weekend!)  If it still bothers me, he’ll send me to physical therapy.  I have two weeks vacation coming up in August.  I’m hoping that will be a nice rest for my hand!  I also went up to the lab, since I was there, and got some blood drawn I had meaning to do.

On my way home, my grandma called and said she had been throwing up non stop and was feeling miserable and was wondering if I was OK.  We didn’t eat the same thing at lunch, so I guess whatever she got must’ve not been good.  I haven’t been able to get in touch with her since.  I know she had a rough night. 🙁

Tomorrow I’m going to re-do the dinner thing with Kerry and then go to a class get-together.  At this weight, I hate to go, but I’m going to suck it up and try not to worry about it and enjoy myself.  Sunday, I have more pictures to take.  I haven’t checked the weather to see how it’s supposed to be!

Well, this is already too long that most people will probably end up giving up reading it before getting to the end.  Ha ha.  I’ll go ahead and end it here.  Hope everyone had a nice weekend!