so much to report

6-27-13

I am sore and tired and worried.

Let’s get the bad out of the way first. My mom called me around noon yesterday and started off by pretty much telling me to not worry. Then she let me know that she and my dad were at the emergency room at Torrance Memorial. Apparently my dad had been throwing up and having a lot of pain in his chest/stomach kind of like indigestion, but worse. They had been there since about 6:30 and they had done lots of tests. He has some kind of blockage in his colon.

I of course went down there. Ken and the boys beat me there, but I clearly showed up at the right time since I got to hear from both doctors. They would have to admit him because with him unable to keep anything down, they couldn’t keep him hydrated without an IV. They wanted to let his colon rest, so he is not allowed to consume anything for now. If the blockage doesn’t clear itself, they would consider a tube down his nose to get things moving. Sadly, because of his Coumadin they don’t think this is a good idea. If he starts bleeding, this would be all kinds of bad. They also could go in with surgery, but since a lot of times these blockages are due to scar tissue from old surgeries, they don’t want to clear old scar tissue only to create new. For now, we wait.

My dad looked much better than last time he was in the ER. Thankfully he is hydrated, therefore keeping him from looking like death. Plus, he has his sense of humor and his wits, which is something the illness took from him last time. This isn’t life threatening, but due to his abdominal aortic aneurysm and his d-fib conditions, I get a little spooked when he has to go to the hospital.

Ken ended up heading back to the new place to continue watching over the workers who are doing the floor. The boys and I stayed at the hospital for a bit longer, and then headed out. I wasn’t as worried anymore, but I did still have it in the back of my head.

The afternoon was spent doing hard labor. I hurt. My knee and back are sore and I can tell I was working hard much of the afternoon. Ken pulled up the floor tiles in the rec room while I pulled all the plastic fake bricks from the walls in there. It sounds easy, but it really isn’t. They were glued down with this industrial monster style snot that was gross and sticky and a pain in the ass.

I got most of it removed, with the exception of the parts I couldn’t reach. Ken managed to pull up all the tiles as well. I hurt like heck. That being said, the room already looks better. I am putting down blue carpet squares in there. I think a dark blue will look awesome. It will make it kind of whimsical and yet not too wacky. Plus, I figure the boys will come in from the pool in that room, and water spots will seem less noticeable. I could be wrong on that aspect, but I think blue will open up the room a lot.

The workers were originally going to be done at 5. They were not done when we finally left the area at 6:30. At 5:30, I ended up walking up to the park with the boys so they could get out some energy. They had a good time with some neighborhood kids, which was nice. The other kids kept calling me “purple haired lady” which made me laugh.

The house across the street from the new digs is listing at $525. We went over there and it is always surreal when you look at a place with your floor plan. Clearly we are part of an old housing tract, but it is still always funny. Even though they have a similar layout, I like our place better. It feels more open. Ken thinks this is due to no furniture being in our house right now. Yet, the other house also was naked and felt less open so I don’t know how much of this is true.

It has been decided we will not have to carpet the new place (aside from the guest room). It ends up being cheaper to refinish the floor, which is way awesome. I believe I heard Ken talking about the idea of new linoleum in the kitchen as well. It will be a similar shade, which is happy making. The little spots of wallpaper in the actual kitchen (not the dining room) will need to come out. They are not in as good of shape. I am ok with this. Ken also removed the plastic ceiling above the kitchen and it already looks better. Yay!

Escrow will close in 5 days. This is when the big work starts since we can really dive in. In reality, we should have probably not done the stuff to the rec room that we did, but I think we are in the clear for the most part. The flooring work will be done today along with the rest of the termite damage. We do need to carpet the guest room since the floor boards we used for the living room repair came from there. They don’t make the boards like they used to, which is why we had to get boards from that room. Thankfully, that room had some random burn marks on one part of the floor which meant we had planned on carpet anyway.

I think today I will spend my afternoon at Halldale since I need to do more stuff there to prep for more of that work. I had not planned on doing so much at the new place yesterday.

On top of the sore, my body is purging itself of the period I had not had for 6 weeks. Cramping and already one bleed accident, I am not super comfy when it comes to my girly parts.

I am curious as to what will be said today at work since I pretty much just high tailed it out of the office without so much as really telling anyone. Of course, it was an emergency so I am not going to stress, and I only left an hour early. I think they can all handle this. Plus, no one was at their desk when I bailed.

I was pissed when the alarm went off. I was just hitting the casino floor with my drink in hand. Scotty and I were all dolled up, yet barefoot. Ken and Andy were both in suits and Holly was rocking some kick ass heels. It was to be a fun night since I had just bid the children a good night in the hotel room where they were hanging with Grandma Brenan. Stupid alarm.

Dax has gone back to peeing. Sigh. I don’t know what has changed. Last night may have been fluids later than normal, but either way, it is frustrating. He had done so well for a whole week. I know there will be set backs, so I will try to not get too upset. Thankfully he doesn’t seem upset, so this is good. It isn’t his fault. His alarm went off last night at like 2, so it is happening when he is in a deeper sleep. Hopefully tonight we can be a little more on schedule and it will allow him to have success again.

So now I am drinking shit tons of green tea with the hopes that it will wake my ass up. The tired doesn’t bother me as much as the soreness, which is why I could not get super comfy last night. Also, we are getting into the hot nights season, which makes for bad rest. Fans were drying out my throat, but the air flow seemed to help. It will be interesting to see how things are at the new place.