What a nice weekend..

I was so confused last Thursday and Friday.  For some reason when I woke up on Thursday I was convinced it was Friday – until I was on the bus and looked at my calendar – still set on Wednesday.  The day was choas – 2 Toastmasters meetings (one a lunch and one in the evening), many meetings, etc.  I was in a better mood on Friday and then it rained both days making the weekend just beautiful.   I turned off the air conditiioner today and opened the windows.

I did all of my weekend cleaning yesterday.  I spent a good deal of both days cross stitching a reading.  Okay, nursing my knees which both hurt like heck.  I suppose that is from the vacuuming and shampooing yesterday.  I know now, that both knees are a mess with OA so at least the pain is not in my head.  My GP did my physical minus the stres test two weeks ago.  My cholesterol is good, my blood pressure is great, the ANA bloodwork shows a minor deviation, but the doctor feels this is due to the horrid OA in both knees.  I did a cortisone shot in both knees and the alevatied some of the pain for a short while. 

Stil waiting on a surgery date for H.  She has grown 3 inches in 6 months due to the dumping of growth hormone, but they want to try to shrink the thing before they do surgery.  The waiting is driving us batty.  She is getting ready to move in with a good friend from high school and I think it is a great idea.  She needs something to look forward to right now.

Crisis…

A little over 2 weeks ago my DD checked into a hospital about an hour from here that is the location of the regional long term psychiatric care.  She was having problems with depression and given that she is on meds for bi-polar she should not have been having problems.  They decided to do an MRI since her med levels would not stabilize.  They found a large pituitary tumor that is causing her (at 21 and not pregnant) to lactate (she grew a cup size) and she has grown 3 inches in the last year. 

Now we are in the process of seeing neurosurgeons, ear nose and throat guys, and an eye surgeon.  She has seen her regular doctor to approve the surgery and now we are just waiting for a surgery date.  All this while she isn’t insured because she had to leave last semester when she had medical issues.  Her stay in Heartland was $22,000 and now she faces everything else.  My financial guy said since she is 21 not to wipe out my retirement savings to pay, but to let her declare bankruptcy.  She can recover pretty quickly at her age.  What a mess.

Her dad and I are worried sick, she is handling things better than we are.  I am astounded that a 21 year can grow 3 inches in the last six months.  Now we are just hoping and praying that the surgery goes well (she was encouraged to sign an advanced directive) and that the damned thing isn’t cancerours.  They cannot biopsy because to get to it it is the same as the surgery.  It will be the longest day of my life (other than the 18 hours of labor it took to bring her into the world).  We are looking at this pretty positively, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t just break down when she isn’t around.  Actually thank god for work in keeping me busy.