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Aug. 18th, 2013 06:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shingaI might as well make an update while my mood is fairly good... otherwise it'll just devolve into me whining and avoiding that is part of why I've maintained some level of radio silence.
So it's been an... interesting couple of weeks. As I said we were booted out of our apartment very last minute but with the grace and wonderfulness of friends we barely got out of there just on time (though cutting it so close meant minimal cleaning time and I'll get to that in a bit)... Bishop and Sparrow, two great friends of ours, offered their guest room to us. It's a great room and I worried it'd be a bit too warm to sleep in but I've been managing. My body adjust slightly better to new situations than I sometimes give it credit for. It has a full bathroom attached, an office that can fit our desks (though my desktop PC still isn't set up - need to find all the stuff for that soon, I miss art), and Dianakitty is settling in okay too.
So we got out of our apartment on a Tuesday night.
Then I had a colonoscopy and upper endoscopy at the same time early Thursday. I was not aware the latter was scheduled but I guess the prep is similar so they didn't need to tell me? It still would have been nice to know. In any case, it went really well. My first IV ever! Put in by a nurse with the same name as a possibly-obscure actor... I decided not to point this out. I signed the release for both things as they slowly pumped painkillers and Valium into my system. They wheeled me back (first time wheeled in a hospital bed! I think! At least in memory) and I had to gargle this really awful numbing stuff for my throat. Ew. Had to do that twice. First time I did it, then they put me on my side and took care of the colonoscopy. It was about a minute into it when the Valium and whatever they had me breathing in started kicking in and I just sort of... start getting fuzzy as far as memory goes. I remember having to gargle Part 2 of the Gross Numbing Stuff. I remember them taping the weird plastic thing on my mouth. Do not remember the endoscopy at all.
When I came to I was already back in the recovery room and I felt... fine. Completely. I searched my memory for possible proof that they faked the whole thing. But no, they showed me pictures and told me it all looked healthy (like I would know)... I went home still really out of it and mostly just exhausted. Ate some pudding and went back to bed.
I'll say this about the procedures... they reminded me that I'm young. I'm only 28 and I keep forgetting that in MOST ways that count I have more in common with 30-somethings than 60-somethings. And yes that can be hard to remember... for example if I'm around family I'm most likely talking with grandparents comparing our aching hips. It's very easy for me to forget that I'm still young and strong and tough in a lot of ways. So yeah, ABSOLUTELY no recovery time at all. No pain or discomfort. The exhaustion can be blamed on... well the entire week prior. But for the most part, all good.
Oh, but oh...
Small funny-to-me detail.
It was either that Monday or Tuesday... I'm in pain, we're stressed and rushing to finish packing and cleaning and getting stuff to a storage unit and finding a place to live and argh shriek scream panic... and one of the worst periods of my life starts. During actual Shark Week, I might add. All I could do was laugh.
Had ANOTHER appointment that Friday though they only needed to take some blood for labs (from the same vein that had the IV, but it was only a little sore so it was okay) (I wish I had more than just that one good vein)
This last week was mostly a tired blur of us trying to adjust to living in a new place. Dianakitty is feeling okay... stressed, but adjusting. She's freaked out by all the animals here but we've found ways for them to keep their distance.
All the lab results came back normal. So we'll go from there. Cholesterol is a tad bit high and my liver looks "weird" but they're retesting in a few weeks since this was the DAY after out-patient surgery so that might have had an effect.
My nephew is staying with us this weekend. I adore him but his moods have been exhausting, especially with Will gone the whole time and not able to help much outside of picking up a couple of things for him at the store. It's weird taking care of some one so young again, it's been... well about ten years. It all comes back like riding a bicycle though... not all of it pleasant but it's useful to already know a lot of this stuff. And even with Will not around, Bishop and Sparrow both have helped (and it's been nice having their young son Devin here as Eli seems to really like him and they've played together quite a lot)... I think he goes home today and he'll probably be okay with leaving as the dogs freak him out a little. xD But it's been more good than bad having him here, even if I'm immensely tired (which actually isn't all his fault... Will snores and my hearing is super sensitive right now)
So...
Hm.
Yeah.
We're working our butts off getting last minute important info to our loan officer for the house. He says everything is looking really optimistic. My biggest worry right now is my unorthodox job... makes it slightly harder to show some income stuff. Doable, just harder. Hopefully my bank account numbers are mostly good though, it's been an okay year so far. He says he's hopeful we'll be able to move into our own place by mid-September. Fingers SO crossed... we could use some good news. And we're so burned out on being tenants that actually having our own place, while presenting new challenges, will be great. And actually save us money in a few ways (this confuses some people but trust me we'd not be doing this otherwise)
If we don't get the house for some reason we have back-up plans. Either renting a house with a friend, or renting a two-bedroom with a roommate, or finding a small one-bedroom we can afford just the two of us until we can save up to try again. I do hope we get this one though... after all, we picked out all the customization. It feels like "ours", so if we don't get it and I know some one else is living their instead that'll hurt a bit, heh. ^^
But.
Yes.
There's a general update. Will and I are tired but this whole drama has brought us closer together. We're pretty awesome. We joked about this being a relationship test to add to the list... things like Ikea trips, road trips, and now getting kicked out of your apartment and being semi-homeless-ish... yep. xD
(Quick note, I had a TON of total strangers, pretty much all Head Trip readers, offer up space to us... it was very sweet, even if people were as far away as Chicago xD But the thought definitely counted)
OH and heh, quick amusing sidenote, the week of apartment snafu? I didn't have therapy. I had canceled prior because I knew I'd be prepping that day for the colonoscopy and didn't want to leave the house. It seems all the interesting shit happens when I don't have therapy scheduled, lol
ANYWAY. I think now I'm done. This is the update. We're caught up. I think. Yes. Mostly everything down now.
Fingers crossed. Optimism mode activated (even if it's frequently rather weak). We can do this. I can do this. :)
So it's been an... interesting couple of weeks. As I said we were booted out of our apartment very last minute but with the grace and wonderfulness of friends we barely got out of there just on time (though cutting it so close meant minimal cleaning time and I'll get to that in a bit)... Bishop and Sparrow, two great friends of ours, offered their guest room to us. It's a great room and I worried it'd be a bit too warm to sleep in but I've been managing. My body adjust slightly better to new situations than I sometimes give it credit for. It has a full bathroom attached, an office that can fit our desks (though my desktop PC still isn't set up - need to find all the stuff for that soon, I miss art), and Dianakitty is settling in okay too.
So we got out of our apartment on a Tuesday night.
Then I had a colonoscopy and upper endoscopy at the same time early Thursday. I was not aware the latter was scheduled but I guess the prep is similar so they didn't need to tell me? It still would have been nice to know. In any case, it went really well. My first IV ever! Put in by a nurse with the same name as a possibly-obscure actor... I decided not to point this out. I signed the release for both things as they slowly pumped painkillers and Valium into my system. They wheeled me back (first time wheeled in a hospital bed! I think! At least in memory) and I had to gargle this really awful numbing stuff for my throat. Ew. Had to do that twice. First time I did it, then they put me on my side and took care of the colonoscopy. It was about a minute into it when the Valium and whatever they had me breathing in started kicking in and I just sort of... start getting fuzzy as far as memory goes. I remember having to gargle Part 2 of the Gross Numbing Stuff. I remember them taping the weird plastic thing on my mouth. Do not remember the endoscopy at all.
When I came to I was already back in the recovery room and I felt... fine. Completely. I searched my memory for possible proof that they faked the whole thing. But no, they showed me pictures and told me it all looked healthy (like I would know)... I went home still really out of it and mostly just exhausted. Ate some pudding and went back to bed.
I'll say this about the procedures... they reminded me that I'm young. I'm only 28 and I keep forgetting that in MOST ways that count I have more in common with 30-somethings than 60-somethings. And yes that can be hard to remember... for example if I'm around family I'm most likely talking with grandparents comparing our aching hips. It's very easy for me to forget that I'm still young and strong and tough in a lot of ways. So yeah, ABSOLUTELY no recovery time at all. No pain or discomfort. The exhaustion can be blamed on... well the entire week prior. But for the most part, all good.
Oh, but oh...
Small funny-to-me detail.
It was either that Monday or Tuesday... I'm in pain, we're stressed and rushing to finish packing and cleaning and getting stuff to a storage unit and finding a place to live and argh shriek scream panic... and one of the worst periods of my life starts. During actual Shark Week, I might add. All I could do was laugh.
Had ANOTHER appointment that Friday though they only needed to take some blood for labs (from the same vein that had the IV, but it was only a little sore so it was okay) (I wish I had more than just that one good vein)
This last week was mostly a tired blur of us trying to adjust to living in a new place. Dianakitty is feeling okay... stressed, but adjusting. She's freaked out by all the animals here but we've found ways for them to keep their distance.
All the lab results came back normal. So we'll go from there. Cholesterol is a tad bit high and my liver looks "weird" but they're retesting in a few weeks since this was the DAY after out-patient surgery so that might have had an effect.
My nephew is staying with us this weekend. I adore him but his moods have been exhausting, especially with Will gone the whole time and not able to help much outside of picking up a couple of things for him at the store. It's weird taking care of some one so young again, it's been... well about ten years. It all comes back like riding a bicycle though... not all of it pleasant but it's useful to already know a lot of this stuff. And even with Will not around, Bishop and Sparrow both have helped (and it's been nice having their young son Devin here as Eli seems to really like him and they've played together quite a lot)... I think he goes home today and he'll probably be okay with leaving as the dogs freak him out a little. xD But it's been more good than bad having him here, even if I'm immensely tired (which actually isn't all his fault... Will snores and my hearing is super sensitive right now)
So...
Hm.
Yeah.
We're working our butts off getting last minute important info to our loan officer for the house. He says everything is looking really optimistic. My biggest worry right now is my unorthodox job... makes it slightly harder to show some income stuff. Doable, just harder. Hopefully my bank account numbers are mostly good though, it's been an okay year so far. He says he's hopeful we'll be able to move into our own place by mid-September. Fingers SO crossed... we could use some good news. And we're so burned out on being tenants that actually having our own place, while presenting new challenges, will be great. And actually save us money in a few ways (this confuses some people but trust me we'd not be doing this otherwise)
If we don't get the house for some reason we have back-up plans. Either renting a house with a friend, or renting a two-bedroom with a roommate, or finding a small one-bedroom we can afford just the two of us until we can save up to try again. I do hope we get this one though... after all, we picked out all the customization. It feels like "ours", so if we don't get it and I know some one else is living their instead that'll hurt a bit, heh. ^^
But.
Yes.
There's a general update. Will and I are tired but this whole drama has brought us closer together. We're pretty awesome. We joked about this being a relationship test to add to the list... things like Ikea trips, road trips, and now getting kicked out of your apartment and being semi-homeless-ish... yep. xD
(Quick note, I had a TON of total strangers, pretty much all Head Trip readers, offer up space to us... it was very sweet, even if people were as far away as Chicago xD But the thought definitely counted)
OH and heh, quick amusing sidenote, the week of apartment snafu? I didn't have therapy. I had canceled prior because I knew I'd be prepping that day for the colonoscopy and didn't want to leave the house. It seems all the interesting shit happens when I don't have therapy scheduled, lol
ANYWAY. I think now I'm done. This is the update. We're caught up. I think. Yes. Mostly everything down now.
Fingers crossed. Optimism mode activated (even if it's frequently rather weak). We can do this. I can do this. :)