Projects, Family And A Health Update

I nearly died yesterday getting through my appointments. I could hardly stay upright, I had horrible abdominal cramps, I couldn't stay awake and I was freezing cold. Not to mention I was feeling very irritable. The good news is that the abscess has shrunk a couple inches! Let's hope it keeps on shrinking. I'll get another CT in two weeks and I'll continue with my IV antibiotics.

I've been pretty sick these last few days and have been sleeping almost constantly. Waking up ever 7.5 hours to administer antibiotics was really wearing me down as well. So...I now have a spiffy new pump that goes in a cool bag with lots of pockets. This pump allows me to change out the antibiotic only once a day. Huzzah for sweet convinience!

Last night I had a horrible restless leg episode. My mom did everything but nothing worked. I cried the whole time because I was so tired and I just wanted to sleep but my legs wouldn't let me. We're going to get some more serious doctor help with this now. I mean, I was begging to go to the ER so that maybe I could get some anticonvulsants. Ugh, it was awful.

Today I'm feeling a lot better. Still sleepy, but it's not unbearable. I've got a little more energy and I don't have a lot of pain. So, I tidied my room and made an actual list of things to do. Some of my projects right now are:

Knitting Rayne some birthday presents and gathering other non-knitted gifts.
Knitting some socks.
Trying to send some thank you cards.
Painting by numbers
Making a birthday card for my friend Gina, who is having a birthday tea time tomorrow.
Turning most of Crunchy Bits into a printable word document.
Teaching Annabel, the new rat, that biting (no matter how light and harmless) is frowned upon.
Finishing Inkspell (For some reason that book is starting to frustrate me. I just want it to be over so I can move on.)
Summoning up the inspiration to get on with writing The Master Painter.
Getting my hair re-dyed.

My little sister Ginny went back to school yesterday. She is now officially a senior. The mail never lets us forget this, supplying us anew each day with pamphlets and letters from various colleges. She doesn't know where she wants to go yet, she just knows she wants to leave the state. Right now it sounds like she wants to go on studying theatre. I know she'll continue with cello, photography and art as well. Whatever she does, I know she'll be amazing at it, just like always.

Mom is taking care of me, of course. She's also getting ready for the new school year, though. She's one of the accompanists at Nebraska Wesleyan University in the music department. This year she's cutting back and how much she takes on and she's not doing anything vitally important because you just don't know what she'll have to drop everything and stay with me at the hospital or something like that. Or if a liver becomes available, of course.

So that's my blog today. Written while dizzy and on drugs, but (I hope) a happier blog than the previous. Now I shall eat some toast.