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I need a do-over for yesterday. I'm trying to think of one thing that went right and I keep coming up empty. Bollocks.
I got crap for sleep, and it was an awful day, weather-wise. Very rainy. Cold. Sheets of rain that sent our leaky skylight into overdrive. I went to the grocery store to do our shopping and it was positively /brimming/ with people. So it took forEVer, especially at check-out time. Which means that I was running late to check out an apartment in Winthrop. So I raced home, Jen was on her way home sick from work because she was coughing really badly. We got home at the same time, she put the groceries away while I got directions to the apartment, and we left 15 minutes later than I wanted to. And Jen was wheezing really badly and I didn't think she should come along, but she wanted to.
When we walked in the door of the apartment, the woman said, "I will show it to you but I just took a deposit on this apartment a few minutes ago." This means, of course, that we loved the apartment. It was very simple and charming, a decent size but things were in weird places - BUT the rent is $500 /less/ than our current rent AND it includes heat and hot water. We would have taken it in a heartbeat. But someone else beat us to it. We took rental applications in case the first people fall through, but I don't have high hopes.
We got home and Jen laid down for a while after I made her some soup. I went in to check on her and she couldn't get enough breath to talk, and I panicked. She said she wanted to go to the ER so we went to Carney Hospital because it was the closest. And it's kind of scary there. Jen got 3 (yes, THREE) nebulizer treatments in the time that we were there, and the doctor was leaning towards saying that Jen probably has developed asthma considering she is now getting bronchitis regularly. Now she is sick as a dog, coughing and sneezing and wheezing, and needless to say we did not go out last night like we'd planned and she won't be coming to RI with me today so I won't be going to my dad's grave. (I don't want to go alone.) Mostly I'm just worried. (And haven't been in the bowels of a hospital since Dad died in one.)
I'm /really/ concerned about Jen's general health. In the last couple of weeks, she has ended up with a whole host of prescription drugs for a number of chronic health concerns throughout her body. She's been taking medicine for high blood pressure for the last 10 years or so, and they just upped her dose. She also is now taking prescription stomach medicine for acid reflux and heartburn (and is supplementing with OTC Zantac also) and has recently been diagnosed with a hiatal hernia. She was recently given prescription drugs for migraines that seem to have come out of nowhere as she has never had migraines before and now complains of headaches 3+ times a week. She recently saw a doctor for foot pain (a couple of months ago), and also complains of knee pain and frequent back pain. She has started taking BCPs for long, painful periods. She is now on an albuterol inhaler. And she is still getting those hives. So now on any given day, she is taking: blood pressure medicine, prescription stomach medicine, zantac, birth control, claritin and benadryl for the hives, and possibly headache medicine. This has me majorly freaking out.
We've been talking about taking steps to increase our fitness and health for quite a long time now, and I really think I have come a long way in terms of what I eat, what I do, and how I look. I'm really worried that if something doesn't change soon, I'm going to lose her too early, too.
I got crap for sleep, and it was an awful day, weather-wise. Very rainy. Cold. Sheets of rain that sent our leaky skylight into overdrive. I went to the grocery store to do our shopping and it was positively /brimming/ with people. So it took forEVer, especially at check-out time. Which means that I was running late to check out an apartment in Winthrop. So I raced home, Jen was on her way home sick from work because she was coughing really badly. We got home at the same time, she put the groceries away while I got directions to the apartment, and we left 15 minutes later than I wanted to. And Jen was wheezing really badly and I didn't think she should come along, but she wanted to.
When we walked in the door of the apartment, the woman said, "I will show it to you but I just took a deposit on this apartment a few minutes ago." This means, of course, that we loved the apartment. It was very simple and charming, a decent size but things were in weird places - BUT the rent is $500 /less/ than our current rent AND it includes heat and hot water. We would have taken it in a heartbeat. But someone else beat us to it. We took rental applications in case the first people fall through, but I don't have high hopes.
We got home and Jen laid down for a while after I made her some soup. I went in to check on her and she couldn't get enough breath to talk, and I panicked. She said she wanted to go to the ER so we went to Carney Hospital because it was the closest. And it's kind of scary there. Jen got 3 (yes, THREE) nebulizer treatments in the time that we were there, and the doctor was leaning towards saying that Jen probably has developed asthma considering she is now getting bronchitis regularly. Now she is sick as a dog, coughing and sneezing and wheezing, and needless to say we did not go out last night like we'd planned and she won't be coming to RI with me today so I won't be going to my dad's grave. (I don't want to go alone.) Mostly I'm just worried. (And haven't been in the bowels of a hospital since Dad died in one.)
I'm /really/ concerned about Jen's general health. In the last couple of weeks, she has ended up with a whole host of prescription drugs for a number of chronic health concerns throughout her body. She's been taking medicine for high blood pressure for the last 10 years or so, and they just upped her dose. She also is now taking prescription stomach medicine for acid reflux and heartburn (and is supplementing with OTC Zantac also) and has recently been diagnosed with a hiatal hernia. She was recently given prescription drugs for migraines that seem to have come out of nowhere as she has never had migraines before and now complains of headaches 3+ times a week. She recently saw a doctor for foot pain (a couple of months ago), and also complains of knee pain and frequent back pain. She has started taking BCPs for long, painful periods. She is now on an albuterol inhaler. And she is still getting those hives. So now on any given day, she is taking: blood pressure medicine, prescription stomach medicine, zantac, birth control, claritin and benadryl for the hives, and possibly headache medicine. This has me majorly freaking out.
We've been talking about taking steps to increase our fitness and health for quite a long time now, and I really think I have come a long way in terms of what I eat, what I do, and how I look. I'm really worried that if something doesn't change soon, I'm going to lose her too early, too.
