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Very busy today.

If you are not blogging at least twice a week consider yourself warned. Phlome is feeling feisty

Probably will go up to t-town for a couple days this afternoon. I fully intend on returning in time for halloween festivities. I made the friggin costume - I am going to wear it!

But not nearly as much as this person.

I drove up to bueno on my way to finish getting my new tires (a rather long dull story involving 3 trips to the tire place, $500, and 6 tires.) I ordered a taco with no lettuce or tomato…lettuce is just filler and I don’t like tomatoes. Normally (esp at Taco Hell) this means I get a rather sad looking taco that is only half full. But no, not at the Blessed Bueno. Bueno added extra meet and extra extra cheese! I swear there was an inch and a half of shredded cheese on my taco. Bueno knew I needed my cheese. Bueno hearts me and I heart Bueno.
I’m posting entirely too much about food when there are way too many more things going on for me to blog about. Such as:

Mom’s recovery (ok, not really, she’s still recovering at my grandparents, nothing to share)
School
Tire fiasoco/resolution
NG/lezfest recount
Pumpkin carving festivites
Pumpkin seed roasting
Lost (if you haven’t been watching it, it’s probably too late)
Gaia (my dirty lil secret)
Christmas shopping
My adorable (manipulative) Luna and poor sad little Mira who misses Zero.
My completed Li’l Red Riding Hood costume (and it’s too short skirt)
The Halloween Party
And of course Mechanical Bulls

At some point or another I may or may not cover these topics this week (don’t hold your breath)

I think I’m suffering minor effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). It’s too dark in the mornings. And it’s been overcast all week. I went to bed at 10:30 last night. At 11:30 I *KNEW* I heard my phone ringing in the living room, jumped up and ran to get it. It hadn’t rang at all. I’m pretty sure Phlome thinks I’m nutty.
I could not wake up this morning. Same thing yesterday. Same thing the last week or so. earlier I blamed it on worrying about mom. now that I know she’s okay, I’m blaming it on the Sun.
Maybe I’ll be better after the time change.
While I’m not generally much of a morning person, this week has just reached ridiculous levels of sleepiness.
I hate it. But then by like 7 or 8 at night I’m fine. It should not take a person 12 hours to reach wakefulness.
Ugh.
It’s 11:30, almost lunch time, and I don’t know what I want. Actually I do know what I want. Cheesey pasta. (forgot the mac and cheese at the grocery store). Fettucci would be good too, if done well. OG is fine, but nothing like the little italian place across the street her. Only problem is, it’s overpriced and fru fru. I dont’ like going there by myself, and I’m not in the mood to be social. I really treasure my lunch alone time. I’m not really a fan of going to lunch w/ co-workers. I go occasionally, because I get asked often enough, so that I don’t want to say no all the time. Of course there’s the perk of a free lunch then, usually.

Oh, wanna here another fast food catastrophe? Arby’s no longer carries their jalapeno poppers. Bastards. And there’s no sonic nearby, so I can’t just get cheese stuffed jalapenos any time I want. I don’t necessarily want them now, but still.

Don’t want chinese (or any asian food for that matter), don’t want a burger, sick of sandwiches, italian nearby is overpriced. I don’t eat seafood. *sigh*
Chipotle yesterday…maybe I’ll just drive up to bueno.

I guess I shouold mention that I has my first night of class last night. (see below for updates on my mom)

I like the instructor, she seems pretty cool. Once the class warmed up, you could tell it’s going to be a very active 3.5 hours. Lots of discussion. I was surprised when she said we only had 15 mins left. The class lasts from 6 - 9:30 with a 15 min break around 7:30.
Theres a commons area that appears to have a nice little selection of restaurants to eat from during the day, unfortunatly they are all closed in the evenings. But there’s a wide selection to choose from in the various vending machines. They even have one of those carousel type vending machines, with sandwiches, cup o ramen, oatmeal and the like.
My plan last night was to stop by Wendy’s for the Spinach Chicken Salad, but they don’t carry it anymore - THOSE BASTARDS. The Wendy’s spinach chicken salad is by far the best fastfood salad I have ever had, and seriously competes with most salads at any other restaurant. In fact it could only be better if I made it myself, and then the only differenct would be more kids of greens (romain etc.) I’m very angry about this. I’ve been wanting one for a couple days now. I hope they bring it back, maybe I should write them an email.

Ok, so it’s lunch time now, and I’ve spent the better part of this post talking about the food from last night, instead of the class. So I’m gonna go eat, and read some from my text book. Got some catching up to do.
Sometime this afternoon or tonight, I need to hop onto the class discussion forum and post about what I hope to gain from the class. I hate that sort of thing.

Mom got to go home last night. She’s at my grandparents house this week.
Just talked to her on the phone and she’s doing pretty well.
She’s on antibiotics, and pain meds, but she only takes the pain meds as needed. She said she’s trying to take them only at night before bed, but woke up at about 3 am, so had to take more.
She walked about 1/4 mile down the road and back today with my grandmother. She’s suffering from serious cabin fever, and the fact that it’s rainy up in Tulsa, doesn’t help.
So things are looking good.

So this weekend has been a bit of a roller coaster with my mom. I’d call and she’d say she’s feeling better, and then the next time I’d talk to her, her fever would be up again. Sometime on Friday it got up to 103. I think it was Friday. It’s all running together.

They did bloodwork and X-rays, which lead to a CT-Scan of her abdomen. The CT-Scan revealed a few things. First it showed that there was indeed a collection of ‘fluid’ in that area. (previous chest x-rays showed fluid collection in her chest area = early onset of pneumonia, but that was taken care of by forcing her to cough and walk around more).
So docs said they were gonna go examine the CT-Scan some more to decide how to deal with the fluid with these options:
1) cut a whole, stick a tube in there, and let it drain (read this in many appendectomie descriptions online, fairly normal if there is infection)
2) cut her open, and suck the fluid out
3) another laproscopic and suck the fluid out.

After studying the results, they decided to do nothing. Hmm, don’t remember that as one of the original options. Turns out the fluid, while there, is only a small amount, so the risk of a surgical procedure is greater than the risk of letting it be, and counting on the antibiotics to deal with it.

So here’s the good news: mom’s fever has been down, she’s eating well, and she’s had at least 2 BMs (yeah, I know you really want to hear about that, but it’s a vital part of her recovery, and required in order for her to go home). If she can keep her fever down this afternoon she goes home this evening. We’re all keeping our fingers crossed.

Now for the not so good news. As I said before the CT Scan showed a couple things. The 2nd thing it showed was that there is a cyst the size of a golf ball on one of her ovaries. The doc doesn’t want to deal with that right now. It’s not a pressing danger, but it will need to be dealt with eventually. First he wants her to get rid of this lingering appendectomy crap.

So that’s that.

In other news, Phlome and I witnessed quite an accident last night. Go check his sitefor full details.

Oh, as for lezfest, I am not quite ready to post about that, plus I’ve spent enough time on this post already.

Here are the bloglinks of our CA visitors to lezfest:
Pushing in the Pin
and
am i dreaming…

Hospitals don’t let you call patients after 9pm.

So last night I talked to my aunt who said my mom’s doing better. My aunt is good at telling people what they want to hear.

This morning I talked to my mom. She sounds pretty bad. Very week and doped up. They give her pain meds and anti-nausia meds. She says they help tremendously. She still has a fever (or pehaps again) so she’s not going home today. She also has not had a BM. No BM, no go. Problem is, she hasn’t been able to eat anything. At least what she’s eaten she hasn’t been able to keep down, and from what I’ve heard all she’s eaten is jello.

Why am I so tired?

This morning on the way to work my phone vibrated, and I realized I had sound off. So I checked it, and I’ve missed 15 calls! At first I panic thinking it’s work related and I’m going to be in trouble. Then I see that the first few are from my mom’s cell, and the rest are from my stepfathers. That’s when I really start to worry, and in a moment of indecesion I’m torn between listening to my voicemail and just calling to find out what’s going on.
Last night when I called my mom, SD (step-demon) answered her phone and said she was sick. She must have been feeling pretty bad, not to be able to talk on the phone, so I left it at that, and told him to have her call me as soon as she got up and around.
Ok, so back to this morning. I call, SD answers and he tells me “It’s about time”. Yeah, not what I want to hear from the person I hate most in the world, when I just want to know why I’ve missed 15 calls. So he proceeds to inform me that last night my mom went into the hospital because she felt so sick, and it turns out, she had appendicitis. She’s fine now, but they’re gonna keep her in for a day or two while she recovers.
So here’s the thing. Several times I’ve given my mom Phlome’s phone number, because I often leave my phone at home, or on vibrate. His number shoudl be in her phone. He always has his phone with him. In addition I know my cousin has his phone number. So why didn’t anyone bother to try and call his phone?

Anyway, so I called the hospital, and my aunt was there, and my mom had just woken up. I talked to my mom briefly, she sounded really bad, so I talked to my aunt to find out what all was going on.

This is what I know so far. Last night, not long after I called, mom was so sick, SD suggested they go to the hospital. This is at 4:30 in the afternoon. No one bothered to try and call me. At 11:30 after several tests, the dr.’s pretty darn sure it’s appendicitis, and while they could go ahead and do a CTScan, it probably wouldnt’ tell them anymore than they know. So they’re going to take her into surgery. If it’s appendicities they’ll take care of it, if it’s an ovarian cyst , they can take care of it then too.
This is the first time SD starts trying to call me. Had he called anytime btwn 4:30 and 10:30 I would have gotten the msg, because I checked my phone just before I went to bed at 10:30. (I’m not quite sure why I checked it, I don’t normally check it before I go to bed.)
So, through the miracle of modern medicine: laproscopic surgery, they were able to go in and take care of it with out much of an inscision at all.

So this morning the dr.’s have decided to keep her all day, and possible tomorrow, because she has a fever. They’re also going to try and get her walking around this morning. And she’s supposed to try and take a shower. She’s not at all looking forward to this. When I talked to her she was sitting up for the first time, and it didn’t sound at all pleasant.

Now I’m just kinda sitting her, thinking maybe I should go up there for the weekend. I dont’ know…

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