August 2008

Oh, I forgot to mention in my July Blog, that Rick and I celebrated our 18 year anniversary on July 28th. August should be a good month, as Rick, My Grandma, and my nephew all celebrate birthdays in August. We went to Rick's parents house for his birthday and went out to dinner to Joe's BBQ. It was really good, and we had a real good time. Here is where my month turns bad...the next day, around 3:00 I got a phone call from my mom that my grandma had passed away. Even though I knew it was coming, it still hit me quite hard. She passed away on August 4th, just one week before her 91st birthday. I am truly going to miss her, as like I said, she had become a very special part of my life over the past couple of years. There were no services, as my parents are taking her ashes as well as my grandpa's ashes back to Iowa in October for services....so I didn't take any time off of work. It was better that I stayed busy...and that I did as Katrina had been quite ill(strep throat, bronchial pneumonia, pneumonia, a cracked rib), all this over a few weeks span..and had been out of work, then Joslynn got sick and was out for almost a week, so I was there keeping very busy!!! Which I think really helped me deal with my pain. I am happy to say that Katrina is back at work now and feeling much better. I was really concerned about her. I don't think I have ever known anyone to be that sick. I am so happy you are back Katrina and feeling better!! Kyle finished Hell Week, and has now started back to school. All was going well. A week ago Thursday, I woke up with a stye..no big deal...I get them all the time. I just put my drops in and went about my business. I noticed my Monday that it really wasn't getting any better. By Tuesday morning, I woke up and my eye was swollen shut. I took my shower and it looked a little better, at least I could see out of it. I went to work and tried to work...Katrina told me to go to Urgent Care. I had taken a picture of it and sent it to my mom...she also said..go to Urgent Care. So I left work at lunchtime and went to Urgent Care. The Dr. I saw was awesome. He knew exactly what it was and how to treat it in the future, but since I waited so long this time, I had an infection, and he gave me an antibiotic to get rid of that, and took me off of work for a day. My eye is still a little swollen, but not anything like it was on Tuesday. And to make my week even worse...I somehow pushed away a real good friend of mine. I am totally devastated. I just found him again about a year ago, and it was like we had never been apart. I hadn't seen or talked to him since about 1985. Our friendship had been restored. Then this week, all that went downhill. I think I try too hard...maybe I am just too giving...I don't know. I do know that I really care about this person, he was a great friend and I am REALLY going to miss talking to him. I just wish him well, and maybe sometime down the road, we will be able to work things out and be friends once again. I sure hope that September brings me better things than August did!!