Post by supertrooper1 on Dec 23, 2022 13:11:30 GMT -5
Today is my last day of work until January 3rd. I was already scheduled to cover for 1 coworker today and was annoyed that another asked me to cover for her at the last minute. But 2 hours into my day and I haven't received a single email from the last-minute coworker's clients, so it worked out. We're getting freezing rain on top of our 10 inches of snow, so the roads are a mess right now. I'm hoping they'll be better by tonight after work since I need to go to the grocery store.
Tomorrow will be a baking and wrapping day, and maybe the gym. DS comes home late tomorrow night. Sunday we'll open gifts at home with just the 3 of us, then head to Beau's side. Son, DIL, and grandsons first, then stop by his mom's house. Monday will be at my parents' house.
DS is good. His rash/hives are still not great, especially on his face today, and he’s super tired, which is probably a combination of whatever is going on and staying up late with his sister. Still waiting on test results that they said we’d get closer to Christmas. Not sure why it will take so long - friend who works at another hospital says that specific test should be closer to 12 hours (and generally less than that for them). So trying to be patient, which I suck at.
This is the most relaxed and least stressed of any Christmas I had in all my child raising years.
I’m not sure if it’s because I’m used to ExH being gone and it’s peaceful? Or I’ve been doing 75 Hard for 19 days and I just feel physically good. School (work) was cancelled today so that could be it too. Either way I’ll take it!
It's-25 windchills and snowy. Dh is officially sick and is determined to spread misery, so he is banished to the basement. He refused to go to convenient care while he could. I can only test for COVID here, so we just have to guess if its a bad cold or flu.
I'm determined to have a good attitude. I've got 2 crockpots going with Turkey and ham. I'm going to drink some wine later amd make some food for the next couple of days. I hate it that my brother can't come over, but with Dh sick, I'm sure they wouldn't appreciate the spreading of the sickness.
Day 2 stuck inside. - a million temperature. Not too much snow but blowy so we are just leaving it until tomorrow when it will be a balmy high of 12.
I did some cleaning of the basement and put up lights there. Other than that relaxing and eating ha ha. I was supposed to work and we closed, so I’ll take it. Just trying to relax. DH keeps trying to talk to me, and I’m like I taking this weekend and not talking about anything DH career related. And I don’t care if he is offended. I deserve it! 😂
Need to buy more presents tomorrow so hopefully we get the driveway and roads cleared up and still need to wrap. Honestly I don’t care though like if they open unwrapped boxes it’s no big deal to me. We just have maybe 4 boxes to wrap anyway. We leaned hard in experience gifts and big gifts rather than a ton of small things.
We are getting insane wind and rain. No school for the kids. Our power has gone off and on a half dozen times so I gave up on work and the girls and I watched a Christmas movie in between outages and hung out. They just left and won’t be back until Wednesday. Beau dropped his son off this morning on his way to work. He’s catering a company party tonight. I’m hoping he brings home leftovers! Lobster risotto…. Yummmm Now I’m going to tidy up the house while binging on Hallmark movies since it’s peaceful here.
Beau asked what I wanted to do tomorrow night and I decided I want to go see my BFF sing in her church’s choir. They’re doing a Christmas concert/service. We aren’t church people but it feels like a special thing to do. Plus, I want to give her a big Christmas hug. She’s ten weeks pregnant now. Her IVF has been the best Christmas miracle!
Post by traveltheworld on Dec 23, 2022 15:38:22 GMT -5
Dd has the flu, we think. She threw up 6 times this morning; we called telehealth, bought some gravel and she's been better the past hour. We had to cancel our bubble family party which we were supposed to host tonight. I'm super bummed. I've been looking forward to it for weeks.
I hope the flu doesn't hit the rest of the household.
We do have almost all of next week off so that'll be nice.
I have been furiously looking for two missing gifts for about a week. I know I bought them. I know they got here. And damn it, couldn’t find them. They were both really small (a video game and some ear buds), so I just figured they slipped behind something and would turn up around Valentines Day. So I reordered them from Amazon a couple of days ago. Today DH took the kids to hang with Grandma so I could wrap. I noticed a bigger sized gift was also missing, and then it dawned on me: those missing gifts? Already wrapped and under the tree. I’m so annoyed with myself. I will return the video game. I’m keeping the extra ear buds because I am certain DD will lose them at school.
This work week was crazier than I expected, so I’m glad that’s over. DD went to a classmate’s holiday party/secret Santa exchange last night and ate too much junk and then puked all over her top bunk. The clean up will fuel my nightmares.
We’re at home for Christmas with no family around, so doing staycation-y stuff. We gave the kids a basketball hoop as an early Christmas gift, so DH put that together yesterday and the kids are having fun with it. Though they’re killing the succulents around our patio when they miss shots and the ball falls on them.
We just went out to dinner with friends while our babysitter watched our kids and theirs, so that worked out well and was really fun (we paid babysitter a lot - but it was worth it).
Today all four kids were off, so we went to the childrens museum and a fun diner for lunch. Tomorrow we’ll do a holiday tea at a local resort and then maybe go to the beach to the tide pools before dark. San Diego is supposed to be the warmest place in the country on Christmas Day - mid-70s.
None of the kids’ friends seem to be doing camps next week, but most of them have some family to see over the break. I think by the time we get to day 5 of togetherness, we will want a bit of a break for each other. So the kids are signed up for some camps next Tuesday-Friday. We’ll leave Friday midday to go to Palm Springs next weekend with our two other former pod families. Then another week of school break after that still 😬
Post by librarychica on Dec 24, 2022 5:43:29 GMT -5
It is now the day before Christmas and I woke up at 5AM because my chihuahua mix woke up and angered the 18yo cat while trying to burrow between H and I. It may only be 30, but this is Florida and chihuahuas aren’t known for their cold resistance, lol, so now she has my spot and the furrier dog and I are drinking coffee on the couch.
11 years ago at 5AM I was puttering around the house trying to figure out if I was in labor or if my back was just sore from overdoing the Christmas shopping. Happy birthday, DD1!
I took Thursdays and Friday off. This was a great idea! Spent all of Thursday cleaning with the sometimes-reluctant help of my children, did the last-minute grocery shopping and got a haircut Friday. I feel prepared for Christmas for the first time in, oh, 11 years I guess. Until this year I worked for a company that gave us the week after Christmas off and I never understood why people left a few days early when we had an entire week off coming, I don’t travel for the holidays, so I always offered to man our department. Now I know why! Time off before Christmas is amazing.
mommyatty, I also lost two gifts and was rushing around in a bit of a panic before I remembered that I had the girls wrapping presents last week to earn holiday gift money. Whoops! I only had DD2 wrap her cousins’ gifts but DD1 begged to do her sisters and since she doesn’t believe I said sure and then just forgot…
DD, the dog and I made it over to the south Oregon coast yesterday for girls weekend with my BFF. Took me an hour to de-ice my car and has to wait until 11 to leave so things were melting. Drove I5 down and then over which I had never gone. It turned out fine. Went to the lights at the botanical garden and it was 55 and no wind! The big kids got along great too. We are meeting at 10 today to beach walk for hours. It's partly sunny but windy and so warm.
I can’t tell anyone in real life because we are going to wait until the kids come back and we can tell them. But I am bursting!!
Beau has always said he’s ready whenever so I have to ask him. I’ve always been so nervous. Last week I decided life is too short so let’s do this. So I found this diamond ring snow globe and gave it to him as an early Christmas gift and asked him. He cried. I cried. We both said yes. And now we will pretend for a week and he will find me a real ring to ask me again when the kids are here!
We still don’t have the rest of DS’s blood work and testing back. His PCP - who I despise - just sent an email saying she assumes his rash is better, sorry about the testing error, they’ll do better in the future, and happy holidays.
WTF. Please don’t assume something is better and just ask. And maybe take a look at his file and see if we’re waiting on other results or the fact that while the big issue (cancer) is ruled out, the rest of his lab work is abnormal. Maybe ask if we have any questions or concerns. Am I expecting too much???
ETA: this is also the PCP who ordered lab work but didn’t review it or tell us he was iron deficient for over a month.
k3am- after this, your insurance really has to switch your PCP, don’t you think? I would be so upset if I were in your place!
Our insurance and provider are all under one roof. The lab (also theirs) messed up, our PCP wasn’t even in the office. We’ve honestly only seen her once.. our provider is like the Costco of doctors, you see whoever is available, but the PCP (supposedly) coordinated all the care. And everyone who addressed everything after getting the original results did a great job. (We had a fabulous PCP that retired due to covid.. the new one we were assigned was on maternity leave for months, and every time we’ve tried to get an appointment with her has been out of office. And I just don’t like her.)
k3am I would also want to switch and would have emailed back saying no it isn't better, we still don't know what is wrong, and are still waiting for labs. We don't like our pedi but don't have any health concerns to see the doctor other than well checks so we just deal.
I'm exhausted from my weekend of none stop going. DH has to work tomorrow! DD is having an auntie date and I have a crap load of house cleaning for coming coming on Friday. I really need a do nothing day.
twinmomma, Congratulations! What a sweet proposal! I can't wait to hear what happens when your girls find out!
k3am, does your pcp health system or the hospital that your were at have a patient advocate? Also check your health insurance for one. This might be a good way to force the doctors to do better and to get you answers quicker.
My big news: I got an email from my CEO on Xmas Eve to tell me I was getting a huge bonus (like 40% of my salary)! I thought I misread the number and had to get DH to read it to me. Now so many thoughts on my head about how to spend it... 😊
k3am, Will they let you switch to a different PCP? She sounds useless.
They will, but I’m also not excited about the idea of just switching to a random doctor either. There are a couple others that we’ve seen and I liked (one more than the other), but neither are accepting new patients. But I have told DH that we need to switch because at this point, there’s nothing this woman could do that wouldn’t annoy me.
polecat8 that’s an amazing bonus! Have fun with it!
We’ve filed a complaint with them already. At this point I have a nagging feeling that the nurse messed up the lab work (that they ran in the hospital, not the original set that was messed up).. we had to repeat one set of lab work because she mislabeled it and she drew a second round before we left. (Thankfully he had an IV, so it wasn’t an additional poke). So my guess is this long delay is either due to holidays or another error.