I haven't updated in a while, even though, "stuff" has been going up. I don't really know why I haven't been back I just .... haven't.
So here are some rambles, in order of occurrence:
- I went to NY! I met up with 4 fabulous friends for a weekend of friendship, goofiness, food, and drink! It was WONDERFUL. Absolutely wonderful. NY is beautiful and the temp felt soooooo good. Of course, in another month or so they could very well have snow there (we were in Albany) so I'm good here, lol. The next "meet-up" is planned for March, HERE, in SE GA at my house/my sis' house. I am VERY excited about that.
- There was a shooting incident here in our town. My son (the po po) was there but not inside where it occurred. He was outside, where a different man was being arrested. Not that this matters apparently, because "street talk" has him pegged as "the shooter" and he supposedly has a "hit" on him. This has been very stressful as a mom. VERY. People outside of the LE life have NO clue how stressful overall life can be. It isn't just about the *little* usual things like them getting up from dinner just as they sit down, having to cancel a movie because something happened at the end of their shift and they have to stay, them having to get out of a sick bed to go to work, not being able to go out of town for holidays and even not being able to evacuate with the family for hurricanes ..... all of that (and more) is just the typical stuff you "get used to". Death threats are a little harder to deal with. Especially in today's world of cops being targeted and KILLED. We've lost more LEOs this year than we EVER have in this nation. A lot of those were targeted kills. The name of the officer who did shoot the man (this was during an arrest warrant) has been kept silent because of the "uproar" in the community over his shooting. I have been a LE family member for over 20 years ...and being the "wife" was hard, hard, hard ...... being the mom? Wow.
- Girlchild went to the Mayo Clinic last month. It was an all day thing ... but OMG what a well organized machine that place is. She did have another eye flare before this visit (went to eye dr) and another kidney stone. In fact she either had two stones within a 2 week period or the original one was still and then decided to move again. The second one was horrible. Absolutely horrible. That one landed her in the ER for 10 hours. They gave her a shot of morphine not long after we got there and it took an hour before she felt relief. :-( Anyway, the MC dr did more blood tests, urine tests (including a 24 hr test) and a chest x-ray. The results are posted online but they mean nothing to me. I know her ANA was positive, as it was the first time. I know her CRP (which measures protein which measures inflammation) was 17.6 and the norm is 0-8. The urine stuff I couldn't even begin to decipher. The x-ray results were not shown online. We go back Oct. 3, to discuss the results with her rheumy (who ordered all these tests) and he also requested she see the ophthalmologist there as well as a nephrologist there. So she has 3 appts that day: 8 am, 10:45 am and 4:15 am ... a LONG day huh? The rheumy didn't really offer any insight on that first visit .. said it could be a lot of things (Lupus, fibromyalgia, etc) or we may never know. Today she woke up with her eye swollen. It doesn't hurt so for now we'll just watch it. She's also started having headaches the last couple of months or so. She had one yesterday.
- The rest of life is same ole, same ole -- work, friends and family. I remain blessed.
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