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Yesterday, on the way home from a trip into San Marcos, the Impossible Son and I sang the Moosebutter Star Wars song at the top of our lungs all the way home.

It was awesome.

He's still recovering from chickenpox, so he had to accompany me in to San Marcos for a trip to Dr. Tummy to get samples of my acid reflux med while we wait for the drama over my prescription to get resolved. Who will win? InHumane Care, or the intrepid and determined Dr. Tummy, with assistance from Mr. W., the Small Town Pharmacist Who Could? Tune in next week for an update!!!

*laughs*

Well, yesterday was full of little trips. I took Mr. Impossible in for a followup with the doctor about his tests, yes to chickenpox, no to Lyme, and to check his pox out. Most of them are crusting, so he should be good to go back to school next week! Then the trip into San Marcos for the samples, and then a stop by his school to pick up his makeup work.

The trip home was a blast, actually! I mean, there were were, walking back to the car, him skipping along next to me while holding my hand and chattering on cheerfully about any and everything, and I have no idea why, but I just started randomly singing, "Nobody cares if you upset a droooooid, 'cause droids don't tear your arms out of sockeeeeet..." and he chimed in with, "I suggest a new straaaaategy, let the Woooookie win," and we both sang loudly and badly, "Because nobody caaaaares... if you upset a droooooooid!"

And yes, there were lots of other people in the parking lot, and yes, we got stared at, and no, we did not care at all!!

After that, it was a foregone conclusion that I would select the song to play on the CD in the car, and would hit repeat, so we could sing it over and over again on the drive home, complete with gestures and faces. I am sure the people on the freeway in San Marcos enjoyed our emoting, and I'm also sure the people at the light before heading down the state highway thought we'd lost our minds.

I especially enjoyed the Impossible Son's faces during the section of Luke whining. The pathos! The utter dejection! The extreme sulkiness!!

It made my heart swell with pride!

I love moments like that with my son. I don't often get to see his extremely silly side like that, and I have discovered that he has inherited my, and my dad's, extremely elastic face. He's got a pretty wacky sense of humor that I truly do appreciate, and is developing a wit as sharp as his sister's. Pretty soon, their verbal sparring is going to take a whole new level, and I'm going to find it harder and harder to out-geek them.

I look forward to it with great enthusiasm!

Because... nobody caaaaaaaares if you upset a drooooooooid!!

OMG YAY!!!

Friday, April 16th, 2010 08:50 am
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First off, I need to thank [personal profile] miss_bowtruckle for the v-gift! I'm sorry I hadn't thanked you sooner! I mean, I got the notification, but I couldn't check it at the time, and what with one thing and another... back burner, kids... ay-yi-yi! But I saw it, and thank you, thank you, thank you! It cheered me up!!

Speaking of v-gifts... for some bizarre, known-only-to-themselves reason, LJ took the virtual pints of Guiness that [personal profile] wolfiekins gifted me once upon a time and... turned them into root beers!! Not a fair exchange at all!! WTF, LJ??

Secondly... I saw the endocrinologist on Wednesday. He looked at my labs and said, "Well... according to this, you're doing great! However... I can just look at you and I know you are absolutely miserable. So... tell me what's going on."

So, I did. All of it, the crushing fatigue, the no energy, my hair falling out again, my hands and feet swelling, not being able to sleep at night, having personal Antarcticas, the dry skin, the fatigue, the hoarseness, the fatigue, the weight gain, and did I mention the fatigue?

So, basically, it comes down to this: the labs say I'm doing fine, but my body says no, I'm not. It comes down to personal chemistry, right? So, he's dropping my dosage... wait, wait, wait! Okay, he's dropping the dosage of the Synthroid, which is my thyroid medication, and adding another medication called Cytomel. It's yet another thyroid medication, but this one has T3 in it, which I apparently need. A lot. And I'm taking that one twice a day. The doctor said, "You'll pretty much know right away if it's going to work."

I started it yesterday morning.

O. M. G.

Y'all have NO idea. No, really. I have had to ingest mass quantities of caffeine for the last three months just to stay awake enough to function. The moment the caffeine runs out... I literally stop. I mean it. It's like hitting a wall, a Wall of Fatigue that I quite literally, and yes, I do mean literally, cannot pass. I hit it, barely have time to mumble to the kids, "Mama's going to sleep now, y'all stay in the house," and then find a horizontal surface to crash on.

Yes. That bad. And I would sleep for... three hours. Or one and a half, if I could remember to tell myself to wake up after an hour and a half.

So, I took it yesterday morning, and... felt... different. Not perkier, or all of a sudden "WOW" or anything. Just... different. And I did my usual routine of making bentos, getting the Impertinent One up, etc. and... I still felt different. The Husbandly One got the Impossible Son up, I set the lunches out ready to go, searched for shoes, etc... and didn't think, "Man, I'm so tired."

The difference didn't really hit me until after 9 a.m., which is when I generally need my second dose of caffeine.

I didn't need it!!

I didn't need more caffeine all day!! I didn't hit that, "OMG, I'm tired," stage until 4, and that's when I took my second dose, and... I was BACK!

IT WAS GREAT!!!

And you know what else?

I SLEPT THE WHOLE NIGHT THROUGH LAST NIGHT!!!

*is overwhelmed by the awesome*

No tossing and turning, no moaning in what little sleep I managed, no restless moving about that kept the Husbandly One awake, too... it was wonderful!!

I feel like a whole new me!!

It's nice to be sitting here typing this with my eyes wide open!!

Yeah, yeah, I know I'm babbling, but gods, y'all have no idea, really. I've said very little about what I've been going through the last four or five months, because omg, it was so depressing, and I know it's been a large part of why it's been so hard to write, but now... I feel so much better, so much better!!

I know THO and the kids are looking forward to having Bouncy!Auntie back!!

*happy happy dance of joy*

Sleepwalking...

Sunday, April 20th, 2008 09:54 am
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Yesterday was a very strange day for me in a lot of ways.

I stopped taking the Muscle Relaxant Disguised As A Stimulant From Hell on Friday morning, because after a talk with the pharmacist, and the doctor, we figured my bizarre body chemistry was mixing things up, and since I wasn't in excruciating pain any more, there was no further need for it.

It took until about 8:30 Friday night for the effects to finally wear off. And when I crashed, I crashed HARD. I remember taking a shower to relax my back muscles, and I remember being irritated with my kids and grabbing my iPod to go sulk in the living room. What I WANTED to do was go to bed, but everyone had decided to be all social and let's jump in the bed, and THO wanted to watch really loud, really obnoxious music videos on YouTube (the computer is in our bedroom) and it was all too much. So I went into the only quiet room in the house, popped in the earbuds and curled in a little ball on the couch to zone out to L'Arc-En-Ciel. And... that's the last thing I remember, really. "Neo Universe" fading out and then waking up to the Impossible Son climbing over me, and complaining it was cold as he slipped under the blankets of the bed. THO says he put the kids to bed, then came and got me, and I did all my usual things, washing my face, brushing my teeth, etc. and even turning off the computer before climbing groggily into the bed, and that I complained a lot, though he's not sure what about, since I apparently wasn't very coherent.

I thought that would be the end of it, except... we had soccer yesterday. Mr. Impossible had a game, and while I managed to prowl the sidelines as usual, camera in hand, I just... wasn't up to my usual snuff. And when we got home... I was WIPED!!! I gave a half-hearted effort at cleaning the dining room while THO worked in the kitchen (our garbage disposal is plugged up in a way that I can't fix it, so we're calling a plumber on Monday) and have no memory, again, of going into our room and falling face-first into the bed. I woke up three hours later. And I'm still somewhat groggy. Thank goodness, I finish the steroid tomorrow. And for those who were asking, the muscle relaxant (HA!!) is called "Skelaxin." What can I say, I have bizarre body chemistry that gives me weird reactions to all kinds of medications!

Today, I wanna be outside, and out of the house, and BUSY!! NO MORE SLEEPING!!!

And thank you, everyone, for your kind words about "Epiphany." I was really nervous about posting it!

Hopefully, I will have the next chapter of "Extraordinary Girl" finished by next weekend and posted at my insanejournal auntiewrites soon after. We will see what we will see!

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