I hope I'm not upsetting anyone over what I'm about to say, because I loved seeing all of my family members, but I am very glad that Christmas is over. We have so many Christmas celebrations to attend and by Saturday, I was downright exhausted. And not, like, normal-person exhausted, but CF-related-running-myself-into-the-ground-I'm-going-to-get-sick-if-I-don't-stop exhausted. I slept or laid around practically all day on Saturday, but it wasn't enough. I'm finally feeling a bit more up to snuff today, but wow I was running low on gas.
But Christmas was great. It was really nice visiting with everyone, especially my cousin Megan from the Watson side, who I haven't seen in ages. We have a tendency of missing each other at family get-togethers, either I'm there or she's there but we're rarely both there. So that was nice, and it was great meeting her boyfriend.
Saturday was a ruff day, pun intended. Friday night was when all of this rain started, and it all began with a whole bunch of thunderstorms. Josie's storm anxiety has gotten worse, and I was up for a while trying to deal with her. It's hard, and a long story, but we have tried about everything we're supposed to do but it doesn't seem to help a whole lot. I have a couple ideas for our next steps, but yeah. Off and on Saturday there was thunder and lightning, so she was stressed out pretty much all day. Poor thing.
But it's back to real life now. I have to work all week except for New Year's Day, which is typical. Though I'm pretty sure if the newspaper said We're foregoing our usual Weekend Edition due to the holiday (for Christmas, too), I doubt anyone would mind. But that would be blasphemous; the news must go on!
Jarrod started his week off by having to replace our garage door opener. Fun fun fun... He determined it was unfixable and we needed a new one. It started acting up Christmas Eve, he took the dog out Christmas morning to find the door had actually only half shut and been half open all night long. But at least the new one has a keypad, which is something we kind of missed from the Wentzville house.
As you may recall, he also replaced our garbage disposal last month, and next month we'll probably be needing a new hot water heater. So we're pretty tired of things breaking around here. It's all hitting about the same time, isn't that always the way?
In better news, I have been out of the hospital for 6 months! Woo hoo. However, I am on an antibiotic right now. I started it last week because I was coughing more and more, especially waking up at night. I don't think I had two-consecutive nights where I didn't wake up coughing in well over two months, so I was pretty darn tired of it. I'm hoping this gives me a small 'boost' and I can continue my stay out of the hospital. I can't say I'm feeling a ton better at the moment, but I'm hoping it'll help.
It's funny, though, because CF is such a huge roller coaster ride. I completely acknowledge that I am only prolonging the inevitable. I still think it's a good choice, because as I've said before, the less I need IV antibiotics the better. The more time that I can stay away from antibiotics in general, the better it will be for me and the less resistance I will have to these meds. But still, eventually I will go back in, which would be the lowest point of the roller coaster, and then I will go back up a sharp hill quickly, stay on top for a little while, then slowly descend over months and months until my little roller coaster car comes to the bottom of another hill. And then it's back up again!
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