Hi and Welcome to week 42!

Holy shit, only 10 weeks left in the year, eek!

I slept pretty well last night. I remember waking at 6 and then I woke up at 830 with a sore back, so I woke up and started texting G’or, for his birthday. We checked in and chatted, I started watching the 49ers game and worked on last weeks blog. After a while I went over and said hi to Mom and Poppa to figure out what the plan is for the day. My aunt P is in town, and we were meant to do breakfast with her but we didn’t hear from her. I kept going over and checking on my Parents and to see if P had called. Nope. Poppa called me and asked me to walk Lumi and so I did and we paid a bill. Then I came back home and turned on Archer and worked on this until Poppa came over saying P was buying us sandwiches from Togos and what would Fiks and I like. So I went back over with Poppa and placed our order with her and came home and worked on this some more.

My Aunt P showed up with Togos and so I helped get her and lunch up the stairs after starting the first load of laundry. I then ran home and got Fiks and he came over and we all had lunch together. I dropped mine but thankfully I was almost done with the first half and still had like 95% of the second half to eat. We sat and talked and looked at photos of my cousins and their kids. Thankfully my aunt didn’t ask when we were having any, but I think she’s dying to. But the answer is still no. After a while Fiks and I left and I got changed and we went down the mountain to Spirit Halloween store.

We wandered around the store for a while. We were looking for better werewolf hands for Fiks. We didn’t find any, but we found some window decorations and a door mat that are Nightmare Before Christmas stuff. Then we went to the local crafty fabric store and got Fiks a hot glue gun and some felt so he could work on his mask for the Aquarium Halloween party. When we were done there we went to the grocery store, got what we needed (which tbh was a lot of junk food, and Gatorade). Then we quickly ran to 100 and got my little red riding hood basket with the bloody wolf head in it.

We came home, unloaded the car and Fiks started working on his mask and I started working on my homework. My Aunt called him asking him to BBQ dinner for us and he said sure. So once he was done with his mask he put it on and we walked over to my Sisters house to see everyone. Everyone loved his mask, Lumi didn’t even seen phased by it, but he was still nervous of my Aunt. Fiks and Poppa went and started BBQing the sausages and then my Aunt started talking to me about being allergic to gluten. Apparently my Great Grandmother had a problem with gluten and she does, so she’s thinking I might with all my stomach problems. I listened to her preach to me about it for a good hour. I said I’d try it.

We sat and ate dinner after Fiks and Poppa came up with sausages. The subject changed and then my Sister and Aunt went to go help my Sister pack. Fiks and I ran back to 100 to fix something and then we came back home, took out the garbage and recycling and then I went and hopped in the shower. After I was clean I watched and episode or two of Archer before kissing Fiks goodnight and crawling into bed.

I slept pretty well last night. I only woke up when Fiks kissed me goodbye in the morning, and then I tossed and turned from around 730 to 8. I got up and had my protein shake while watching M*A*S*H, then I went over to my Sisters house and walked the dog because she had left at the ass crack of dawn for her adventure she wouldn’t tell one about. Afterwards I came home and did my doctors appointment which went fine and set up another one for a few weeks. Then I did my math class, and rested for a while.

I set up a movie with my Cousin, we kept jumping back and forth on movies, finally settling on Little Shop Of Horrors. I wasn’t in the mood for a chick flick, kept suggesting Halloweeny type movies, and getting rejected until that one. But there are some movies we are going to have to watch because she hasn’t seen them and its a total shock. Like Sleepy Hallow, fricking classic film and she hasn’t seen it. We watched the movie and I was singing along the entire time, and reciting lines. I love the movie any time of year. Poppa came over half way through the movie and asked me to go and watch Mom while he went and checked out something at 100. I said sure, but after the movie was over. He said that was fine.

My leggings for my Halloween costume showed up, so I tried those on and my boots before heading over to hang out with my Mom and do some homework over there. I did homework for 45 minutes while we watched Great British Baking Show, then I came back home and watched some Archer while waiting for a different doctors appointment. That appointment went fine. My manager texted me asking me if I could work tomorrow, I said I had school in the morning but I could come in the afternoon. She said that would work, so that’s the plan.

Afterwards I went back to my Sisters and hung out with mom, working on my homework while watching Yellowstone with her. I came home for a little while and watched Archer, then Poppa called me and said he was on his way home, so I made my way back over to my Sisters and told Mom he was on his way, and we hung out for a little while. Poppa showed up after a while and came upstairs and then He and Mom had dinner and I came back home. Fiks sent me a text he was leaving work so I went downstairs and moved the laundry and grabbed the mail and he pulled up into the garage. He had gaming tonight so we went upstairs and he logged onto his computer and started gaming and I watched TV. Once he was done gaming he snuggled down on the sofa for a while and watched some videos before going to bed.

I slept really well last night, only waking up once in the middle of the night. I don’t remember saying goodbye to Fiks, which sucks. I got up and had my shake before going over to my Sister’s to walk Lumi. Poppa hadn’t fed him breakfast yet, so I was going to have to walk him before I left for work. Which is fine. I came back home and watched some M*A*S*H before starting class. Today was like pulling teeth with my group mates, so frustrating. But we got through it and it made sense when we got something wrong in order how to fix it. I went over after class and checked on my Parents, who were good. Mom was a little tired from PT, but otherwise everything was good.

I came back home and dozed to more M*A*S*H for a while, before going and getting dressed for work and making myself lunch. I got everything ready for work, putting my pens in my pockets, my Gatorade into its bottle, and headed over to walk the dog. Mom was getting ready to go out with my Aunt, and then once she was settled we got Lumi ready and then Poppa and I went and walked the dog. We went around to the back and I started following Lumi down the stairs when disaster struck.

I slipped and fell on the stairs, and I tried to catch myself on the stairs. In that effort, I got hung up on a nail that tore into my skin. Lumi came back after he realized I fell, Poppa was asking if I was okay, I hurt and was embarrassed but okay. Then I looked at my arm, I had a hole in it and it was scraped up from a few inches below my wrist to my elbow basically. It was throbbing and bleeding. I got Lumi to go pee, and then Poppa and I went back inside. I had been hoping it was the blood that made it look worse than it was, but nope. It was pretty bad. We went and cleaned it up in the bathroom, and I saw the hole and said I think I needed stitches, at least a tetanus shot because of the nail. We put some gauze over the hole and then vet wrapped it so I could go to urgent care, which is thankfully down the street. I called my manager and told her what happened and said I’d be in afterwards.

I got checked in and my arm was sore and throbbing, I couldn’t get comfortable and kept moving my arm from my side to on top of my head and back. This is what it looked like where we didn’t wrap it.

When it was my turn, I got taken back. I still disagree with their scale, because its like 10lbs off from the one at work but anyway,, the nurse asked what happened and I told her and unwrapped my arm. She agreed I would need stitches, but didn’t know how many. Then she cleaned it up for the doctor who was coming in next.

The doctor recognized me, I never know if its a good or a bad thing when doctors at urgent care remember you. We were talking and I said I was the first patient at urgent care on the first day they opened. He said he was the solo doctor that day, so its from that probably. He ended up cleaning it again, putting some lidocaine in my arm so he could stitch it up, and got to work after a few minutes to let it kick in. I ended up with 5 stitches that need to come out next Tuesday.

After I was stitched up, a nurse came in and dressed my wounds, and we talked while she was doing it. She put some cream over the stitches and on the rest of the wound and then I came home. I went over to talk to Poppa, but he had gone to 100 and Mom was out with my Aunt. I called Poppa and told him to call me when he got to 100, and he did. I told him I got 5 stitches and he felt so bad for me slipping and falling, even though it wasn’t his fault. I just stayed home and rested the rest of the day. I iced it and rested it, and watched some TV and dozed to that until Fiks came home. He wanted to check out the injury, but since it was bandaged he couldn’t. We did left overs for dinner and then when it was time I went to bed.

I slept okay last night, so that was nice. I think icing my arm before going to sleep is going to be the trick of getting through this okay. I got up and had my protein shake and watched M*A*S*H for a while before going and getting dressed for work. I was careful with my arm, which was very sore and stiff. I packed myself lunch and made my way down the mountain towards work. I got there right on time, and A came around the corner when she heard me walk in and went “Are you okay? Should you be working today?” I was shocked. I said I was fine and I had some painkillers on board. She just grumbled at me.

The day started and I noticed that S was still out. I turned around and asked G if she had heard from S, if she was feeling okay or if she had COVID. She said she came down with Bell’s Palsy, which totally floored me. She’s young and healthy to my knowledge. I did the call backs, and M came in. So it was me, M, G and A for the day. It was crazy because we were short staffed and I couldn’t twist my arm or do stuff that I usually do without hurting it. I doesn’t help that I kept bumping it on things. I tried to stick to rooming today, but I did help wherever it was needed. M and I closed, and moping hurt like a bitch on my arm. I never realized how much forearm strength/twisting moping took. Doesn’t help that my arm was super sore and tired by the end of the day.

I came home and went over and checked on Mom and Poppa, and they were gone. Lumi started barking when I was walking away. I took a shower and flopped on the sofa and asked Fiks to pick up some Chinese for dinner. When he was ready I called it in and he picked it up. He came home, we ate and he jumped onto Baulders Gate 3 with a few of his friends while I jumped back and forth between watching TV, scrolling through Instagram, and reading my book. After a while I went and called Mom and Poppa, who were out with my Aunt and asked me to walk Lumi, so I went and did that. When they got home I helped get Mom inside and then I came back home. When it was time I kissed him goodnight and went to bed.

I didn’t sleep well last night, having a hard time getting comfortable after icing my arm. After a while I gave up and came outside and said hi to Fiks who was still on his computer. He showed me the comic that he was reading and then I flopped on the sofa for a little bit before heading back to bed and taking a anxiety pill to sleep because I couldn’t find any Ambien to take. I did manage to sleep afterwards, so that was nice. I got up with my alarm (not remembering saying goodbye to Fiks), and went over and walked Lumi. When I came home I had my shake for breakfast and fell asleep to M*A*S*H. I had a appointment to get my eyebrows done, but it got canceled.

I still went down the mountain and went and got gas in my truck and then I went to work, thinking the meeting started at 1. I got there at 1245 and my Manager told me to clock in and to get ready for an OSHA presentation, whoops. If I would have know I would have done something better. But I did a quick review of fire stuff then I looked up some OSHA ‘find this’ sheets and came up with one and printed it out for everyone. The rest of the meeting went fine. Things are going to change schedule wise in November. Apparently everyone is going to work one Saturday and its going to rotate. Cool, I won’t be stuck doing it for 3 weeks in a row (in the back at least).

When it was time I went to my hair appointment and we got started. I said I wanted the rainbow more forward and different colors this time. I got W excited by saying this, so he got to work. He did my typical red hair and let me cook for a while before washing it out, then we got started on the rainbow colors. We did purple, turquoise, lava orange and pink. I was so happy with it when we were done. While he was blowing my hair dry I got a phone call from Mom and Poppa’s phone and I answered it and it was my Aunt P asking me to come walk the dog. I said I was at the hair dresser but I’d do it when I got home.

I came home and walked the dog before coming to my house and flopping on the sofa and watching Archer for a while before family dinner. It was a dish my Aunt was cooking for my Sister because she was coming home today from her adventure at Disneyland. My brother called once he got her from the airport and they were on the way back. I texted Fiks that we were doing family dinner at my Sisters with my Aunt, so he came over when he got home. After a while we came home and he jumped on the computer and I turned on the TV and started working on this.

I slept pretty well last night. I got up, had my breakfast shake, got dressed and went to work. Today was nucking futs. We were short staffed since G was gone on vacation and S was still out. So It was A, C, M, S, and me. M and myself did the rooming and everyone else helped with surgery. Today was just hard. My arm started hurting about halfway through the morning, and then the big dogs who needed x-rays started coming in. It was up to M and myself to do it, and I was afraid of blowing a stitch lifting and dealing with wiggly dogs. We x-rayed 4 patients today, only one was a cat, the rest were all dogs above 50lbs and were wiggly.

I went and grabbed and ice pack out of the freezer and iced my arm while making up some surgery packs and gown packs. I tried to help hold a dog down for an IV Catheter and my arm just couldn’t handle it. I switched out with A and the doctor took over placing the catheter. I was mad and upset that I couldn’t help. A was really kind about it, but it just sucked I couldn’t help like I normally do. The afternoon appointments started and it was still madness. Surgery was still going until about 4. We got everyone discharged by 530, and M and myself cleaned up before coming home.

I came home and went over to check on my Parents and they got a call from my Sister who was with my Aunt who wanted Chinese for dinner. I declined the invatation and came home and asked Fiks what he wanted to do for dinner. We decided on hitting up the fish n chips place for dinner, which we haven’t done in a long time. I had shrimp n chips and we watched some YouTube videos before going to bed.

I slept okay last night. I got up and had my shake and got dressed for work and made my way down the mountain. I got to work on time and changed into my work shoes and walked in and started working. It was just A, L, and myself today with the doctors. I started working on the gown packs that we didn’t finish yesterday and then the day started. When we would get busy, L would disappear, which was very frustrating and annoying. But being busy made the day go by quickly so that was nice. I asked A to teach me how to do jugular draws next week and she agreed to help me. Shocked again.

When we were done at work I went to the Station and said hi to Fiks, we hung out for a few minutes before getting hungry and wanting to go get something to eat. I came home and went and check on my Parents to see how they were doing. They were fine, my Sister was home with them. Then my Aunt pulled up and Lumi started losing his shit. Started lunging and biting at my Sister, Mom, and Poppa. I grabbed a hold of him and started walking him away from Mom and Poppa, and he bit me twice. One on the leg and once right on top of where I was already hurt. I let out the biggest “MOTHER FUCKER” I’ve ever done around my parents and then let go. Somehow he got put away and my Sister went down and talked to my Aunt, not even stopping to make sure that I was okay or say she’s sorry. I was fucking pissed at her. And the dog. I said goobye to everyone and came home and took care of my wounds. I watched Archer for a while.

I went over after a while, and hung out with Mom and my Aunt. My Sister came home and asked me to help with groceries and didn’t even look at me. Still didn’t check on me after the dog. I started making garlic burgers for everyone and then I helped cook them. Fiks got home while I was making the burgers and then came out to help BBQ them, but my Aunt wanted a rum and coke, so Fiks got the booze and and then poured her a drink and stayed up stairs until we were done cooking the burgers and needed a guinea pig to test them. They were cooked just right and good. We hung out for a little while and then got my Aunt on her way and then came home. I started worked on Math homework and then when I was done with that I started working on this.

Alright, I’m going to leave it here for this week.

~Just keep Swiming!~