4 days post-op and

I'm feeling pretty great! I slept pretty much 24/7 until last night. I had an alarm set to wake myself every 4-6 hours to take my meds, but last night I decided I would try to sleep as long as I could without having to take anything. I took 2 Percocet and a muscle relaxant at 10:30 and slept until 6:00 when I woke up and really neeed something. I too the same amt. and tried to make the kids breakfast, where I tried to pass out twice, once they left I slept until 10:30. I took a walk up to the pool and back, showered and did my hair for the first time since Thurs. I decided to only take 1 percocet during the day when I needed it. I went to Kenna's game tonight and ended up overdue to Percocet and ended up needing 2! Tomorrow I'm going to try to make it up to the stop sign on my walk. I'm also going to try not to pass out in the morning, I have done it a few times since surgery and can't tell if it's a lack of food on my stomach and all the meds or something else. So, all in all I am very pleased with how my recovery is coming along so far!

Big Day!

Well, tomorrow is it! My back gets fixed....yay!!! I am trying too hydrate now cuz last night at work we couldn't get a vein to pop up, the last thing I need is someone digging around in my arm. My surgery is at 7:30am and I will stay the night, but home on Friday! I got my toes done today since I won't be able to bend over for weeks to tie my shoes, so it's flip flops and hooker toes for me! Eric likes them bright red! I'll be off work until July, but I won't be limping around anymore...at least after I start to heal and life can get back to normal. The other day Ethan told me he would be glad when I can ride my bike with him again....'bout broke my heart! I know this has been hard on the kids with me not being able to be as active with them as I used to be. Keep me in your prayers for a non-eventful surgery and quick healing.

Oh how good it feels!!!

Ok dirty minds, I'm talking about softball! Makenna had a 7 game guarantee tournament this past weekend. The first game was AWFUL! They played like doodie. After a little "discussion" with my child, she played like she actually knows how to play from then on. Sat they played 4 games, and lost them all. To say that it was frustrating watching them making mistake after mistake is an understatement. Come on, this is a TRAVEL TEAM and some girls either won't or can't catch a fly ball, or they let them roll between their legs, and EVEN jump over balls!!!! Now, my child is not without errors that's for sure, but she an one other girl made 7 out of the 11 runs scored on Sat. Sunday was better, they were winning the first game and then they fell apart and ended up going into international tie breaker and lost 8-9. Well, as you can imagine the coaches were a bit miffed at what was going on and let the girls have it! My thought was, it's about time! This is a team that is in 1st place in their regular season, only losing one game. Yet, when it comes to tournaments they (not all) look like a bunch of t-ball players! So, here they are 5 games in the hole and we are playing the team who has been our nemesis since Makenna has been playing travel ball. GREAT, the team she was on that was unstoppable could not beat them and now we are up against them and these girls have not won a game yet?! Well, I don't know which team showed up, but it wasn't the ones who just lost 5 games in a row!!! Kenna played short stop and DOMINATED the field!! It was like watching her back in 8U when all the balls came to her. In 10U she doesn't get a lot of action because most girls can't pull the ball like they could in 8U. She must have made 75% of the outs, it was GREAT!!!!!!! She said it felt so good getting all that action out there again. They ended up beating the Chill by one in 5 innings!!!! WOOHOO!!!! It was worth all the money spent just to have beat them. At the end of the game the other coach came over and asked if we used to be the Hot Shots (Makenna's old team)!! Oh how great is that!!! Kenna's bat died and she had to start using another, which she hit the mess out of the ball with. Among the numerous singles she hit, she hit a triple and a home run, to which I owe her $20 for! Now, I can argue that the home run was really an actual triple but, she was watching the play and when they over threw the pitcher she took off and made it home. Ummmm, no one sent her, she said she saw her chance and took it. I say she saw $$$$ signs and wanted it!!! LOL!! Either way, she played 6 great games and beat the team she has always been afraid to play!!! It doesn't get any better than that!!!

Pre-op done!

Well, my surgery is in just over 2 weeks away now. I am having it at my hospital and you would think that because I worked there I would get a little bump to the from right? NO!!! I sat in there for over 2 hours and that was AFTER my appointment with my Dr. I offered to have my blood drawn upstairs from one of the nurses I know, but they wouldn't let me do that either. What's the point of working in a hospital if you don't get any perks? I can't go on my floor and let them take care of me after surgery, everyone said absolutely not! Come on, all they have to do is make sure I don't have a fever and my incision looks good. We have surgical pts all the time, how different can it be? Heifer's! So, just because I work there doesn't mean I am not going to give the what-for about how long my pre-op took!!! I can get someone admitted, get their history, have them change into a gown, draw blood, start an IV with fluids going, have them fill out their "pink sheet", write an admission note AND do a vaginal exam in less than 30 minutes!!! Why did is take over 2 hours for all that to be done to me....minus the IV, change into a gown, admission note, oh and the vaginal exam! Only 8 more days to work before I have 3 months off.

Tournament news

We thought it would get rained out, but Makenna had a tournament on Sunday. They only won one game, but after a little chastising they played 2 great games! Makenna played short stop the first 2 games, didn't get a lot of action, but hit well and stole bases like no body's business. The 3rd game she caught, of course being a catcher myself, I am a little partial to her playing that position. However, she is SOOOOO good back there!! She is a total natural! Don't get me wrong, she is a great short stop, but as good as she is there, she is that much better behind the plate. She threw 2 girls out at 2nd, a girl out at 3rd and caught a girl in a pickle and tagged her out at home. She only let a few balls get by her and she was taking chance after chance at throwing an out at 3rd until they just weren't leading off anymore. She laid down the most perfect bunt and instead of stopping at first and just kept going and took 2nd...the other team had NO IDEA what to do! Very clever!!! The last game she caught again and did very well, we had some bad calls, no really...bad calls! Not that they would have made a difference in the outcome, but non the less....I have photographic PROOF of one of the bad calls!!! Either way, she played great and that's all that matters!!!

Props to single parents!

With Eric being 'el presidente' of his bass club and fishing in the BFL tournaments, I have had to spend the majority of the weekends as a single parent. Toting around 3 kids to 3 different ballparks and either only seeing parts of each game or missing one or more altogether, is a real big pain in the tush! Not to mention, every other Saturday I am running on 2 hours of sleep or less. Don't get me wrong, when I work 3 nights, Eric has to pick up and take the kids to practice and games, but they usually are not all in the same night.

My mom spent the majority of my youth as a single parent and being a parent now, I can see how easy I have it and how tough she had it.

So props to all you single parents who make the sacrifice and put yourself on the back burner and give all you have to your kids so they can have a full life!!! You amaze me and I take my hat off to you...this sucks!

Needless to say it has already been established that Eric will NOT be so involved in the club next year! Having the help only one weekend a month...I am way over it!!!