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So Frustrated…

Today was not any better than yesterday. The majority of my day was spent in bed. Very very uneventful for me. My hubby came home yesterday, so today the kids and him took all of the Christmas stuff down😥. With my son being sick for so long and then me getting sick and staying sick, I didn’t have time to get to the Christmas stuff. I could barely do basic day to day stuff, so the extra chores were all left undone. I feel guilty all the time. My hubby works his butt off, then comes home to a house filled with things that need to get completed. He does it and he usually gets the kids to help, regardless of how badly they don’t want to do it. There is usually a fight, but in the end they get stuff done. So, the Christmas stuff is put away and the basement has stuff all been changed and moved around. I think with cleaning, well more like with organizing chaos comes before the calm. When you’re going through stuff, piles are bound to happen. My problem is having enough time to finish what I start. So, often, I’m left with the chaos without ever reaching the calm – lol!! I am so frustrated by the way I’m feeling. The first night I got sick was last Friday and here I am, a week later, still super nauseous and with a cold sweat and crampy tummy and and and – there always seems to be something to add on to the list.  I want to write a positive post, not just a whiney post about how crappy I feel. That’s no fun for anyone; the writer or the readers. So, on that note, I’m going to stop now. My face just won’t give me a break and I’m going back to bed. 💤

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“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!

🌝Bad Day🌞

Bad bad day…cramping, sick tummy (still!!) and a top of the scale pain day. So, this may be the shortest post in he history of my posts (I’m not even sure if that makes sense?!)  I’m shocked that my stomach is so bad still! Today it was, well is, so so sore and so nauseous. Every movement makes me feel like I’m going to be sick. The pain in my face is damn unbearable right now! Sorry this is such a bitchy post. I’m just not in a good place right now. I just have to go lie down. So maybe I’m right about this being the shortest post ever for me…is there some kind of prize I get?? No? Oh well. I’m off to bed then.

🌜🌜Night all🌛🌛

To help with research and treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia please go to http://www.tnnme.com (Trigeminal Neuralgia and Me) to sign a petition to have the World Health Organization (WHO) add Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) to their “Health topic list.”

“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!

Unexpectedly It Strikes

It ambushes your senses 

And whips them awake

It’ll kick you around

Make no mistake

It jams up your life 

And strikes down your day

It can gain control 

And take your power away

Unexpectedly it strikes

And it never plays fair

It brings you to your knees

Pain takes you anywhere

JKC

To help with research and treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia please go to http://www.tnnme.com (Trigeminal Neuralgia and Me) to sign a petition to have the World Health Organization (WHO) add Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) to their “Health topic list.”

“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!

This Is Getting Old…

This has gotten old really quickly (although it doesn’t feel all that quick, I feel like I’ve been aching for days and days, not just 4 days!!)…I’m so done with this flu-bug. I want to stop feeling the bla and blech and ugh that my body is feeling. My face is bad today too, so it’s kind-of like a combo meal: I’ll take one facial nerve pain, one nauseous stomach and add some stomach cramping for $6.98 please!! I keep counting the days in my head that my son was sick for, to tell myself that the end is near. My girls haven’t gotten this bug yet (knock on wood). That is super strange, because we always seem to pass the bug through each of us. Usually, if anyone sneaks by without getting sick, it’s my husband. However, he’s away again, but when I talked to him on the phone today, he wasn’t feeling well, he had a headache and his stomach was hurting. He’s supposed to stay there until Friday, but if he ends up getting really sick maybe he’ll have to fly home early. I guess we’ll see how he is tomorrow. I’m hoping he doesn’t have it, because it’d be nice to get rid of the bug in our house! Then, maybe, the girls have a chance to slip past this one. I was going to say fingers crossed…again, but instead I’m going to keep sending them healing energy, love and prayers. 

I ordered a new phone case online, with a pretty fairy on it. It arrived today and I was super excited to see it, but they sent me the wrong size. Too frustrating! The first one I ordered, before x-mas was for my iPhone 5s, but we decided to give that phone to our daughter for an x-mas gift. So, yay, I got the new phone and that’s totally awesome (I just don’t get that beautiful case) 😥!! So now my younger daughter’s using that first case I ordered. Then,  again, I order a new case and, would you look at that; I have another one that is the wrong size (they told me to keep it or give it away!)!! So my oldest daughter gets one with a different picture of a beautiful fairy…So, yet again, I have to order a new one and pick another image to go on it, because they both, understandingly, don’t want to have matching phone cases with their mom. At least I don’t have to pay for it! And, I got this beautiful waterbottle, with a fairy on it! It came exactly as I ordered…Yay!!  

This is the image on my waterbottle:

  

I think it’s just beautiful!!

To help with research and treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia please go to http://www.tnnme.com (Trigeminal Neuralgia and Me) to sign a petition to have the World Health Organization (WHO) add Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) to their “Health topic list.”

“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!

Stinkin’ Flu Just Sucks!!

This has got to be the worst flu-bug ever. I hate being sick, especially the throwing-up, crampy tummy part! Yesterday I actually managed to write a poem as my post, while lying in bed. I’m pretty sure that tonight isn’t going to be much of anything, I’m definitely not on the right brainwave for a poem tonight. I’m too busy feeling yucky, my brain doesn’t want to handle much more. Also, talking about my day isn’t going to take up any space…because I can probably say it all in a couple of sentences: I was in bed all day, except for when I drove my son to kindergarten. I was feeling too sick to get up and moving again,  so Tay (my oldest kiddo) went with her friend to the schools to pick up her siblings for me. And, there you have it, two sentences! Oh wait, I did do something else, after sleeping for a couple hours, I watched The Peanuts movie with my youngest two (upstairs in my room, so I could lie down.) And…that’s about it. I think I covered all of the day’s highlights, nothing much more to add. Did I mention that there wasn’t much to write? I seem to be writing a lot on the topic of not writing a lot…huh. Makes me think of years ago when I wrote my English departmental final. The topic I wrote about was “how to choose a topic to write about.” (By the way, I did really well on that one!! English was my highest grade. That sure was a long long time ago!! It makes me feel old.) And, that’s all she wrote. Seriously, that’s all I’m going to write about tonight. Hopefully I start feeling better tomorrow. I hope it goes through me faster than my son. He first was sick on Monday and the last time he threw-up was Saturday night!! That’s a long time to feel sick. I hope that my girls and/or my hubby don’t get sick. My hubby’s out of town for most of the week, so he should, hopefully, be fine. I guess I just have to wait and see how the girls do. Crossing my fingers didn’t exactly help me, so I’m just hoping that they are able to stay healthy. Sending them some strong, healing energy and prayers!!

To help with research and treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia please go to http://www.tnnme.com (Trigeminal Neuralgia and Me) to sign a petition to have the World Health Organization (WHO) add Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) to their “Health topic list.”

“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!

Some Way Some How

Are you feeling down?

Are you feeling blue,

Like things aren’t working out for you?

Have you paid your dues?

Have you done your time,

Are you tired of the effort of the climb?

Are you giving up?

Are you unwilling to pray,

Is today the day you walk away?

After all your time.

After all you’ve done,

Are you sure that it’s time to quit this one?

I know it’s hard. 

I know it’s tough,

But a little bit more may just be enough!

Hard work will pay.

Your time is now,

Success will come, some way some how!

JKC

To help with research and treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia please go to http://www.tnnme.com (Trigeminal Neuralgia and Me) to sign a petition to have the World Health Organization (WHO) add Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) to their “Health topic list.”

“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!

Blech!!

So much for crossing my fingers…

I spent most of the night in the bathroom. I woke up around 2:00am having to throw up. Yuck! So my hubby is at his work x-mas party without me, again. I feel awful and I’m going back to bed now. Sorry for the short post. I’m just feeling like hell. Back to bed for me. 

Zzz… 

To help with research and treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia please go to http://www.tnnme.com (Trigeminal Neuralgia and Me) to sign a petition to have the World Health Organization (WHO) add Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) to their “Health topic list.”

“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!

Fingers Crossed For Feeling Okay Tomorrow!!

So my little man feels about a million times better today…Hooray!! He’s not 100%, but on the mend. And, so far, no one else is sick. Which is a miracle around my house. We tend to pass our germs around. My tummy is a bit nauseous today, but so far that’s all. My hubby’s work x-mas party is tomorrow, so I refuse to get sick! I’m always cancelling on him, because of my damn face pain, and I don’t want to cancel, yet again! I don’t really know a lot of the people who work with him, so I always feel a bit anxious leading up to his work events. I don’t know when I turned into the shy, fat girl – but I know that’s how I feel right now. Of course I’ve met most of the people he works with, but I always feel awkward. I used to be more out-going and confident, but that part of me seems to have slipped away… I hope I feel okay-ish on the face pain front. I know it’s rarely gone, but there are good and bad days and I’m hoping tomorrow is one of the good ones. Today hasn’t been great, but that doesn’t mean much, as it’s pretty unpredictable. Being in pain and feeling uncomfortable at the same time make it worse. I then think I come across as snotty-which is not my intention at all! I just turn into myself more when the pain’s really bad. Like now for instance. Just want to curl into a ball with my ice-pack on my face, my eye mask on and Enya playing as I fall asleep. My plan is not to bail on my hubby, again, unless I’m either throwing-up sick (not just nauseous) or my face is at the tears in my eyes level. Otherwise, I will take my meds and go out with my husband!!

Speaking of going out with my love. I just want to quickly write about the wonderful gift that he got me for Christmas. He bought me one of those huge oversized “moms” calendar. On each side he had 6 envelopes taped to it. In each envelope there is a “date” for us to go on each month!! He has prepaid movie cards in some. Dinner gift cards. A jubilations gift card, one for Sorrentinos, etc etc!!! I didn’t open all of the envelopes,to keep most of them as surprises. It’s just so sweet and well thought out. I was shocked, because he’s always worried about money. He said that this way everything is already paid for, so he won’t be cranky about the money aspect, which will be so great!! It is such an amazing Christmas present. I’m so lucky to have him, which is why I don’t want to let him down tomorrow. He already told everyone I am going to be there. He’s done so before, then shows up alone and has to tell everyone that, yet again, “Jenn had to stay home again, because she doesn’t feel well.” I’m so lucky to have him. He is so understanding regarding all of my health shit. He hates it all, as do I, but he’s kind and loving about it. I think he also hates that he can’t “fix it!”  Men, well most or many men, want to make it better, fix things. They want to do this and this etc, until it is solved and put back together. But, he can’t “fix” me. I’m broken in a way that leaves him feeling helpless. Which leads to frustration and even anger. He just can’t take it away and make things all better. If a top neurosurgeon can’t fix me, by cutting into my brain and moving things around in an attempt to make me better, then, of course, my husband can’t fix me!!! I guess I’m just broken. It’s not his fault and I don’t expect him to make it better. I just have to go through each day based on how I feel. If it’s bad, well then I can’t do much, if it’s okay or so-so, then I try to get things done etc. It’s just one day at a time and accepting that that’s how I have to live. In the moment.  I have to take what I get. I have to accept this and so does he. I love him so much. I sometimes feel like such a burden…

To help with research and treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia please go to http://www.tnnme.com (Trigeminal Neuralgia and Me) to sign a petition to have the World Health Organization (WHO) add Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) to their “Health topic list.”

“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!

Another Day Another Bowl Of Vomit…

Another day filled with puke bowls and an unhappy kiddo or two. One with a seemingly non-stop flu and another with strep-throat. Yessiree!! It’s been so much fun around here!! So far our middle daughter hasn’t picked anything up from either of he siblings; this is strange, but true. I’m certainly not about to protest!! Also, and even stranger, I haven’t caught either of the bugs and I’ve been spending he past few days with my two sickies. I’m feeling pretty exhausted though. I’m trying not to get too worn out, or I’ll become more susceptible to all he damn germs!! I was looking forward to an uninterrupted night, but that may not happen now. I took the sicko’s to the dr this evening. She said their is a super nasty flu going around and my son likely has it (she’s quite surprised that none of us have it yet). She said that he’s very dehydrated and gave us a medication that should help take care of the nausea, so that he is able to start keeping things down; like fluids and medication for his high fever. She had one at the clinic and gave it to him there. It’s like a tiny wafer that dissolves on his tongue. She gave me a prescription for some for home. So we got the prescription and I didn’t even look at them, because he didn’t need one that soon. However, I just gave him one now, because he can’t sleep because his tummy hurts and he just feels like crap. He problem is I think instead of the dissolvable ones, I think the pharmacy gave me actual pills. I gave him one, already believing it was the wrong form, but hoping it’d get gooey enough that he could just get it down with a couple sips of water. Well, no such luck. It started to taste “gross and yucky” so he spit it out. So now, of course, the pharmacy is closed, which means, possibly another night filled with my poor little man throwing up, the tiny bit of crackers and applesauce that he ate. Also, the dr was worried about the dehydration and said that if he’s the same tomorrow, we have to take him to emergency for IV-fluids…yay!! Sigh…

So, unfortunately, tonight is going to be another boring post. I’m tired and he’s still awake after unsuccessfully taking that pill. I’m just praying that the liquid Advil stays down. That may help with some of the tummy and chest muscle pains from all of the dry-heaving. My poor little boy. I hate when kids get sick. He keeps asking me to make his tummy stop hurting. I hate when they depend on you, but you can’t “fix” the problem. It sucks! So, off to bed for, hopefully, a full nights sleep (fingers crossed).

To help with research and treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia please go to http://www.tnnme.com (Trigeminal Neuralgia and Me) to sign a petition to have the World Health Organization (WHO) add Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) to their “Health topic list.”

“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!

Ted The Dinosaur 

What to do with a sick little boy…hmmm. My little man and I wrote “together” tonight. This will be “his” story. He was very adamant that after I write a line he has to “approve” it before it can stay. The end, when he wanted them “talking” sounds weird to me, with all of the “he said’s” and “she said’s” and the abrupt ending. However, he said that he wants it that way and that’s what matters. He’s still sick and feverish today and he had a lot of fun doing this. So, as he says, “this is what you get, The End.”

TED THE DINOSAUR 

Ted the dinosaur did his happy dance…

Would you like to know why?

He’d gone on a mission to find a friend,

Searching all over the land and sky.

A flying friend sounded neat to Ted,

It’s something he wished he could do!

So he climbed to the top of a mountain. 

Up to the sky all bright and blue. 

Every time a pterodactyl flew past,

Ted waved and jumped up and down.

He tried again and again to say hello,

Then finally gave up with a frown. 

So Ted decided to look on land,

Where many dinosaurs can be found.

There were tall dinosaurs and short ones,

There were even some small, fat and round!

Some of the dinosaurs ran so so fast,

That Ted couldn’t get them to stop!

Other dinosaurs were so so tall,

That Ted couldn’t reach the top!

Feeling like he’d never find a friend,

Ted’s heart began to sink.

He wasn’t sure where to go next,

So he went to the lake for a drink.

Ted sat at the edge of the lake,

Trying his hardest not to cry,

When suddenly the water splashed

And he heard someone whisper “why?”

Ted jumped up in surprise and looked,

Saying, “Oh! What kind of dinosaur are you?”

It said, ” I’m Ella the Elasmosaurus,

Would you like to see what I can do?”

“Sure” Ted nodded, not knowing what to expect. 

Ella dove into the water and disappeared,

Then she came back up and flipped in the air!!

Ted jumped up and clapped and cheered!

He asked her, “why’d you whisper, why?”

“Because you were looking really sad,” she said,

“And I was only wondering why.”

“Well, I was wishing I had a friend,” said Ted.

And Ted ducked his head, feeling shy,

But Ella smiled saying,”I’ll be your friend!”

Ted grinned,”Wow! Will you really??”

She nodded and Ted’s heart began to mend.  

And they lived happily ever after. 

The End.

GGCG & JKC

To help with research and treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia please go to http://www.tnnme.com (Trigeminal Neuralgia and Me) to sign a petition to have the World Health Organization (WHO) add Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) to their “Health topic list.”

“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!