My Blogging Hiatus

I’ve done it again, haven’t I?  I just disappeared without notice or explanation.  I’m sorry.

So what happened this time?  Well, I have a good excuse, or at least I think I do.  Last Thursday, I cleaned my house a bit more than usual in preparation for a house guest that was coming in for Goodle’s birthday.  I didn’t think I over-did it until the early afternoon when both of my wrists started to really hurt.  Not just the one that has the ganglion cyst, but both hands.  So from Thursday through Monday, I had braces on both my hands pretty much all day & night.  Needless to say, the last thing I wanted to do was type.  It hurt to type.  It hurt to move my hands at all.

On top of that, I began feeling sick.  It actually started the day before Goodles’ birthday but Papa said it was probably anxiety over our house guest arriving.  But it didnt get better, and it hasnt yet gotten better.  In fact, it has gotten far worse.  I feel nauseous on & off all day, I have terrible headaches almost everyday, everything smells horrible to me, and I just can’t eat a thing.  When I lay down, my head feels better but I get more nauseous.  When I sit up, my nausea subsides but my head starts getting worse.  One night, I actually slept sitting up because the nausea was so bad.

But I’d be lying if I said its all been physical.  Our house guest did leave a trail of emotional damage, but that’s all I can say about that.  So yeah, I was angry & frustrated & sad for a few days.  Come to think of it, my emotions have been all over the place, more than usual.  I even cried myself to sleep one morning and now I can’t even remember what I was so upset about.  Luckily, I have the most understanding & supportive husband, who is just the easiest person to talk to, and I was able to lean on him a great deal.

In fact, this last week and a half, I’ve come to be even more grateful and appreciative of my family.  My husband and children totally picked up the slack around the house, and they did everything they could to help me rest and feel better.  Arcane went on grocery store runs for ginger ale & saltines, and he cooked a large number of meals for his siblings.  Zany encouraged everyone to continue with their routines and kept her siblings entertained.  They have all really come together to take care of themselves and each other in the most delightful way.  It is times like these that I have no doubt that we are raising our children to live by the values that are most important to us.

So it was nothing exciting, no juicy gossip, no ultimate vacation pictures.  Just me, in bed, feeling crappy.  But at least you have it – an explanation for My Blogging Hiatus.

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