Happy June!!

 

It’s hard to believe that we are starting our first full month of summer! Honestly, I don’t know where the time goes. Seems like Derby (the first week of May), was just last week, Mother’s Day has come and gone, and the long Memorial Day weekend is now a memory!

As a kid, time creeped by and as an adult, it seems to fly…even when nothing much is happening! Forgive me as many of you know this…but June went from being my favorite month to being a “trigger” month, reminding me of some unhappy times in my life.

Now, I will say it gets better every day, but there are still those moments of heartbreak with various anniversaries or special occasions remembered. You don’t forget the good times, that’s for sure!

So today, I’m vowing to treasure the good times I’m bound to have and put those “trigger” days on the back burner. I want to take back my birthday month!! There’s lots to be grateful for and that’s a reason to not let the bad days overwhelm me! Right???

There has been a lot of sadness in the world, outside of my space, and for a lot of us, there is guilt in having happy days and laughter. However, laughter is contagious and maybe if we let ourselves feel happy and have some laughs, it can spread and at least we won’t dwell on the sadness around us.

One of my Dad’s cousins died this past week and that’s been terribly sad for all of us. He was one of a kind and will be missed. Our trip to his funeral in Cleveland was determined to be a no-go. So tomorrow, we’ll keep him in our thoughts as we pray that the family members there know we are with them in spirit.

This week was another reminder that I’m not as agile as I think I am. After sitting at the computer for awhile on Memorial Day, I got up and realized I had tweeked my knee. I could not straighten my leg and could not put any pressure on it. After a few hours of misery, we went to urgent care and it was determined that it was probably just a tweek and I was put on a steroid treatment for six days. I was relieved but with the pain I was in, I figured I’d be headed to an MRI a little later this week.

I slept in my Dad’s chair and I must say, it was comfy. The steroids were not helpful with my sleep…I was quite jacked up and had a hard time closing my eyes. But around 2am, I got up to go to the bathroom and was amazed at how easily I could walk. It wasn’t pain free but I didn’t have to use the walker (my family had insisted on my using the walker instead of walking without support) and slowly I was able to get back into my chair before dawn.

Those steroid pills and some ibuprofen worked well and soon, my knee started to feel so much better. It’s been 3 days of steroids, lots of rest and I’m feeling 80%. Not perfect and the walker is still in the area, but I am much relieved!

Have you ever been in charge of caregiving and been sick or incapacitated? It’s been like the patients have been running the infirmary…our version of the inmates running the asylum!! Mom and Dad have been wonderful, but it doesn’t really work that way. We have had some laughs and I do think laughter is the best medicine. I’ll be going back to work tomorrow and I’ll be a little spoiled so I won’t have to go up and down the steps!!  Always something…

Today, as I was getting some pictures ready to print and ordering a few things online, I found a picture that I think I may have shared before, but today, it popped up and made me smile…and that’s when I knew, I would put it on my blogpost.

One of Katie’s camp students had given her this note as part of a project…not sure what the project was, but this little note has brought hours of joy to several people. So today, just remember to FART LIKE YOU MEAN IT!!! (I don’t think you have to actually fart, but whatever you do, make sure you do it with gusto!!)

Have a good week! Stay healthy and safe and I’ll be back next Wednesday!!! xoxoxxo