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Can I just say I am glad this year's over? 2014 is the first really "bad" year I've had, and I'm done with it. Since I can't return it, it's going in the back of the closet to be forgotten.
I mean, I lost my mom and my stepdad broke his hip. That alone is reason enough to put this whole mess behind me. I also regained my stalker, and that's something I was praying wouldn't happen. On the other hand, I ran into him today at the store, and he was busy on the phone so I chatted with his friend and he didn't even hit on me for once!
A fair number of my friends had bad things happen too, and that didn't help me much--one lost her dad right around the time I lost my mom, but she didn't have the support of her mother, because her mother's a fail bitch. Another is stuck in the worst marriage ever, but she doesn't believe in divorce. Personally, I'd be out of there if my husband treated me like hers does, because it's not healthy for her or her kids to live like that. I've been here when she needs to vent, so that's stress I technically don't need to carry. Plenty of friends lost other relatives, or pets, too. :(
Some good things happened, though: I graduated with 4 degrees, and I did find a great job with some great kids/adults, a job that I probably don't qualify for based on the fact that my degrees are only Associate degrees. I also reconnected with my sister and brother, and found out I have the most awesome niece in the world living in the same town amazingly.
I reconnected with some old friends that I adore dearly, and became an unofficial aunt twice over. I became better acquainted with some great people from here, too. I found out quite clearly who my true friends are with this whole Mom thing, and God I'm lucky to have those people here to support me. Proves that losing the "BFF" a few years back was a good thing, since people like alabastard,cyn_ful, miche_connor, and cinderella81 have proven to be loads better at the friend and support thing, to name just a few of the great people here.
But those bad things weigh down a lot of the rest of this. I can't wait to put this year behind me and move forward.
Here's to a much better year next year!
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In other news, Bill's healing is going incredibly well. The doctors and nurses are all pleased with his recovery so far, to the point that he's not showing any of the normal side effects of hip surgery--no swelling, no redness or tenderness, no nothing!
He had his last PT today, and the guy tried again to refer us to an outpatient place, but Bill doesn't want that. He only has trouble with stairs. He can walk around--but seriously, Kaiser's orthopedics department is a cruel joke right now. They're remodeling, so after you check in at the registration desk, you have to go to the other end of a long hall for the waiting room that looks like the sort of place you go to die alone. Once you're called, you're led BACK down the hallway almost to the reception desk, and then down another hallway for exams. This is also nowhere near xrays. -.- Anyway, he can walk just fine, dress himself, feed himself, all that stuff. He just can't do stairs. His last in-home nurse appointment was today, too, and that went well.
Friday he's got another appointment with his GP because he had some blood pressure issues (apparently he wasn't on some medicine he was supposed to be taking, and that threw things out of whack) and I think for a blood draw. His next appointment with the surgeon isn't until February 6th, two days before my birthday. So my birthday trip will have to be moved a bit; he can't drive himself just yet.
I mean, I lost my mom and my stepdad broke his hip. That alone is reason enough to put this whole mess behind me. I also regained my stalker, and that's something I was praying wouldn't happen. On the other hand, I ran into him today at the store, and he was busy on the phone so I chatted with his friend and he didn't even hit on me for once!
A fair number of my friends had bad things happen too, and that didn't help me much--one lost her dad right around the time I lost my mom, but she didn't have the support of her mother, because her mother's a fail bitch. Another is stuck in the worst marriage ever, but she doesn't believe in divorce. Personally, I'd be out of there if my husband treated me like hers does, because it's not healthy for her or her kids to live like that. I've been here when she needs to vent, so that's stress I technically don't need to carry. Plenty of friends lost other relatives, or pets, too. :(
Some good things happened, though: I graduated with 4 degrees, and I did find a great job with some great kids/adults, a job that I probably don't qualify for based on the fact that my degrees are only Associate degrees. I also reconnected with my sister and brother, and found out I have the most awesome niece in the world living in the same town amazingly.
I reconnected with some old friends that I adore dearly, and became an unofficial aunt twice over. I became better acquainted with some great people from here, too. I found out quite clearly who my true friends are with this whole Mom thing, and God I'm lucky to have those people here to support me. Proves that losing the "BFF" a few years back was a good thing, since people like alabastard,cyn_ful, miche_connor, and cinderella81 have proven to be loads better at the friend and support thing, to name just a few of the great people here.
But those bad things weigh down a lot of the rest of this. I can't wait to put this year behind me and move forward.
Here's to a much better year next year!
--
In other news, Bill's healing is going incredibly well. The doctors and nurses are all pleased with his recovery so far, to the point that he's not showing any of the normal side effects of hip surgery--no swelling, no redness or tenderness, no nothing!
He had his last PT today, and the guy tried again to refer us to an outpatient place, but Bill doesn't want that. He only has trouble with stairs. He can walk around--but seriously, Kaiser's orthopedics department is a cruel joke right now. They're remodeling, so after you check in at the registration desk, you have to go to the other end of a long hall for the waiting room that looks like the sort of place you go to die alone. Once you're called, you're led BACK down the hallway almost to the reception desk, and then down another hallway for exams. This is also nowhere near xrays. -.- Anyway, he can walk just fine, dress himself, feed himself, all that stuff. He just can't do stairs. His last in-home nurse appointment was today, too, and that went well.
Friday he's got another appointment with his GP because he had some blood pressure issues (apparently he wasn't on some medicine he was supposed to be taking, and that threw things out of whack) and I think for a blood draw. His next appointment with the surgeon isn't until February 6th, two days before my birthday. So my birthday trip will have to be moved a bit; he can't drive himself just yet.