Sunday, March 15, 2009

So far, not a stellar Spring Break

I have been looking forward to Spring Break for some time now. One week where I can do just about what I want (and need) to do. Jack is taking a Golf Camp, which I hope will rekindle his enthusiasm for golf, and Caroline and I have been taking walks around the neighborhood taking pictures of other people's flowerbeds that we like (just trying to get ideas). Jason had some high hopes of getting the master bathroom painted and buy some tile for the bathroom and the new "library".

Jason's been bouncing back since experiencing the hospital stay. It's taken some time, but he was working on it. He was sick enough to stay home the last few days last week, but then went to work on Friday because he finally felt better (if not stronger). But then I think he had a reaction to his medicine. He's had some congestion and periodic fevers the last few weeks and we attributed it to allergies, but his doctors have prescribed a few antibiotics. But he also has a cough that keeps him up at night - only seems to be a problem at night it's weird. But yesterday was weird. He kept dosing off mid-sentence and when he woke up he would be carrying on a different conversation. Often times he'd jerk awake and ask me why I was laughing. He wanted to show me some pictures on facebook yesterday, but I had to keep waking him up because every few seconds he'd dose off. Last night was the weirdest. I awoke around 2 a.m. because I heard my son crying. He rushed to the bathroom and puked into the toilet (I was glad he made it). A few seconds later, he puked again. After calming him down, he went right back to sleep (he'd felt weird ever since coming back from a friend's house). I went back to bed, only to wake up about 30 minutes later to every light in our room being on. Jason was walking around mumbling that he couldn't find his suitcase. When I asked him what he needed his suitcase for, he said we were late and if we didn't get going we'd miss our trip. Totally confused, I responded that we weren't going on a trip, and we weren't late because we wouldn't be leaving at 3 in the morning. Now it was his turn to be confused. He couldn't believe it was 3 in the morning, but then went back to bed. I called his doctor today and it was decided that he has had a reaction to some of the medication. He has a doctor's appointment tomorrow, so I'm going to go with him and take all of his medicine with us.

I'm just tired of Jason being tired and having absolutely no energy. I mean a few months ago we flew out to California and he was doing great. He even ripped out a toilet and vanity to help get our remodel started. But since his hospital stay it's been like the old days. All he has energy for is to sleep. He got up yesterday and helped with the kids, but doing that for an hour and half knocked him out for the day.

He'd built up to helping out more and the kids were really happy because he was participating more. But now, it's like he was knocked backwards again. I'm really getting tired of it. It's not his fault and I miss him. I miss having conversations with him and going for walks. I miss his laughter and jokes. This was supposed to a fun Spring Break, but right now it's off to a really slow start.

I'm just tired right now and a little stressed out with work, so maybe I'm making this more than it is. But right now that's how I feel.

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