New Office

Pretty eventful morning in our neighborhood. Our neighbor had to call an ambulance for her husband. I hated to see her so upset but glad that we could be there for her until the ambulance came.

Church was difficult today. Loud sounds are really hard on my head. The music seemed unbearably loud today and I had to leave the room for part of the music worship. Once I came back in, the loudness seemed to overwhelm me. It was a great sermon but difficult for me to follow. I was seeing him speak and could hear him but sometimes he wasn't making any sense. I was continually having to re-focus. By the time I left, I was completely exhausted. Made it through lunch but came home and crashed for a few hours. Once I got up, I felt better and not so over-whelmed.

Also had trouble with my words today. Words came out all backwards sometimes. My husband would just smile and repeat what I said. Sometimes I feel like I have a mouth full of marbles.

Well, we have a new office in our house. My daughter recently graduated from college and moved into her own apartment. My husband's office was in the smallest room of the house and he decided to take over her now empty room. Her walls were dark purple (which was actually pretty) but he wanted to paint them. He painted the woodwork white and the walls a kind of greenish/gray color and we got new blinds. Today, he finished getting all the cables fixed to hook everything up and we moved the furniture in. Well, HE moved the furniture in while I supervised. Things are still not quite as they should be but at least we have more space. Now, to find out how to put the bedroom furniture into that tiny room....

Tomorrow is my last day at work. I'm really torn about it. I love my job and hate leaving it but it's become really stressful these last few months. I find it terribly hard to concentrate and am making all kinds of stupid mistakes. My bosses are really great and haven't complained once but I know that I'm not working up to par.

4 days until surgery. A lot of people asked me about it today at church and reminded me that they would be praying for me. God has given me tons of encouragers and I am very thankful. On the other hand, the more that I talk about the surgery, the more apprehensive it makes me. I'm just trying to get the house in order and that seems to take my mind off everything. I ask that you pray for me in four different ways:

1. Please pray for the doctors and nurses that will taking care of me in surgery, in ICU and when I get into a regular room.

2. Please pray that there is no leak of the patch and that I won't pick up any kind of infection.

3. Please pray for my family. Mainly my husband who will be my primary caregiver. He runs a large fine arts facility and has an extremely busy work schedule in the next few weeks and I know that he will be torn as to where he needs to be.

4. This has nothing to do with my surgery but one of our dogs, our 15 year old, is sick. We plan on taking him to the vet again this week but anticipate that we may have to put him down. As silly as it sounds, he's almost like a child to us so this will be very difficult.

By the way.......I still hate my hair.