WHAT A Week

Last week was 

Here’s to wishing for a better week!

Truck engine is now deceased. Dead. Done. Finished. Toast. I can’t even talk anymore about that right now. 

For the last week or so I keep waiting for someone to let me know I’m being Punk’d.

Monday, I had to move Mini Mayhem’s appointment in AL to the first of December because her Daddy's work schedule changed, the truck won’t get us there AND I STILL 👏🏻 cannot 👏🏻 get 👏🏻 tags 👏🏻 for 👏🏻 my 👏🏻 van 👏🏻. 

The sales wanker who sold us the van claimed to overnight the title application to Jackson on October 26 and he said they received it. Jackson shows NOTHING. I’ve checked with Tate County every other or every 3 days since and at this point the only thing I know is that "C" at the Tax Collector’s office have earned their way on my Christmas card list. 

Tuesday, I texted the con artist and he was going to check on it Wednesday morning and has since been radio silent. The Department of Revenue sent him a letter on Nov 7th (we got a copy) but he no longer has that business so 🤷🏻‍♀️. 

I haven’t been sleeping well and apparently at my age, because of my age, stress and lack of sleep can cause or increase brain fog. I’ve struggled to keep organized and stay on task all last week. I completely flaked on multiple things on Tuesday, including a hair appointment and these hairs needed cuttedddd! 💇🏻‍♀️ 

I also learned that a good family friend had their house catch fire and everything on the inside was a total loss. They sustained some 2nd degree burns but despite their stress and chaos have began healing well. 

Just FYI, don’t minimize someone’s loss or injuries by saying things such as “you’re sorry but”…. “things can be replaced” or “you made it out, and everything else can be replaced or repaired”. I assure you they feel blessed to be alive and they know “things” can be replaced but NOT ALL things. Take a minute to think of all or even some of the important, meaningful, things in your home that no amount of money could buy a substitute……and let that sink in. You can’t put a replacement price on sentimental value. Prayers would be appreciated for their peace and calmness as they replace clothing, items needed daily and even their personal documents, DL, birth certificate, insurance cards, cellphone, get access to email and bill sites……because many of those send a code to your phone to verify identity and their phone melted. 😩

Dealing with government entities is NOT for the faint of heart. IYKYK! 🙅🏻‍♀️

All day Wednesday was spent gathering MM's labs and documents and itemizing supplies so I can change companies where I get her formula and enteral feeding supplies. I had to message one doctor to get the ball rolling on the change and another doctor on something entirely different that we both have dropped the ball on. 😩

Thursday I updated some of the paperwork that I keep ongoing that I have to send to MM’s nursing agency every 6 months for her recertification. Updating the paperwork can become time consuming but not near as time consuming as the phone calls take to give the info over the phone. Nerrrrp. I learned that ain’t happp-ahh-ninnnn no mo after doing it twice, and then taking calls with additional questions for several days afterward. No thank you, drive through. 

A water pipe burst outside near my house so we didn’t have water from shortly after 1pm until sometime after 6pm. During that time, not once but twice, I pump the soap and lather up, forgetting I have no running water, only to be left walking to the kitchen for bottled water with my hands in the air like a surgeon going into the OR.

I also had to finish up Mini Mayhem’s birthday plans and send my family the invite. We aren’t doing anything big this year because, well, car engines and groceries. 

Everybody gonna get a saltine with icing on it and be told it’s cake, it’s just dry, and be given a glass of milk from the freezer that never grew up to be ice cream. 

I take ADD meds and had a in office video appointment Friday with my Psychiatric NP. I go to leave the office and the receptionist had left for lunch and locked the door. The door requires a key to lock/unlock it. The nurse, the only other person there at that time, has a key but it was in her car. I had another appointment to get to so I started feeling anxious and it became less of a laughing matter after a few minutes. I asked the nurse, JUST WHAT HAPPENS IF THERE’S A FIRE?!? Well that set off a 💡with her so we walk across the office to the fire exit. 🤦🏻‍♀️ So then I’m exiting the building in Como and walking back to my car parked in Senatobia. 

Not literally but let me have my moment of sarcasm and drama, ok?

Not long after leaving, my pharmacy calls (they’re wonderful) to let me know my med is on back order so I’ll need my NP to call it in somewhere that has it in stock. JOY! More phone calls I have to make. (No fault of my pharmacy at all, I said they’re great. I just need Takeda to get their demand outweighing their supply game together.)

I text my appointment to let them know I was running 15 minutes behind schedule and no response. I get to the home, knock, nothing. I knock again. Nothing. I text and let them know which door I was knocking on. Nothing. Two more times I knock ✊🏻 as if I’m there to serve a warrant and still nothing. 

An hour and a half after our scheduled time to meet, I get a text that they didn’t hear anything and was about to leave and not be home until late. Okkkkkk, it took you over an hour to realize our appointment time came and went and you text that now you have to leave? Awww naw sucka, I’ll be there in 5 minutes. You stay put. I was at my parent’s and I couldn’t find my keys. My nephew finds them in the ignition. #jesustakethewheel So, I’m playing Speed Racer to get to where I’m going to make it there before they leave. Mission accomplished so if you were trying to avoid the inevitable, nice try. Now please don’t try to play with me again in the future. I was of course polite and expressed my appreciation for them waiting. (🏆 I’d like to thank the Academy for this honor….)

During all of the running, I did manage to find a pharmacy with my med but never had the chance to call the office to have the NP send it to them. I’ll have to do it tomorrow. 

I started my grocery list on Wednesday and have yet to push play. Hopefully I will get around to doing that today before the delivery times are full. I had taken a pork tenderloin out of the freezer to cook last week and you guessed it; I forgot. I’m glad my hiccup in cognitive ability wasted a good dinner, said no one ever. 

MM has had a rumbly tumbly since Thursday. Friday night it came flaunting a hot accessory. Fever. On rare occasions if she gets too hot, she will run a fever. It’s her body’s way of regulating her body temp. It’s like what someone does with heat exhaustion but she’s not experiencing heat exhaustion or hyperthermia. (I do always check to make sure she’s not dehydrated, that she is still urinating and that her heart rate isn’t elevated.)

I let her belly rest yesterday by giving her Pedialyte. She didn’t cry or fuss with a stomach ache but once and for a short time, which was a win. I think she got it “out of her system”, if you know what I mean. 😷🧤👃She went all day with her temp not going above 99.6 but at 8pm it was 103.2! Her room wasn’t too warm, only her legs were covered with a sheet and her arms and legs weren’t warm. Once Tylenol was on board, an hour a half later her temp was 98.6. 🙌🏻 

I knew she didn’t feel good all day. She woke up when I was giving her 8am meds but didn’t even move; she just laid there. I asked her if she wanted to stay in her bed and she gave me her “hummm” sound she does for yes. She went right back to sleep and slept until 1:10. She can sleep late sometimes but never that late.

I’ll slowly work her formula feeds back in once she wakes up and hopefully she will tolerate them well and whatever has been going on is over. She’s still asleep right now and I hope when she wakes up she’s back to her playful self. 

That was my eventful week. I ain’t gonna lie, I pray regularly for The Rapture. All this mess, pheeeew chile. Life is messy, the world is messy….I am RET 👏🏻 TO 👏🏻 GO 👏🏻. Jesus, come onnnnnnnnnnnn downnnnnnnn. 🙌🏻

Woooosahhhhh.

I’m going to finish my coffee now. ☕️