Even Though I'm Smiling..........

in this picture, it's only because Aleah was making me smile!!!

I had a rough weekend - a REALLY rough weekend!! Last Tuesday night I noticed I was a little bit dizzy but didn't think much about it. I went to work on Wednesday but left about 2:30 as the dizziness was getting worse. Thursday I TRIED to work but sure didn't accomplish much and by 3:30 was back home on the couch.

I was feeling tough - extremely dizzy and no desire to eat anything. When Glenn had to help me up the stairs to go to bed Thursday night, I knew I wouldn't be working the next day!! And it was the worst day ever!!! I started vomiting in the morning because of the dizziness and the day just went downhill from there - I couldn't even make it up the steps to sleep in my bed so spent the day on the couch, praying for the dizziness to stop - it didn't!!

Glenn came home from work early and took me to the ER - they first checked me for a stroke - REALLY????? Glenn and I both thought I probably had wax on my eardrum as I tend to have an over abundance of that, but the ER dr. checked my ears and said that was NOT the problem. One more test and he discovered what it was - an inner ear infection - the nerve that runs back beyond your eardrum and tells your brain about motion, was infected. But he said it was a viral infection so antibiotics wouldn't help!

So he prescribed an anti-nauseous drug and a Valium type drug - I guess to make me sleep so I didn't have to be awake for the awful dizziness!! I think just riding in the car to town was enough to do me in...........

Jill and the 2 kids were waiting for us when we got home and bless her heart, Jill took care of me all weekend!! Glenn left early Saturday morning for an overnight outing that he'd had planned for quite a while so that left Jill to hold the fort down!!

This is where I spent the majority of the weekend!!

I managed to eat a cracker on Friday and that was it - Saturday was better and I actually ate some chicken and grapes which tasted good to me. Little Parker and Aleah kept me amused all weekend which was great!!

The sad news is that Jill and I couldn't join my "choir" girlfriends for the melodrama and tea in Cripple Creek on Sunday - we had been planning that for quite some time so I was not happy about that!!

Sunday I rallied a little bit and could walk to the bathroom without help at least!! And the vomiting had stopped - but the pills I was taking totally knocked me out and I felt like I slept most of the weekend!

Jill did manage to capture a cute pic of Aleah and I on one of my escapes off the couch - I think she had to help me back up though!!

So all in all, not a fun weekend at all but a huge thank you to Jill for taking care of me, keeping the house picked up, cooking meals and playing my personal secretary every time the phone rang!! Jaime and Jessi were both in Iowa but Jaime gave me her expertise advice on the drugs I was taking and Jessi helped me with an exercise to stop the pounding headache which was a result of the drugs I was taking!! It's sure nice to have a pharmacist, a chiropractor and an occupational therapist in the family as I had most of the bases covered!!

One last picture of Parker having his bath - what a cutie!!