2009-06-29
6/29/09
The best laid plans...
I tend to be a planner. I like to make lists. I like even more to mark things off of a list.
This weekend, I didn't have many plans. Mike and Lindsay are flying in Friday morning. I'm taking Thursday off from work, to get the house and refrigerator ready.
To make a long story short...Bill tore a muscle in his back Saturday morning while doing some free work on the motorhome of a stranded (and broke) family.
Our weekend included a trip to Urgent Care on Saturday. A visit from paramedics early Sunday morning. Several hours spent at the ER on Sunday morning. Several tests and 15mg of morphine later, they ruled out kidney stones and a torn aorta. We'd heard of tearing a muscle, but didn't realize how painful it is and how dangerous it can be because a torn muscle bleeds...any internal bleeding can be dangerous.)
The ER doctor sent us home with morphine and told Bill to take it faithfully because if the pain got out of control again, they'd admit him for pain management.
When we got home from the ER, we spent the rest of yesterday in a daze of pain meds (Bill) and lack of sleep (me.)
The good news is...the short term recovery for this type of injury is 72 hours. We're closing in on 48 right now. I won't say that either of us slept WELL last night, but we did sleep, so we're both feeling a bit better.
I took today off from work to recover from the weekend. (Doesn't that sound like something a 20 something says after a weekend of major partying type fun?)
I probably won't get much accomplished today as I'm still feeling pretty wiped out.
We will get the year end finished. We are () this close!
I'll get the lawns mowed.
Other than that...all bets are off.