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Heavy news this morning
I’ve been going through a lot with my kids and their sickness and it’s been really hard. I have to put it in perspective. The illness that my kiddos have are temporary they go away and life goes on. That’s not the case for one of my oldest best friends this morning. His son has been in the hospital for the past few days with a mysterious illness for which he’s needed blood transfusions. Today they finally got a diagnosis. It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Cancer. My heart is so heavy and I feel so badly for my friend and his son. It’s a heavy diagnosis. It’s -1 degrees outside…
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100 Days of Code
I really wanted to do the 100DaysOfCode challenge years ago and I never did because the kids were still little and I didn’t think I’d be able to commit to coding every single day. Fast forward to the present time and my thoughts were the same as 2 years ago. Will I really have enough time to code for a minimum of 1 hour a day and document it? You know, there’s never going to be a perfect time. Life is busy, whether you have kids, battling chronic illness, battling chronic pain, battling a rare bone disease, battling chronic fatigue, etc. Struggles are going to happen no matter what in…
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Freecodecamp.org curriculum has changed
I visited FreeCodeCamp.org the other day as I do from time to time because I really really miss coding. I noticed that all the work I had done previously was now in a legacy section and a new curriculum was up. I was a little let down at first because I worked really hard the past few years to get through the first part and I was one project away from completing my certificate. I haven’t really worked on anything in the past few years due to lack of time specifically lack of uninterruptible time due to kids and marriage and everything that goes along with maintaining a household. My…
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It is what it is
I think I hit a level where everything got too big and I popped. I’m pretty numb to everything and I’ve managed to put on my logical hat and set aside unwelcome emotions. I don’t need anything holding me hostage right now. Mom had her knee replacement surgery on Tuesday and the actual replacement went fine (whew) but she’s been having a lot of complications with the pain meds from having allergic reactions to throwing up to having her oxygen levels tank. She’s been in the hospital for an extra two days now because of it. Does it make me scared for my upcoming replacement? I don’t know, sure, but…
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It’s amazing to me how fast kids can get sick and recover. Zahkya always gets whatever sickness the worst. She got a cold from Tristyn, got a fever with it, ended up having so much mucus drainage she was throwing up everywhere (including right in my face yesterday morning, yay Motherhood!). Today she’s not congested or anything, fever is gone and she’s acting as if nothing happened. I met with my Gastroenterologist yesterday and they ordered up a bunch of tests and procedures. I’m scheduled for a colonoscopy, upper endoscopy, and “many many many biopsies”. A few weeks after that I go in for my pulmonary testing. The hospital did…
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Mishaps with appointments
I’ve had pretty bad luck this week with doctor’s appointments. I waited a month to see my pulmonary doctor and when I showed up there was no one in the office. The lady sitting outside the office taking people’s temps suggested I walked over to the hospital and see if my appointment was there instead. After I walked through the entire hospital the pulmonary office was exactly on the opposite end of which I entered. When they tried to look me up they said my appointment was a month from that date and to come back in a month. See, I had to get babysitting for this appointment and that…
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War and sickness
War in Ukraine. Russia is invading. This very quickly can turn into WWIII. Putin is cutting off his country making it more similar to North Korea than to any free world. The videos of the innocents get me every time. I can feel their fear and sadness and pain through the TV. It makes my chest so tight and my stomach in knots. I feel helpless watching from this far away. I’m about over the sickness. My family has been getting sick on and off for months now. We get better and it’s not long, maybe a few days, before we’re back sick with something else. Two weeks ago it…
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School starts soon
Not only does school start soon but Tristyn got accepted into the school I wanted for him. I can’t believe we actually got in! I cried the day we got the acceptance letter. I cry a lot at these little milestones it seems. Now he can start school with his best friend and he’s excited about that. I’m excited for him. It’s going to be a super busy time for my little guy. He’ll have school 5 days a week, karate twice a week and baseball is still going for the next two weeks. I think that Zahkya is going to be lost without her brother at home and I’m…