For the Loss...

The past couple of months have just been.... good and bad. Crazy, to say the least. Before Easter I got a cool new tattoo that ended up getting infected... (NOT the tat artist's fault!)... my son came in with dirt covered hands and touched it. THEN, I had to take meds for early signs of Bell's Palsy, I hurt an old injury in my lower back. Right after all of this, my parents sold their house to move out here to be with us... my dad fell off the moving truck, knocking himself out for who knows how long. He had temporary amnesia with it as well. They went ahead with the trip, made it out to Tulsa from NC when dad finally gave in and asked to go to the local ER because he could hear something crunching or rubbing when he moved a certain way. Turns out that the hospital in NC didn't catch that he had 3 CRACKED RIBS!!!! They even did x-rays and missed this. So with him traveling, it ended up puncturing his lung. So, now they are settled in out here for the most part and last week he goes into the ER for pressure in his chest. He had a heart attack a few days before and didn't realize it. He had 2 stints put in for an 80% and 100% blockages. AND... the Sunday before that happened, our beloved Beagle crossed the rainbow bridge. She was around 12 or 13 years old... not exactly sure since she was a rescue and they were guestimating by looking at her teeth when we first adopted her when she was around a year old. 

I had to be strong for my family during all of this and this past Sunday, which marked a week that our beagle has been one, my strength finally crumbled in on me. Stress of any sort takes a toll on my guts and boy has it this past week and a half. Sometimes I feel like there is no one to be strong for me.... so I drowned myself in geek stuff so I don't have to feel anymore.