I will be requiring a break from the blog for a while. It turns out I have carpal tunnel, and therefore will have to limit my writing as much as possible. I may try and post pictures more, but my rambling expressions and narratives will have to cease until I feel better.

I am saddened that my chosen venue for expression has been cut off, but hopeful that I will be able to return in time. With starting a practice, and creating a career, I have to spend my limited typing time judiciously. sniff

At this time, I am in the middle of testing to determine the extent of the damage and the necessary next steps. It may or may not require surgery. It does require braces, which makes writing pretty damn hard.

I will try and post updates, pictures, and easy to write messages until I am once again able to write at length. If I am not here for a little while, you will at least know where I have gone. Thank you for being a part of my life, and for caring about what I have to say.
Scylla.

I went to the doctor and lazed about the house for the past few days. I seem to be healthy, though tired. She assumes I have caught the plague, and just haven’t evidenced any symptoms beyond lethargy, exhaustion, and faintness.

So resting, I am, until better things get.

I hit it.

I never actually believed there was one, but yesterday, after I returned from my CLE, I got dizzy, and nauseated, and faint. I ended up spending the night at my mother’s, as I didn’t feel capable of caring for my children. It seems I may have worn myself completely out.

Now, in my defense (yes, I feel I need defending here), I have spent the past two weeks caring for sick kids and getting very little sleep. Then I cleaned my entire house on Monday, from top to bottom, with antibacterial cleaners and bleach to rid the house of any remaining spec of Hand, Foot, and Mouth virus. Then on Tuesday I read that vinegar was very effective at getting rid of it, so I cleaned it all again. I re-mopped the floors, re-wiped the cupboards, tables, chairs, and walls, and even borrowed my mother’s carpet cleaner and ran vinegar through the carpets. Then the house smelled like vinegar so I re-mopped with a lavendar rinse to improve the air. (Okay, on reading this over it does strike me as insane, at least a little.)

Yesterday I topped it all off by attending a 7 hour CLE on Child and Family Investigation for my business.

So I can see why I might be less than chipper when I got home, but I never been so bone weary and weak before! I had to ask friends if they could come walk my dogs, and I had to stay with my mother, because Lee is still out of town and I was afraid of losing consciousness. Literally. My vision kept going black around the edges and I kept breaking into a faint sweat whenever I stood up.

Oops.
I may have overdone things.

Today I feel a little better. I slept, and then spent the day eating well and reading romance novels on the couch while Otter played at my feet. (He still has blisters in his mouth, but he is getting better. We may have to cancel all our kid oriented weekend plans if the blisters don’t go away in the next two days. I don’t want to give Hatchet’s twins Hand, Foot, and Mouth for their first birthday!!)

I didn’t do anything, no cleaning, no work, no cooking even. Just simple resting and ordering in. I guess I should a little more of that more often.