Not So Sure Anymore

So, I went to see the Stan Hewitt Christmas light thing yesterday with my family. My mother is currently having back issues an has been having it for the better part of a week. She did make an appointment with a doctor and it is on Tuesday. We thought that it would be doubtful if she was going to be able to handle that and it would be just my dad and I. But she did go and she was able to get through the house part and a little bit of the gardens. I honestly thought that walking the garden part of it would have been a little much. Even in the house, it seemed like my mother had to sit down every two seconds and we got through a fifth of the garden part. We repeatedly had to tell my mother that we did have to walk all the way back to the car and there would be no way that the car up past the gate house. So we only got a fifth of the way through the garden part before we had to turn around with her complaining the whole way. My thoughts were that she made the decision to do more than what she knew that she was physically capable of.

Since we went to an event that was a little fancier than normal, I had to spend a little more time thinking about which perfume I wanted to wear. I didn't want something loud like Lyric or L'Heure Bleu. So I went with Chanel no 22 edt. In the beginning of my perfume journey, no 22 was something I couldn't quite get enough of. When I couldn't get enough of no 22, I couldn't wait to get my hands on (at the time) the edt and eventually the extrait version. But something happened with the past couple times that I wore it. It was like something about it really bothered me. Was it the rose, was it the aldehydes or that combination that really started to bother me. Maybe no 22 is a perfume that I have just gone off of.

It's My Gallbladder

I thought I was making some kind of progress with getting better with my stomach problems but apparently not. I ended up in my local ER Wednesday night instead of the one a half an hour away. I wasn't exactly in the mood to deal with this crap again of waiting for hours after a blood draw to be seen. I managed to be taken back, have a blood draw, urine test and was examined all within 15 minutes. The nurse that was doing the examination had said that it was probably my gallbladder and ordered an ultrasound. The biggest thing is that I was given pain and nausea relief and I wasn't waiting for hours and not have anything done except a blood draw. The ultrasound had confirmed that my gallbladder was the issue. I was given scripts for pain, nausea and directions for a surgical consult. I made that consult before I left the ER. So Monday afternoon, I go for that consultation. The total time that I spent in the ER was probably 3 and a half hours. After complaining for around a year, I am happy to have some answers. My endocrinologist and my regular GP had pretty much decided that keeping an eye on it was the only thing to do.

The hard part is just managing the pain and nausea. Before the medication, I couldn't eat period without vicious amounts of pain that would last for hours. Now I can eat a little more but I am kind of limited and will be limited for a while on what I can and cannot have for a few weeks. It will be a very bland, low fat diet and I am not looking forward to that. But I am looking at a month with less than $75  coming into my bank account per week for about a month and I am seriously not looking forward for that part.

Monday is the day I will know if I am having surgery and what type of surgery. I probably will not be wearing any perfume if I have to go the surgical route but I am debating on wearing either no 19 extrait, no 22 extrait or Iris Silver Mist. I want something that is subtle but with a little bit of backbone. Dabbing make most perfumes more subtle. The only one that might be kind of comforting is no 22. I will have plenty of time later to wear what I want.