The last few weeks have been a little rough around here. I got really sick (from bad allergies to a cold to a sinus infection then to bronchitis). I had a bad visit with a nurse practitioner who didn't prescribe the right medicines-she said antibiotics are overused and people are starting to develop immunities against them. I agree, except that I NEEDED antibiotics to get over it, and finally got some after I was close to coughing up a lung. Luckily, though, Gabriel didn't catch anything.
Around this same time, Jav started having pain in the back of his shoulder. By the end of the weekend, he was having major pain in his right arm and numbness in his fingers. Not good. I thought he might have pinched a nerve in his shoulder picking up Gabriel wrong or something. He got into to see a shoulder-specializing orthopedic surgeon, who said it looked more like it might be a problem with Jav's neck. So then he had to wait for an MRI, wait some more for the results and an appointment with a neck -specializing surgeon, who confirmed he had a herniated disc in his neck. 80% of the time the pain can be taken care of with a combination of steroid shots and physical therapy, so that's where Jav is headed, once all the doctors get back from their Thanksgiving vacations. In the meantime, he's trying to cope with some pretty bad pain and frustration with the medical community's general lack of concern.
In spite of all of this, we are bravely leaving for Pennsylvania tomorrow to spend Thanksgiving with our dear friends Dave, Barbara and their three kids. Dave and Jav met and were roommates at UT for graduate school. Jav's been for Thanksgiving almost every year for the last ten years (and I started joining him four years ago), but we didn't make it last year since Gabriel had just been born. I can't wait to get there, but the plane ride is worrying me. Gabriel is supposed to sit on my lap for three hours. HAH. He just wants to walk, walk, walk. We hope to tire him out at the airport before the flight leaves, which will help. Our magical and wonderful main solution is the purchase of a portable DVD player and several Teletubbies and Sesame Baby DVD's. We'll cook all day and have our huge midday meal Thursday, go see our annual Friday afternoon movie (The Bee Movie - yay!!), and head to a mall with all the kids on Saturday. And maybe have a nice kid-free dinner out Saturday night, if I can summon up the courage to leave Gabriel with their outstanding babysitter (they've had her for 5 years), and get over my worry about him falling down their basement and/or their second floor stairs. We usually come home on Sunday, but decided to stay an extra night, so Sunday should be a great lazing around, reading the paper and watching football kind of a day (something we NEVER get have the time to do here-always too much to do around the house). AND it's supposed to snow, which is so cool for Thanksgiving.
The only bad thing is that I will miss spending it with my family - but they know we'll be thinking about them.
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