ldsjournal down

So this entry’s going here tonight, with ldsjournal.com appearing to be down tonight.  It’s annoying, but nothing I can’t deal with.  I just got done watching tonight’s ep of Criminal Minds.  It was pretty good with an interesting ending.  It’s too bad next week is a rerun though, as I’m looking forward to how the rest of the team takes the news that Hotch is resigning as Unit Chief (or is it  Section Chief, I can never remember…).  In other news, had my doctor appointment yesterday and it went pretty well 🙂  Best news of all – got to ditch the Augmentin, which started giving me stomach issues Saturday morning.  So I’m off the antibiotic, I can sleep normally again, the weight restriction’s gone (I couldn’t lift anything greater than 20lbs following surgery), I can bend over again, and I can blow my nose again!  She also took the packing out of the right side of my nose.  Right now, I’m breathing pretty good through the right side of my nose.  I’m not breathing so well out of the left side because that’s pretty swollen still.  That’s the side the incision was made on to fix the deviated septum, so that side’s going to be swollen a little while yet.  Mostly there it feels like I’m stuffed up.   But I already breathe well enough that last night I was able to sleep and breathe through my nose 🙂  So I slept pretty well last night 🙂 Woo hoo on that one!  My doctor mentioned that my septum was at a nearly 90 degree angle.  Definitely not where it’s supposed to be!  Apparently she mentioned that to my mom too when she came out to talk to her after surgery.  I have vague memories of my mom mentioning that on Wednesday.  I *think* she was telling my dad, but I could be mistaken there, given that my memories of Wednesday and Thursday of last week are rather fuzzy.  I’ve got another follow-up appointment in a month for her to take another look and see where we stand with my symptoms.  Right now, I already have a difference.  I wasn’t one of those people who breathe better even with the packing, or even right after the packing came out. But by a few hours after the packing came out, I was breathing pretty good through my nose.

In other news, we were told today that the lady who was going to be our supervisor on the new phone team is no longer going to be our supervisor (her name’s Laura).  It was decided that this phone team needed to have a supervisor with experience in the department, given that only one of us has experience in borrower services.  Laura’s still going to be a supervisor in borrower services, just not our supervisor.  I’ve been told that our new supervisor is really nice so I’m holding on to that.  I’m trying to look at is as a new adventure – an opportunity to learn more within the company.  And as Laura mentioned today in the team meeting, we all aren’t on that roller coaster of uncertainty anymore – we all have positions within the company secured and we know where we’re going.

Not too much else going on right at the moment.  I will likely get a first hand look at my grandfather’s declining faculties.  Though I don’t know any of the details, it appears my grandfather called the cops on one of his neighbors over one of the things he’s imaging (something to do with snowblowers now I believe).  For the first time, I’m seriously beginning to wonder if my grandfather will end up in a nursing home before my grandmother goes.  But now if she goes first, there’s no question of whether he will or won’t end up in a nursing home. 

Okay, so I’m seriously wondering where the year’s gone.  How did we get to October 21st already?  Among other things, it feels like just yesterday that Clarine was in the hospital, but really it wasn’t.  She was discharged on August 3rd – more than two months ago.  Or that just yesterday, we were setting the date for surgery, but I know that was back around the 8th or 9th of June.  Or perhaps flying out to Syracuse and Ithaca for my brother’s college graduation.  Or a dozen other events of the year – seriously, where did the time go?

"Life is measured not by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."