by Dagmar on February 8, 2010
Hmm, time for Not Me! Monday. You want honesty? Here you go:
My next New York City Moms blog article was not overdue. I finally finished it this morning and it’s in the cue. I’ll let you know when it gets published. It’s called “Natural Birth, Duggar Style.”
I do not still owe someone a book review, have to watch a video about breastfeeding and write the review, and manage 1781 e-mails that are staring back at me in bold in my inbox. And I have one hour to do this all before I have to pick up Landon from preschool.
I do not love the fact that Don is at home. Not true. I love to have him around during the week, but right now he’s home because he’s in too much pain to work. He can’t even open a jar of peanut butter right now. So on the other hand I’ll be glad when I see him less if it’s because he is back to being healthy.
I did not just boss Don around and tell him to write down all the questions he has for the naturopath tomorrow. He isn’t the most organized type, and I can’t come to the appointment and drill the doctor myself. And guess what, he says he wrote questions down — that’s a first! I’m taking back my bossy suggestion.
We did not let Landon stay up until 11 p.m. last night. We came home late after watching the Super Bowl at Grandma’s with the Bleasdale Clan and then let him play some more with his trains. L has the amazing ability to play all by himself for a long time in the middle of the night. I get so much done when he plays like that, when he doesn’t call “Mommyyyyyy!” every two minutes. Why doesn’t he ever play like this during the day?
Always amazing how much I can think of for Not Me! Monday after initially thinking I have nothing to contribute . . . :)
Not Me! Monday is a blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.
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by Dagmar on February 7, 2010
Things have been kind of rough around here. Not so much for me — for Don. Four months ago he suddenly was in pain all over his body, and we haven’t found a cause or cure yet. Since the pain is most severe at night, he hasn’t had a decent night of sleep since this started.
Don has always been an athlete. He was a quarterback in high school and is a certified yoga teacher — my former yoga teacher — but now he sometimes needs help to put on his sweatshirt. His shoulders, his elbows, his hands, his wrists, his legs – every joint and muscle is hurting him. It’s not lyme, it’s not rheumatoid arthritis, and it’s not fibromyalgia. It’s some kind of inflammation, but it’s not reacting to steroids, antibiotics, narcotics, or painkillers.
Since Don is an introverted and private person, I want to honor his privacy, and on the other hand this is what I do — I write about my life, our life. I am in the middle of this. I want to write so much more but swallow it.
I keep encouraging him to write. He is a beautiful, eloquent, thoughtful writer and I think he should write about his experience — as a release and to document his journey to healing, which I hope will come soon. Normally a total sweet tooth, he is resisting so many sugary temptations now. He is completely changing his diet – no meat, no caffeine, no tomatoes, no potato — anything to avoid more inflammation.
Always a voracious reader, he now pours over every book about nutrition. Since convential doctors have failed to address the cause and severity of his pain, he refuses to keep working with them. He would rather take the pain than pump his body full of more medicines that only marginally help and can cause all kids of other problems.
He is seeing a naturopath next week. I am praying she has some answers. He needs answers – he needs a freaking break. Something is reeking havoc in Don’s body, and I just hope that there will be no long-term effects from this.
I have to believe that something positive will come from all this agony. Changing our diet to vegetarian is one of them — we’ll see what else is in store.
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by Dagmar on February 4, 2010
Early in the morning, Hilton Stamford, CT
I promoted my proofreading and editing business, imPROOF...
...attended six presentations...
...met up with David Mathison, again...
...but the best part of the day was coming home to this!
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