Man...
I want to know who prayed for Jeff and I to get physical proof that God was going to be there for us no matter what. It seems like since Jeff got back it's been one surprise after another for us and not all of them have been great.
Right around a week ago I fell down the basement stairs at my father-in-law's house. I didn't hurt myself, thank God, but I did jarr the knee I had surgery on a bit. It finally calmed down a couple of days later and things went without a hitch for several days. On Tuesday of this week, I took a nap with Kamden and after waking I had Jeff come upstairs to help me get Kamden downstairs. I didn't feel confident to carry him on my own since me knee is still sort of weak. Jeff got Kam down the stairs with no problem and I started to follow. However...I missed the 4th step and fell another 8-10 stair steps down to the bottom. Of course, the first thing I was worried about was my knee. After I figured out that my knee was okay, I gave myself a few more seconds to get my bearings and started to stand. Things immediately went black and my head began to swim. I KNEW I was going to pass out. Jeff said I continued to talk the entire time but I don't honestly remember about half of our conversation. I knew there was no way I had hit my head, because I was able to continue giving directions after establishing we needed to go to the ER about what to get Kamden ready to eat, who to call to watch him, what I needed to take with me to the hospital, etc. I did stop and look at my foot though and was immediately almost positive that I'd snapped at least one toe. My pinky toe was sticking out almost perpendicular to the rest of my foot. When I was able to stand I started to wonder if I had hurt more than just my toe. I couldn't put weight on anything but my heel and I was having pain up the outside of my leg. LONG story short, the x-rays that were done only showed a crack through the middle of the second bone in my pinky toe (thank God), but now two days later, I'm having a ton of pain in the rest of my foot. Time will tell. I'm currently hobbling around with a cane, but am grateful I can still do that.
Fast forward to last night. Jeff and I spent the day in Eau Claire, WI with friends from the Twin Cities as well as a great friend of Jeff's from high school and his girlfriend. We headed back to Marshfield around 8:30 pm and after getting about halfway back we started to see the battery light flickering on and off. Considering that the wind chills the last 36 hours or so had been close to -25 or so, we both thought it might just be the cold getting to the battery. By the time we got back to our room at the hotel, the light was staying on pretty consistently and I was on the verge of tears. Two days before leaving to come up to Wisconsin to get Jeff, I had paid close to $700 to have a MAJOR oil leak fixed on the car, the light had come back on half way from Texas to Wisconsin (that thankfully turned out to be nothing major at all) and now this??? Jeff took the car in today and we found out that the alternator had started to go out on our car. I'm glad that we had so much saved up before we left for this trip, but we are whittling through it with all these emergencies way too fast.
I held it together until this afternoon while Jeff was off getting the car fixed and Kamden and I were at the hotel. Kamden picked up a bag of Chex Mix and dumped the remaining contents onto the floor...and I wound up sitting in the floor to clean it up and bawling. I felt so silly to do so, because I know that things could have been SO much worse. I just am exhausted mentally and emotionally over it all. Finances have always been a hard area for me, so I am dealing with it way worse than I could be. We are going to my brother and sister in law's house for dinner tonight and I can't wait. I think that spending time with family and watching the kids play will help me get my mind off of everything.
There will be a lot to report on in the next week as we have Koopman Christmas with the immediate family tomorrow, are leaving to go to Nashville on Tuesday to spend time with Wally and hopefully meet some other friends in the area while we are there, meet up with friends in Missouri next Saturday and with friends in Oklahoma on Sunday. I'm hoping to start blogging every day, or at least every other day, so if you follow me, I hope you'll comment and let me know you're reading!
Right around a week ago I fell down the basement stairs at my father-in-law's house. I didn't hurt myself, thank God, but I did jarr the knee I had surgery on a bit. It finally calmed down a couple of days later and things went without a hitch for several days. On Tuesday of this week, I took a nap with Kamden and after waking I had Jeff come upstairs to help me get Kamden downstairs. I didn't feel confident to carry him on my own since me knee is still sort of weak. Jeff got Kam down the stairs with no problem and I started to follow. However...I missed the 4th step and fell another 8-10 stair steps down to the bottom. Of course, the first thing I was worried about was my knee. After I figured out that my knee was okay, I gave myself a few more seconds to get my bearings and started to stand. Things immediately went black and my head began to swim. I KNEW I was going to pass out. Jeff said I continued to talk the entire time but I don't honestly remember about half of our conversation. I knew there was no way I had hit my head, because I was able to continue giving directions after establishing we needed to go to the ER about what to get Kamden ready to eat, who to call to watch him, what I needed to take with me to the hospital, etc. I did stop and look at my foot though and was immediately almost positive that I'd snapped at least one toe. My pinky toe was sticking out almost perpendicular to the rest of my foot. When I was able to stand I started to wonder if I had hurt more than just my toe. I couldn't put weight on anything but my heel and I was having pain up the outside of my leg. LONG story short, the x-rays that were done only showed a crack through the middle of the second bone in my pinky toe (thank God), but now two days later, I'm having a ton of pain in the rest of my foot. Time will tell. I'm currently hobbling around with a cane, but am grateful I can still do that.
(The break is diagonal between the two arrows.)
Fast forward to last night. Jeff and I spent the day in Eau Claire, WI with friends from the Twin Cities as well as a great friend of Jeff's from high school and his girlfriend. We headed back to Marshfield around 8:30 pm and after getting about halfway back we started to see the battery light flickering on and off. Considering that the wind chills the last 36 hours or so had been close to -25 or so, we both thought it might just be the cold getting to the battery. By the time we got back to our room at the hotel, the light was staying on pretty consistently and I was on the verge of tears. Two days before leaving to come up to Wisconsin to get Jeff, I had paid close to $700 to have a MAJOR oil leak fixed on the car, the light had come back on half way from Texas to Wisconsin (that thankfully turned out to be nothing major at all) and now this??? Jeff took the car in today and we found out that the alternator had started to go out on our car. I'm glad that we had so much saved up before we left for this trip, but we are whittling through it with all these emergencies way too fast.
(Lost in Eau Claire, WI and SO grateful for our Garmin British lass, Winnifred)
I held it together until this afternoon while Jeff was off getting the car fixed and Kamden and I were at the hotel. Kamden picked up a bag of Chex Mix and dumped the remaining contents onto the floor...and I wound up sitting in the floor to clean it up and bawling. I felt so silly to do so, because I know that things could have been SO much worse. I just am exhausted mentally and emotionally over it all. Finances have always been a hard area for me, so I am dealing with it way worse than I could be. We are going to my brother and sister in law's house for dinner tonight and I can't wait. I think that spending time with family and watching the kids play will help me get my mind off of everything.
There will be a lot to report on in the next week as we have Koopman Christmas with the immediate family tomorrow, are leaving to go to Nashville on Tuesday to spend time with Wally and hopefully meet some other friends in the area while we are there, meet up with friends in Missouri next Saturday and with friends in Oklahoma on Sunday. I'm hoping to start blogging every day, or at least every other day, so if you follow me, I hope you'll comment and let me know you're reading!
Hope your foot feels better! And no more bad news! Enjoy your time with friends, and try to find the positive in even the worst situations!
ReplyDeleteI hope your foot feels better! At least that is the only injury that came out of the fall. Hope all is well.
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