Busy Thursday

Austin had his EEG and his spinal X-rays this morning.  Prepping a normal child for an EEG was work.  I couldn’t imagine how some of you do it with your mentally challenged children.  Knock on wood, we haven’t had to do one with Matthew or Rachel.  Austin was done with both tests by 10:30 this morning.  He was exhausted.  He wanted to sleep for 24 hours.  He didn’t but I think he was pretty happy they were done and they were painless.  We’ll probably get results at the end of next week.Kevin called me at work at about 11ish.  Before my surgery my boss gave me two free movie tickets and a gift certificate to Fuddrucker’s.  Kevin asked if I felt up to an afternoon date with him.  Shoot yeah!!  Anytime I can get some one on one time with my man, I’m all over it!! 

 After I got off of work, I met him at the mall.  We had a nice peaceful lunch.  Well, sorta peaceful.  The neighbor girl was there, with her mom, helping to raise money for the school drama club.  My hubby also saw a friend from work there.  I can’t take my hubby anywhere without him knowing a poo load of people.  Once we got done eating we still had an hour to before the movie started.  We tried to walk around the mall and window shop but my tummy didn’t want any of that.  So we got to the movie 30 minutes early.  It was nice to have a theater all to ourselves for a while.  Kevin rested his eyes while I chattered.  We are like old people.

We watched Vantage Point.  Kevin said that some people that he knew had hated it because it kept going back in time to show each individuals vantage point of an incident.  But we loved it.  The third or fourth time of it going back in time we kinda got annoyed but the pieces fell together so well that the feeling passed.  It was definitely a great pick for a date movie.

We came home and have just vegged the rest of the evening.  Rachel went to her dad’s for the night.  Lauren invited a friend over.  We always seem to lose one and gain one. 

In other news, I’m getting back into work pretty well.  Earlier in the week I was nervous about going full-time next week.  But now I am feeling a lot more confident about it.  I’m still avoiding the stairs and moving too much.  I have to create this balance where I’m not sitting too long and I’m not walking around too much. 

One huge thing that I have noticed since I had my hysterectomy is that my blood pressure has gone up.  Before the surgery it hovered around 90/60.  The last two appointments it has been around 120/90.  I was a little worried.  I have never had one of those numbers above 100.  NEVER!!  Kevin said it is because those organs are gone now so the blood flow is not going there anymore.  And where my blood pressure is at is where it should have been.  So maybe with it being normal it will have some positive effects on my health.  We will see.