Yesterday I received a phone call from my friend telling me that our "adoptive" other son Luke was in the ditch down on the "dreaded" corner-Zingler's corner. I think every town must have one of those on some road somewhere. Some corner where accidents seem to happen. That's what ours is called. Zingler is the name of the family that have owned must of the land surrounding that corner for as long as anyone can remember. My friend said that someone was there with him pulling him out. I called Will to let him know what was going on.
Another friend called Will shortly after that and said that he was still stuck and she didn't know if they would get him out without help. Will and Jake suited up, loaded the truck and headed out. They finally got Luke out and he headed home.
Life went on as usual and so we headed over to the Fischer house for an evening of trying to put together the video presentation for our youth trip to Chicago. We spent a lovely evening there. Finally after plaguing their existence long enough...we headed home.
On the way home we turned one corner and there was a jeep in the ditch....way in the ditch. No one in it, so we headed on. Got to Zingler's corner and there was another car in the ditch this one with a lady in it. We called 911 because the corner was so dangerous and so very slippery that we couldn't stop on that side of the road for safety's sake. We turned around, came back and parked on the other side with flashers going to warn oncoming drivers as Will went to help.
As we were sitting there another truck came by, drove a little farther down the road and flew into the ditch. I called 911 because now we have 2 cars in the ditch. It's getting iffy around there. An officer is on the way.
We finally get headed home and are almost there when we notice another set of headlights aimed for the sky on the side of the road. This was a truck that had driven straight into the ditch. Someone was there with them, so we went on home, glad to arrive home in one piece. It was about midnight and we were all exhausted. We went straight to bed....and that's the story of our wild and crazy ride home.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
The posting war
Will and I have been teasing each other lately about who's turn it is to post. We are really busy. Of course, we both sit in front of the computer doing "mindless" things daily, but making the effort to type something intelligent seems to be above an beyond us. So....I'm gonna win the war for today (he just cheats and posts pictures anyway).
Thursday and Friday were completely strange for me. In order to explain I have to go clear back 15 years ago when I was pregnant with Jessalyn. You see Will and I were in the car and ...wham..a deer came through the windshield and hit me in the head. Totaled the car and in general caused bunches of problems. We thought it was all over until a couple of years ago.
About 2008 I started having facial pain that was up under my nose and along my upper jaw. Then the infections started and we found out that the deer had killed all of my teeth along the top of my jaw in front. I knew that I would have to have root canals on all of them and get crowns. I put it off as long as possible due to financial reasons, but also due to the fact that we didn't know which ones were dying and which ones weren't. I wanted to get it all done at once, not keep going in every couple of months and do it all over again.
Finally they all reached a point where you could tell what steps to take and I went and had the root canals. Let me tell you this...I love Dr. Blair Johnson in Eau Claire. Quick painless and hardly any pain afterward. He's wonderful and I cannot recommend him enough. I love my dentist too (he's my brother-in-law).
Jimmy did the work and got the temporary crowns on Thursday. He made it as pain free as possible (although working on those front teeth you can't kill it all the way). Everything went fine except...
Right in the middle of the procedure I started getting dizzy. Now remember I said Dizzy not dizty, so no smart remarks. They said the blood all drained out of my face. They waited a while and I started feeling better, so we went on. I was fine on the way home until the last 3 miles. Then I got really dizzy and weak. I drove about 30 mph and as carefully as I could and got home. I went straight in and laid down.
I spent the next 5 hours with a high fever and chills, unable to sit up and certainly unable to stand up. I told Will when he called that I thought I needed to go to the ER. I didn't want to go for many reasons..for one I could not walk, I could not sit up, stand up or motivate. I was so cold that I knew I could not go outside. I thought the walk to the car and being outside might kill me..really. I did not think that I would survive. Of course most of that was the fever, but I truly was afraid to leave the bed. That is not a "good" place to be in.
I asked Will to call Darin's house where the worship team was waiting for me to practice. They had already figured I would not be coming, because of pain, but really I didn't have much pain. Darin prayed with Will and right away my fever started going down. So we waited to see if I needed to go to the ER. I just went to sleep and slept most of it off.
I spent yesterday trying to recover feeling even weaker than I did after my hysterectomy. What a terrible thing that weakness. If the house was on fire, I'm not sure that I would have been able to get out at times. I feel better now, but not up to my usual capacity. I'm hoping it gets better since I now have to work today.
During this last week we lost 2 substitute carriers at work. They both moved on to different jobs, so we are now 3 short again. Lovely. The last time this happened, I ended up with Thursdays off instead of Saturdays...I sure hope that doesn't happen again.
Well, now that I've told you about the weirdness that is my life...How's yours going?
Thursday and Friday were completely strange for me. In order to explain I have to go clear back 15 years ago when I was pregnant with Jessalyn. You see Will and I were in the car and ...wham..a deer came through the windshield and hit me in the head. Totaled the car and in general caused bunches of problems. We thought it was all over until a couple of years ago.
About 2008 I started having facial pain that was up under my nose and along my upper jaw. Then the infections started and we found out that the deer had killed all of my teeth along the top of my jaw in front. I knew that I would have to have root canals on all of them and get crowns. I put it off as long as possible due to financial reasons, but also due to the fact that we didn't know which ones were dying and which ones weren't. I wanted to get it all done at once, not keep going in every couple of months and do it all over again.
Finally they all reached a point where you could tell what steps to take and I went and had the root canals. Let me tell you this...I love Dr. Blair Johnson in Eau Claire. Quick painless and hardly any pain afterward. He's wonderful and I cannot recommend him enough. I love my dentist too (he's my brother-in-law).
Jimmy did the work and got the temporary crowns on Thursday. He made it as pain free as possible (although working on those front teeth you can't kill it all the way). Everything went fine except...
Right in the middle of the procedure I started getting dizzy. Now remember I said Dizzy not dizty, so no smart remarks. They said the blood all drained out of my face. They waited a while and I started feeling better, so we went on. I was fine on the way home until the last 3 miles. Then I got really dizzy and weak. I drove about 30 mph and as carefully as I could and got home. I went straight in and laid down.
I spent the next 5 hours with a high fever and chills, unable to sit up and certainly unable to stand up. I told Will when he called that I thought I needed to go to the ER. I didn't want to go for many reasons..for one I could not walk, I could not sit up, stand up or motivate. I was so cold that I knew I could not go outside. I thought the walk to the car and being outside might kill me..really. I did not think that I would survive. Of course most of that was the fever, but I truly was afraid to leave the bed. That is not a "good" place to be in.
I asked Will to call Darin's house where the worship team was waiting for me to practice. They had already figured I would not be coming, because of pain, but really I didn't have much pain. Darin prayed with Will and right away my fever started going down. So we waited to see if I needed to go to the ER. I just went to sleep and slept most of it off.
I spent yesterday trying to recover feeling even weaker than I did after my hysterectomy. What a terrible thing that weakness. If the house was on fire, I'm not sure that I would have been able to get out at times. I feel better now, but not up to my usual capacity. I'm hoping it gets better since I now have to work today.
During this last week we lost 2 substitute carriers at work. They both moved on to different jobs, so we are now 3 short again. Lovely. The last time this happened, I ended up with Thursdays off instead of Saturdays...I sure hope that doesn't happen again.
Well, now that I've told you about the weirdness that is my life...How's yours going?
Friday, February 25, 2011
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