Today is June 4 and I had to make a bag-of-chapstick for my first Cucumber Mint tube of the season:
Already?! Seriously?! I cannot believe I have used that much chapstick in a short time because it didn’t get warm for a while.
Once I am finished with this bag-o-chapstick, I have three other tubes for this Spring/Summer season. I know that I will be finished with this bag-o-chapstick before I leave the house for haircuts on June 18.
I completely know that the flavor of chapstick I am using makes no difference in the real world, but I am no longer in the real world, and it’s something to focus on, I guess.
I spoke to Sean while he was driving today and he said that it is the first hot day and I completely agreed with him.
The past month of this 50°and 60° back-and-forth has been brutal, but I don’t think I was ready for it to be 87° for the entire day!
It’s 76° right now and it’s 10 o’clock at night?! Thank the Lord that my AC is fixed! This would be so much more unbearable!!! This doesn’t feel great but a lot better than it could feel.
I think the moment I have been waiting for for over a month is finally here! I think my air conditioning is going to be on all the time!!!
now it will be time for me to hole up in my house because my central air is fixed finally!!! After nine years?!!!!
It has been completely brutal having the AC on during the day and heat during the night but looking at the upcoming forecast, it seems warm enough to have AC all the time!!!
I saw this post on Facebook today and I have seen it many times since I’ve joined Facebook and that was 18 years after I had my son via C-section. He was 32 weeks gestation when he was born and he weighed 4 lbs. 11 oz. and he was 17.6 inches long. He was eight weeks premature and stayed in the hospital for 31 days after his birth. The hardest month of my life!!! He’s 23 now.
Days afyer I gave birth to him, I was told that I was walking too slow and I was hoisted over someone’s shoulder to speed up the process. That’s the kind of pain that you just suck air in because it hurts too much to breathe out! A few of my staples popped, and I have the scar to prove it.
Back then, I was told that, “It’s just a scratch!” to which I always responded that they cut through my guts to get him out of my body!
Seeing and reading this post today reminded me how much of a big deal this actually was:
C-section. It’s the only major surgery where seven layers of your body are opened—and just six hours later, you’re expected to be on your feet, caring for another human being.
While society often normalizes it, a cesarean is a serious abdominal surgery that comes with real risks: infection, blood loss, and complications from anesthesia—and yet, moms rise.
If you became a mother through a C-section, know this: YOU ARE STRONGER THAN YOU THINK. And that? That’s something to be damn proud of. ❤️❤️❤️
Last night, as I was getting ready to go bed, that means that I was seated parallel to my bed and my Mom helps me stand up and out of my chair and then I lay down in my bed. I sat there, and I just said, “My knee hurts.”
That is just a ‘matter-of-fact, statement for me now, eight years after my second surgery. Well, in two months, it will be 8 years. I remember when I used to gasp and cry when my knee popped out.
I don’t do that anymore. It just hurts. It was really throbbing last night and I think I did that to myself because I reposted a post talking about Jumanji 2, that’s what we watched yesterday. And that post, I spoke about my knee throbbing. We watched all of it except for the last 25 minutes. We watched that today.
I am not going to jinx it and say that my knee will be fine tonight because I don’t know if it will be yet… but I still can hope 24 years into this journey… #MSsucks!!! 😒😒😒…
Sean stopped by on his way home from work because I had ordered him a rain jacket. He came by to pick it up and my Mom heated up tamales that we had in the freezer from my last appointment downtown. My Mom reheated the tamales and she cut mine into bite-size pieces and put it in a bowl because that’s how I eat now.
She brought the bowl over to me and she brought one tamale with the husk off for Sean.
As soon as the tamale smell hit my nose, I said with fondness, “Tamales always remind me of my Abuela!”
I wasn’t expecting to hear what Sean said at all, but I guess that it’s true! He said, “Me too!” And we both started to laugh! My Mom laughed when I told her as well!
It seems as if Big Brother is working overtime because look at what showed up into my feed today! This made me laugh! I didn’t know anything about the You’veGotMail stuff.
Forrest Gump would have been a completely different movie with Dave Chappelle in it!
I have always been fascinated by the Cliffs of Moher!!!
My Mom and I talked to Sean yesterday as he was coming home from work and my Mom told him that I was watching You’ve Got Mail on Amazon prime:
He said,“You know, I like that movie! I mean, it’s no Leap Year, but I like that movie too!
My Mom was putting on my compression socks and I just chimed in, I ‘love how that sounds!’ I have watched both of these movies too many times to count and I guess Sean was around for it!
