GOOD STUFF

It's not all gloom and doom around here. I know there are many people going through many worse things than an ear infection or incorrect credit card charges. I've had a lot of people show their support the last couple of days. It means a lot to me to know people really do care about our well being. There are many wonderful things happening in our lives, and I'm more than happy to share/blog about those, too. So here's a much better update than Monday's.

Colby's ear infection is better, but he's not completely over this illness yet. We pulled one heck of a nasty green booger out when doing his trach change tonight. TMI? He's half done with his antibiotics. Guessing maybe he's having sinus drainage along with the ear infection? He's been fever free since Friday. Going to try and send him to school tomorrow. He only has 9 days left in the school year. I hate that he has missed. We'll see what happens. If he does lousy, he can stay home again on Friday.

The credit card fiasco has gotten a little better. The credit card company has done their part. They took the Apria charges off and my balance is back to normal. Now comes the ridiculous, time consuming, frustrating battle with Apria's billing department. No way are they getting away with this. They have had my credit card number of file for years. And suddenly someone gets a wild hair up their ass and authorizes $10,000 worth of charges to that credit card bill. Nu-uh. No way, Jose. I asked them to send me a detailed statement of all charges, and I'll start there. I will argue every dime they have charged Colby's account, if necessary. If we owe them some money, then fine. Couldn't be over a couple hundred dollars, if any. It's Apria's fault. They aren't billing correctly. Freakin' morons.

I had a girls' day out to Churchill Downs this past Saturday. I felt a little weird leaving Colby. But he had started his antibiotic the day before. And I figured he wasn't much in the mood to sit up or do anything anyways. I think he was perfectly content on hanging out in bed watching his SBSP. I arranged for 8 of us wild and crazy gals to go to the track weeks ago. I didn't want to back out at the last minute. I told the nurse, repeatedly, if Colby needs me for any reason, call me, I can be home in 15 minutes. Colby was fine. My girlie friends and I had so much fun! It was one of those days where your face ends up hurting because you've laughed so much. I have the best, most fun group of friends. So glad I decided to go. Hoping we can all get together and do it again next year!

Now I have the most wonderful news to share. I got an e-mail from the contractor yesterday. They are going to start framing our house on Friday!! OMGosh, I'm so excited and happy I can hardly stand it. This is really, really great news. The house has been down to the studs since the first of March. We've gotten several things done at the house, and now I guess it's time to really start moving forward. Seriously, I couldn't be happier. Amazing how your life can go from crappy to stupendous in a matter of 24 hours. Tomorrow before I go to work I need to get copies of the floor plans made and run them up to the house for the framers. I'm so ready for this! Bring on the framers! Let's do this!

Time for me to get to bed. Colby has school and I'm working tomorrow, so we'll both be up early. Four days down, 2 to go for working at the hospital. I can do this. Saturday will hopefully be sleep in and get caught up on rest day. Bye for now. So glad to share some good news with everyone. Who knows what the next blog update will hold?! You never know around here, that's for sure.