This week in our lives a lot of things happened:
- This isn't really exclusive to our lives, but Provo has decided it's time to be winter. It's literally about 40-50 degrees and cloudy/rainy every day and I'm loving it :) (Of course, I have a garage to park in...)
- Emma got her mission call to Nashville, Tennessee, English Speaking, leaving January 15th!! I have a very love/hate relationship with missions, so I'm extremely sad to see her go, but she's going to be an amazing missionary, I know it.
- We had everyone over for a back to school breakfast on Saturday morning. It was great, and we are getting better at delegating so we don't get stuck paying for and cooking everything on our own. Derrick and Rachel, Jim and Christi, Jeremy and Sierra, Annie and Russ, Emma, and Scott (Dave's brother) were all able to make with which was nothing short of a miracle. It was nice to catch up and have a relaxing breakfast with everyone.
- We watched the BYU Utah game that night with Annie and Russ and we were pretty upset at how terrible it was. Mostly because we stayed up so late for it and it ended up not being worth it.
- Choir started at a new time this week! I just got called as the choir director for our ward and released as music chair (Is it bad that I'm happy about this?) and I decided to change the time from 4:15-5:15 pm to 9:00-10:00 am. I know neither of these times are stellar, but I think 9:00 is more doable for the families with kids in our ward (i.e. EVERYONE). So I made a bunch of calls the night before begging people to come, and so many people showed up! We had like 25, which is about 5x as many people as normal. Hopefully I didn't scare them away and they'll keep coming back.
Side note: I just absolutely love conducting choirs. It's exhilarating and feels transcendent for me sometimes. Even though we're no Motab, something about hearing a choir who's really polished and beautiful express their testimony by believing the words they're singing really inspires me. I love it!!
-We had Bailey and Travis over for dinner on Sunday evening. Travis and I were best friends freshmen year, and Bailey waited for him on his mission so we've stayed in touch over the years as well. It was nice to catch up with them, and I think I inspired Bailey to start applying for the MFT program. (She's a Psych undergrad) It'd be so awesome if she got in and we could be in the program together next year!
-Wow..all that was just the weekend...
-During the week, I went to the doctor because I'm still in pain and he asked me to come in to kind of reevaluate things. He did an ultrasound and we were finally able to very specifically figure out why I'm still in pain. It turns out that it's my ovary. It's not the muscles or tissues around it, it's not adhesions or scar tissue. I just have a painful ovary. The pain is continuous and spontaneous which is frustrating, but that happens with endometriosis sometimes. We didn't see any endo on my ovary during the surgery, which we were happy about because of fertility, but it certainly seems like there is some microscopic endo on my left ovary right now causing me pain. I'm already taking the right hormone meds that should shrink the existing endo so we just need to give it some more time to see if it will help in the next month or so.
I was just happy that when he touched my ovary he could reproduce my exact chronic pain. No one's been able to figure out what exactly is causing it before now. Now that we feel more confident about what we are specifically treating, both my doctor and I are more comfortable with pain management medicines in the meantime. He gave me a new, slightly less effective (and therefore, less addicting) drug than hydrocodone to use when I need it. (Tylenol and Ibuprofen don't help at all) I used it this week, and the next day I was completely pain free!
This felt like a complete miracle because it's been so long that I haven't felt any pain at all...I had so much more energy and I was happier and completely able to be productive all day long with no nap! I just use that medicine as needed right now, but I'm going to ask my doctor if maybe it would be a more effective way to treat the pain continuously since it was so effective after just one pill. Wish me luck!
The pain's back today, so I'm pretty sad about that, but I know this is how it goes; Good days and bad days--I'm just grateful I'm starting to have some good ones :).
- I don't want people to think that I define myself by the pain, because I'm trying really hard not to. I don't want to live as a sick person for the rest of my life. But it is my reality right now, and I can't really change that. I'm at the doctor's office almost weekly because I haven't given up trying to figure this all out and I'm really reallyyy hoping to be healthy by the time I start seeing clients (in a month or so). For right now, we're hopeful about having a good day this week. Hopefully it was a taste of good things to come. We're definitely praying for it!
- Let's talk about Dave for once, yeah? He is really really loving his internship. He's getting paid, which is always nice, but mostly he just loves the research he's doing, and he really feels like this is what he wants to do with his life. It's all about how to help online classes be as effective for students as personal tutoring is. He's also made tons of time to get out and go fishing this week. And today he's going fishing with my Dad for the second half of the day after work. I think they're crazy because it's 48 degrees and rainy!! But fishermen are a special kind of people, I guess.
In other news, on top of thinking I have diabetes, my cohort probably thinks Dave abuses me now because I showed up to class on Tuesday with a huge blue and purple gash on the side of my cheek by my eye. It looks like a bruise, but it's just a bad burn from my curling iron. Hopefully it heals soon because it's really hurting and I don't want a scar on my face!
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| Please excuse the selfie, and keep in mind this is covered with makeup. |
Also...I eat chocolate chip Eggo waffles and In-N-Out like nobody's business all of a sudden. And I'm not even sorry about it.
So that was our week over here. Nothing too exciting, but school is going great for both of us, and after a few
Happy days here at the Rackham household!
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