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Showing posts with label hospital. Show all posts

Last minute trip to the mall...

My uncle was supposed to be home in time today to take my aunt to her doctor in Cape. Well, he ended up having to go to Kentucky for work and couldn't make it home, so LaVaughn and I took her instead. It worked out, her appointment wasn't until 3 and wee needed to go to Bath & Body Works to pick up a couple small gifts for people.

Of course, we ventured all around the mall before we left. I kept getting air pressure warnings in the rear left tire, so after we left the mall we had to run to the shop. Since we have nitrogen air on our tires, we can only put nitrogen air in our tires that can only be done at Plaza Tire. It sucks... We got the air, though, and it didn't take long.

We were off to the pet store after that to grab some of Zoe and Una's favorite foods. We stopped by the shoe store next door for a few minutes where I found some ADORABLE handbags. They were only $50 -- most were 30% off and I believe they were buy on get one, not sure. I left empty handed, though. I will be back, that you can count on.

We hopped over to the market for some last minute grocery shopping before it was time to go pick my aunt up from the store. All in all, not a bad day. Long, but not bad.

The drive there:


The mall:



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Post-Cape blog, plus birthday gifts and mall finds!

LaVaughn had to go to the pain clinic Wednesday for her quarterly injection, so we decided to go up on Tuesday, stay the night at the hotel and do some shopping. We stayed at our favorite hotel; Auburn Place Hotel & Suites and even got our favorite room this time! I'm going to leave out what room number it is due to the fact that I have a stalker now, but we'll leave that for another blog.

After we got checked into the room, we did our usually mall run where we were able to find some AMAZING deals -- who doesn't love out of season clearance items? Maurice's and Old Navy are our go-to store when it comes to hitting the clearance. Especially if you're looking for style and comfort. We snagged a few Christmas gifts as well -- I also got LaVaughn's other birthday gift that I've wanted desperately to get her from Hot Topic!

After we spent a couple hours exploring nearly every single store in the mall, we called it quits for the day and headed back to our room before 7 PM. We had planned on hitting up Target and Petco, but decided to go there after the injection.

We ordered take-out from Olive Garden again, only because we've been dying to try the Tour of Italy and the Northern Tour of Italy (this one was mine). Of course, it was amazing. I'm a huge fan of their Alfredo and Tortellini. The salads are mediocre, in my opinion. They're overrated $1 bags of Dole salad mix that you get from the market. Where are the baby greens?? The salads are free, so I'm not complaining.

Luckily LaVaughn's appointment went well and we were able to hit up Target (more Christmas items), Petco and Walmart for household items and more groceries than I care to admit.

Of course, we were homesick all night last night and badly missed our cats and other furry critters. It was nice to get away for a day, though, but I still prefer to be home. I'm a homebody -- nearly a shut-in!

I've stolen pictures from my Instagram to share, but they're really nothing special. Hope you enjoy!

Our room and a couple pics of the hotel:




The mall and their giant wreath:


Maurices:


And lastly, our amazing takeout from Olive Garden:



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Cape adventures and doctors appointments...

My aunt had to have an injection in her back today in Cape which required a driver, so I had the honor of accompanying her on her journey. I wanted to hit up Hastings anyways -- it's only a matter of time before they close their doors for good.

The drive there was nice, super long, but nice. We arrived at the hospital far too early, like we always do. No one trusts my judgment when I say it'll only take 1 1/2 hours, maybe a little longer to get there. I dropped her off at the hospital (I did go in with her), then I headed to Hastings.

Hastings in Cape is like a wasteland. They don't have hardly anything left and the entire back part of the store is just empty shelves. It seriously looks like something from a post apocalyptic movie. So yeah, didn't make it out of there with anything other than a cute monster hat that I'll probably never wear in my life. I still have the tags on it, so I may sell it or gift it to someone this Christmas.

It was a fairly boring day. Long, but boring. I'm happy to be home now, driving such long distances takes so much out of me...

Drive there through Sam A Baker. 

Hospital bathroom.

Hastings: wasteland.

And lastly, my new hat. Meh..

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Late night recap...

Yeah, I know I wasn't planing on blogging until next week, but I know something will come up and I'll be a week or two behind again. So, since I figured out how to embed pictures from Instagram, I thought I would do just that. So, here we go--



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A taste of spring (plus Pip and other updates)...

I'm merely commenting on the fact that everything is finally starting to bloom -- nothing to do with the temperature. I honestly can't believe how chilly it's been lately. Anyways, the tulips are starting to bloom in my neck of the woods and I couldn't help but go out and photograph them. They'll have fallen of or be torn down by the dog in no time, so I really needed to take advantage.

I also got some super cute pictures of Zoe earlier while she was begging for handouts. She sits still when she wants something, so it's give ample opportunity to photograph her.

In other news, Pip has been put on a 2 week course of antibiotics to help combat his infection. She said that it's either a tooth root abscess or a sinus infection. If it doesn't clear up within a week, he'll have to go back and be sedated for further investigation. I'm hoping that it's just a sinus infection and that these will do the trick.

LaVaughn also went back to the doctor today for a check up after her hospital visit. Since her ear is still swollen, her doctor wants her to have a CT scan at the hospital. They're going to call and schedule that, then they'll let us know when it is.

Well I guess that's all for now. It's short and boring, but it's something. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan













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A photoshoot and a trip to the hospital...

You remember me saying yesterday that I was doing Megan's senior pictures today? Well I did, but not before taking LaVaughn to the hospital...

LaVaughn went to her doctor a couple weeks ago for an ear infection -- also for having a big lump behind her ear. Her doctor put her on amoxicillin for 10 days and said if that didn't help, she'll need to be seen again.

Well the antibiotics didn't help at all and the lump was still there - another lump also joined the party. She called them today and asked if they could call her in a stronger antibiotic, but the nurse told her that it could be her mastoid and that she needed to go to the ER to get a CT scan. 

It didn't take us long to get dressed and head out the door.

My aunt and uncle came not 10 minutes after we got there and stayed the duration of the day. Since I had already made a promise to Megan, I decided that since family was there with LaVaughn, it would be okay if I drove from Farmington to Ironton to do her shoot. 

Luckily it wasn't LaVaughn's mastoid, but her lymph nodes instead. They were severely swollen due to a sever ear infection that never cleared up. Around the time they got released from the ER I was finishing up with Megan's pictures. They had to go to the pharmacy to get her meds, which game me time to finish everything up and drop Megan by her house. 

They made it to McDonald's to drop LaVaughn off 5 minutes before me, which wasn't bad.

All in all it was a VERY successful day with a great outcome in the end (with LaVaughn). I was super stressed. I've managed to go through some of the 975 pictures of Megan that I took and have a handful of them that I'm going to share. I'll keep most of them private for her, but I must share SOME of them with you all. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here are just a FEW of the pics that I took of Megan today. Not bragging, but I think her senior pics turned out really, really well!






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Possible hiatus...

My aunt is getting released from the hospital today -- yay! She only had to stay 4 days, which was 4 days too long, but the drain in her back just kept draining, which was the main factor that played into her release.

Her release is what lead me to my potential hiatus. She's going to need a lot of help for the next couple weeks. She wont be able to take care of her three dogs, shower alone, cook dinner, clean, or do basically anything except lie down and sit. That's where we come in. Not to mention, I'm going to be returning to work Tuesday. That on top of everything else isn't going to leave any spare time. So, like I said, it mat be a while before my next blog.

I'm saying this now, but knowing me it'll make me blog MORE!

I got out the old picture bag last night and took a trip down memory lane. These are pictures that were taken before my digital camera days -- I'm talking pictures anywhere from 2000ish to 2004. Yeah, old! I mainly wanted to go through and find some old pictures of Zoe, which I did -- she used to be so skinny!

I did come across a picture of my cousin, Brandy, the one that passed away a few days ago. That was bittersweet, almost made me stop working altogether. Then I stopped and realized, maybe I was meant to see the picture, so I smiled and kept going.

Today is been another rainy, hot, and muggy day. I really wish it would either turn into summer or revert back to spring - I'm sick of the in between. I honestly can't really think of anything else that I would like to say, so I guess I'll leave it at that. I need to get started on my nightly chores anyways.  Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Of course, Milla observed me the entire time I looked through old pictures:


Ready for a stroll down memory lane?

This is Zoe and Princess (our very first inside cat!).

As you can see, they were super close.

The best of friends.

Notice how skinny Zoe used to be?

She was just under a year in these, though.

Can you believe these were from Feb. 2003? That's 12 years ago!!





This is another cat of ours that passed away. Her name was Lizzy and she was a polydactyly.

This is another girl we used to have, Chloe.

More Princess and Zoe.

They were inseparable -- I really miss this.

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Yesterday, all my troubles seem so far away...

Words cannot express how thankful I am that yesterday is over! What seemed like a never ending day came to a halt at around 8 PM last night -- which was when everything was said and done.

I got a call from my aunt last night informing me that her arrival time had been moved from 11 AM to 9 AM. Not cool on so many levels -- do they realize how far away she is? So that pushed our wake-up from 10 to 8... you can imagine my excitement. The duration of Monday night was stressful and worrisome. I found it hard to enjoy myself knowing that my aunt was going to be sliced open the next day. SO many things were going through my head.

LaVaughn and I forced ourselves to go to bed at 3 AM, making for a very sleepy 8 AM wake-up. As soon as we heard the alarm, we jumped up as if we'd been up all night and started packing. She jumped in the shower while I gathered our remaining items that we had strung across the hotel room. We switched roles about 10 minutes later, allowing me time to shower and her time to make sure we weren't forgetting anything -- I'm terrible at that.

We somehow managed to carry EVERYTHING that we had in our hotel room down to the car in ONE trip! I'm still kind of impressed, but my arms sure aren't. We made it to the hospital -- which is less than 5 minutes away -- by 8:45 and met my aunt and uncle in the waiting room. He still couldn't believe that we managed to get up at 8, shower, pack, and make it to the hospital in such short time. Little does he know that's how we always are.

They ended up taking my aunt back to pre-op just a few minutes after 9. They said it would be about an hour, then they would call us back and we could sit with her until her surgery was over. That hour came and went and the clock was nearing 10:30. We all got a little paranoid that she had been taken back to surgery, so my uncle asked someone at the receptionist desk to call back and check. Apparently all was good and they let us go back. We all let out a big sigh of relief.

We made it to the pre-op room and sat with her from 10:30 until nearly 2!! She was supposed to be taken back around 11:30, but apparently there was some type of complication with a surgery before her -- so they say. We said our goodbyes and made our way back to the waiting room. We all went down to the cafe where we ate. My uncle ate like his meal of the day, LaVaughn and I snacked on some disgusting cottage cheese and pineapple... I'm still not completely recovered from that.

We got a call just after 3 that they had started her surgery. Then the waiting game began. LaVaughn and I paced the halls for over an hour. We would sit for a while, walk all the way out to the car, come back in and sit, walk the halls some more, walk to the chapel, sit some more, and so on. This went on from 3 until 7.

Her surgery was done just after 5, then we all got to sit and talk to her doctor. After that we made all the appropriate calls to notify everyone that she was okay and that the surgery went well.

They said she would be in the recovery room for an hour, maybe a little over. Of course, as our luck would have it, she was in recovery from 5 until 7:30. Since we had a 2 hour drive home, we only stayed for about 20 more minutes after she made it to her room, then we left.

We made it home by 10:30, had all the animals fed, laundry started, and coffee made less than an hour later. Saying we were exhausted is an understatement! I passed out a couple different times last night, but finally had to call it a night around 4 AM.

I woke up just before noon today feeling majority refreshed! I've already started finishing the laundry, put away the dishes, fed the cats, dog, chickens, wiped the counters odd, and now I'm doing nothing, lol. I have to finish the laundry and clean the gosling cage next, then I need to clean the rat cage... if I feel like it. As of right now I don't want to do anything other than blog and sit. I do believe I'm going to leave it at that, though. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

These are pictures from the hotel yesterday morning, it's not much:

This was our Terra Green supplies via the hotel.


Not sure why, but I loved the lighting.

I took several pictures on my phone yesterday, but nothing important.
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Wanted, dead or alive...

We made it back from Cape in one piece. Extremely tired, but whole. I know I've said this before, but the drive to Cape is one of the worst!

After LaVaughn finished up with her cortisone injection, we made our way to Hancock Fabric where we were planing on splurging. Our spending spree ended as quickly as it started when we realized fleece was $12.99 a yard! Normally there's a 50% sale or something, but there were no sale signs to be seen. We ended up getting 1 print and 1 solid. The solid was only $4.99 a yard, then we have a 50% off coupon for one regular priced yard which cut the $12.00 in half.

When we were checking out, I gave the coupons to the guy and showed him which one I wanted. That's when he was like, "We can't use coupons on sale items." Meaning that the fleece WAS all on sale and we put back all the fleece we had picked out for nothing. I was too annoyed at the time, so we didn't even bother going back for more.

After that, we made our way to downtown Cape so that we could get to Long John Silvers and sample their lobster bites. Unfortunately for us, we found the restaurant and tried their lobster bites. We each got a two piece fish meal with fries and lobsters bites. Can you guess how much it was? $24!! Yeah, no thanks! Now I remember why we eat at Captain D's all the time.

My mom's here now, so I probably wont be blogging much the rest of the week. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

This is the ADORABLE fleece we got from Hancock.

See the lobster bites box?

Now see it next to a can of cat food.

Mi madre.

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