Mind the Gap

I guess I'll start by apologizing to myself for not posting for a while! How am I supposed to remember each week if I don't post each week. Magic, I suppose. Anyway, I'll do a (quickish) update while Ella is entranced with Sesame Street. The last couple of weeks have been a bit crazy.

First, how am I feeling? Well I'm 9w5d, and I think my nausea has been improving the past few days. The evenings starting around dinnertime are still quite hard, but I'm feeling pretty okay during the day - maybe hovering around a 4 on the 10-point scale? I still have sore boobs, not nearly as much cramping, lots of breaking out, fatigue and my bladder's not been well at all. I'm mostly upset about that last part. Starting yesterday, I'm doing my very best to get 3 Elmiron doses in a day to see if that starts to help in a month or so. I'm taking 2 at once before lunch and 1 in the mid-afternoon. It's just so hard to go more than an hour or two without eating since it makes my nausea so much worse.

I had been working from home which was working out fine, but then Home Depot had a big lay off. My entire team got cut and I probably would have gone, too, but Brad created my old projects job again to keep me. So the bad news is I no longer have a team and this is a job I did two year ago, but the good news is I'm still employed. Sort of. The day after the announcement, they asked me to stop working from home and go on a leave of absence until I'm able to get in the office full-time. So. I'm at home with no job right now. Not bad, really, but I'm not feeling very productive. I have a lot of projects I need to get done around here, though, so I'm going to concentrate on those things before feeling pressured to go back to my job. Mostly, I need to get our 2007 family movie done, taxes completed, and a few other things. Last week I managed to get our Manning Homes brochure content 95% done and off to Michele to do the artwork. She's pregnant too and is about three weeks ahead of me - I'm very excited for her!

I think I may also work in a quick trip to Texas and maybe one up to New Jersey while I'm out. Honestly I get 90 days paid leave and there's not a huge rush to get back, aside from not wanting to take advantage of the company. They don't even have work for me to do right now so there's nothing waiting on me. I bet I'll be feeling better and will head back in 3-4 weeks. We'll see.