Day 7 – Sunday, March 31, 2013 Yesterday put me over the edge. The entire week of stress and spikes of worry along with little sleep or food and no exercise to diffuse the stresswere enough, but this latest crisis and emergency routine were the proverbial straw...
Day 6 – Saturday, March 30, 2013 Jess started his first day of therapy today. We started with occupational therapy (also abbreviated as OT), which is “the use of treatments to develop, recover, or maintain the daily living and work skills of patients with a...
Day 5 – March 29, 2013 Peter came to relieve me at 6:00 am after a night shift; Jess slept a bit, but I couldn’t rest because every time he shifted mama bear wanted to make sure he was safe. I left to get some much needed sleep and collapsed until I awoke at...
Day 4 – March 28, 2013 I awoke at 2:15 am Thursday from bad dreams and feeling fear, anger and worry. I was not due at the hospital to relieve Pete until 6:00, but I got up and wrote because I couldn’t get back to sleep. I posted Wednesday’s update and...
March 27, 2013 – Day 3 The day began with some success; I got 6 hours of sleep, which was a miracle and restorative to me. When I got to the hospital at 6:30 am, I found a Starbucks and got mocha lattes for Pete and I (a little victory-bad coffee is a...
