Recovery, Alpacas & A Birthday

Feeling like myself again, though it took almost two weeks to get over whatever that was... I do NOT recommend it, nor would I wish it on my worst enemy!

I had a low-key birthday, hanging out with my parents at the Alpaca Ranch in NM. We're here for our annual Thanksgiving vacation/ranch sitting.

Mom & Dad celebrated their 44th wedding anniversary yesterday, another low-key event.

We're always so relaxed when we stay at the ranch. I feel like it is a very healing place. They only get 2 TV stations, the Internet is slightly faster than dial-up, and you're surrounded by mountains and animals. It's the perfect place to "get away."

I love it here.

I'm spending another week here and my focus is on creating (crocheting & spinning) and spending time with the critters.

A while later...

I know it's been a long time.... And as you may have guessed, a lot has happened.

Most recently I became so ill that I spent the night in the emergency room on IV fluids trying to get re-hydrated.

I started in with a stomach bug last Wednesday and by Thursday night I thought I was dying. I've never been so sick in my life... I couldn't even keep water down. By 2am Friday I asked my mom to take me to the ER and then I was begging the ER doctor for an IV.

It was my first-ever IV and it was SO needed and SO appreciated. I felt better within 5 minutes, even though my fever persisted until late Saturday night and I'm just beginning to eat solid foods again.

I was supposed to leave Monday to begin a 3 week visit to Victory Ranch Alpacas, my NM friends. I'm hardly in any shape to drive, so my departure has been postponed until this Saturday.

Sunday is my birthday so I WILL be better by this weekend!

I have a lot more to say regarding the big events in my life that have occurred this year, but I'm exhausted!

More to come later.

Promise.

Moving on

It's been a while....

After four years filled with doctor's visits, medications, allergy shots, acupuncture, and sinus infections... I've finally made the very difficult decision to leave Colorado.

The immediate plan is to move back to Texas for a year so I can get healthy (physically and financially) and then find a job somewhere where I will be healthy.... Maybe back to Minnesota?

My uncle's funeral