here comes Tuesday morning!!

Wow, what a morning I've had. Just when I though that things could not get worse than the Sunday evening and Monday I had, here comes Tuesday morning!! I suppose I'll start my whining at the beginning, so here goes.

On Sunday, I woke up to burning ache behind my right shoulder blade. It was pretty bad, but I just popped a few Tylenol and went to church. Later that day, I tried some Motrin. It just kept getting worse. I was even having a hard time driving. Not just because I couldn't look left or right, but because it hurt extremely badly to even reach up to hold the steering wheel. Ouch. When we finally got home from church, I dug out a bottle of muscle relaxers. They didn't help either. Just made me sleepy. Mr. Wonderful was left to take care of the girls and get them into bed. At about 3 a.m., I woke up to an excruciating pain that seemed to have me paralyzed. I managed to wake Mr. Wonderful who spent the rest of the night/morning taking care of me. I managed to get a bit more sleep, but woke up feeling just as bad.

After Mr. Wonderful had dropped the girls off at school, he came home and helped me get ready for the doctor's appointment he had made for me. One burning shot and three prescriptions later, we were on our way home. It seems to just be a strained muscle and nothing serious. I spent my entire Monday in bed. Mr. Wonderful did everything...took girls to dance, picked up my meds, made lunch, cooked supper, and put girls into bed again.

I woke up this morning still stiff and sore, but so much better than before. It was so good to be out of bed! I got the girls ready for school and even managed to scoot them out the door early. As I was driving through the neighborhood, I felt something scratch my left leg. Then it started to burn. I carefully (I was a bit scared to move for fear of making my back hurt again) reached down and touched the burning spot. The burning turned into stabbing pain. I stopped the car and pulled my pants leg up to see what the problem was....a yellow jacket. By then it had already stung me two more times on the leg. It stung me on my finger as I tried to get it off my pants. I threw the car in park and jumped out. I stripped my pants off and threw them down, just in time to see a car drive by. I was standing pants-less in the street on the main entrance to our neighborhood. Yay for me. I never did find yellow jacket that caused all the craziness. So much for getting the girls to school early. At least we were going to make it on time. Then I waited to pull out on the highway for over 5 minutes because they were paving the road. I still thought we would be okay because we had left super early. Until I got across town and got caught behind a car accident that had just happened. Everyone seemed to be fine, so no worries there. The police were pulling up at the same time I did. By then, it was evident that I would have to wait quite a while to pull across the highway....the traffic was basically sitting still even though the left lane was completely open. People are so nosey. Nothing stopping them from moving but their own sick curiosity. 

We were finally getting out of the car at school when Avie announced that she had to go potty. It was 8 o'clock on the dot. We stopped by the potty on the way to their classrooms. Avie had actually allowed me to help her, which is rare. After we sent Addie into her class, Avie told me her pants were wet. What? That's not possible. After confirming that she did need to change, we stopped by her classroom and asked her teacher for her clothes bag. I'm not sure what I did wrong when I took her to potty. Maybe I was concentrating too much on being careful to not hurt my back and not enough on being sure her pants were out of the way. I got her changed, took her to class, got her snack set up on her table, signed both girls in 10 minutes late, and headed to the car. As I started to unlock it, I realized that I still had Addie's snack bag in my hands. Back into the school I went.

What a morning. I'm exhausted all over again just thinking about it. It has gotten much better now. The burning in my leg has finally eased off...those yellow jackets stings feel like acid running through you! Hope your morning went better than mine!!!!