Beautiful Willow
1st-To Angela’s. “Typical day”..Lyla
to school, Jimbo’s & park with Willow; Pick up Lyla with Willow & go to
the park Beautiful weather. 2nd-pick up Lyla & go to park &
take Lu to eat at Taziki’s then to her house to stay with both girls while Ang
& Brock went out to celebrate their birthdays. Angela’s 39th on
4th & Brock’s 42nd on 2nd. Lyla was sweet
& slept in “my room” & watched Netflix on my phone. Saturday we had
breakfast at Jimbo’s then enjoyed the “festival” in Mt. Laurel & trip to dog
park with girls. Brock got Willow then Lyla & I had lunch at Chic Fil A &
shopped for birthday gift at Walmart before going to birthday party for
Christian at Let’s Play. Monday 5th-To Angela’s. Talked about route
to get MSN & determined UAB was the best & least expensive way to do
it. To Jimbo’s with Willow. Picked up Lyla at school & went to Chick Fil A
with girls. Had a great time. Santa Claus was there. It was raining & dark
early & I had a wreck at intersection of “back route” & Highway 119. No
one was hurt but was very unsettling & ended up very expensive. 6th-Lyla
had several “fits” while trying to decide what to wear to school. Willow had a
great time with Oliver at Jimbo’s. Home after “after school ice cream trip to
Jimbo’s”. 7th-picked up Lyla at school; to park then stayed at her house until she
finished her book reports with her Dad. Friday-got Lyla at school after art
class. No one at park so we went to my house to spend the night. Lyla coughed a
lot during the night. Saturday Lyla played at my house (read books well!) then
we met Willow & Angela at Let’s Play. Tuesday 13th-to Angela’s
about 7:30 & stayed with Willow while she did errands etc. Picked up Lyla
at school & took both girls to Chic Fil A where they played well with other
kids. Thursday to Angela’s after Lyla went to school. Kept Willow while Angela
to MD & did errands. Returned the 15th early am & kept
Willow & stayed until Brock returned from Lyla’s allergy MD visit & had
the girls ready for bed. Friday the 16th we went to Calera & met
Angela et al & Kristina et al for Christmas train trip. Fun but sort of a “rip
off”. Lyla & Browns spent the night at our house. Saturday we opened
holiday gifts & had take-out lunch from La Paz & I kept Maggie Rae, Eli
& Lyla while the adults went out. (Assume someone was keeping Willow at her
house!). The kids were a little wild! Sunday the 18th Browns left
& I took Lyla to meet her parents at Whole Foods and they left to visit
Saba Rafi in Jasper. 20th-Angela & girls came over while their
house was cleaned. Lyla copied & wrote down all of the animals on the See
& Say! Kristina turned 37. 21st –picked up the repaired Honda
& turned in the rental car. 22nd-rode to Nashville with Roseanne
& Vincent. Ate at Frothy Monkey & went to see Abigail as a mouse in the
Nutcracker with the Nashville Ballet (this would be her last performance with
them). To Opryland Hotel & had a wonderful dinner in a private dining room
hosted by Eric & Shari. 22nd-At Breakfast with the Grinch I
started feeling sick. After tour of ICE at the hotel we stopped at Shari &
Eric’s house where I felt worse. In a lot of pain all the way home & went
to UED at UAB after we got to our house. I had a stomach volvulus & surgery
after midnight on Christmas Eve. To SICU then to 7SE later in the morning,
Christmas Day. Angela decorated my room! Additionally, we found our water had
been turned off Christmas Eve due to massive expensive leak in pipes leading to
the house. And our toilet & washer overflowed (Angela’s plumber friend Jake came
to fix it on the 31st & we had the septic tank cleaned out.) I was in the hospital
until December 29. I had an external “peg” tube as well as internal gastropexy
to hold my stomach in place. The peg stayed for several months. And for several
weeks I couldn’t pick up Willow. Angela hired Georgia’s mother Jen to help with
Willow. 30th-Shari & Green kids came to visit & go to cousin Stu's basketball game. They undecorated the tree which was a wonderful help!! I slept 12 hours that night. 31st- Angela visited & Shari & kids went home. As New Year’s Eve came I was optimistic the events of the “terrible, no
good, very bad” days of December 2016 were coming to an end!
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