5/3/05

Well I am back at work.

I had my surgery Friday, The biospy went well. I showed up at 12:00 as my appointment stated and I went back and changed and the nurse did an ultrasound to know exactly where the lumps were and then we waited for my doctor, and we waited and waited. Then finally the nurse came in to tell me the doctor would not be in, in time to do the biospy before there next scheduled appointment. So she asked if I could wait until 2:30 or reschedule. I was like, I took off of work for this, I cannot reschedule. I will go get some lunch and come back. Luckily he was there when I returned. Everything went fine. I only have 2 stiches on one breast. Even 4 days later I am still sore. It hurts when I walk and when I use the same arm as the breast with stiches. I had a little bruising and lots of swelling. Thank God for Dwight. He brought me food and stopped by to check on me a few other times. I was ok Friday, sore but ok, Saturday was a fog, basically I slept all day and Sunday the girls got home around 4:00, So I was alert again. I got up to take the girls to school on Monday, but was still pretty sore, so I came back home and went back to bed.

So, today is my first day back. It hurts everytime I walk. I just hold my boobs when I walk, luckily I work at a very small company and the people around me are all women, so they don't care.

Well there are a lot of stories to catch you up on, but I don't know if I have to time to type it all.

There's the whole Caitlyn's Dad thing. The whole Alexis's Dad thing. The whole Dwight catching me smoking thing.

First Caitlyn's Dad, he provides her medical insurance per his child support order-which isn't enough, a measly 37.00 per week, because he lied about his income. Well around Christmas time, he decided, with some persuasion, to voluntarily up his child support 5.00 per week. And he called Thursday and told me he wants to up it again 10.00 per week. So we are up to 52.00 per week. I will be happy when it gets to 75.00 per week. So anyway, he calls about that and about this orthodontist treatment she needs, that his insurance covers 100% up to 2,000.00 and the treatment is going to cost 1520.00 so I figured all was well. Well apparentl not, he calls and is like well since she is going to need braces in 5 years, then lets just use 1/2 of her insurance now and half for her braces. They want 385.00 up front which he voluntered to pay and I would pay 160.00 per month. And he would reimburse me when his insurance company reimburses him. I was like NO WAY!! She has insurance, I am not paying anything for her treatment. I can put away 15.00 per week in a savings account and in 5 years the savings account will have enough to pay for her braces. I'm not holding back on her insurance today for something that might happen 5 years from now. That is stupid. Not to mention 160.00 a month is ridiculous!!!! You pay the 160.00. So he gave in, and agreeded that putting the money away in a savings account will work well. So crisis averted, and child support is going up 10.00 per week. Every little bit helps.

Alexis's Dad. Well I could have just smacked him. I dropped off the girls on Thursday night. He doesn't have a car, so there was no way for him to pick the girls up from school on Friday, so they went over on Thursday. He calls thursday and tells me he will not be home until after 9pm, and I can drop them off then. Mind you this is an hour past there bedtime, and they won't be going to bed the minute they walk in the door. So I knew this was a bad idea, and he never thinks of anyone but himself. So they get dropped off and they are dead tired. Practically falling asleep on the 10 minute drive over there. I drop them off and head over to Dwights house. I figure we could spend some time together before heading into surgery and being laid up for 4 days. So, I'm at Dwights watching tv and I get a phone call. I answer and it is Randy-Lexy's Dad. He is in a panic. Yelling and hollerng about Lexy needing her medicine and why didn't I bring it. I try to tell him she doesn't need her medicine, I already explained to her she didn't need her medicine. He accepts this answer and hangs up. He calls back about 2 minutes later. In more of a panic and much louder and nasty tone. He is screaming at me that Alexis needs her medicine. And again I tell him, no she doesn't. She hasn't needed it, should need it and she is tired, send her to bed. Apparently she is crying and having a fir and keeps crying for her medicine. He says I must meet him somewhere to get the medicine. I'm like no, I'm not coming, she doesn't need it. It's been a week. She isn't suspose to be taking it anymore. He yells something about them not having any dinner and all they have in there belly is cereal. And hangs up on me. So I thought this was the end of it. His mother calls 5 minutes later. She is like, Alexis is crying and she says she needs her medicine. So finally someone wh will listen to me, I explain why she no longer needs her medicine and that is tired and needs to go to bed and how they did have dinner. She listens and says Whay should I do? I was kinda applaed at the question. You don't know what to do? You have to call me to find out what to do? If you want to give in to her, then give her tylenol and send her to bed. But for the record, she knows better then to act like that in my house, because I do not give in to her tired tirads. And no more phone calls. Lexy called me the next day to see how I was doing and I ripped into her about the crying fit and the lie about not having any dinner, I made Randy get on the phone and let him know I deserved an apology about the dinner comment and he needed to stop putting up with her tantrums or she will continue to do it, she doesn't do it with me, she knows better, I will beat her ass. So he apologized and I didn't her from them again until it was time to come home.