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Well, went with Mom today to get the Ultrasound done. She’s fine. No need to kill myself with worry the way I have been.

Oh, might not have mentioned it before, but last week sometime (Tuesday?), she says she woke up with a crippling pain in her left calf.  Well, I told her she might want to see the doc cos Wednesday morning it was still hurting and that didn’t sound like any muscle contraction I knew. As usual, she ignored me …. but Thursday she was still in pain. So Friday morning I told her to call the Doc. Dunno what made her do it, cos normally no amount of “saying” on my part would get her to do it. Luckily, we have a nurse who is attentive … she said “Come NOW!” which apparently scared my mother enough (FINALLY!)

Doc didn’t think it was anything to be worried about, but considering her age … well, ultrasound to rule out the scariest of possibilities. Man! That set me off … in fact, it was while I was waiting for Mom to take her to Doc that the TRUE possibilities hit me like a ton of rocks. According to DJ, it’s called DVT. All I knew is “blood clot that can possibly travel to the brain and burst!” I have been in a TIZZY all weekend. Thankfully, the ultrasound showed nothing. And I can breathe again. I had all kinds of visions … none of which were even REMOTELY happy-happy.

So anyway, while I waited to take her to the ultrasound, I made some progress. I called the embassy – just to make sure my packet 4 was complete. They weren’t taking calls. So I emailed and got “boofed”: Ms. <insert-my-last-name-here>, if you had read carefully, you would have seen … blah-blah-blah” I felt foolish and just dismissed it. “Whatever”.

Called and made my medical appointment (May 27th – ALL DAY) and asked about the immunizations and missing records. They told me not to worry, to just come in. And that (THANKFULLY) I won’t need the Hep-B vaccine. (YAY!) So all that is left now is to (a) pay fees (b) get photos and (c) get my ass there.

I am still gathering info tho – I wanna know about the interview, the POE processing, the AOS stage, shipping, flight costs,  ….. just because I have to know – you know me.

Some of you may think all this is over-thinking … but guess what over-thinking got me? The realization that we canNOT leave Bear alone for 4 weeks. Well, I can’t. I dunno how we’re gonna work this. /sigh  Have to talk to honey-sunshine – we gotta come up with another plan. This is … serious.

Oh … point to note here is that over-thinking oftentimes gets the shit dealt with before it hits the fan.

Mom and I finally got the dress measurements done, and typically, I have seen another dress that I like better. roll eyes So I am going to go a-lookin again before I send off the order. I am cutting it close – they want 2 months to get it done and shipped. 2 months puts us at just into July. Which leaves me a few weeks well to get alterations done, if any are needed, but …. do we want to run it this close? Nope. But … I need to decide once and for all. /sigh Decisions … WHY must they be so hard for me?

The best part of today was being able to cross 3 things off my list. Can I tell you …. nothing feels better than being able to cross things off a VERY long list of To-Do’s. VERY empowering. You should try it sometime.

I am going to treat myself tonite. Either I’ll get into the raid (doubtful considering the time now) or I’ll get my rogue into Shadowlabs. But tonite I can goof-off and not feel guilty about it. (YAY! – again) giggle

And on that note, I’m outta here until tomorrow.

Y’all take care now, hear?

YUSH

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