A long long weekend (and even longer post)

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Well, it's getting a little better, but it started badly.

My mother, 74 years old, diabetic, with previous serious ortho injuries, tripped in the mud, broke/blew out her knee (they had to reattach the tendon) and two bones in her wrist. She is an obsessive knitter and she will be out of commission for several weeks - won't have full weight on her leg for 6 weeks. This transpired because of some family dynamics that are long and involved but basically Mom shouldn't have had to drive out to my brother's place but some supposedly adult siblings and in-laws were being pretty pissy and she relented. My niece, who she went out there to pick up, was upset to the point of vomiting for 24 hours, because she (incorrectly) felt that Mom's fall was her fault. I keep telling Mom, she needs to be a bitch. They NEVER call ME for ridiculous favors.

Her surgery was Saturday afternoon, and went OK - no pins in her wrist. There is some concern about blood clots since my sister has a tendency to clot and our dad died from one (after a huge injury - anyone might have gotten one in his situation). She is also diabetic, although well-controlled. However, each time she has an injury, it seems to take longer to heal, I guess that's normal. Fortunately, they have several levels of care at her assisted living facility and she can transfer to the rehab unit fairly early, maybe even tomorrow, because she has excellent nursing care available there.

This is the 3rd hospitalization in our family (mother and two sisters) in the last 4 months. Oh yes, and my brother was in too, but only overnight. CRAP!!

My weigh-in - up one lb. The sequence of weight loss over the last month or so has been discouraging, up 0.8, up 0.8, down 3.4 (yay!), up 1.2, up 1.0. Potential explanations:

I'm not tracking points / journalling lately so I'm not sure how many points I'm eating.

I could be eating not enough to trigger the loss, but it's more likely I'm eating too many. I seem to be more hungry. And as I said, I'm not tracking.

I wasn't very good with the water as I had been.

I basically forgot my thyroid meds for a week or 10 days (Yes, Sue/Mom, I'm back on the routine now).

My sister and I were unable, with Mom's surgery, and her working Sunday and the storage place's reduced hours on Sunday, to set up a storage unit for final clearout of Mom's house.

Today at work, I completely forgot, until my boss reminded me 5 mins. ahead, of a meeting which *I* scheduled to get buy-in on new procedures I wanted to instigate. I was not prepared, but I've worked with these guys for 5 years, and given the preoccupation with my mother, I think they're not going to give me too much grief for it.

When I stress out, my eczema gets worse, because I pick at it, so I'm a little on-edge about that, too. Just imagine having chickenpox. For a year.

I did not do a cardio tonight, playing catch-up with work, which has just about doubled in the last 10 days. I will not let this become a habit, but I decided to just let go of it today because it was a rough weekend. I will probably do a cardio tomorrow instead of swimming and then go back to swimming on Thursday.

I'm grateful that, although I briefly considered it, I'm not dropping ALL the exercise this week, just slowing down a bit. I will get in hopefully 2 cardios and a pool.

Things to do better, or do at all, this week.

Get back to doing water.

Take the thyroid meds.

Let go of anger towards my brother and sister-in-law - there is no UP side to it; they won't change.

Use cardio to help with the anger issue (stomp stomp stomp)

Get to bed earlier during this stressful time.

Eileen in OR