My insides are itchy. I finally decided to take measures against my endometriosis and break down and let technology help me. At least I hope it will be a help and not a detriment. I got an IUD installed yesterday. It took me about 4 years of hemming and hawing - researching, changing my mind, consulting 3 dr.'s one pharmacist, etc. but I have had enough of the pain so I decided to go for it, even though all the heart-patient warnings were bolded and highlighted. I decided to take a big leap and do something I don't always do with western medicine: I decided to trust my doctors. Dr. Cardio man said it was ok, even after I showed him the warnings. He's in the heart business, not the gyn-business. My obgyn is not in the heart business, but between the 2 of them, I caved.
So, we will see if this thing will help me. At bear minimum I'm hoping that all the side-effects and warnings won't happen. I asked the Universe to give me a break: I figured, I've had enough given to me to deal with that I'm due a break. at least.
This wasn't even the most difficult thing of the week. I'm pretty tired, spending up to 2 hours a day of my time commuting. I brought the cats and myself to la femme's a few days ago because of nasty carpenter ant invasion. They moved in, I moved out. I don't know how people live so far away and spend their time commuting. It's tiring. But the air quality in this house far surpasses that of my house right now. I returned home tonight, over 24 hours since it was fumigated, and after only 30 mins of breathing that air I became nauseous and needed to leave. I'm not quite sure how someone is expected to sleep in their home the same night of fumigation. They guy said it is safe to return (according to government regulations) after only 4 hours. Whatever. Although I'm far from life (on the other side of the city) at least I have the ability to stay away until I can safely breath the air. I was just thinking the other day turning off at the end of this sub-urb how not even 15 years ago this area was all field/farm-land. La femme likes to say her home is still part of "the city" but as someone born and raised here I have fun reminding her that this was a township not long ago! I feel really isolated out here, I can't just meet a friend for coffee. If I have only 90mins of energy I don't want to spend half of that total time on the highway. At least in town I was no more than 15 mins from anyone (except la femme).
Ah small humours. And we need them now since the other emergency we've been dealing with is the fall-out of the most recent federal election. Not even 3 weeks in power and the evil PM has decided to continue the war that no one wants. And it hit home: la femme received deployment commands (that was the family emergency) late last week. We're still dealing with this so I cannot disclose any more, but just another 'thing' to add to the week. But there's no way that he's taking her away from me!
I'm exhausted, crampy, cranky and thankful I have portable O2, and that la femme is strong enough to have carried my O2 concentrator from my house to hers. I can't live without O2 anymore (then again, no one can live without it!).
