Good Riddance!

Thanks heavens it's April.  I will take a thousand silly April Fools jokes from my kids as long as it means March 2014 is dead and gone forever.

Obviously Jay's illness, surgery and immediate recovery is the worst of the worst.  Just when he started feeling better I ended up with an abscessed tooth.  Fun, huh?  It is on a tooth that has a root canal and it was nasty.  My gums and jaw swelled up like crazy and it throbbed all the time.  I had a hard time eating and between the lack of food and my frequent use of over the counter pain killers, I ended up really sick.  I couldn't sleep.  I was grumpy.  But I felt like a heel complaining about my toothache because, you know, anything kind of pales in comparison to recent open-heart surgery.  

I have been on an antibiotic for a week and things are looking better.  The swelling is down and the pain is down to a dull ache that isn't too bad.  I am scheduled for a re-do of the root canal on Monday afternoon.  As going to any doctor who comes close to my mouth with sharp instruments is my least favorite thing to do, I'm not excited.  But hopefully that will be in the end of that.

Jay is great, however.  He's back to work and starting up Cardiac Rehab.  He feels good.  He should get his PICC line out next week (after almost two months) and it won't come a moment too soon.  

The kids have been out of school this week on Spring Break.  Between Jay's return to work full time, my dental discomfort and some less than ideal weather, we haven't done too much.  I took the kids to see Muppets Most Wanted, which killed a rainy afternoon.  They have hung out with friends a bit and played some new video games that they bought.  I was hoping to do a fun day trip to Salt Lake but it just didn't happen.  Hopefully they aren't scarred for life from the lameness that is Spring Break 2014.