June 7, 2017

Wednesday.

We were up and at it this morning.  I had to get the girls off to camp and the boys over to Sunee's house because this morning was my cystoscopy at the Urologist's office.  We rushed so that we had time to go pick up Jimmy John's sandwiches for everyone first.  Then we hurried back and dropped the girls off at the church.  They looked so cute and ready to have fun.

Off to Girls Camp 2017!  I wish I was going with them!

Then I dropped off the boys and headed to my appointment.

A cystoscopy is when they send a little camera like a catheter up into your bladder.  It was a lot less fun than it sounds.  First they shoot lidocaine up into you, and then they wait a bit, and then the camera.  It hurt!  The doctor felt like everything looked okay.  My uterus pushes significantly on my bladder, and I have a ring of scar tissue which narrows down my urethra (probably from childbirth trauma), but I didn't have any other major problems.  He sent me on my way with some dip sticks to keep testing my urine.  When I asked him if I still needed to go get the CT scan on Friday or if I could cancel that, he was adamant that I go!  It's still not normal to have hematuria (blood in my urine), and he wants to rule out any other issues.

I headed back to Sunee's house.  We all ate lunch and then while we chatted, Lance fell asleep on me. So we just visited and let the kids play for the rest of the afternoon.  We haven't done anything even remotely like that for a year! It was such a fun day.

Greg texted me and said he was struggling mentally with the All-American Slim Down we are doing, and he needed a project or something to keep him going.

I hurried home and maybe some Hawaiian chicken with pineapple over rice.  Then we commenced a makeover of our upstairs family room.  With the boys' help, we moved couches up and down the stairs, we rearranged and cleaned and vacuumed.  By the time we fell into bed, we were satisfied with our start.  And Greg had stayed occupied all night.  It was a win-win.  But I have my work cut out for me in the morning.  When you start rearranging and spring cleaning, things always get worse before they get better!

And you know what else?  Not to complain, but it was a nightmare to urinate the rest of the day.  Super painful!  And when I went into the dark laundry room just before bed, I tripped on a rolled up rug, fell to the ground and majorly sprained my big toe.  So no running in the morning.  I could hardly walk or sleep.  I'm falling apart! Ha ha!