craving normal...

that's how i'm feeling lately - i'm craving normal. life has been such a whirlwind in the last week and a half - i'm ready for things to return to the same ol' regularity.

we had a little visit to the ER friday afternoon when matt wasn't able to keep food or water down, and was having a sharp, nagging pain near his kidney. he was diagnosed with a kidney disease when he was about 14, so the doctors don't screw around with that kind of stuff. the heat compounded the issue, and fear of dehydration lead us to the visit.

after several hours in a room with three beds, accompanied by an array of other patients much worse off than matt (i had to focus really hard on my gameboy games to keep my own lunch down), they had juiced him full of fluids and antinausea meds, and run another CT scan looking for kidney stones. they didn't find anything of concern, so they sent him home with anti-nausea meds, a few vicodin, and strict orders that if he found himself chewing through the vicodin to deal with the pain, he should come back in right away.

he seems to be doing better, but spending lots of time on the couch still made us both a little stir crazy over the weekend. saturday evening, we went to the mall for ice cream (heals all ailments) and a new bra (down a size - yay!). sunday, church really wore him out, so he followed it with a long nap while i went to visit my mom. to get out of the house and cool off a little, we went for a swim at the local pool last night. i miss being able to swim in the lake (it's free, and i can still enjoy the sunshine), but he's under doctor's orders to avoid untreated water for a while.

he's back at work today, though i really only expect him to work a half day and i'm concerned that he'll wear himself out. i'm back for my first full day in over a week - that feels strange in itself... and i'm back on my weightloss plan. i stopped tracking my intake while he was in the hospital because i didn't want to waste time trying to estimate the nutritional value of hospital food when i could be cleaning the house or keeping him company, but i made the conscious decision to not let myself go completely, and to get back on track when i went back to work fulltime. so here i am! i'll weigh in tomorrow to see how much damage i did. ;)