I want OFF this ride!

Oh, wow, WHERE do I even start??

Well, okay, so all these prescription meds I'm on are helping, but I am sooooooo darn sleepy all the time! I felt like crap over the weekend, and then that just added to things,.......... I pretty much slept for four & a half days.

Monday, Carol finally got to go home from the hospital. She's not feeling 'great', but she's doing much better than she was.

Tuesday (yesterday),.... *sigh*,...... Men! Well, Scott had an accident. I got him a CR500 dirtbike for Father's Day. He sold his about 8 years ago, and has regretted it ever since, although he LOVES quad riding, he still misses the other, too. K, so he decided he was going to take it up camping with us to break it in a little, although up there it's really geared towards quads. Anyway, he had the bike at the shop, and was taking it around from one side to the other,.. just as he was going through the east gate, one of our employees came out the side door, and scared the snot out of him. Well, he's been so used to a thumb throttle on the quads all these years now, that without thinking he pulled back on the throttle (it's in the handlebar grip), and ended up not only poppin' one heck of a wheelie, but launched himself across the parking lot. Long story short,... his right side from his shoulder all down his arm, hip, knee, plus a few other spots, are hash. He's got a serious case of road rash, let me tell you, AND he broke his right ankle. He's going to be fine, but WHAT A SCARE. He was taken by ambulance to St V's. His wounds are so nasty and so many of the laserations are deep, not enough to need any stictches, but they had to almost fully sedate him in order to scrub them out. He's got a chunk a little smaller than a penny out of his right knee, and his ribs are pretty bruised.

Courtney is squeemish, and the last time we went back to see him, it was a little too warm, the room smelled of antiseptic, and she made the mistake of looking over as one of the RNs took out his IV,.......... she thought she was going to throw up,.. another RN helped me try to walk her out of the room and see if that helped, but we barely got 2 steps out the door, and she wilted. He scooped her up just as her eyes rolled back in her head, and she fainted. Luckily, there was an empty gurney right outside of Scott's room so he was able to lay her down there, and quickly pull her legs up, and she woke up right away. She was pretty embarrassed, but other than a bruised ego, she was fine. :)

I'm not even going to bother going into all of the other stuff that went wrong yesterday, but it was one heck of a day, let me tell you. Plus, my DSL box quit working Monday evening so I was without internet access until tonight when we finally got the problem straightened out.

Saw my doctor again today for a follow-up, and I'm doing well pain-wise,... the only thing that stinks is being so exhausted all the time. I'm up to 8 prescriptive medications now, and 2 OTCs,.... 7 are daily, and the other 3 are as needed. I HATE PILLS, but here I am, practically a freaking pharmacy all by myself. At least half of them have common side effets of causing drowsiness and dizziness. Most of those I try to take at night, but the side effects seem to hit me round the clock. So, although I'm not in the kind of pain I was in before,.. every day is still a struggle...... to stay awake! =P

On the bright side,.... I have my new pup to snuggle with, and right now she still sleeps about as much as I have been, LOL. I'll try to post pics soon,.... she's absolutely adorable. She's 8 weeks, a purebred Boxer, female fawn, and her name is Bailey Rayne. Although she's about as much work as a human baby,.... I'm loving her to pieces. She's a good distraction to everything else going on, and so I'm happy............ I mean, who can't laugh and smile when there's a puppy around? And when you're sad,... puppy kisses are awesome.

Oh, and in light of Scott's injuries, we will not be camping this weekend. As it turns out, a lot of other people were going to be unable to make it this weekend, too, so from what I understand, everyone will be going the following weekend instead anyway. I don't know if we'll make it or not,.......... might have to make it a day trip with ol' limpy on crutches, LOL.

I am sooooooooo ready for things to slow down. I'm afraid one of these days my world is going to spin right off it's axis! Stop the ride! I wanna get off!