I Need a Little Sympathy (STAND BACK!!)

For those of you who do not like or know of Fleetwood Mac or Stevie Nicks, the blog post will likely confuse the heck out of you!

I have been listening to so much Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac lately that I'm amazed I'm not running around in gypsy wear and platform boots.

(STAND BACK!)

I should probably say that I WOULD be running around in gypsy wear and platform boots but (1) I don't have any gypsy wear; (2) I don't have any platform boots; and (3) it's a good thing I don't have any platform boots because I would have broken many body parts in an attempt to wear them. Graceful, I am not! Particularly in heels that are taller than the length of my foot. How in the world Stevie bops around stage in those things I will never know.

(I NEED A LITTLE SYMPATHY--STAND BACK!)

OK, I will turn off Stevie Nicks and stop boring you with song lyrics and my musings that have nothing to do with this post.

I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend. What a fabulous time in the Christian calendar. I love Easter Sunday and everything that leads up to the special day. Ash Wednesday, Lent, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Stations of the Cross etc. I just love the entire journey. We have watched "The Passion" on the Saturday evening before Easter for the past few years. I adore that movie though I sob every single time I watch it.

I spent Good Friday in the hospital getting an iron infusion treatment. I will spare all the details but suffice to say, I have iron in my system now. I will have to go for a minimum of two more treatments and then we will see where I am at to determine if I continue beyond 3 infusions. The process was lengthy and even a bit painful. They give you pain medicine in advance of the treatment as well as medication to make you drowsy. I was all about the medicine!

I was just about asleep when they had to move me and the other patients into the hallway due to the tornadoes that were hitting the Nashville area. It was a bizarre experience to be drugged and in the hall with other patients in hospital beds. I was trying to stay awake and hold a conversation with Chatty Patty next to me who must not have had a visitor for a very long time. She wanted to talk and talk and talk. I was in the hall for more than 90 minutes. But I can tell you all about this lady next to me and her life history and medical issues since she was 30. Whew!

The doctors have determined my low iron is a mixture of my celiac disease flaring up and female issues. Again, I will spare details mostly because there are men that read this blog. The short of it is that I will have two "female" surgeries that will hopefully get the vast majority of my problems under control. The celiac disease will be a little trickier to deal with but we'll cope.

I have been asked a lot if I feel better after the iron infusion. No, I don't. If you were to look at the bruises on my arms from the treatment you would think I had gotten beat up. I don't feel that poorly, but I do not have any more energy--yet.

I wish I could share a bunch of photos from Easter. Alas, Liam and Jonathan would not cooperate. I did take a quick photo of Liam with my mom at church, but it is not that great. Ugh. I will share a photo of Jonathan from his most recent soccer game. He is a starter (as a sophomore!!) for Hillsboro HS and he is the one in green and yellow.

I hope everyone is off to a great week!!!