The Adventures of Superwife

I want to go home! All of a sudden the 15 degree weather in Anchorage seems tropical.

It’s 3am and I absolutely can’t sleep. Maybe posting will help me sleep. Probably not. I really think that being 25, married and child-free causes moments of dementia. I’m sure not any more dementia than caused by actual children themselves, but babies seem so easy to rationalize when you don’t have one… especially when like [...]

I have my first day of improvement to report! This is, of course, after another horrific trip to the doctor yesterday. I can safely say that yesterday was far more traumatic than Tuesday’s trip to the ER. I once again had my face cut into, and this time much more aggressively than the first. I [...]

I’m beginning to feel defeated. Not only has this nasty thing not gone away, it’s gotten worse. It hurts, ladies and gents… oh boy does it hurt. Not only does it hurt, it oozes in lovely shades of yellow and green, both telling tales of infection and repugnance. I don’t know how much more of [...]

Not doing so great. The antibiotics didn’t help the swelling and the thing under my skin kept getting bigger. We went back to the ER last night to have it drained. They tried a topical anesthetic and of course that didn’t help, and after a few minutes of me crying out in pain, they gave [...]

Okay, so after thinking about my schedule tomorrow and Tuesday, I realized that I really should go to the doctor tonight. I wouldn’t be able to make it until Wednesday, and who knows how bad this would get by then. Call it self preservation, but I’d rather not go blind. B and I braved the [...]

Seriously. I can’t get a break. Those of you might remember I suffered from a nasty MRSA infection almost exactly one year ago (see here and here). It’s like God is trying to make sure I don’t carry any sick time from year to year. Three days ago I felt something brewing under my eyebrow, [...]