Visit to the Allergist

After driving back from Shaver Lake yesterday, I remembered I had my allergy appointment today. They subjected me to allergy testing and I can not believe I am not allergic to anything they tested me on. Oh well, no change in my basic allergy medication at this time. However, I did receive a new diagnosis of exercise-induced asthma and that appears to be why I have such difficulty breathing during jogging and hiking. I can’t wait to try my new inhaler to see if it makes a difference.

Camping at Shaver Lake (or The Wettest Camp-Out Ever)

Okay, our camp out has been a bit of a bust. We have experienced severe non-stop rain, cold temperatures in the 20s and 30s. it even hailed one evening and snowed during our visit to some giant redwoods. The redwood grove was amazing in spite of the cold and snow. Our tent is leaking and it seems we spend most of day huddled by the campfire in the rain. The bathrooms are a big hike down a hill. The Lake itself is beautiful and most mornings have hiked down to the shore to explore. If it would just stop raining, I am sure we would be having much more fun. However, the rain does make the views sort of eerie and beautiful. This morning all of my friends have told us they are leaving a day early (today)!. Once they leave, we lose our shade canopies and will no longer have a covered cooking or eating area!. We can’t really leave ourselves as my brother and sister-in-law only arrived yesterday from Oakland and we have hardly even visited with them.

The good news is that my industrious sister-in-law has called around to local bed and breakfast’s and as soon as we pack up our gear (and wash a few loads of clothing, we are checking into a B&B!!! I am so excited…warmth, showers, fireplaces in the bedrooms! Civilization!

Leaving for Shaver...

Well we leave for Shaver lake tomorrow for our annual memorial day camp-out. I am sad we did not get sites at Yosemite but still excited about the trip. Unfortunately, the weather is to be cold and wet so I hope I am packing the right gear.

My First Mobile Post

Okay I have to go to continuing education as part of maintaining my license. So today I am at the Skirball educating myself. Unfortunately this conference was billed as the neuroscience of psychotherapy and I feel it was not appropriately titled. It is actually a personal theory by a therapist about using the construct of neurobiology to explain his tired old theory of psychotherapy. There is no science at all. I feel trapped. Secretly blogging on my phone!

More Illness in the House

My baby is sick again. Sofia woke up with a high fever and is a clingy droopy little girl. Luckily, we were able to drop her off at my parents for the day since she could not go to day-care. But I still feel bad having to work all day instead of take care of her. On a more positive note, she waited to vomit until she was in Carlos’s car and later at my mom’s house! Pretty horrible for them, but for once no bodily fluids to clean up!

The Importance of Water

I wanted to post a pleasant post for mother’s day, so I left out the crappy parts yesterday! After coming home from the Huntington, Carlos discovered a huge leak in the roof of the garage, suspiciously underneath our master bathroom. We spent some time trying to determine the source, and I had to empty my closet of clothes, and empty out the areas under the sinks, but alas still not sign of the leak. After we left a message for the plumber on mother’s day Sunday, Carlos proceeded to turn off all of our water and we had no water until late today! We had to wash the dishes in buckets after the meal. This morning, we washed up in the kitchen sink thanks to the buckets of water. The plumber did locate the source of the leak, a burst pipe in the ceiling of the garage and thankfully it did not cost a fortune to fix. And we have water! Hallelujah!

Mother's Day

Well Mother’s Day is over and I have to say that I was impressed with the husband. I will admit I did not really give him much help but on his own, he planned a full day to celebrate motherhood. He took us all to breakfast and then surprised us with a visit to the Huntington Library. The gardens were beautiful and it was fairly relaxing. We stopped for a quick lunch on the way back and then relaxed at home for a bit. Carlos even planned a fabulous dinner and as usual, cooked it all himself. Beef filets and shrimp, oh, and scallops too, for a perfect “surf and turf!”

Now the girls weren’t exactly angels and their behavior made it glaringly obvious we need to work harder on setting limits with them and enforcing consequences. However, I believe I will start tomorrow!

Sorry absent for a bit

I just think I was overwhelmed and a bit depressed and not in the mood to talk about it. My blog was getting depressing anyway! So to sum it all up, I had a bad month or so in the health arena. The good news is that I passed the problematic kidney stone and I hope the other two like my kidneys enough to remain there indefinitely. So I hope to never have that topic return to the blog. My ankle is also almost healed. I have to see the orthopedic specialist in June one last time to confirm. Unfortunately, I was thinking I was having an allergy flare-up, but today as I sit in my jammies and a wool jacket in May I fear I must have a cold! But I think my innate hopefulness is returning because I actually feel I might be healthy in the near future.

I was feeling more on top of things at home but Carlos decided it was time to start the next home improvement project and demolished the guest bathroom! So before we even completely finish Sofia's big girl room, we have another room in progress, and a garage full of demolished bathroom fixtures and all.

I have not exercised seriously in about 3 weeks. I went back to pilates last night and have plans to go hiking before work tomorrow around 5 a.m. Please please let me wake up and make it on time!