Easter - 4-12-09
Happy Easter, Eggs! Hope that you are all enjoying your Easter. Steve and I stayed home this weekend for 2 reasons - first and foremost because he got a call from his boss on the natural gas pipeline that he needed to be at work in Iowa for first thing on Monday morning. This call came about 5 p.m. on Friday. So, we spent the weekend scrambling and packing and trying to get him ready to leave and trying to spend as much time together as possible....
It was really hard saying goodbye to him. He didn't want to leave, I didn't want him to leave, we both cried. He got on the road around 5 this evening. Of course it's good that he'll finally be working again after being laid off since November, but our whole world changed in November with my diagnosis and it makes me really nervous that I'll be alone....I know that I'll be fine, and he has been with me through the worst of it, but still it's hard to say goodbye.
With his job situation on the pipeline, he is off to train a new Environmental Inspector (he is an Environmental Inspector too). If the person he is training catches on, then Steve will be able to come home next weekend for another week, because Steve's start date is officially not until April 27th. However, the reason that Steve was called up to train this new guy is because the new guy has been on the job for a week and still hadn't caught on, so if he still doesn't catch on after a week of Steve training him then Steve will have to stay on the pipeline in Iowa until his start date of April 27th in Minnesota. It's complicated and a bit stressful with the last minute changes and phone calls...but it's good money. Which we could use...it's just hard to have had so much time with him and to be facing everything now with him so far away....
Of course it'll be okay, I just miss him already. And because we don't know what'll happen I don't know if I will see him next week or not for many many weeks. Usually he only gets one day off a week when he's working, and so it's not easy to see each other. Last year we were lucky if we saw each other once a month....
In other news, I went up to the full dose on Friday night of my new medication, and the side effects were just like they were the first time around when I started the first medication. So yesterday was a very icky day of being sick...kind of a bummer for Steve's potentially last weekend here in a while. We watched a lot of movies, needless to say. I am so tired of the side effects of the medication. I think the medicine is worse than the disease, at least at this point in time. It'd better prevent me from becoming handicapped too young....that's all I have to say!
Anyway, I just wanted to give everyone an update and wish you all a very Happy Easter, a peaceful Passover, and to tell everyone to Think Spring!!!!!
lots of love,
Kate
It was really hard saying goodbye to him. He didn't want to leave, I didn't want him to leave, we both cried. He got on the road around 5 this evening. Of course it's good that he'll finally be working again after being laid off since November, but our whole world changed in November with my diagnosis and it makes me really nervous that I'll be alone....I know that I'll be fine, and he has been with me through the worst of it, but still it's hard to say goodbye.
With his job situation on the pipeline, he is off to train a new Environmental Inspector (he is an Environmental Inspector too). If the person he is training catches on, then Steve will be able to come home next weekend for another week, because Steve's start date is officially not until April 27th. However, the reason that Steve was called up to train this new guy is because the new guy has been on the job for a week and still hadn't caught on, so if he still doesn't catch on after a week of Steve training him then Steve will have to stay on the pipeline in Iowa until his start date of April 27th in Minnesota. It's complicated and a bit stressful with the last minute changes and phone calls...but it's good money. Which we could use...it's just hard to have had so much time with him and to be facing everything now with him so far away....
Of course it'll be okay, I just miss him already. And because we don't know what'll happen I don't know if I will see him next week or not for many many weeks. Usually he only gets one day off a week when he's working, and so it's not easy to see each other. Last year we were lucky if we saw each other once a month....
In other news, I went up to the full dose on Friday night of my new medication, and the side effects were just like they were the first time around when I started the first medication. So yesterday was a very icky day of being sick...kind of a bummer for Steve's potentially last weekend here in a while. We watched a lot of movies, needless to say. I am so tired of the side effects of the medication. I think the medicine is worse than the disease, at least at this point in time. It'd better prevent me from becoming handicapped too young....that's all I have to say!
Anyway, I just wanted to give everyone an update and wish you all a very Happy Easter, a peaceful Passover, and to tell everyone to Think Spring!!!!!
lots of love,
Kate
posted by Kate @ 7:53 PM
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