Now Can We Please Get Back To The DIYing And Decorating?!

Y’all, that’s precisely how I’m feeling this morning. I simply wish to get again to the enjoyable stuff! Final week was a complete bust. I had been so enthusiastic about having 4 uninterrupted work days in a row to concentrate on my studio and verify off a few of these remaining initiatives. After which on Tuesday night, my sciatica determined to return and stick round for just a few days. After which early Friday morning, Matt needed to go to the emergency room, and was admitted to the hospital over the weekend. We simply obtained house yesterday night.

This was Matt’s fourth hospital keep since 2020. Whereas the opposite thrice had been issues just like the flu, COVID, and simply common (however far more excessive than traditional) weak point and exhaustion resulting from his M.S., this time was totally different.

Thursday night began out similar to each different night. Matt and I like to look at a present earlier than going to mattress, and he likes to have a snack whereas we’re watching TV. However as a result of it’s the top of the day when he feels essentially the most exhausted and weak (as a result of, once more, he has M.S.), he likes to take niacin and let that kick in earlier than consuming his snack. He loves niacin as a result of it offers him somewhat enhance of vitality and power.

However this time wasn’t like most occasions. He swallowed the primary capsule simply effective. However the second didn’t go down easily. He mentioned it felt prefer it simply sat in his throat and wouldn’t go down, after which he mentioned it felt as if the capsule burst open. A part of it went down, however he felt like a part of it went down the incorrect approach and he inhaled it.

He coughed on and off actually onerous for strong hour. He was respiration the entire time, so there was no airway blockage. I didn’t actually know what to do. He wasn’t choking. He was respiration, and between coughs, he was talking usually. He didn’t say something about feeling like he wanted medical consideration. He simply coughed and coughed and saved ingesting water. After what appeared like endlessly, he lastly stopped coughing, ate solely part of his snack, after which we went to sleep.

Nicely, I used to be woke up at 5:00am by the sound of Matt moaning and groaning fairly loudly. I requested him what was incorrect, however he appeared utterly out of it. His couldn’t preserve his eyes open. He had misplaced all power to the purpose that he couldn’t talk to me what the issue was. It was all very totally different. This wasn’t like earlier occasions the place the intense weak point got here on progressively over a 24-hour interval from flu or COVID. This occurred in a short time, and I knew it was one thing altogether totally different. I figured it had one thing to do with that niacin and his coughing for an hour.

Lengthy story quick, I known as 911, and the paramedics took him to the hospital. They often ask Matt if he needs to go to the hospital, however this time, they didn’t even ask. They simply got here in, took a have a look at him, and loaded him proper up and took him. And after hours within the ER, and every kind of checks and scans, they lastly did conclude that there was one thing displaying up on the x-ray of his lung that had precipitated an infection. So that they admitted him and handled the an infection till he regained his power and obtained again to (his) regular.

It was a loopy weekend, not solely as a result of this circumstances of Matt’s hospital keep had been so totally different from the opposite three hospital stays, however as a result of I used to be nonetheless coping with my sciatica and was completely depressing. There was no approach I may get comfy on the unusual couch mattress factor in Matt’s hospital room, so from 5:00am on Friday morning till midnight on Saturday night time, I obtained a sum complete of 1.5 hours of sleep.

However on Saturday, I made a decision to dump the ibuprofen that I had been taking (which wasn’t doing a lot for my ache in any respect) and check out the naproxen + acetaminophen combo that somebody left in a touch upon my final weblog submit (thanks, Cyndy!!), and that labored amazingly nicely!! That mighty ache relieving combo plus a 10-hour white noise video on YouTube (performed on my cellphone, which I positioned proper by my head to drown out the entire nighttime hospital noises) labored wonders, and I really obtained 7.5 hours of sleep on Saturday night time. I don’t even sleep that nicely at house! 😀

Matt and I had been each so relieved to be again house final night time. He’s feeling actually good now, however he’s going to relaxation for just a few days earlier than getting again to his regular day by day routine. I, then again, am champing on the bit to get to work. And now that I’ve a ache med combo that truly works for my sciatica, I’m hoping I received’t be dropping any extra work days resulting from ache. And now that Matt is again house and feeling nicely, I’ll even be headed again to the chiropractor and therapeutic massage therapist very quickly.

However let’s get again to the DIY and adorning, we could? 🙂 My plan for right now is to lastly paint the partitions within the again entry of the studio. I’m anxious to eliminate the inexperienced that’s in there now…

And to see a a lot softer, much less in-your-face inexperienced on these partitions.

And I’m additionally rethinking the black doorways. This room has plenty of doorways, and I simply don’t know if I would like that a lot black within the room. There are 4 single doorways, after which the French doorways out to the carport. So technically, there space six doorways within the room, and 4 of them are proper collectively in a comparatively small house. That’s plenty of black, and that may really feel overpowering in a short time. So I’d really do white doorways if I can’t consider one other different. However I do wish to preserve them mild and vivid in order that I can preserve the general feel and look of the room mild and vivid. We’ll see what I land on with that call. However at this level, I’m virtually 100% certain it received’t be black.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You’ll be able to study extra about me right here.