The Chronicles Of Nay

Hello family, friends and readers! This month has been exhausting, trying, emotional, frustrating and I am so glad it is almost over. I haven’t blogged in a while I apologize but I knew I was not in a place to write and not be whiny and complain. So I just decided not to blog. September was a horrible month and I am glad its just about over!

So I am not sure who of you knows but my brother and sister in law had a pretty scary run in with Covid. They had been sick for about a week before Keeley drove them in to the ER. They hooked her up to an IV because she was severely dehydrated and they immediately admitted Gav with covid pneumonia. Kee was sent home to battle it with antibiotics. Gav ended spending 12 days in the hospital. God had his hand on both of them. They are both stronger everyday. Thank you so much for the people that kept me calm and grounded during that time. I know that there was nothing I could do but it was hard being 2 states away!

Once they were out of the woods so to speak I had another blow. I got a phone call at work luckily during my planning period. The neighbor called to inform me that there was a fence malfunction and our dogs had been mingling and they got in a fight. She said that she was able to pull them apart but that Gabbana had retreated in to the doggy door. She told me that she knew there was a lot of blood but she didn’t know how hurt my dog was. I grabbed my keys and rushed home. My poor puppers was beat up pretty bad. When I came in to the house she was hiding in the hall where she had smeared and splattered blood on the walls. She ended up needing stitches in her ear, like a lot of them! Over $200 worth of them! She has been on antibiotics and pain killers since. I have been trying to ween her off of the pain killers. I mean I am not trying to get her addicted to pain killers. Could you imagine if I had to take my dog to doggy rehab? haha jk jk but really she is doing MUCH better. She is playing around and she is much more herself! So now I am dealing with the neighbor and trying to get reimbursed for the vet visits and stuff. It has been a pain but on the positive my baby is doing much better!!

September was rough! There were a few good things to September, the best thing for sure is that I am finding my people in a new work environment. This year has been rough. There have been a lot of changes and a lot of confusion but I am making friends, and building stronger relationships with people that make it all easier! Thank you Ladies!

So as we close out this horrible month Friday kicks off the 13th year of the month of pink! So if you are new here or new to my life keep reading, if you have heard this story skip to the next paragraph! It’s like those choose your own adventure books! haha anyway here is a chunk of a blog I wrote a few years ago about my grandma:

My Grandma was a pretty phenomenal woman! She taught me many things while I was growing up she taught me how to read a recipe, my mom isn’t particularly good at this! Haha She taught me how to cross stitch and embroider, she taught me when you “turn the beans off” on an electric stove you have to remove them from the heat! She showed me what it is like to love and trust the lord with all your heart. Why am I telling you this? Well my grandma knew she had breast cancer for 30 years and didn’t tell ANYONE! If you already “heard” this story I won’t take offense if you skip the rest of this paragraph but this is from a blog I wrote last year… here is the cliff notes version: in the fall of 2004 we became aware of the fact that something was wrong… my grandma had blood on the inside of her bras. When questioned about it she tried to blow it off and just kept giving vague and strange answers. Her staple answer was “you don’t wanna know” Once my mom and aunt got her to talk they discovered the secret she had been keeping for MANY years. They went to the doctor and my grandma revealed to the doctor that she was aware that she might have cancer 30 years before that day! The cancer was so far that it eaten away at her breasts and the blood from her bra was actually dead cancer cells that were leaving the body through some sort of open wound! When he asked her why she didn’t tell anyone her response (still makes me smile!) was “I didn’t have the time the energy or the money to be sick so I wasn’t sick! And between God and my Aloe Vera plant I knew I would be just fine!” she would say that when she first found it my mom was a kid and she needed to see her grow up, then she did and had kids and she needed to see us grow up. The faith that she had in both God and her Aloe Vera is amazing!
She just trusted that everything would be ok! She had a double mastectomy and did radiation therapy. She did the chemo shot and eventually she did actual chemo. We were fortunate enough to have her live with us during this time. I look back on it and I am amazed and astonished at her attitude toward it all! I guess you don’t live with cancer for 30 years with a shitty attitude about it! I mean when the doctor was talking to her about her mastectomy he asked her if she thought she would want reconstruction surgery and she said “pfff no! I’m all vieja (old)! What do I need boobs for anymore?!” She was a pretty funny lady! She passed away in December 2009. I guess you would say it was the cancer that eventually killed her. I would say more it was the treatments and the surgeries that did it.

So as the horrible month of September comes to an end and we head in to October I encourage you to wear pink maybe not all month, maybe once a week, maybe just once? However, most importantly I encourage you women if you haven’t done so recently consider having a mammogram. There is my little PSA! Does no good to wear pink for a month to bring awareness if you don’t bring awareness to anything!

Well this teaching thing has been exhausting lately. I think I am going to head to bed! I hope that everyone has a great rest of the week. Let me end with a joke from one of my scientists: What do you call a dog with no legs? Doesn’t matter what you call him, he isn’t coming!