Update

Does anyone read this anymore? ha ha. I'm guessing not really. But anyways a lot has happened since the day after school started for Ashlyn. I'm not really ready to rehash any of it yet, it's still causing me a good amount of PTSD, anxiety, and other fun things that I'm dealing with right now. But the very short, non-detailed story is that I ended up in the hospital for 9 days instead of the 1-2 it was originally supposed to be. And a very very slow recover for about the first 5 days home too. Can't go into any of that too much right now because it's still too fresh and real. I know it's crazy but it feels like I could be right back there at that point at any time. Needless to say, our family life has definitely been up in the air and pretty crazy ever since school started for Ashlyn.

In 2 days it will have been a month since that surgery! My incision and general recovery is going pretty well. It took such a long time for things to get going down the recovery road for my digestive system, and I'm still not at a point I hope to be at with that, but it's much better than it was. I can actually walk normally now, and sleeping at night is getting easier (physically speaking) all the time. The steri-strips started coming off my incision the last couple of days, which is kind of a good step because it's nice to see that it's healing well and also that it's finally been long enough that those are beginning to go away.

The biggest issue I have been facing for almost 2 weeks now is anxiety. And one thing I'm trying to do to help with that is keeping my thoughts positive and find things to be hopeful about. And I'm going to go try to do that in my journal right now. So, talk to you later!