Dear Readers — don’t give up on me just yet

Dear Readers,

First, let me express how deeply touched I am by those of you who reached out to me via email to see if I was okay.  It did my heart good to know that there are people out there reading my blog and who care enough to check up on me.

Second, let me put any fears to rest:  The Husband is doing just fine.  Most of my absence has to do with my own personal health issues right now.

Right now, as in at this very moment, I've got a bad case of the flu.  But on top of that and going back several weeks, my remaining 1/2 of my thyroid is so completely enlarged that it's messing up my life big time.  I need to have it removed but that's a long drawn-out process of doctor appointments and scheduling and, well, I've been so overwhelmed I've just been putting it off.  Everyone seems to concur that my goiter is most likely the cause of my sleep apnea.  Now that the goiter is so big, my CPAP machine seems to be completely ineffective which means that I'm not sleeping.  Or rather when I am sleeping, my goiter is obstructing my throat to such a degree that my CPAP machine cannot effectively keep my airway open thus my brain receives a signal about every two minutes that I have too much carbon dioxide in my system and I need to do something about it.  So my body wakes up just enough to start breathing again; just enough to keep me out of REM sleep.  When I wake up in the morning, I'm exhausted.  As a result, my Fibromyalgia has flared.  So I'm exhausted and in pain.  I drag through my days feeling overwhelmed, barely staying awake, feeling blue and frustrated and pathetic.

In Daily Dollar news, The Daughter is now officially a Junior and out of school (as of Thursday).  The Husband and I have decided that it would be a great experience for her to be the family budget keeper this summer.  On May 31 we sat down together for a few minutes with the YNAB software program* and walked through a quick overview.  Then she allocated our June budget dollars into categories.

My hope, once I recover from the flu, is to

1. share the how's and why's of having The Daughter be in charge of the entire family budget this summer;
2. catch up with all of my missing Daily Dollar posts;
3. journal a little more about the financial and emotional repercussions of suffering from chronic illness and having a terminally ill husband.

Related posts:

1. I’m back? Yes. I’m back!!