Unfortunately, it rained all day so we didn't get to plant them.

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These are some beautiful sunflowers that Holland got me after my first night in the ICU turned out to be a complete nightmare. It's been almost a week and a half and look how pretty they still are!



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"I'm still alive" post #2

Yes, yes, I know. I'm a negligent blogger. After the horrible cough came the MICU, where I work 14 hour shifts and feel stupid and bad about myself almost every single day. Because that's just the way the MICU works. Then the cough came back. And I still have another two and a half weeks of MICU ("medical ICU") left.

I've been keeping tabs on the Mississippi River flood and, apparently, Vicksburg made the national news today! I've had numerous people message or call me to ask if my family is okay (which, thank goodness, they are). Although this flood is a terrible thing for many families and I don't at all want to minimize that, it is at the same time historic and fascinating to me as someone who grew up on the river. I'm thinking of bribing people to take daily pictures of it for me. It's made me more homesick than ever and if I were on a rotation where I had any shot at getting a weekend off, I would fly home in a heartbeat just to see it. The pictures I've seen on the Vicksburg Post's website are already so strange.

I hope everyone back home is staying safe and dry!

Still here

I'm still alive. About a week ago, I woke up with a sore throat that evolved into the cough from hell. I've been a complete diva because I've felt awful. I've hardly exercised and still can't sleep because first the sore throat and later the cough keep me up. Even codeine cough syrup has only helped minimally.

I did go to church on Easter, though! All by myself, since Holland was at work. Because I went to church later in the morning, it was packed and there were lots of children because there was no daycare. I spent most of the time trying really hard not to cough on the baby sitting right next to me. Next year we're going to the 8AM service!

Anyway, I should be back in the swing of things soon. I felt marginally better today and I went straight to bed as soon as I got home. I've been up for about three hours now eating dinner and such. Now it's back to bed.

Oh p.s. I checked on the birds yesterday and the nest was empty! I checked on them last week and they were still there, sitting on the eggs. I read that the gestation period for birds can be somewhere around 10-14 days and I don't know how old the eggs were when I first saw them. So I'm going to assume they hatched and hopped off and lived happily ever after!

Bird update

When I left the VA Wednesday afternoon I noticed someone had put a circle of larger red rocks around the nest so no one would step on it. The nest was unattended, which I had never seen before. I wondered if they had left because they didn't like the rock circle. A storm was coming in and the wind was blowing hard. I felt sad and thought that was probably it for the eggs. It ended up snowing that night (although it didn't stick).



I trudged in the next day, dreading seeing the destroyed nest. But lo an behold she was back. The male had joined them later that afternoon.


I didn't work at the VA Friday or this weekend. I'm at the university tomorrow but I'll have to make a special trip to check on the birds.

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ick!

Wow! I just realized all my recent pictures are of terrible quality! =( I apologize. I'm due for an upgrade in June so hopefully I can get the new iPhone with its nice new camera.

How Jipsy spends pretty much all day, every day. Except for sleeping and eating.

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