We have officially been in Richmond for 3 weeks now. The adjustments have been smooth. I have stayed completely busy cleaning and unpacking.
Our"new" house is a two story rental in a beautifully wooded neighborhood.
Built way back in 1991, so I have to get used to the older windows and no garden bathtub. I didn't have to get used to the glass/crystal chandelier in the foyer. The owner quickly replaced it out with a newer silver tone fixture. Thank God.
I am a complete neat freak so I wasn't too happy when we first moved in and I realized how much cleaning would need to be done before I could even begin to unpack.
I must have overdid it because one week in to our new home and on the kids first day of school, John had to rush me to the ER. I had started cramping REALLY bad in my lower right abdomen.
It was to the point where I couldn't even walk. I was scared. I thought it had to be kidney stones or my appendix. Both of which would put me out of commission and that scared me.
It was at that point, laying on a cot in the ER when it hit me how far away from home I truly was.
John had brought me to the ER with Tate. We can't leave Tate alone with the boys because he could have a seizure. The hospital was only a few miles away so we left Ashton and the teens at home.
While I was in the ER I noticed Tate looking at me with the saddest most confused look on his face. Then it hit me that the last time we were in a hospital it was with Papa Bud. Tate had sat with Papa on the last day of his life. I could read Tate's little mind and so I told John to take Tate home. I would be fine by myself.
After a couple of hours and a lot of tests---xrays, 2 cat scans, 2 sonograms--I broke down. I wanted my mom and I knew this time she wasn't going to be able to be here for me. I truly felt helpless and missed my family more than I ever thought possible.
A nurse came into my room. She had taken a look at my CT scan and noticed 2 small objects in my lower right abdomen.
"Have you ever been knifed?" she asked me.
Are you kidding me I thought!!! Then I realized how BAD I must look. No makeup, bruises all over me from moving......maybe I did look like one of those women who at 35 decide the timing is perfect to get jumped into a gang!
"No" I answered her. She wasn't so sure. She even wanted to talk to my mom and John to make sure.
What kind of freggin backwoods
hospital am I at that a nurse reads the CT scans I began to think!
She came back into the room an hour later to announce that the two objects were the Pepto Bismol pills I had taken earlier. (Which by the way I think she is still
wrong because I took the dissovable tablet kind and why would they be in my abdomen and not my digestive system 9 hours after the fact?? I just wanted out of there by that point so I agreed that must be it!!!)
"Wow, so smart this one is" I thought. Instead of playing detective I would have preferred my nurse to play nurse and have her change my empty IV fluid bag because the empty one that stayed injected into my arm bled out everywhere.
3 injections of
Dilaudid later I was feeling much better and at 3am I was finally released. They never were able to pinpoint what had caused my pain.
The next morning I awoke to a lovely red, blood filled eye. My sister, Raini--a real life nurse--said it was from the pain. Lovely!
A few days later and I was back to unpacking and cleaning.
Here are some quick random shots of the house.
Ashton's new room
Tate's new room
Jonathan & Justin are sharing a room but it is HUGE. And beautifully DUKE decorated!
Foyer minus ugly glass/faux crystal chandelier
RIP ugly chandelier. There is no room for you in the new millennium.
Front room--temporary office
Johnson Bros Indian Tree vegetable platter
Shabby Chic pink Jeanette Depression tumblers in the cubist pattern!
Vintage made in Japan floral frog in white milk glass
Don't know what this is yet. Appears to be a decorative creamer of sorts...made in Japan.
Vintage ladle spoons for 15 cents each!
Vintage Sterling Silver butter knives!
Vintage liquor decanter. Cut lead crystal. How chic it will look when I fill it with some nice pink bubble bath and sit it beside my bathtub!
Vintage dresser. I would refinish and use as a sideboard in my kitchen.
The picture quality from my cell phone is horrendous but this is a quite lovely set of vintage dishes in a warm autumn hue.
One day I want an entire room devoted to vintage baby planters!
Vintage Pier One canisters in pink/robins blue colors!
