So much uuugggghhhh

Oh hey, hi. How are you? So, it’s October already… when did that happen?

I’ve been “drafting” an update for a while now, but unfortunately life has gotten really ridiculously busy and stressful and rotten over the last couple weeks.

A quick overview:

• I found out our new health insurance doesn’t actually pay for any of our health care. At all. Ever.
• I'm still having regular leg pain and recently had a return to the cramping and spasms I experienced the initial few days of this flare-up. My leg pain was worse than ever after my PT appointment last week. Strangely enough, I ended up chatting with a PT at a random party I went to last Friday night, who said my symptoms didn’t sound like piriformis syndrome at all and it was possible that I had a pinched nerve and should probably have an MRI to really be able to figure out how I need to/should proceed with treatment.
• Work has been worse than ever and is killing me. Killing. Me. Stress is out of control, I’m behind on everything all the time, we have tons of new staff that still need to be trained up, and we’re coming up on one our biggest hard deadlines of the year and people are completely unprepared. This, just before we gear up for our normal “busy season” come January.
• Both of my children, but especially the toddler, are constantly pushing their limits and making life miserable.
• My house is a disaster, but I have zero energy or desire or physical mobility/flexibility to clean it.
• My oldest child may or may not have worn nearly the exact same outfit to school every day for the last 4 or  5 school days and I just can’t be bothered to keep up with the laundry. (Which is not to say he wouldn’t just continue to wear the same outfit anyway – he can be strange in that way sometimes.)
• I’m having another period after having just had a 9 day period 2 weeks ago – I can only imagine this is due to the insane amount of stress I’m dealing with.
• Speaking of which, since our insurance is terrible, I’ll likely need to go back on the pill since our plan to proceed with a vasectomy this fall is out due to expense – while this will regulate my crazy cycle (hopefully), I can also likely look forward to a return of my migraines as well as the crazy mood swings.

Sorry if that last part was a little TMI. I have zero filter right now. I’m too caught up in trying not to kill people or throw myself out of a window.

Maybe I’ll get a few quiet minutes to myself later tonight to finish and polish my draft and get it up. Sorry to have disappeared after being pretty decent about the twice weekly updates! Please stay tuned.