What? I Can't Hear You!

I admittedly have had a really hard time coming up with meaningful posts lately- or any posts at all actually. This post will be neutral... I think...I just feel we need an update here. Something to keep this thing going. Writing through the struggle!

Here is a tale of an ear drum exploding. My ear drum. It all goes back to renewing our home study. You see, back in February I decided that my internal medicine doctor was not a good fit for me and may or may not have stormed out yelling or crying or a combination of both. That's what happens when a doctor thinks she knows me more than I know myself. Long story.

This means I had no regular doctor to do my physical for my home study. I called probably 20 doctors of all varieties with a bunch of "no's" unless you are already a patient there. Finally, thanks to a friend in the adoption wait, I found an urgent care facility who would do it. An urgent care facility where I would pick up one.nasty.bug.

About 6 hours after leaving the appointment I had a fever, chills, aches, extreme fatigue and a sore throat. Three days later all of those issues subsided and my ears started hurting. Within about 8 hours of ear pain, my left ear drum ruptured. Might I say it exploded? Yeah, it did. It was awful and gross and intensely painful. Nearly 3 weeks later it no longer sounds like a hurricane in there, but my hearing is still a little off.

It's like being in a fog. A silent, but not totally silent, more like wind tunnel sounding fog. Too tired to write or keep up with renewing home study documents. I finally found my way out of the fog though.

You guys... I had to go to a Frank Turner show with a bum ear! A Frank Turner show! With a bum ear! Anyone shocked that I still had the time of my life? I so did. Two hours of Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls in the middle of the night? Count me in!

Anyway. I got thrown off for nearly 3 weeks. Illness, bum ear drum, allergies from hell. But hopefully I'm back up and writing. Darn the home study renewal. Nearly made me deaf...

I can't even tell you if we have adoption updates. It's still such a weird process. Movement, then no movement. Nothing, then fast forward, then stall out. Hurry up and wait.

I've been day dreaming a lot about the beach. That is probably going to need to happen ASAP.  Unless our baby come to us first, then beach next year. Please universe, please! Yep, I am down to begging the powers that be. Just let this work out.

I know come Thursday, I need a little pick me up to get through the last couple days of work. For this reason, I present to you:

Death Metal Mary Poppins. Enjoy.