cera-jeanne's Diaryland Diary

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It's Been Quite the Week

whew. it's been a rough week. as i mentioned in my previous entry J's job and hours and our miscommunication was starting to take its toll. j and i spent too much time doing what we rarely do - arguing - last week.

it boils down to both of us feeling something that made us feel like the other wasn't being there for us which in turn made us not able to be there for eachother...that's sort of a round about vague explanation but i don't have the energy to go too deep into it.

we had a few really long talks and found out some things that we need to fix that really have nothing to do with eachother. for me, i don't know anyone in the city where we live. we moved here last summer for J's job (and because housing is more affordable) and because I don't work in this city or do anything else here I don't know anyone. i end up being alone too a lot and when J calls to say he will be late i have nowhere to go as my closest friend is 40 minutes away.

j and i are lucky in the way that we really care about eachother and when something is wrong, we don't (can't) ignore it, we have to address it and make things better. and we have and things have been really great since.

we had a really big scare last week with my brother in law. on Wednesday he ended up in intensive care with flesh eating disease. we were all so scared. j & i went to vancouver island where they live to be with my sister and her three kids.

i got to spend a lot of time with my neices and my sister and made the most of a very scary time. the dr's had him on three different types of antibiotics (all triple or double dosed) and nothing was stopping the infection in his leg. they had a surgeon on stand by.

finally, thank God, by Saturday night the antibiotics started to work and the patches on his leg began to recede. He is still in intensive care but it appears he will be ok and won't lose a leg. it appears the infection started off by a spider bite.

i am so grateful that J was able to come with me and was so supportive throughout the whole thing. He watched my sister's kids, he cleaned her house, and he let me cry whenever i needed to.

i hope my brother in law can come home soon.

8:36 p.m. - November 13, 2007

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