Thursday, April 2, 2020

Today is my husband’s 35th birthday. He is the hardest working, most fun-loving and patient man. So, before I start writing about anything too serious, I want to first acknowledge that 35 years ago today, my soulmate, and best friend was born and I couldn’t do this thing called “life” without him. Happy Birthday Shawn! I love you so very much!

This morning Michigan’s governor declared that all K-12, in-person classes, are officially done for the year and students won’t be returning to school until the following school year. In other words, we now officially have an 8th grader and a 5th grader, whether we’re ready for that or not. 

Our youngest, Levi, was able to video chat with his teacher and some of his classmates this afternoon and it was such a fun thing for him to be able to see everyone after 21 long days of isolation/social-distancing. Technology like this is an amazing blessing right now, and we’ve been taking advantage of it. A few days ago I was also able to video chat with my “Tribe” of girlfriends, we talked, drank wine, and laughed A LOT for over an hour, it was the BEST and most needed kind of therapy. I highly recommend using Zoom or any other app that allows you to socialize with friends and family while we continue to practice social-distancing.  

When all of this COVID-19 shit started I felt blindsided but most of all I felt robbed of my progress with Physical Therapy. After all of our future doctor and therapy appointments were cancelled I felt robbed once again of getting the answers from the Osteoporosis specialist and Orthopaedic specialist, which were two of my March appointments I had been really looking forward to. It took MONTHS of waiting for my March appointments and then BAM they were all cancelled and who knows when I’ll be able to reschedule. This type of “waiting game” is even more stressful because NOBODY knows how long it will be before we’re able to schedule any in-person appointments with specialists. I was also right in the middle of scheduling Landon’s first therapy session when all of the social-distancing started, followed by the complete cancellation of all in-person therapy appointments, so once again, I have NO IDEA what this means for Landon and whether he’ll be able to actually start therapy in the next couple of months or not. And if I’m being completely honest, he is probably the last person I would want to be completely quarantined with. Thank God my parents have been allowing him to stay with them during the day, but if we don’t get his meds regulated soon I’m not sure how long they’ll be able to have him there. He can be extremely difficult to be around and lately he has been testing the patience of the two MOST patient people in his life, his grandpa and grandma.

My health has been okay lately. I’m still trying to get my prescription renewed for my CGM and pump supplies, but I’ve still been unable to reach anyone at Solara medical supplies. Tomorrow I will try once more, before I call my endocrinologist’s office and ask them for advice. 

As of right now, Michigan is the 3rd state, out of 50, with the most COVID-19 cases. 1st: New York, 2nd: New Jersey, and 3rd: Michigan. It blows my mind that the recovery rates in the U.S. are nowhere near what they’ve been in other countries and the cases of COVID-19 have surpassed Italy and China. This virus doesn’t discriminate. It doesn’t care how old you are, how rich you are, what color your skin is...it just spreads like wildfire. And yet there are still people out there who aren’t taking things serious and they’re the ones who are allowing this virus to continue to spread. It’s been 21 days since my son Levi and I have been anywhere outside of our own neighborhood. It’s been rough, we’ve been dealing with boredom and cabin fever the best we can, but we’re doing our part with social-distancing and we will continue to do this until it is safe for EVERYONE…

I’ll end this post by saying...Stay Safe. Stay Home. Wash Your Hands. Stay Hopeful.

All my Love and Hope,

Sarah aka Hopeful Dreamer