Summer continues at the strange pace of extremely slow and then feeling like where did the time go? It’s bizarre. Another week of telehealth appointments, time with friends and Beth and lots of pet photos.
Sunday mornings always start with Becky and Beth on a hike with Cloey. This selfie is awesome!
Ally slept until cuddling Daisy.
On Monday Ally and I finished the puzzle we started last week.
We also had 2 telehealth appointments; therapy and Ally’s Sports Medicine Orthopedist. She was great as usual, gave us lots of advice and asked that we follow up later in the week. In August Ally has had a Rheumatology, Neurology and Orthopedic telehealth in addition to her usual 3xweek therapy and semi-weekly psychiatry appointments. I’m getting to be a skilled medical assistant managing the technology for all of the required camera work!
All kidding aside it’s a lot of appointments and Ally is working very hard on her mental and physical health.
Monday evening she was thrilled that an IPSY package came.
She loves the rose colored silk sleep package of pillow case, mask and scrunchie.
Tuesday morning I found her and Daisy like this.
Tuesday Ally went again to running club. In her boot! Beth took her so Becky and I could do another telehealth and host some friends for drinks and dessert.
Ally did a core workout while the kids ran. Crunches, lemon squeezes, V-ups and more. She had it planned out and did it. 2 parents told me how impressed they were with her positive attitude and dedication to working out.
Wednesday there was a pool party for Ally’s teammate Autumn.
Can you tell they had a blast?
They also recorded a message for their old coach Vicky.
Selfie Ally took at the pool. She truly doesn’t know how beautiful she is.
Becky spent all of Thursday cooking.
She made ham/leek/gruyere quiche, salsa and potato leek soup.
That’s the salsa all ready to cook on the stove. Becky’s homemade salsa is delicious.
Thursday night another running club, Camila and Lizzie did conditioning with Ally.
Thanks for the new shirt Great Aunt Martha and Uncle Phil!
Friday Ally picked out these new prints for the 3rd floor.
And Beth came over with the finished futon cover!!! Ally is so happy. It looks fantastic! (The prints will go over the futon.)
A rare moment of pet harmony.
The weather was cooler this week and Cloey enjoys this spot in the sun.
Friday night was volleyball. Yes that is Ally on the left playing in her boot.
Sitting with friends.
The gang of boys.
Saturday was a rough day. Ally had a terrible bout of heartburn. So bad she was crying and screaming in pain. After 20 minutes and 2 Tums with no relief we called the pediatrician. After 20 more minutes the pain was less and more bearable. It was at an 8/10 and had decreased to a 5/10 and within 90 minutes was virtually gone. But it was hard. Hard for Ally to be in such big pain. Hard for us to help her and see her hurting. The rest of the day was recovering from the trauma. Ally stayed in bed watching Vampire Diaries, well to be accurate she is rewatching the series. She loves it. This week I started finding quizzes on the internet about the show “which character are you most like”... “how well do you know the show” those kind of quizzes. And Ally loves to take them. It’s so cute.
It was a bit scary for a while and it took us all most of the day to feel better.
I joked to Becky that now during COVID I’ve had to call Urgent Care for Becky who had terrible pain and it turned out to be a gas bubble and now Ally in terrible pain and it was heartburn. Clearly I have some digestive challenged family members.
So the cute end of post photo is Cloey this week, with a corn husk. Our Quarenteam Friend Kim brought us some corn from the farmers market and Cloey found a stray husk. She was not fond of the taste and soon spit it out.
