Oct 1- 8, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving!

On Tuesday, Myron returned from hockey and I was still in bed and he tells me that he had an accident.  I leaped out of bed exclaiming, 'What??!!!'  ready to fire a bunch of other questions at him.  I am of course thinking, car accident when he tells me that it was his back.  So I think to myself, 'Oh no!  Not again!'

So that pretty much sums up my week - taking care of my husband.  Which I don't mind, but to suddenly experience having my husband who can take care of himself to needing me to help him with everything, was a bit of an adjustment.  I am lucky in that this will only be for a short period of time and that he will recover.  Thank God!

I also found it tough at times when Myron needed something and Tamara needed help with her homework, as I felt like I was spinning in circles & pulled in two directions and not enough time for me to breathe.  But I made it through, a bit on the tired side but I did it.

Myron has slept on the floor of our bedroom since Tuesday.  Thursday, I took him to physio and then to a walk in clinic.  Myron said that this is the worse his back's ever been and felt that something more was wrong with his back and thought perhaps a trip to the ER would be required.  But after talking to the physio-therapist, decided that we would just go to a walk in clinic.  The doctor at the clinic thinks it's just a really bad muscle strain and has issued anti-inflammatories, pain relievers & muscle relaxants for Myron.  And lots of rest, ice & heat.

The car ride to physio, to the medical clinic and quick stop at his work to sign some papers and then back to the pharmacist (who are right beside the walk in clinic) and then the ride home nearly incapacitated him.  We decided that we would have to change our Thanksgiving plans - we were supposed to go up to Edmonton and spend Thanksgiving with my Aunt, Uncle & Grandmother.  But there is no way Myron would be able to tolerate the 3 or 4 hour car ride.  So we called my Aunt & Uncle and had to cancel our plans with them.

So since my poor husband is house & floor bound, I set him up to be a bit more comfortable:
I set up a small TV so that he could watch the news or sports, a magazine, home phone, his blackberry and a tray for food & drink.  He ended up camping there until Saturday night when he finally felt like he could sleep in bed.

He ended up camping there until Saturday night when he finally felt like he could sleep in bed.

This past week we had a couple of nights with a hard frost so I rescued my one pumpkin from the outdoors and hope it'll ripen in the house:

This week I also made a couple of apple pies (diabetic friendly) using the apple from our apple tree:

You can tell I cheated a bit using store bought shells but they baked up looking pretty good:

I thought it tasted pretty good.  And Myron & Tamara must have felt the same.  I put one pie in the fridge to keep for Thanksgiving and it was eaten up by Saturday.  Good thing I froze the other pie.


On Saturday, Myron was able to get up and walk around for a few minutes.  One of the guys from work dropped by to give Myron a present.  He was a good sport and showed off his gift:

David was coming over for Thanksgiving dinner this weekend but couldn't make it till Monday because of work, so I decided to try a recipe that I've wanted to try out for a bit.  It's loosely based on this though I increased the sauce by cooking 2 packages of ground chicken/turkey and used two jars of pasta sauce. And instead of uncooked quinoa, I added about a 1/2 cup cooked (leftover) quinoa. I left out the spinach, mushrooms & tomatoes as Tamara doesn't like it. I added a sprinkling of parmesan & grated mozzarella cheese to each sauce level - if that makes sense. Everything was cooked except for the noodles. Then I 'cooked' it in a slow cooker on high for 4 hours. Everyone thought the meal was great. 

And then last night was our Thanksgiving dinner.  I asked David to bring his camera & tripod as I wanted to get a family picture for our Christmas card plus I wanted some individual ones of David especially since he doesn't have school pictures anymore.  I won't post the family picture yet as I want that to be a bit of a 'surprise' for a little while still.  But here are a couple of the kids goofing around:

And finally I was able to complete a few layouts that will be a gift for my brother & sister-in-law that I've been meaning to do.  Though I will post those pictures in another post as this one is so long.


Have a great short week!  =) Lisa