Post

Well it is nine days post-surgery. Dave seems somewhat better. He is healing. He had his one week check and the doc said everything was looking good and as it should. He says that next week he is ready to step back into his parenting role. Thank God for Jodi and Nana Nita stepping up and helping with child care while he has been incapacitated.

I'm ready for the household to hopefully get back to some normalcy. Dave spent almost the whole two weeks prior to surgery sleeping on the couch and bitching at us for making noise. Well it is what we do. I would tell him to go to bed and he would say it would be the same thing. All our noise would disturb him just as much. No that is not true. And we wouldn't have had to worry about how we were upsetting him. He never got it.....how inconvenient that behavior was to us.

I'm pretty much tired of walking on eggshells. I said I was never going to do that again and yet I fell right back into it the last few months. And kids are not quiet.

And while we are not dealing with his pain issue we are still dealing with his not handling stress well issue. Mike, Tanya, and everything else that keeps coming out of the woodwork are hard for him. Alcoholics never learned how to deal with stuff in the real world. They get some of that when they work their program and are in recovery. Hint. And that is the thing. There will always be stress in life. Even if one were to isolate themselves in some remote cabin in the woods. There is always stress of some sort.

Asides....Mike found a ride from the hospital and is now over at the neighbors. It is quiet on the Tanya front. Doug is being quiet on the whole thing. I think life got quieter for Joyce after they had to change their phone numbers due to some more maliciousness from Tanya and her boyfriend. Seems I caused that one so I offered to pay any fees associated with the number change. Today is a good day.