Delicious Ambiguity: A Down Week

It's been three weeks since Erik's injury and I think this last week was the hardest for everyone.

Erik got a slight obstruction (probably caused by the pain meds) and spent three days with severe stomach cramps, diarrhea, constipation (yes, at the same time!), and throwing up. Of course during this time, he couldn't keep anything down, so therefore wasn't taking anything for the pain. Just based on the sounds of his moans and groans and the uncomfortableness I could see in his face, his pain level was pretty severe. Luckily he is feeling much better now and is slowly introducing foods and drinks back into his diet. His xrays on Wednesday showed that the break is pretty stable and so he won't have to see the ortho again for another month.

I hit a point this week of exhaustion and depression. When the injury first happened, it was nice to have Erik home from work for more than a few hours at a time! It was so nice to have adult conversations during the day and to have someone here to look after the kids if I needed to run an errand. However, as this week approached, I realized just how hard it is to have the hubster home all the time! Not only are my routines of cooking and cleaning and taking care of the kids out of control (which is super stressful for me), but having another person in the house needing my attention and care has been hard. Erik is in a ton of pain and it's hard to keep things positive and fun when I know he's suffering and always needing the kids to be quiet or to stop jumping around near him. He does a lot of sleeping during the day and then is awake half the night. It's hard to keep everyone calm and quiet during the day and it's hard for me to sleep with him up at night.

Maida and Skogen told me this week that they don't like how they can't play and jump on Daddy anymore and that they are sad and worried that they will never have their old Daddy back. It was heartbreaking to hear how they are comprehending everything going on. I hope that I was able to appropriately explain to them what is going on and I'm really hoping this next week will be a time of finding other fun things they can do with Daddy to make this time special, too.

I found these pictures on my camera this morning of the ski race before the night of the race when Erik was injured. Maida, Skogen, and Klaasen are their Daddy's biggest fans and love to watch him race. They can't wait until they can race with him, too!