Six Children ......

.... are home now .... and another doctor's visit is behind me.

Thank God.

I woke up yesterday morning feeling less pressure in my head/face and less of a headache.  So yay for that.

Son #1 and I drove down into Houston to see my ENT.  I was less than relaxed, to put it mildly.  But surprisingly, all went relatively well.

It wasn't a great visit.  A great visit would involve him not sticking very, very long, curved, silver instruments up into my hose and around into my sinus cavities.  And him thinking that a couple of Lidocaine sprays in each nostril would make it all good.

I may have to ask him how many times he's gone through that experience and if so, how much the Lidocaine helped.

Because trust me ...... not so much.

But, it was less painful than Wednesday ..... which was a marked improvement.

And after he stuck all kinds of instruments up there and sucked some gunk out (though less than he expected to remove) he declared  that I "was healing nicely".  Yay for me.  And yay for not having an infection.

In fact, he said that I don't have to see him for 10 days!  Double yay for me!

By the time Son #1 and I got home, Son #3 had picked up Daughter #1 and returned home from the airport, and within a few minutes Daughter #3 drove up.

 It's so great to have all of them home ..... even though one of the daughters will have to go back "home" on Monday.  I blinked away the tears that threatened to fall, but managed to keep it together .... for that moment anyway.  I'm not keeping it together so very much as I type this.

Which means that I'd better end this post and move on to something else.

Happy Saturday/Christmas Eve, Peeps!

:)