The Silver Lining

Recently some tough stuff has been happening around here but thankfully there has been large silver linings to almost all of it.

First one is my shoulder. Remember that wonderful injury I had that took a bunch of therapy before we had surgery then a couple months more of surgery. Well something good came out of that injury. I can carry Rayne in the sling comfortably. If I wear the sling on my left shoulder my arm, neck and eventually head really start to hurt. This doesn't happen on my right shoulder. On day I noticed that where the pain starts on the left side is in the bicep tendon where it attaches up by the neck. On my right side that isn't there, hence the lack of pain. So I can carry Rayne on that side for a lot longer before I start to get tired and sore. Who knew that the oddest acquired injury would help me take care of my baby over a year later :)
Second comes from Rayne being sick. This last Monday we had to take Rayne to the ER. The night before she had some very odd breathing and I had her checked by the doctor. They didn't find anything wrong and said if any new symptoms showed up to call back in. Well by 8pm that night Rayne had not kept anything down in 12 hours. She didn't have a fever but she was vomiting everything she ate, and hadn't had a wet diaper since 9am. The ER wasn't fun, but that's another post. But one of the things the doctor recommend was propping her up to sleep. Because of this we bought a bouncy chair for Rayne to sleep in. Which she loves. And now that we are having to travel out west for a while it will be so much easier to take the bouncy chair than our bassinet or constantly figuring out where she's going to sleep.
Third and probably most ironic was Gigi's passing. This is one of the roughest things we've been through simply because of the emotional roller coaster of not knowing when it was going to happen. So we couldn't make plans of when to travel and trying to support people emotionally that are hundreds if not thousands of miles away. But Gigi has released her burden and we are headed out to Utah. The positive side is just as major... well at least to me. Our ceiling is finally going to get fixed. That hole in our kitchen ceiling due to the bathroom leaking has finally been looked at by the repair guy. But because of the risk that there is mold up there he has to come back to do the work once he gets that right chemicals and materials. The repair guy should be back after we are gone so we don't have to deal with, chemicals, dust, hammering, all the thing that go with it. Fred may be back in time for some of it but Rayne and I will probably still be gone. We've been waiting for months for this to be fixed and really worried about where Rayne and I would go while the repairs were being done but now it's not a problem.

So there you go. Some of those major negatives in life can have truly great positives. Some take a year or more to show up and others it can be a matter of hours. So always try to look for the silver lining :)