Sick as a dawg...

First happy birthday to the most faboosh Mama in the world!! I love and miss you terrible Mom!

Second- I will give everyone the sicky sucky update of this weekend. On Thursday night I felt a little dizzy, weird but not a big deal. I woke up on Friday and I was also dizzy but didn't think too much about it and went to work. The dizziness kept getting worse until I was gripping the walls in hopes of trying to get the world to stop spinning. To make a long story less long, I couldn't keep anything down and ended up in the ER that night and was admitted to the hospital where I stayed for two nights. Topher and I calculated that they pumped me full of at least 5.5 liters of fluids to combat the dehydration. In the ER I ended up having a completely normal brain scan (I need to call and try to get those images- I totes want to see my brain) which is a relief. It was pretty horrible but I'm home now and trying to recover. I got mixed diagnoses from several doctors but the one that I'm going with is a viral inner ear infection (vesicular neuritis) that threw my equilibrium for a loop-da-loop. Some of the docs said the recovery would be a few days others said up to a few months- which I cannot even imagine at this point! I'm home from work this week trying to recoop and doing ridiculous vesicular "exercises" which consist of making myself dizzy and then trying to convince myself that the world is in fact stable. Our most wonderful friends, Jeff and Rene, picked Bex up from school on Friday and he stayed there both nights while Topher stayed with me at the hospital. Here are some more uplifting pics of the weekend...