Yanti & Salty MAD MANATEES Part 2 -- Full Pod

Woohoo!  I get to break-in the new thread! 

Not sure about what training I'm going to do today.  I've completely abandoned my plan at this point. haha.  There is a "Ride of Silence" today that the local bike club is putting on that I may try to participate in.  I really should run though.  I'm also thinking about signing up for a spring tri this weekend.  All of this depends of childcare though.  Augh. Speaking of, I'm dying here today.  Eleanor, my 3-year old, was getting a bit hyper yesterday and was jumping around the living room.  Jumped right into the piano bench and caught the edge with her right brow.  Put a nice gash in it.  3-hours at the ER and a traumatized kid later, we're getting home at 11:30pm and trying to get her to calm down and get some sleep.  Of course my 7month old decides that now is a good time to start waking up a 3am again.  Since mom is with Ella, I get to calm down Rex. Then back up again at 6am to start the day.  I'm suprised I'm still somewhat coherent.

Oh no, sorry about your little one.  I remember my kids at that age.  Heh, always on the go and constantly climbing and jumping onto things.  I hope she's recovering well.  I don't envy your "early" wake up call from your 7 month old,  but it will pass.  Hang in there.

Yanti, I'm sorry to hear about your Mom.  Prayers to you and your Mom.  Travel safe.

I rode 32 miles today and felt great.  My foot doesn't hurt when I ride, but I feel a twinge on the outside of my foot just below the ankle bone when I go to unclip from the peddle.  I know I need some new running shoes.  They are very expired.  If my injury is due to the shoes, it's my own dumb fault for procrastinating.  I'm notorious for waiting till the last minute to do things.  Lesson learned.  Duh. 

Woohoo!  I get to break-in the new thread! 

Not sure about what training I'm going to do today.  I've completely abandoned my plan at this point. haha.  There is a "Ride of Silence" today that the local bike club is putting on that I may try to participate in.  I really should run though.  I'm also thinking about signing up for a spring tri this weekend.  All of this depends of childcare though.  Augh. Speaking of, I'm dying here today.  Eleanor, my 3-year old, was getting a bit hyper yesterday and was jumping around the living room.  Jumped right into the piano bench and caught the edge with her right brow.  Put a nice gash in it.  3-hours at the ER and a traumatized kid later, we're getting home at 11:30pm and trying to get her to calm down and get some sleep.  Of course my 7month old decides that now is a good time to start waking up a 3am again.  Since mom is with Ella, I get to calm down Rex. Then back up again at 6am to start the day.  I'm suprised I'm still somewhat coherent.

It's official - according to my definition, I AM A TRIATHLETE!!! I had a really good race yesterday (other than the swim, OMG ugh!! Hello sidestroke, I love you because I can breath while I do you!) and had a great time, which is what mattered most to me. We had perfect weather, warm but not hot, and overcast. i just finished my RR. I finished 250m swim, 10 mile bike, 3.5 mile run and 2 transitions in 1:22:22! I was 127 out of 250, not too shabby! And if I was still 29, I would have won my age group (there was only one woman in 25-29, but 13 women in 30-34, of which I was 11th).

So, I've got some work to do on the swim and I'll really need to step up with some brick work to help me improve my run time, but my goal was to get through the swim, average over 15pmh on the bike and run 35 minutes or faster, so all goals met!

Ooooh, I'm a rat, so I think that makes us compatible. I'll bet Allen is something not compatible maybe a Rooster, since he's a...

So I'm back from the trip, had a great time overall, but now dealing with family issues.  My shoulder hurts like a dickens from the ride, it was sore along the trapezus muscle but then caused some burning pain while helping my parents out with some stuff and is just painful at this point so easy on the swimming me thinks this week will try tomorrow I think.

Need Manatee thoughts and prayers for my Wife's father who is in the hospital, he had a cough for over 6 months that he never got checked out and was recently diagnosed with walking pnemonia which my wife didn't think sounded right, always trust nurses.  It wasn't he got winded walking to the mailbox and then got real sick sunday night and they took him to the hospital where they diagnosed him with congestive heart failure.  My wife just called and asked me to research flights to Cleveland, there is news but not sure what- she is leaving work early to head up there.

Rat suits.

So sorry to have missed your birthday Yanti, from one more dragon to another, I hope you have a sparkling year.

Nice to see you share your leadership of this group with those lower down the food chain than ourselves.

Will be thinking you and your mum as you deal with the difficulties you are facing right now.

Dang! We are one crazy banged-up pod of Manatees and Co. right now! (I shall get back to Claire and Keye shortly ... )

RANT ON.

Y'all ... I'm breaking down here a bit.

I'm kinda strained to the limit and it is exhausting to have to remember, research and make these complicated medical decisions (and try to coordinate ones already made, including a lot of bad drug-interaction errors) from a distance and the ER docs keep changing and they do not have her history there and are not writing down what I tell them. Then they call me and ask me what to do.

Neurologist, cardiologist, pulmonologist, tropical medicine specialist, pharmacologist. I'm dying trying to assimilate the information (thank you, NIH MedlinePlus), highlight the important parts, relate them to her history and presentation (and changing conditions), and translate a bunch of it into Indonesian.

God help me. I'm exhausted, I've got no breaks, and the fever (mine!) is between 100 and 101 again. She's probably not going to die between now and tomorrow morning, otherwise I'd have been on a plane before this, but geez Louise.

Sorry. Someone remind me that this is exactly why I returned to Indonesia, and thank God I am here and CAN do this. The timing's just a bit off with me still being ill and my sister recovering from dengue/typhoid herself.

On a far more delightful note, I was able to have a really beautiful birthday dinner with a pseudoshhhhboyfriendtype piglet and my two closest friends here (husband and wife. Not mine. They're married to each other). When times are tough, it's amazing who shows up (and one especially finds out who the worthy piglets are) and these three have been so incredible, concerned, and helpful.

Here is said piglet. May I add that he is the only piglet in Bali (I absolutely kid you not) who does not smoke or drink, he is a marathoner and mostly vegetarian (occasionally fish).

http://www.robsoundz.com/

Good to see you back on the motivating salty train...

Dang! We are one crazy banged-up pod of Manatees and Co. right now! (I shall get back to Claire and Keye shortly ... )

RANT ON.

Y'all ... I'm breaking down here a bit.

I'm kinda strained to the limit and it is exhausting to have to remember, research and make these complicated medical decisions (and try to coordinate ones already made, including a lot of bad drug-interaction errors) from a distance and the ER docs keep changing and they do not have her history there and are not writing down what I tell them. Then they call me and ask me what to do.

Neurologist, cardiologist, pulmonologist, tropical medicine specialist, pharmacologist. I'm dying trying to assimilate the information (thank you, NIH MedlinePlus), highlight the important parts, relate them to her history and presentation (and changing conditions), and translate a bunch of it into Indonesian.

God help me. I'm exhausted, I've got no breaks, and the fever (mine!) is between 100 and 101 again. She's probably not going to die between now and tomorrow morning, otherwise I'd have been on a plane before this, but geez Louise.

Sorry. Someone remind me that this is exactly why I returned to Indonesia, and thank God I am here and CAN do this. The timing's just a bit off with me still being ill and my sister recovering from dengue/typhoid herself.

On a far more delightful note, I was able to have a really beautiful birthday dinner with a pseudoshhhhboyfriendtype piglet and my two closest friends here (husband and wife. Not mine. They're married to each other). When times are tough, it's amazing who shows up (and one especially finds out who the worthy piglets are) and these three have been so incredible, concerned, and helpful.

Here is said piglet. May I add that he is the only piglet in Bali (I absolutely kid you not) who does not smoke or drink, he is a marathoner and mostly vegetarian (occasionally fish).

http://www.robsoundz.com/

FIL had the procedure this morning, no blockadge which my DW expected and she is there now so I think that will help, she and her youngest sister are the only medical types so it can be confusing without an interpreter with all the medical jargon.  So the plan is mostly cardiac rehab and medication while watching his lungs and clearing out the fluid/pnemonia.  So GOOD NEWS for the most part

Woohoo!  I get to break-in the new thread! 

Not sure about what training I'm going to do today.  I've completely abandoned my plan at this point. haha.  There is a "Ride of Silence" today that the local bike club is putting on that I may try to participate in.  I really should run though.  I'm also thinking about signing up for a spring tri this weekend.  All of this depends of childcare though.  Augh. Speaking of, I'm dying here today.  Eleanor, my 3-year old, was getting a bit hyper yesterday and was jumping around the living room.  Jumped right into the piano bench and caught the edge with her right brow.  Put a nice gash in it.  3-hours at the ER and a traumatized kid later, we're getting home at 11:30pm and trying to get her to calm down and get some sleep.  Of course my 7month old decides that now is a good time to start waking up a 3am again.  Since mom is with Ella, I get to calm down Rex. Then back up again at 6am to start the day.  I'm suprised I'm still somewhat coherent.

Oh no, sorry about your little one.  I remember my kids at that age.  Heh, always on the go and constantly climbing and jumping onto things.  I hope she's recovering well.  I don't envy your "early" wake up call from your 7 month old,  but it will pass.  Hang in there.

Yanti, I'm sorry to hear about your Mom.  Prayers to you and your Mom.  Travel safe.

I rode 32 miles today and felt great.  My foot doesn't hurt when I ride, but I feel a twinge on the outside of my foot just below the ankle bone when I go to unclip from the peddle.  I know I need some new running shoes.  They are very expired.  If my injury is due to the shoes, it's my own dumb fault for procrastinating.  I'm notorious for waiting till the last minute to do things.  Lesson learned.  Duh. 

I first have to not that you never RANT OFF-ed So I am going to assume you can jump back in with your rant at any time.

pseudoshhhhboyfriendtype!?!?!?!?! I hope he brought a gift! 

Also, so sorry about your mom!! Ahem, this is exactly why you returned to Indonesia, and thank God you are  there and YOU CAN do this. I just sucks you are having to deal with it while you are not doing well yourself. 

FIL had the procedure this morning, no blockadge which my DW expected and she is there now so I think that will help, she and her youngest sister are the only medical types so it can be confusing without an interpreter with all the medical jargon.  So the plan is mostly cardiac rehab and medication while watching his lungs and clearing out the fluid/pnemonia.  So GOOD NEWS for the most part

Rat suits...is that another British vocabulary phrase I can add to my list? Never mind, don't answer that. I am adding it anyway. 

Dang! We are one crazy banged-up pod of Manatees and Co. right now! (I shall get back to Claire and Keye shortly ... )

RANT ON.

Y'all ... I'm breaking down here a bit.

I'm kinda strained to the limit and it is exhausting to have to remember, research and make these complicated medical decisions (and try to coordinate ones already made, including a lot of bad drug-interaction errors) from a distance and the ER docs keep changing and they do not have her history there and are not writing down what I tell them. Then they call me and ask me what to do.

Neurologist, cardiologist, pulmonologist, tropical medicine specialist, pharmacologist. I'm dying trying to assimilate the information (thank you, NIH MedlinePlus), highlight the important parts, relate them to her history and presentation (and changing conditions), and translate a bunch of it into Indonesian.

God help me. I'm exhausted, I've got no breaks, and the fever (mine!) is between 100 and 101 again. She's probably not going to die between now and tomorrow morning, otherwise I'd have been on a plane before this, but geez Louise.

Sorry. Someone remind me that this is exactly why I returned to Indonesia, and thank God I am here and CAN do this. The timing's just a bit off with me still being ill and my sister recovering from dengue/typhoid herself.

On a far more delightful note, I was able to have a really beautiful birthday dinner with a pseudoshhhhboyfriendtype piglet and my two closest friends here (husband and wife. Not mine. They're married to each other). When times are tough, it's amazing who shows up (and one especially finds out who the worthy piglets are) and these three have been so incredible, concerned, and helpful.

Here is said piglet. May I add that he is the only piglet in Bali (I absolutely kid you not) who does not smoke or drink, he is a marathoner and mostly vegetarian (occasionally fish).

http://www.robsoundz.com/