Seth-n-Jode's Adventures

I've been pretty busy setting up Seth's schedule for when we get back.  He's got doctors, dentists, and therapists all to see.  Plus we've got his whole routine to do every day.  He is going to get some pool therapy this week so that should be interesting to see if that is something that will help to strengthen his muscles.

We both really like all of his therapists here at Craig.  Two of them were down in the gym with me this morning in the Wellness Center before the day started.  The right kind of folks to help Seth on his way.

We were playing cards with one of his therapists the other day and thus what sparked the entry highlight for this evening.  We were playing Kings Corners which is kind of like Solitaire.  I kept straightening the cards as the players placed them on the table.  I don't know why.  I like cards in a straight line.  So she commented, "Do you have OCD?"  I had no idea what she was talking about!  In a place like this, I guess you must have an "ism" to fit in.  Mine is obsessive compulsive or so I'm told!  I don't think this to be true, by the way.  I just like things nice and neat.

After the accident and I was up in Denver for about a week, I had started to make some plans to try to get home for a day to pick up some much needed files I needed to keep everything running smoothly on the home front.  Erinn and Darren graciously agreed to save me a trip and bring up my truck with the much needed critical files.  Thanks again for doing this guys!  But it was the second load brought up by Mark and Pate that may have saved my sanity!  They came up the very next weekend and I had some more time to think of what I needed.  So I asked them to bring up more of my files and most importantly, my label maker.  This is the part where you might say "Yep, she is OCD." 

I like to label everything.  We have neatly organized shelves in the closets at home with buckets appropriately labeled with their respective contents.   So when I got my label maker, I breathed a little sigh of relief and immediately started up a set of files. Seth's Medical Expenses, Seth's Rehab, Seth's Care Info, Seth's Appeal Info.  Heck, I even labeled my new bucket that ended up being my recycle bin, "Recycle".  It seems crazy but just putting some organization around a completely unorganized event helped me.  It started to bring in some semblance of control...a way of righting my world.

I don't call it OCD.  I just call it being me!  And thus why we have buckets for "Sewing Kit", Eyeglass Stuff" and Misc Goops / Gadgets" in some closet at home right now.