Arthritis Mom

It was bound to happen. The last day of our trip I over did it and my rheumatoid arthritis is making sure I know how much. I wanted to fit everything in so I woke up around 6am to get myself my children ready early. I needed my sister's car so I dropped her at work and took her two children and my three children to visit to our grandmother. I really wanted to see her one more time before we left and I knew she'd love to see the twins and the other kids again. I spent most of the visit keeping the babies from breakable objects and from chewing or pulling her oxygen tank tubing. I was exhausted almost as soon as I got there but it was definitely worth it.

Then my parents and I took the children to the science museum (my husband had taken his boys to the mountains for some adventure bike riding). We ate lunch and then walked and walked and walked through the museum.

We drove back to my sisters house, ate dinner, got the babies bathed, bottled, diapered and in bed. My parents stayed with the babies while the rest of us went to a baseball game. The walk from the parking lot to the stadium would not have been too bad if not for all the other activities that day. We had a one hour rain delay and didn't end up getting home until around 11pm. A very long but very satisfying last day of our vacation.

Unfortunately my right foot is very upset about all this activity and I'm having that overwhelming urge to remove it. Not the whole foot, just a 2 inch sized middle section in the ball of my foot which is throbbing in pain. Couldn't I still balance if I had most of the foot in tact? I know, I know, that is silly. The foot is a well designed body part that really does need all the components to work properly. It's probably better to get rid of the entire foot.