Okay, so I usually don’t take this long to update my blog, lets retrace my steps…
Last Saturday I headed out to Knoxville TN to pick up my mom and then headed to Nashville, TN, our ultimate destination for the night. We stayed at a place called The Hermitage Hotel, its the nicest place I believe I’ve ever stayed. Awesome, but not cheap. We were in town to see Robert Plant and Alison Krauss in the “Raising Sand” Tour. This would be my second time seeing the show, and no, it did not lessen the experience.
When we got back to the room there were cookies and mints on our nightstands, robes on our beds and a breakfast list for us to make our selections in the morning. I wasted most of my food, but I did eat some of everything and it was awesome.
Fast forward to Sunday, time to drive to Charlotte. Arrive in Charlotte at the Westin for the US Women in Nuclear Conference. The Conference was awesome, the hotel, not so much (I’ve already panned it in my review on www.tripadvisor.com). I would have never guess that there was such a population of women in the nuclear industry. There were a bevy of distinguished speakers and a lot of the hot topics were talked about. It was such a learning/growing experience for me, I’m so glad I went.
So on the last day there (Wed.) at 6 in the morning my aunt calls to tell my mom that my granny has fallen and broken her hip. My mom was supposed to meet Chris’s mom while I was there, well the meet and greet was short and sweet to say the least. I apologized profusely and explained that we were planning on staying a while before everything happened with granny. She understood, she’s actually really understanding (I’m sure you have to be with 4 grandkids under 7 years old that you are practically raising).
Got mom back to Knoxville, TN and then she drove home (Virginia). Granny had surgery on Thursday, they put in 3 pins, she broke her hip and her pelvis. No one has told her about the 6 weeks of skilled nursing she will require (i.e. your ass is going to stay in bed).
I’ve taken myself off the Topamax. I’m just not at a point in my career where I can be dumb. The doctor was trying to get me up to taking 100 mg/day. I was noticing cognitive effects (dumbing down) at 50 mg/day. Just not going to work. I don’t know what to do…
