This summer has been long and hard. I started my summer workshop education classes this summer. Nine hours of Master's classes, my daughter having a baby and a double ear infection. Eeesh.

The classes were not bad, interesting even. I learned a lot and had my eyes opened to a lot of what is happening in the education world that I didn't know about. I will probably write more on that later. 

My daughter had a terrible time having the baby and it was a long troublesome recovery for her. She had to have an emergency C-section after 2 hours of pushing. She ended up with her lower body swelling beyond belief.

She hemmoraged a week after she came home...I took a trip to the emergency room with her. She was so scared she would die, I have never seen her so scared before. Her husband, a great guy and equally good Daddy was also scared and inexperienced in the ways of the medical world.

She got through that then got an infection. The doctors misdiagnosed it as a uterine infection and for two more weeks she continued to get worse. Finally they "listened" to her and treated her for the bladder infection she thought she had to begin with, but not until she became really sick. All this time she tried to breast feed and the baby wasn't getting enough and wasn't gaining weight...another stress. 

I know it wasn't me going through all this, but in a way it was. I felt like I was the one that had the baby, the stress was awful.

I didn't know if  after class I would be taking another trip to the hospital or doctor office. Seeing the constant pain and misery in my daughter's face was horrible. I worried she wouldn't survive with doctors that did not follow up on their patients anymore.  It made it hard to concentrate in class some days. I was lucky I had made some very good friends that helped me through it. Fellow "future" teachers that looked out for each other any way they could. 

While all this was going on I fought a double ear infection that drained the energy out of me.

Finally when her bladder infection was driven out with the correct medicine she began to recover. That brought us to the middle of July and the summer was half over. She began to feel better and I had two weeks to get a miread of projects done before the semester was over. 

Things are better now.

My daughter is able to get around and feeling more confident in taking care of a brand new baby. I finally got rid of the ear infection and somehow I passed my class with an A.

The fall brings on new challenges for our family. I start another 9 credit hours of classes including my practicum while substitue teaching. My daughter and her husband are going back to work as  teachers and will have to leave their baby with my husband (Grandpa). He will be babysitting every day with a two-month old which will be a new stress in itself. He also is going to school at night. So...with the summer now over and all of our family trials simmering down, I hope to find a little time to come back and write. In the meantime.

Here are some new baby pics.