So yes I am a day late, in case you hadn’t noticed. BH and I are down in GA for a long weekend. We are going to try to go zip lining today. We had a great day yesterday visiting family. We hadn’t even planned on it really. But our nephew and his wife wanted us to go see a fancy ultrasound on their yet to be born baby. I played with their two girls, the woman doing the ultrasound was very fast and with all the quick movements on the big screen, our niece’s mother who might be hard of hearing since she talks so loud and the woman talking over her, I decided to play with their 4 and almost 2 year olds. I had met the oldest one when she turned one, but I hadn’t met the youngest yet. We became friends. I loved playing with little ones and these ones are really, really good. It is a joy to be around young children that don’t throw temper tantrums or scream for attention. We were concerned that they may be a bit vocal for me and I had an exit plan created by BH just in case. But didn’t need it once we engaged together. Children like focused attention don’t they? The maternal grandparents went to eat and the rest of us came back to Callaway Gardens. We played some more, went to eat at a local KFC instead of one of the restaurants here.
BH got sick at their Country restaurant so we didn’t get to go to the living museum up the road from FDR (Franklin D Roosevelt) park. I really like living museums with the reenactors and the stories they tell. Sadly they’re only opened on Friday and Saturday. Maybe another trip… we got lost trying to find the blasted cottage and ended up going the whole way around Callaway and a lot of turning to find an exit road. We weren’t the only ones as we would end up leading or following another vehicle. It literally took an hour to get back to the cottage. Yep a full hour! I could have walked it in 30 minutes, less in some spots. I knew where it was just not how to get there.
Directions used to be my thing before I ruptured. I never got lost, could always find my way home no matter how old I was. Dad always encouraged it. We learned our compass points and paid attention to road signs, landmarks those types of things ever since I was little. BH is just learning which way our home faces. ROFLOL. But getting lost upset me. It upset me way more than it should have. BH was upset because of course BH was driving. So here’s us both apologizing to each other for our inability to navigate somewhere we’ve never been. Sound familiar? We often read how new members and old are trying to figure out how to navigate the unknown and a lot of times we are apologizing for things that really don’t need apologies.
BH got cleaned up, I got settled with you guessed it some deep breathing, water and rest. BH thought I needed to rest more but I felt pretty good so off to the ultrasound we go. But we’re going to be late. BH drove pretty fast, faster than the map app so a couple turns were missed, only 5 minutes late! Family hadn’t been called in so a 30 minute visit with lots of hugs. Thankfully when the niece asked how the museum was and we told her and her mom about getting lost. It had happened to them as well. Sound familiar? It’s what we do for each other here, we share our stories and experiences.
Yesterday we went over to their new house. It was a rainy day we had planned as a down day. I can get easily overwhelmed since my rupture. Played some more. Their 4 year old remembered my name but not BH we all had to laugh because she didn’t remember me the day before. Nephew grilled up some teriyaki chicken, niece helped do the sides. They are amazing to watch work together. They are amazing parents. They don’t get on their electronic devices and ignore the kids, they do tag team with them. They role model manners and teach them to use manners. They do their electronic devices when the kids are sleeping. They’re really smart kids for their age. That’s just good parenting. I was impressed and told them so, each credits the other of course. Our nephew loaded us down with some venison and we headed the hour or so drive back to the place we’re staying. We are learning the roads and to ignore either map app because they’re wrong.
Started getting a headache and we chose to eat at the hotel restaurant which was another oops moment. I needed protein, asked for the salmon and they were out due to the influx of guests on Valentine’s Day. I didn’t want chicken again so got the pork. Neither one of us felt so great an hour later. We will avoid eating at any of their other places, my vote this morning is an Egg MccMuffin and an apple pie.
. There’s no McDonald’s that we’ve seen. BH hasn’t woke up yet. The birds are just waking up and they sound beautiful.
That’s my excuse for not doing the welcomes on my self mandated day. But I’m going to do them right now! Let’s get started…
@UnrupturedBabygirl is over in Missouri. Britt is her mom’s part time caregiver. Mom had a Woven Endobridge placed fo a 10 mm basilar apex aneuysm. Britt works nights full time and she says loudly she is stressed. Britt we are here for you, please start a new topic under General or Support, let us know how we can help you out. There’s lots of folks who’ve got a bit of experience they can share.
@mike1689 is in Slovenia. Iztok is also a relative. His wife has had two stents placed for a 25 mm aneurysm on the main vessel ( guessing one of the internal carotid arteries but we will need to hear from him). So with the stents also came the coils. There is still a 10% inflow. Her operation was 2 ½ years ago, she’d had brain edema. She is stable but not improving and still has a lot of pressure in her head. Iztok, that’s a lot to have to handle. Please come talk to us!
@HannahM is up in Ohio. Hannah has a 2 cm unruptured aneurysm on the back of the brain where vision is that’s was found and coiled. Appears she will be going back for a stent. Hannah please come let us know how we can support you!
@Leeh is down in South Africa. Lisa had a ruptured aneurysm 13 Jan 2026, coiling on the 19th and discharged on the 27th. Lisa we are really glad you made it and found us, well done! I bet you might have some questions and we can certainly try to answer them based on our experiences. You just need to start a new topic.
When we start a new topic we go to either General or Support, click on the +new topic and fill out the title and then let us know your story. We look forward to hearing from all of you!
Have a great week y’all!