![]() ![]() Which brings us to last week and #2: bad news about my health. In the last 30 days, it has finally felt like we were getting things back under control and hitting our new normal as my mom has stabilized and her symptoms have improved. It’s been a trying time for all of us on our emotions and patience. It’s continued to be appointment after appointment and test after test, learning to manage her disease, change her diet, etc. It’s been a total lifestyle change, especially for my mom, but also for my dad, Jon and me (I’m an only child). The best way I can describe it is that life since the diagnosis has been different. ![]() Moving forward, she would need a liver transplant. Finally, at just about the 90 day, at the end of one of her most recent hospital stays, we received a diagnosis: cirrhosis of the liver. She was in and out of doctors appointments, tests, and even had a few hospital stays as her symptoms continued to worsen. She’s been a healthy woman all of her life so her sudden onset of symptoms (and pretty scary ones at that), were worrisome. Getting bad news about the health and well-being of someone you loveĪnd when they both happen within a month of each other and just a couple months before your wedding? It makes things pretty stressful.Īt around 120 days before the wedding, my mom started having health issues.You name it, it was happening to us.īut what we weren’t prepared for or expecting are probably two of the most difficult things in life to go through: It was day after day of small, but annoying bumps in the road with everything in our life: vendors were no longer able to do our wedding, the trailer renovations were taking longer than expected, our dishwasher died, my gym closed, my car started having issues. But when we hit the 120-days-until-the-wedding-mark, things started going south for us, fast. We would take on a large portion of it ourselves including sourcing most of our decor (plates, silverware, glassware, linens, etc), renovate a vintage trailer, and ultimately having the biggest DIY wedding of our crafty dreams.Īll of it has been going mostly smooth and we’d paced ourselves over the last year so as not to become overwhelmed with all of the things piling up. We’re both Type A after all, so we would plan and prepare like we do with everything else in our life. Like most never-been-married, newly engaged couples, we thought that we would be fine. When Jon and I became engaged, following the congratulatory period, our married friends and family warned us how much work planning a wedding is and how stressful it can be. Now, I found myself in some trouble before for not doing this, so I’ll preface this update by saying, I am fine and I will be fine. But I finally have a moment to jot a few notes down and share the two biggest updates that have pulled me away from blogging, Instagramming, and all the social media things. With only about 54 days until the wedding now, life has been busy. You may have noticed it’s been unusually quiet around here lately… There’s been a lot going on and it’s been a lot of work just keeping my days running smoothly, let alone having time to write. ![]()
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