Finally, Some Down Time

In the middle of November, the wife and I were planning to go Jamaica for a week. Unfortunately, my mom and dad fell sick, and we spent the week taking care of them.

My dad had symptoms of sciatica. At night, the shooting pains in his leg wouldn’t let him sleep. Since then, rest and medication has almost completely made the pain go away. He is now weening off the pain killers. With some physical therapy and knowledge of what he can and can’t do (like no more bending over to pick up anything), dad should be able to prevent any future attacks.

On the other hand, my mother, who sprained her ankle and tore a ligament, isn’t healing as fast. Unfortunately, its her own fault. The doctor put a boot on her to keep her foot and ankle from moving around too much. She isn’t supposed to take it off at all. But noooooo! My mother is one of those people who always has to be doing something. Cooking, cleaning, running errands. She can’t sit still for more than 10 minutes. My mother refuses to wear the boot (she complains its constraining even though thats the point) and tries to walk several times a day, causing her foot to swell up. The doctor gave her crutches, but she complains it makes her feel like a gimp and refuses to use it. Basically, its going to take her at least one more month to heal properly.

After that week, my in-laws and sister-in-law came down to visit for Thanksgiving. Now, my in-laws are really nice people. But spending that much time with family, is a bit tiresome. The wife was pretty much stressed out, and for anyone who is married or in a relationship, if the wife ain’t happy, no one is .

That was followed by UDS. Anyone that has attended UDS will tell you that its extremely fun and entertaining, but not exactly relaxing.

After UDS, I was pretty much burned out. Plus we knew we had more family visiting for Christmas.

So we decided to take some time off and head down to Cancun.

Nothing but eating and sleeping for a few days. We did take a day trip to Chichen Itza to check out the ruins.

The Great Ball Court was amazing. The field is 545 by 232 feet. Rules of the game aren’t exactly known, but it must have been fun with so much space.

Anyway, our visiting relatives left yesterday. I’m looking forward to a slow start to 2009!

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