I feel like it's important to mention that as I write this Bill Nye the Science Guy is playing on Netflix. I am so grateful that it's available to watch.
Today was a bad pain day. Just awful. I am really babying myself, and Bradford is pretty much being my super Bradford-bear by being freaking awesome. He's fixed all the meals today, cleaned the house, has been my chauffeur, baked things, and has been present for comfort by holding me when warranted, and massaging aches and pains as they arrive.
When I left work I was in tears. Hell, the tears started while I was at work and I realized that I am in the kitchen, and since there is no one around-- no customers, coworkers, or otherwise-- I can just cry.
My eyes swelled and spilled over as I platted cookies, and prepped a few more things for the salad bar-- emotions were high for me as I took things more personally than I normally do, and situations and people felt condescending-- which was made even more frustrating, because the first thing I told the opening manager was; "hey, I am having a really bad pain day."
It sucks, because at my job there is no telling how busy things will be-- so, if I decide to "work through it" there is no guarantee of an easier time.
It sucks.
I don't really want to focus the entirety of this entry with ramblings of how hard some days are so, I am going to continue and keep this light.
Well, yesterday wasn't as bad as far as pain management. And, since Bradford and I celebrated 11 months since our first date on Monday it was a good a day as any to do a little adventuring. We started by heading outta town on the back roads towards Clear Lake Road, we went through Alvadore and made it to Highway 36.
Once on the windy road of the Lower Pass we headed toward Triangle Lake-- I showed Bradford where my younger brother got married, where we camped as a family, and Amanda, Devon and I all went swimming. We then parked at the little turnout just outside of the town Triangle Lake and continued our way to the "rock slides,' or Lake Creek Falls.
Lake Creek Falls is an incredible place-- it's a fish ladder, and in the Fall you can see salmon just sitting in the very clear water. Plus, everything is smooth, and as you travel with the flow of water at the bottom there is an incredible swimming hole (we did NOT go swimming).
Anyways, I've been wanting to take Bradford out there, so it was a nice little change of pace. From there we continued on Highway 36 through Swisshome and onto Mapleton. From there we continued our adventure by hopping onto 126, going over the Suislaw River Bridge and going up Sweet Creek.
I had never been to Sweet Creek Falls before, and we didn't want to do the WHOLE hike, because we figured we would be back (hopefully, with the Ten Eyck's), and would want to experience the hike from the first Trailhead.
Nevertheless, we had a spectacular time walking along the little path on the forest floor, along the creek. We saw pretty snails that popped with color. There were Banana Slugs. And, we saw several millipedes (they produce cyanide, btw).
Everything was new, and exciting-- made even better by Bradford's excitement, and smiles.
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