Today is Monday. We leaave on Wednesday. The count now stands at T - 2 and counting.

Except for a few "last minute" items in our carry-on bags, Sam and I are packed. The kids have a schedule for who will be puppysitting Monster when and we have a plan to meet eachother on Skype on Thanksgiving day to be able to be with eachother.

So what the heck is with the worsenigh pain in my right arm and leg? It is a near constant throbbing ache that pain meds are no longer able to touch. The only thing that seems to offer me any relief is heat. Moist heat is better. It bothers me enough to be interupting an already very erratic sleep cycle.

My mother says it is stress and anxiety, and maybe she is right. The doctor did a scan of my right leg and says there is nothing there like a clot or anything and everything looks good. He is not worried about the 5 hours in air it will take to get to Puerto Rico. He says it is "just thalmic pain" the could be my way of responding to stress and has raised my valium dose for the flight, since the eyes jumping all over the place has gotten worse the over the last week or so as well.

Id all of this is an inability to handle stress, it is really starting to drive me nuts. I've always been teh type to keep stress in check. Now, I seem to be falling apart from it.

Frankly, this sucks.