Day 6: No Answers Yet, New Tests, and Dreading the School Routine

The new rheumatologist had a cancellation today, and I was able to get in this afternoon. I was honestly excited… and hopeful. Unfortunately, it ended up being pretty uneventful. Still no clear answers, and if I’m being real, I’m starting to feel like I’m losing my mind just a little.

The one positive is that this doctor is ordering a very intense and thorough set of tests — way more in-depth than anything I’ve had done so far — covering a wide range of autoimmune diseases. Of course, knowing my luck, it’ll probably come back showing absolutely nothing. But at least it feels like something is finally being looked at closely.

Tomorrow the boys go back to school, and I already miss them being home. With this new move, school logistics just got a whole lot more complicated. We’ll now have to take both boys to and from school every single day. That means nearly an hour round trip for Carson in the morning, then another hour doing the same for Quincy… and then repeating the whole process again in the afternoon. Just enough time between them that it has to be two separate trips. Two mornings. Two afternoons. Every day.

The more I think about it, the more I dread it. I know we’ll settle into a routine eventually, but right now it just feels overwhelming — especially on top of everything else.

But… day 6 is done. And sometimes that’s enough. ✔️