Battle Hymns of a Hot Mess Mom

One day at a time…


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I got some more transplant reading material. It’s a lot of information. I thumb through it because the reality is there’s a lot of damn info, and sometimes my brain can not process. I get stuck and can’t pass Go and collect $200 – I stay in jail. Talked to A today about being pet parents. Her cat doesn’t recognize his own tail as his own and attacks it. My dog blame shifts. Y farted and woke himself up and then looked over at me like I wrong his stinky butt. I didn’t bro, that’s you. That’s your own smell. That’s what it has come to now for me. I talk to the doggo. My day to day activities are limited to doggo, laundry and dishes as the vacuum is still a bit too difficult for me to coordinate with my left hand and forget about mopping. I will spray bleach in the toilet and put things away, but definitely not scrubbing toilets anymore. Toilet bowl goop and I are BFFs.

The rash under my picc dressing is becoming irritated and itchy as all hell. I have itched through the dressing and exposed the area under the tegaderm so I will need to head to the clinic to see if I can get this fixed in the morning. I was hoping to be in PJs today…any day I don’t have to put real clothing on is kinda nice. Not sleeping through the night now. Great. Dr C wants the picc out. Dr P wants it left in. What the actual….f*ck. I’m seeing Dr C now weekly for a blood and follow up zoom chat.



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About Me

Hello, my name is Nina. I am a mother, wife, daughter and friend. I am lover of country music, & 80’s love ballad. I love me some karaoke! I identify as hot mess mom. I get it wrong, all the time. On the rare occasions I get it right? Even I’m shocked.

I am a working professional in the field of Compliance. I am mother two, daughter to immigrant parents, wife to a “redneck” – and proud of it, sister-in-law to the two most incredible human beings I have ever met and a niece that is just so cool but doesn’t know it.

I work too hard and play too little. I’ve always focus on the wrong thing and never quite sure if I’m ever enough. I grew up on the East Coast and was a latchkey kid in the 80’s and 90’s – I dodged the sketchy people on the walk home and tried not to end up on a milk carton.

I went to a very privileged Boarding School on the East Coast and college after that. (So yeah that’s exactly why this journal will be riddled with grammatical and spelling errors. On the days I feel good, I’ll type it out. On the days I don’t feel good it’ll be voice to text. I can not be held liable for the things Siri puts in as my “voice”. ) Graduated on a Friday and started Fleet Bank on a Saturday. I hustled my way through the midnight shift at DHL and hustled and hustled and hustled. I knew nothing except the hustle. (As I said, I’m a hot mess mom).

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