"Just" a housewife

Please United Chairman!

Dear Mr. Glenn Tilton,

I have written to your customer services department many times to praise your employees. I go to your website first every time I want to travel. 90% of my flights are with your airline. I am always very grateful and appreciative when I speak to your employees. I have flown more than 200,000 life time miles with you. This year for the second year in a row I will have flown more than 50,000 miles on your airline. I rave about your company every chance I get. I slag off every other airline because in my opinion, no one comes close. I love the ease of flying with you; from the website, to booking my flights, to the automated phone system, to my online check in, to my priority boarding.

However, on Thursday night I am hoping and praying that your airline will come through for me. On Thursday more than ever I need some preferential treatment. On Thursday I need a bit of return for my loyalty.

My doctor has signed me off work for another week and she advised me to delay my trip to England. Unfortunately, Santa Claus won't delay his visit to my neice Lauren, so if Auntie Emma is going to be there for Christmas Day, I have no choice but to travel.

Right now I cannot sit down for more than 15 minutes without severe pain, so my 10 hour flight to England will be very uncomfortable in my economy seat.

Please Mr. Tilton, will you please let me sit in Business Class?

Yours hopefully,

A very loyal customer

Enough now!

I could go on and on about how frustrated I am that I still have back pain and after 5-6 days of pain killers its not better, but that would be boring, so I won't!

So Christmas...in 7 days time I'll be just tucking in to my airplane meal while winging my way across the Atlantic to England. I've just purchased the 4th or 5th present for Lauren [online of course!] and I'll be lucky if all of the presents fit into my suitcase.

Either way, I know that I certainly won't be carrying it!

Herniated Disk!

After one week of hip pain, an additional week of lower back pain, a chiropractor appointment that didn't help, a massage that didn't help, many tablets of Vicodin and a few tears, I decided to go to the Emergency room on Saturday afternoon.

Turns out I have a herniated disk and sciatica! I was given pain killers stronger than Vicodin and steriods to reduce the swelling! I even slept for about 16 hours on Saturday night after a pain killing injection, just waking for David to feed me dinner!

I have been signed off work for a week [well I've been told not to go in, but internet access at home and laptops still make me productive!) and I have now a wonderful laptop/bed position for working...

David has been running around taking care of me. Yesterday he did two loads of washing, cooked lunch and dinner (well reheated a dinner I'd made a few weeks ago and had frozen!) and went grocery shopping. Just a normal Sunday for me, but David said thank you to me when he realized that it was hard work doing chores!

So I know I shouldn't be lifting suitcases, and my chiropractor told me to give up golf - yes forever - and I think I need to listen to my body and rest before I need the emergency room!

Felicenavidad!

I have the best, most bonkers boyfriend in the world! To cheer me up as I sat here anxiously waiting to find out if our offer on a house has been accepted or not, he is parading around the room singing a Spanish Christmas song while decorating our Christmas tree. Let me tell you; this is not the first time I have been subjected to his singing, nor is it the first time that I have had to listen to Felicenavidad!

He's doing a mighty fine job...at cheering me up, rather than singing!

He's also running around for me. I am trying to rest as much as possible as I have the most excruciating lower back pain imagineable. I have already been to the doctors once and its not getting better. Its not until you are in immense pain that you realize that you are so lucky to be healthy...

So I shouldn't feel sorry for myself. I should feel lucky to have a tree, lucky that we are able to think about putting an offer on a house and lucky to have someone who is so excited by the Holiday time that he make me laugh...and make my back hurt even more in the process!