Collation

I have decided to combine a lot of chapters by incorporating the journal entries into other chapters rather than having them all stand alone. Right now, before doing that, I have fifty-seven chapters and I haven't even reached the end yet. Too many chapters! And too short. So if I can combine things I think it will be better. The problem is I had all these scenes from Reven's POV and I had to turn them into journal entries for them to survive. So once you get to a certain part of the manuscript when she comes in more, about every other chapter is a diary entry. I don't know what else I can do. I can't turn them all into Connor scenes because it doesn't work. She has some conversations with people unique to her and I can't substitute him. I'll see how this works. I hope I don't have to change it all back again.

Mom and Dad are away now. William and I had beanie weenies last night with a salad. I told William it was his favorite and he guessed all these things it wasn't. So maybe it isn't his favorite. He got a notification yesterday he had jury duty. On a day in the middle of our trip. We both panicked for a second but then I thought, "There's no way they'd make him stay when we already have the tickets." Would they? William called them today and thank goodness they changed his date to August 11th.

William's going to have a bunch of work done on his teeth. The combination of a tongue piercing and his wisdom teeth coming in ruined a lot of his back teeth. So he's going to have the bad ones out and have implants put in. It will be such a relief when he doesn't have to deal with infections and head pain anymore. The periodontist said it will take eight months to complete the whole process. But it will be completely worth it. I'm just sorry he's had to put up with the pain this long.

I saw Dr. Alam yesterday and she took me down on my meds again. Over the next six weeks I'll go down two more levels. It's exciting. Last night going to sleep I thought I felt better having a lower dose. I still have to deal with some anxiety. Dr. Alam recommended acupuncture for help in coping with that. She has another patient who doesn't react well to medicine who uses an acupuncturist. I may give it a try if we can fit it in the budget. Although in the back of my mind I wonder if some of the medicine I take doesn't aggravate the situation and when I go down it will be less. That would be great, of course. I just looked up anxiety as a side effect of one of the medicines I'm taking. About 4% of patients have that reaction. The odds are low but it's still possible. In combination with the other med it could be higher. I don't have the prescribing information for that one. I never had anxiety before I started on this round of medicine so I'm thinking it's possible.