Wednesday, June 28, 2006
How to have a ride in an Ambulance and spend 6 hours of your Afternoon in the ER.
Well, yesterday really did start out pretty good, I took my daughter Brie to work and she needed to stop by Lowes to see if they could make keys for a new box that the Art Dept had and only one of the teachers and her had keys so far. Lowes said they thought the only one key they had was just a bit short and they would recommend the regular key co. here in town. Now you know most places like Lowes who are out for your business only do that IF they really do not believe they can help you. I like doing business with companies like that.
So Brie needs to get on to work, as she is also taking a painting class out at the college this summer also. So I volunteered to take her on to work and since i have to run an errand across from the Lock Doctors, I could have the keys made and bring them back out. So since I've taken classes out there and graduated from out there in '99 there are still a lot of people who know me and of course I had to go in and up stairs to get a Tax Free Exempt Letter, so everyone was in yesterday, well not everyone but it wasn't an in and out thing. Anyway I go get my errand run, get keys made and they even had to take some off of the key as it was too thick and he could tell. But he did a good job cause as soon as i got back we tried all the keys and they all worked!! There is sometimes you just have to go to the experts and not fool around.
I came on home, I had picked up some pop and had left 1 2ltre with Brie, brought the others home, went and checked the mail, got my Missouri Conservation Magazine and came on in. Got something to drink, Mt Dew of course, layed down on the bed and my husband and I were looking at the Conservation, his alarm went off letting him know it was time for him to begin to think about getting ready for work, he gets up, heads to shower, something is tickling my nose and all of a sudden I'm hollering......Scott, quick, find me a towel or something, my nose is bleeding and it is a gusher this time!! We mess with it for 10 min. and he is ready to take me into ER, then I begin to gag on it and he hits 911. They are telling him to have me do this and that and he telling them ....she's already doing it!!
At the ER, they have trouble getting it to stop too. The Paramedics had gotten it to ease way down by having me toblow out my nose and then very quickly they came in with a couple of good sprays of Nasonex something like that , it will shrink the vessles and help slow down the bleeding. I knew that, just didn't know how to do it....now I do!! Anyway, after many tries of the dr trying to put a patch on the bleeder, and the pulse knocking it back off he finally got the nurse ready and put the patch on, she held it on with a long handle of a q-tip while he slipped in a wad and inflatted it with saline to keep the patch in place and then we did a lot of praying for the next half hour that it would hold!!
I came on home and have been in bed as Instructed except to eat, it is awful hard to breath out of your mouth and eat or drink all at once. I go back into ER on Thursday evening/afternoon to get this removed, I just pray the patch stays on then too, if not I have to be transported down town Kansas City as they have an ENT dr on staff down there. I also have fears of this going against me for the Gastric Bypass surgery also. I've had to keep telling myself all day, you can't cry, it won't help the current situation!! but the tears do keep trying, very frustrating!! They kept thinking last night it was do to my blood pressure but my blood pressure has been great.....it was bad then because of my frustrations of what was happening and what was going on in my head.
Okay food break over, as soon as I put up the latest pics that my husband has scanned in today of our sub he has made and of us with it then it is back to bed.
So Brie needs to get on to work, as she is also taking a painting class out at the college this summer also. So I volunteered to take her on to work and since i have to run an errand across from the Lock Doctors, I could have the keys made and bring them back out. So since I've taken classes out there and graduated from out there in '99 there are still a lot of people who know me and of course I had to go in and up stairs to get a Tax Free Exempt Letter, so everyone was in yesterday, well not everyone but it wasn't an in and out thing. Anyway I go get my errand run, get keys made and they even had to take some off of the key as it was too thick and he could tell. But he did a good job cause as soon as i got back we tried all the keys and they all worked!! There is sometimes you just have to go to the experts and not fool around.
I came on home, I had picked up some pop and had left 1 2ltre with Brie, brought the others home, went and checked the mail, got my Missouri Conservation Magazine and came on in. Got something to drink, Mt Dew of course, layed down on the bed and my husband and I were looking at the Conservation, his alarm went off letting him know it was time for him to begin to think about getting ready for work, he gets up, heads to shower, something is tickling my nose and all of a sudden I'm hollering......Scott, quick, find me a towel or something, my nose is bleeding and it is a gusher this time!! We mess with it for 10 min. and he is ready to take me into ER, then I begin to gag on it and he hits 911. They are telling him to have me do this and that and he telling them ....she's already doing it!!
At the ER, they have trouble getting it to stop too. The Paramedics had gotten it to ease way down by having me toblow out my nose and then very quickly they came in with a couple of good sprays of Nasonex something like that , it will shrink the vessles and help slow down the bleeding. I knew that, just didn't know how to do it....now I do!! Anyway, after many tries of the dr trying to put a patch on the bleeder, and the pulse knocking it back off he finally got the nurse ready and put the patch on, she held it on with a long handle of a q-tip while he slipped in a wad and inflatted it with saline to keep the patch in place and then we did a lot of praying for the next half hour that it would hold!!
I came on home and have been in bed as Instructed except to eat, it is awful hard to breath out of your mouth and eat or drink all at once. I go back into ER on Thursday evening/afternoon to get this removed, I just pray the patch stays on then too, if not I have to be transported down town Kansas City as they have an ENT dr on staff down there. I also have fears of this going against me for the Gastric Bypass surgery also. I've had to keep telling myself all day, you can't cry, it won't help the current situation!! but the tears do keep trying, very frustrating!! They kept thinking last night it was do to my blood pressure but my blood pressure has been great.....it was bad then because of my frustrations of what was happening and what was going on in my head.
Okay food break over, as soon as I put up the latest pics that my husband has scanned in today of our sub he has made and of us with it then it is back to bed.
Saturday, June 17, 2006
June 17, 2006 A major Change in my Life
Been a busy monthso far.
Scott and I went down to Jefferson City, Missouri to a seminar on the Bariatric Services thru MU., looking at the probability of having a gastric bypass surgery done on me. The Roux-en-Y Divided Gastric Bypass is the better one done that medicaid will allow and it is what I wanted done anyway.. It is not the answer to eveything I know that....I still may have to end up in a wheel chair because of the damage to joints, some of the is from arthuritis and I know I have fibromyalgia. I also know that it will involve a complete change in my life habits as far as eating but it will be a healthier life change and I have been dragging my feet doing that on a slow bases anyway.....this way i am just going faster, even now I am working on it and have made changes. I'm almost off of sweets and pop!! That is a MAJOR STEP FOR ME,they have been my downfall for years!! I have a peace about doing this and feel confident in my heart that it is the right thing for me. I will have a psychiatric and psychological evaluations to make sure that I am ready and that is okay too.
It is a LIFE TIME COMMITMENT and I plan to spend the rest of my life commited to making it not just a part of my life but my life style and living my life to the fullest and healthiest that i can.
Scott and I went down to Jefferson City, Missouri to a seminar on the Bariatric Services thru MU., looking at the probability of having a gastric bypass surgery done on me. The Roux-en-Y Divided Gastric Bypass is the better one done that medicaid will allow and it is what I wanted done anyway.. It is not the answer to eveything I know that....I still may have to end up in a wheel chair because of the damage to joints, some of the is from arthuritis and I know I have fibromyalgia. I also know that it will involve a complete change in my life habits as far as eating but it will be a healthier life change and I have been dragging my feet doing that on a slow bases anyway.....this way i am just going faster, even now I am working on it and have made changes. I'm almost off of sweets and pop!! That is a MAJOR STEP FOR ME,they have been my downfall for years!! I have a peace about doing this and feel confident in my heart that it is the right thing for me. I will have a psychiatric and psychological evaluations to make sure that I am ready and that is okay too.
It is a LIFE TIME COMMITMENT and I plan to spend the rest of my life commited to making it not just a part of my life but my life style and living my life to the fullest and healthiest that i can.
Rusty's Family
Been a while but have good news.....my son Rusty got to take his wife and kids with him and on June 3rd, they went down to his oldst sons Dallas 6th birthday party. Dallas got to meet his brother Mikey and his 2 sisters Jerrica and Julie for the first time. He also at some point asked Mandy Rusty's wife to be his new mommy and told her he loved her!! I understand the nextday he had another big birthday party and he told everyone who would listen about his dad, his new mom and his brother and sisters!!For all of us this is a very BIG positive!! This weekend Dallas has come up and is at my sons home, they wanted to try this out and see how he does with it with all he has been thru, just not all together sure if he was ready to be away from Grma and Grpa yet.
Monday, May 22, 2006
Dallas Michael Wilson Rusty's Son
Well, on May 13, 2006 my son Rusty got to see his oldest son Dallas for the first time in 3 years and we got a pic of them together. He looks good considering all he has been thru. His last day of classes was Friday May19th. He had one special needs teacher that gave him an uncut decorative key when he had a good week and he was excited when he talked to Rusty on the phone this weekend as he got to bring his keys and keyring home with him. I think he had 6 or 7 keys on his ring but then he had a pretty rough time of it when they first got Dallas into classes in Warsaw after getting him out of his mothers care in January. He didn't care....he was excited cause he had keys of his OWN!!
Rusty does hope things will work out so they can go down maybe next weekend, he'd like to introduce Dallas ro his other brother and 2 sisters soon. Can't help but wonder how they will all eventually take to each other. There are six years difference in the boys ages, and both of the girls are trying to be leaders so we really wonder how this will fall together!!
I had the 3 younger kids for about 6 or 7 hours each day on Sat and Sun, while their parent tried to get some of their things moved out of Mandys mom's house. It is a long story and not a very nice one as their family thinks of no one but them selves and are litteraly kicking Rusty Mandy and the kids out on the street, so Mandy's brother can move in.....yes you read it right, her mom rented the place out from under them to her brother!!! Brie came over on Sun and helped me some with the kids so we have a few new pics and will put up one of each kid maybe tomorrow later in the day after I turm them all into jpgs and name them but for now will try to get some more sleep.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
My very creative daughter....Brie
Now I can brag on my very creative daughter.....there really isn't much she hasn't tried that she hasn't accomplished in some form. It may not have finished the way she originally wanted it to, however, she has always been good about changing it into something she liked almost as good if not better. Up on occasion she has had a dud or 2 and has been frustrated for a short time but never for any length of time.
After her Advancement this year at the college and since with that advancement she recieved the benefit of free tuition, she has decided to take a few classes and work on her GPA as well as take some classes that she can just enjoy for a change.
Last week she was awarded a small cash award for one of her digital photos in a school booklet. Here is a url to that pic.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/28303558
Today however, was the art show at school, I try to go every year but just didn't feel like driving myself this year so guessed I wouldn't get to see it. However, at some point in the afternoon I get a phone call from Brie, first she was checking to see if certain people had made it down to go to see the art show cause she'd had to do another job and didn't see them. The hadn't so she was releived.....then she told me she had some really great news to tell me. Okay, what's up??
Her digital manipulation picture for digital art had been bought by the school from her for $250!!! She was very squeaky excited!! The funny part was that last night or the night before we had talked and she was joking and said wouldn't it be funny if one of her enteries like her Cinderella pic got bought by the school!! Then she said something about not holding her breath as that didn't seem to be the kind they looked for......you guessed it it was her Cinderella one that one!!
http://www.deviantart.com/view/31727422/
It's called After the Ball, now if your computer monitor is like mine...very old the pic might be too dark, it took her several trys to get it to print out light at the school but it is gorgeous and does have several thingd like shoes and mice/rats at the bottom. I am so proud of her, she has been doing this type of work for some time now. If you click on her name, then on the page that takes you to, click on gallery, it will load some of her pictures she has on this site, then there is a spot where it says next 24 at the bottom and you can click on it and see more. You can also go into google and just put in brie alsbury and several sites will come up where you can view some of her earlier work......can you tell I'm proud of her??
Okay....bedtime....Night All
I Believe I can Fly, She's still Singing it!
Back the first of February my niece Roxanne was in a helicopter crash on a training mission with the army as she is trained to be a medivac personel. She recieved a compression fracture of the spine which was the one thing we were the most concerned of. She has been doing, and not really paitiently, office duty for sometime now to let things heal up but now we will quote Roxanne... "I finally convinced them that I am not crazy, concussed, or fractured any longer (crazy took the longest) and so am not only flying again....I am also pulling duty already." Now when you see this pic you understand why I know it is the best thing for her to be back in the copter where she wants to be!!
Now here are one or 2 of the crash and you will know why we are grateful to the Lord for His wondeful Grace!!
This is what the copter they were riding in originally looked like before crash.
This is the actual site where the copter crashed by clicking on the smaller pic you can see where the tail made an indent very deep as it was the pivot point for even when the copter flipped over on it's side.
Thank You Lord!!
Monday, May 08, 2006
What a Wonderful Day this has been!!!
Dallas Michael
Today has been a good day!! My daughter in law called early today and was so excited I almost didn't recognise who it was. "You'll never guess who I just talked to and they are willing to let us see Dallas!!" Now let me explain this.....My son was married before and had a son that we have not seen for over 3 years now. Recently we found out that he had been taken from his mothers custody, and his grandparent who had always been enemies with my son, now had him in there home and we were trying to figure out how to get a loan to fight for Dallas as he didn't even know who we were and we didn't even know where he was for sure except supposedly down in the Warsaw area of Missouri. Well, today his other grandparents called my sons current wife and told them not to spend money they didn't need to as they were not going to try for legal custody, they just wanted guardianship for now and after what we found out Dallas has been thru and how much of a difference they have made in him since he was placed in their care, we are all in agreement that he is where he needed to be for now.
His mom and her boyfriend will both spend time in prison for the things they have done for this little boy. He is 5 yrs old and was beat by his mom with a belt and her boyfriend with his hand, He was sent to his room all the time, have no idea really about how they fed him but he was undernurished to the point his eyes were sunken in and black all around they said. He told his grma that his mom poured hot sauce down his throat when he said bad words. His mom and her mom use to chase him around with the sweeper and other appliances that made noises to get him to do what they wanted.
One place they had him at said his bowels had been backed up for 2 years!!!
But he is better now, he talked to his daddy last night asked his daddy when he was coming to see him. My son told me he talked to Dallas...no he was on the phone with Dallas for about 30 min. and Dallas did most of the talking!! Don't know who is looking forward to the weekend more Dallas or my son Rusty. I know we have all tried to find him and have waited a long time for this to happen, Just can't wait till it is my turn....this Nana use to have him every weekend and he will be 6 yrs old the day before my 1st wedding anniversary. Maybe shortly after that we can see him and finally become a part of his life again
Today has been a good day!! My daughter in law called early today and was so excited I almost didn't recognise who it was. "You'll never guess who I just talked to and they are willing to let us see Dallas!!" Now let me explain this.....My son was married before and had a son that we have not seen for over 3 years now. Recently we found out that he had been taken from his mothers custody, and his grandparent who had always been enemies with my son, now had him in there home and we were trying to figure out how to get a loan to fight for Dallas as he didn't even know who we were and we didn't even know where he was for sure except supposedly down in the Warsaw area of Missouri. Well, today his other grandparents called my sons current wife and told them not to spend money they didn't need to as they were not going to try for legal custody, they just wanted guardianship for now and after what we found out Dallas has been thru and how much of a difference they have made in him since he was placed in their care, we are all in agreement that he is where he needed to be for now.
His mom and her boyfriend will both spend time in prison for the things they have done for this little boy. He is 5 yrs old and was beat by his mom with a belt and her boyfriend with his hand, He was sent to his room all the time, have no idea really about how they fed him but he was undernurished to the point his eyes were sunken in and black all around they said. He told his grma that his mom poured hot sauce down his throat when he said bad words. His mom and her mom use to chase him around with the sweeper and other appliances that made noises to get him to do what they wanted.
One place they had him at said his bowels had been backed up for 2 years!!!
But he is better now, he talked to his daddy last night asked his daddy when he was coming to see him. My son told me he talked to Dallas...no he was on the phone with Dallas for about 30 min. and Dallas did most of the talking!! Don't know who is looking forward to the weekend more Dallas or my son Rusty. I know we have all tried to find him and have waited a long time for this to happen, Just can't wait till it is my turn....this Nana use to have him every weekend and he will be 6 yrs old the day before my 1st wedding anniversary. Maybe shortly after that we can see him and finally become a part of his life again
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Easter 2006 Michael
Mikey and his daddy whispering "I loves you"
Mikey talking on his "phone"
Mikey and his train
Mikey's smile
Easter 2006 Julie
Julie discovers the eyes on the train
Julie's smile
Great Grandpa Wood and Julie fix Mrs. Potatohead
Easter 2006 Jerrica
Jerrica and her Mrs. Potatohead
Jerrica discovered the eyes move on trains
Jerrica and her SMILE
04-18-06 2 days after Easter
It has been awhile since I have really felt like being up much and really felt like adding to the blog. Between the stress of making decisions and weather changes over the last month or 2 I just haven't felt like doing much of anything. Then there are the meds that make me so sleepy .......well, enough of that.....right now it is letting the meds take hold again and the pain letting up and going back to bed here pretty quick.
We had a wonderful day Sunday for Easter, Scotts parents had Scott, my daughter Brie and I, meet them at the Denny's here in town and we had dinner with them. Then we all met my son Rusty and his family back at our place and got to watch the kids play with the toys we had gotten them for Easter. Papa Scott and I, Nana, had gotten them trains from the Thomas the Train series, 3 different colors, 1 color for each kid. Then they each got a plastic boat to go with same color. The Aunt "Bee"(Brie) got the girs Mrs Potato Heads that had rabbit ears and a tail and rabbit slippers, then Mikey got a John Deer columbine tractor....plastic of course. The girls got some clips and ponytail holders also. But this is the first time Gr Grma and Gr Grpa Wood have had a chance to spend any time with the kids at all.
See when Scott married me almost a year ago he became an instant Grpa, without ever becoming a dad. But his parents also became instant Great Grandparents too!! They kind of liked that idea, especially Scotts Dad Kent. He and our Miss Jewels(Julie) hit it off real well Sunday, She let Gr Grpa do a lot of things for her and let him help her do things.
So now I will share some of the best of the pics with you all from Sunday. Meds are beginning to kick in.....so pic then off to bed.
Is My son Rusty Proud of His son Micheal or what?
We had a wonderful day Sunday for Easter, Scotts parents had Scott, my daughter Brie and I, meet them at the Denny's here in town and we had dinner with them. Then we all met my son Rusty and his family back at our place and got to watch the kids play with the toys we had gotten them for Easter. Papa Scott and I, Nana, had gotten them trains from the Thomas the Train series, 3 different colors, 1 color for each kid. Then they each got a plastic boat to go with same color. The Aunt "Bee"(Brie) got the girs Mrs Potato Heads that had rabbit ears and a tail and rabbit slippers, then Mikey got a John Deer columbine tractor....plastic of course. The girls got some clips and ponytail holders also. But this is the first time Gr Grma and Gr Grpa Wood have had a chance to spend any time with the kids at all.
See when Scott married me almost a year ago he became an instant Grpa, without ever becoming a dad. But his parents also became instant Great Grandparents too!! They kind of liked that idea, especially Scotts Dad Kent. He and our Miss Jewels(Julie) hit it off real well Sunday, She let Gr Grpa do a lot of things for her and let him help her do things.
So now I will share some of the best of the pics with you all from Sunday. Meds are beginning to kick in.....so pic then off to bed.
Is My son Rusty Proud of His son Micheal or what?
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Stop the World I want to get off or at least slow down...
Life has been very busy these last few weeks even more so than usual. It is kind of like when you were a kid and the summer disappeared too fast? Well, that is kind of like the way my life has gone lately.
Some good news I got today was the nurse from the neurologist office called and said my taking the B-12 was doing the trick it was coming up and all the other blood test they ran looked good. AMEN! The new med she put me on I think is making a difference in the long run, it is suppose to help with all the spasms that I have at night, they are like restless leg syndrome, Scott says he sleeps better and that I don't keep him awake or wake him up in the night hardly ever now.
We just recently found out that there seems to be a problem in thesituation where my sons oldest son is at and DFS did not contact my son about it so I am trying to be the cheerleader/ sounding board for my son which is about all I can do. Since there are no more Grandparents rights I can't even go for my grandson!!So trying to have patience and wait this all out and that isn't easy!!
Well, it is almost midnight and I need to be able to get up in the morning....that is one of the things I am trying to work on changing, the time I take my meds so I can hopefully wake up of a morning. Hopefully it will come together eventually. Didn't wake up till 2pm the other day.....just slept hard clear thru!!
Say Good Night Kathryn....Good Night Kathryn
Some good news I got today was the nurse from the neurologist office called and said my taking the B-12 was doing the trick it was coming up and all the other blood test they ran looked good. AMEN! The new med she put me on I think is making a difference in the long run, it is suppose to help with all the spasms that I have at night, they are like restless leg syndrome, Scott says he sleeps better and that I don't keep him awake or wake him up in the night hardly ever now.
We just recently found out that there seems to be a problem in thesituation where my sons oldest son is at and DFS did not contact my son about it so I am trying to be the cheerleader/ sounding board for my son which is about all I can do. Since there are no more Grandparents rights I can't even go for my grandson!!So trying to have patience and wait this all out and that isn't easy!!
Well, it is almost midnight and I need to be able to get up in the morning....that is one of the things I am trying to work on changing, the time I take my meds so I can hopefully wake up of a morning. Hopefully it will come together eventually. Didn't wake up till 2pm the other day.....just slept hard clear thru!!
Say Good Night Kathryn....Good Night Kathryn
Hail stones from Storms that went thru on O3/12/06
The 2 pics with hail stones on the table up against trains and tools used in hobbies were taken by my husband Scott. Then the other 2 pics with the hail stones being shown compared with a quarter were taken by my daughter Brie. Either way you go....we had some BIG HAIL STONES HIT and they left a lot of dents in our cars!!
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Fibromyalgia
I have been reading a new book I ordered thanks to one of the ladies on one of my groups. The author is a neighbor of hers and Believe me this woman seems to know what she is talking about! Some of the things I have read to Scott and afterwards he said when we got back home he wanted to look the place over and find the cameras they had hid and were watching us with to write this book!! The book"fibromyalgia: a comprehensive approach" by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson.
Actually I have read the book clear thru, patially read it thru(you know the parts where you go back and say ....wait did I read that right?) Now I am going through with my ink pen(since my highlighters are all dead) and marking things as I come to them this time, that I either want to remember or that I want to be able to go back and say....see I knew it was the fibro when I told you that before!! Then there are those where we have looked at them and re-read several times the first time going thru and said WOW.....didn't know that but it makes a lot of sense!!
Now don't get me wrong I'm not stupid and I realise with my age that some symptoms could be just from getting older but then again some of these symptoms have been with me too long to blame it on just getting older. I also have an answer for the Doctor who is always telling me that I'm always going to be depressed and i might as well learn to live with it and just keep taking the meds all the rest of my life!! Yes I may have moments, even weeks of some depression, but you show me someone who suffers from pain who dosen't suffer from depression!! I do not plan on staying in depression all my life, he makes it sound like I had just better plan on being a psycho case the rest of my life and I don't plan on that happening!!
In fact my regular Doctor and I had a good session the other day and the neurologist and I had a good session the day before, they both are thinking we are on the right track and are hoping to see changes soon. They took me off of Celebrex and gave me some new meds that we hope once I get up to the appropriate dose for me will stop the massive spasms and restless legs that I seem to have all over my body. Scott says some nights I almost knock him out of bed with the spasms and I have knocked him upside the head a few times. I had a really bad spasm last night that jerked my whole body and made my hip where I couldn't move it. All I could do was cry and Scott had to help me move the leg so the hip was back in place so it would ease up. When I finally was able to get up I was very cautious as i wasn't sure if the hip would hold me but I needed to get up and take some meds...bad!! My whole body has increasingly let me know how much of it was involved with the spasm.....it is going to be a very long day I have an idea on Wed March 1st.
Okay better head for bed again and try to get more sleep.
Actually I have read the book clear thru, patially read it thru(you know the parts where you go back and say ....wait did I read that right?) Now I am going through with my ink pen(since my highlighters are all dead) and marking things as I come to them this time, that I either want to remember or that I want to be able to go back and say....see I knew it was the fibro when I told you that before!! Then there are those where we have looked at them and re-read several times the first time going thru and said WOW.....didn't know that but it makes a lot of sense!!
Now don't get me wrong I'm not stupid and I realise with my age that some symptoms could be just from getting older but then again some of these symptoms have been with me too long to blame it on just getting older. I also have an answer for the Doctor who is always telling me that I'm always going to be depressed and i might as well learn to live with it and just keep taking the meds all the rest of my life!! Yes I may have moments, even weeks of some depression, but you show me someone who suffers from pain who dosen't suffer from depression!! I do not plan on staying in depression all my life, he makes it sound like I had just better plan on being a psycho case the rest of my life and I don't plan on that happening!!
In fact my regular Doctor and I had a good session the other day and the neurologist and I had a good session the day before, they both are thinking we are on the right track and are hoping to see changes soon. They took me off of Celebrex and gave me some new meds that we hope once I get up to the appropriate dose for me will stop the massive spasms and restless legs that I seem to have all over my body. Scott says some nights I almost knock him out of bed with the spasms and I have knocked him upside the head a few times. I had a really bad spasm last night that jerked my whole body and made my hip where I couldn't move it. All I could do was cry and Scott had to help me move the leg so the hip was back in place so it would ease up. When I finally was able to get up I was very cautious as i wasn't sure if the hip would hold me but I needed to get up and take some meds...bad!! My whole body has increasingly let me know how much of it was involved with the spasm.....it is going to be a very long day I have an idea on Wed March 1st.
Okay better head for bed again and try to get more sleep.
Monday, February 20, 2006
THE GRANDKIDS
Alexis-8yrs old, Jerrica-3 1/2 yrs old, Michael-1 yr old, Julie 2 1/2 yrs oldAren't they cute and sweet looking!!
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Surviving yet another Valentines Day
Well, these last 2 weeks have been rough in a lot of ways.....On Feb 8th recieved word that my niece Roxanne who is in the Army was in a helicopter during a night training flight at Yakima Training Center, Washington. to quote her mom "Roxanne has a concussion and a compression fracture of the spine, whiplash and various technicolor bruises, cuts, nicks and scratches." That was a big scare but now it is still a concern as we know the compression fracture is at T7 of her spine which is just about the middle of the back!! Also it is hard on her as Roxanne is and always has been a very active person physically. The need to stay in Washington state till the investgation is over then they will be going back to Fort Drum in NewYork where they were stationed, and we will see what the Dr. there say about what needs to be done further.
Then Feb 14 has been a hard day for my family since 2000 when my sister Jane passed away from tongue cancer. Scott had even arranged for my Valentines to be on Monday the 13th so we could enjoy it. Now this year we have had another tragedy added to the Valentines Day and that is my cousin Mark in California, he and his wife Karen lost their oldest daughter Tiffany. It was thought that originally it was suicide but now it is uncertain until autopsy is finished.
I know I've been taught that God will not give us any more than we can handle as Christians but you wonder sometimes when things like this seem to pile up on you!! I've really wanted to sew or accomplish something over the last month or so but just have had no energy and with the arthur and fibro I have really been hurting. I did find a pamplet that I believe explains Fibromyalgia better than any I have seen so far If you know of someone who has fibro and want to help them it is worth reading!!
http://www.arc.org.uk/about_arth/booklets/6013/6013.htm
Well, it is almost 4am and we are up because the neighbors downstairs had their smoke alarms go off but fire department couldn't find anything. Now we have to begin to come down again so we can sleep again.
Then Feb 14 has been a hard day for my family since 2000 when my sister Jane passed away from tongue cancer. Scott had even arranged for my Valentines to be on Monday the 13th so we could enjoy it. Now this year we have had another tragedy added to the Valentines Day and that is my cousin Mark in California, he and his wife Karen lost their oldest daughter Tiffany. It was thought that originally it was suicide but now it is uncertain until autopsy is finished.
I know I've been taught that God will not give us any more than we can handle as Christians but you wonder sometimes when things like this seem to pile up on you!! I've really wanted to sew or accomplish something over the last month or so but just have had no energy and with the arthur and fibro I have really been hurting. I did find a pamplet that I believe explains Fibromyalgia better than any I have seen so far If you know of someone who has fibro and want to help them it is worth reading!!
http://www.arc.org.uk/about_arth/booklets/6013/6013.htm
Well, it is almost 4am and we are up because the neighbors downstairs had their smoke alarms go off but fire department couldn't find anything. Now we have to begin to come down again so we can sleep again.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Very good first part of the week
First of all I should be in bed but tonight is one of those nights where I slept real hard for about an hour and now I'm wide awake!!
The weekend was looking like it was going to be rather dull. I did some cleaning, but for a change not in the hobbyroom. I was getting the rubbermaid/plastic bowls and containers back together where they belong and the doors where they will shut again......you know, that forever battle, where you say I am smarter than the plastic ware.....I will win!! It's amazing how once you go around the kitchen and find all the pieces, what a difference it makes in the looks of the kitchen clutter!! Then it just took some minor putting up of things and you could actually find cabinet tops in our small kitchen again......wow!!
I also got the coffee pot that my mom had brought to me that my dads mom had given them as a wedding gift, washed up and ready to use. It is old fashion compared to the ones now!! I nor Scott drink coffee but with it being ceramic I believe that I can use it to hold hot water for tea......now I will get in and make me a tea cozy for it then I can use it in the hobbyroom when I'm in there.
On Sunday I had several goals and it was very hard to stay on just one cause I kept having to get into the closet to put up things or get out things and I needed to actually go deeper into the closet stuff and get my small bookcase out to use in my bedroom. BUT....I needed to get certain things together with other things that were already in containers that were in the closet so I could get up to the computer and sewing machine here in the hobbyroom. I hate it when it is hard to decide which needs to be done first!!
Well, my son called and said he and family would be by sometime afternoon or evening so I thought.....okay I will get into the closet and get that done so i can get things put back into the closet before the kids get here. Then I find out that only the youngest, Michael is coming, he just turned 1 the first of Feb. Okay not problem He won't matter as much if I have to I can shove things in my bedroom.
WRONG.....when I hear them coming up the stairs I hear the girls talking so it is hurry hurry and stuff things back into the closet.....infact while the kids are knocking and hollering Nana, I'm hollering back Just a minute and having to get things in the closet so I can even get to the door!! But that's okay it all went in and I got my hugs and a bigger suprise as my daughter had come home at the same time they were coming in so I got to see both of my kids as well as my grandkids. YEA!!!
Rusty was doing some electical work for us so he started that while the kids ate the chicky nuggets they's brought with them and frenfries. Then we talked and played. Mandy my sons wife helped with the kids some and "helped" my son some. BUT.......they had also brought me pictures of all the kids that are around here!! So as soon as I can get it scanned I have a new pic to put up of Grand kids. We have Alexis(Mandy's 8yr old) Jerrica 31/2 yrs old, Michael 1yr old and Julie 21/2 yrs old. Very good pic of the kids, I am very happy to get a recent one.
Before they left I had my son see if he could get the knot out of my back so my rib would go back into place, which involves me laying on the floor and him having to do a lot of rubbing and massaging. The kids have never been around when he has had to do this before we realised that night......boy did he have help!! I think I felt everyone of the kids rubbing at some point!! The funniest was however, when Julie the very bold "tank" of the group got down almost on her head and pulled my hair back and said.....whacha doin Nana? We got to laughing so much it was hard to finish!! Her nose was almost on my nose and I could see her feet but she was almost on her head, and the biggest grin you can imagine!!
Okay time to get off and try to sleep....
The weekend was looking like it was going to be rather dull. I did some cleaning, but for a change not in the hobbyroom. I was getting the rubbermaid/plastic bowls and containers back together where they belong and the doors where they will shut again......you know, that forever battle, where you say I am smarter than the plastic ware.....I will win!! It's amazing how once you go around the kitchen and find all the pieces, what a difference it makes in the looks of the kitchen clutter!! Then it just took some minor putting up of things and you could actually find cabinet tops in our small kitchen again......wow!!
I also got the coffee pot that my mom had brought to me that my dads mom had given them as a wedding gift, washed up and ready to use. It is old fashion compared to the ones now!! I nor Scott drink coffee but with it being ceramic I believe that I can use it to hold hot water for tea......now I will get in and make me a tea cozy for it then I can use it in the hobbyroom when I'm in there.
On Sunday I had several goals and it was very hard to stay on just one cause I kept having to get into the closet to put up things or get out things and I needed to actually go deeper into the closet stuff and get my small bookcase out to use in my bedroom. BUT....I needed to get certain things together with other things that were already in containers that were in the closet so I could get up to the computer and sewing machine here in the hobbyroom. I hate it when it is hard to decide which needs to be done first!!
Well, my son called and said he and family would be by sometime afternoon or evening so I thought.....okay I will get into the closet and get that done so i can get things put back into the closet before the kids get here. Then I find out that only the youngest, Michael is coming, he just turned 1 the first of Feb. Okay not problem He won't matter as much if I have to I can shove things in my bedroom.
WRONG.....when I hear them coming up the stairs I hear the girls talking so it is hurry hurry and stuff things back into the closet.....infact while the kids are knocking and hollering Nana, I'm hollering back Just a minute and having to get things in the closet so I can even get to the door!! But that's okay it all went in and I got my hugs and a bigger suprise as my daughter had come home at the same time they were coming in so I got to see both of my kids as well as my grandkids. YEA!!!
Rusty was doing some electical work for us so he started that while the kids ate the chicky nuggets they's brought with them and frenfries. Then we talked and played. Mandy my sons wife helped with the kids some and "helped" my son some. BUT.......they had also brought me pictures of all the kids that are around here!! So as soon as I can get it scanned I have a new pic to put up of Grand kids. We have Alexis(Mandy's 8yr old) Jerrica 31/2 yrs old, Michael 1yr old and Julie 21/2 yrs old. Very good pic of the kids, I am very happy to get a recent one.
Before they left I had my son see if he could get the knot out of my back so my rib would go back into place, which involves me laying on the floor and him having to do a lot of rubbing and massaging. The kids have never been around when he has had to do this before we realised that night......boy did he have help!! I think I felt everyone of the kids rubbing at some point!! The funniest was however, when Julie the very bold "tank" of the group got down almost on her head and pulled my hair back and said.....whacha doin Nana? We got to laughing so much it was hard to finish!! Her nose was almost on my nose and I could see her feet but she was almost on her head, and the biggest grin you can imagine!!
Okay time to get off and try to sleep....
Monday, February 06, 2006
Another Clean up Weekend
This last weekend was a clean up weekend. Scott worked so I worked on my part of the hobbyroom.Ya know how you can have things in a "neat" pile and all of a sudden something happens and you have an avalanche? I just do not understand how that happend, I mean after all the pile was only about 2 foot high and had books, material and a plastic bag or 2 in it! So I can now see the top of the sewing machine, most of the counter here and the floor in front of all of this is almost there. Actually the floor will be done as soon as I put up some of the small containers that are used like when I'm going somewhere and need small containers with handles on them.....thank you Rubbermaid and Sterilite.
I had also picked up some other beads and things for embellishments so found homes for them. My mom had given us some small glass bottles, you know the ones that you get when you get a gift with several different jellies in them......hey it works. Now that I have a surface to work on again I hope to begin a couple of projects, and how fast they get done or how much they get worked on will depend on how this spell fibromyalgia continues this time. Right now I have it switching sides, it use to bother just my left sidebut now it is beginning in the right side, starting as the otherside did in the neck and shoulder.
I had also picked up some other beads and things for embellishments so found homes for them. My mom had given us some small glass bottles, you know the ones that you get when you get a gift with several different jellies in them......hey it works. Now that I have a surface to work on again I hope to begin a couple of projects, and how fast they get done or how much they get worked on will depend on how this spell fibromyalgia continues this time. Right now I have it switching sides, it use to bother just my left sidebut now it is beginning in the right side, starting as the otherside did in the neck and shoulder.
Monday, January 30, 2006
Well, another weekend over!!
I like my weekends most of the time, this weekend was no exception. Scott did have to work this weekend, I didn't like that but hey, we will live thru it!!Hopefully it will only last another week or so while they are training the other person for closing of the store at night.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
