Wow...can't believe we are almost to the end of the year. In some ways it seems like it has flown by and in otherway it has been just a blur!! I guess that is saying the same thing but when I say blur I mean I don't remember what happened on what day......it just happened and life went on.
The last few week have been okay I guess, I've had swelling all thru my body and the doctors say it is leaky valves in the veins allowing blood not to flow right and so it collects. Mostly in the lower parts of the body but have it even in the face and chest and arms. They have taken x-rays when I was in for asthma and for the swelling and said there was no collection in lungs or around heart so that is a good thing!!
I got the okay for the gastric bypass surgery.....I have to have the psych evaluation and the class down with their people then I will be ready, so it should be about the middle or end of January when I get it done I imagine. In the meantime I will continue to see podiatry clinic and also go get results of tests done for neurology. Idon't really feel bad right now just hurt with the swelling as it has places like my feet, especially on the very top of my feet , stretched tight enough it is very sore to even touch. I wonder about nerves from the way it feels.
I haven't done really any sewing or hobbies lately, just felt like I needed a walk away for awhile. However, was able to bein and finished up using paint and stamps and got the grandkids names on stockings and placemats for them this year. Funds were pretty small but was able to pick up things that can use to fill those stockings and was able to get each one their own place settingincluding dish,bowl,silverware,glass,and placemat. Each is different and that should help, hopefully, with no fights over who's is who's. Mikey's is Thomas the trains, Jerrica's is the Princess, Julie's is Dora's, and for the 2 oldest kids I got Alexis a red set and Dallas a blue set.
Then I have been picking up just small things to add to the stockings over the last 4 months as I have seen it.
Maybe once I have the surgery I will have more energy and can get more done......I certainly would love to have that happen.
Friday, December 15, 2006
Monday, October 02, 2006
The latest pics of the Grans and of course their father, my son Rusty
Jerrica
Julie (Her Birthday)
Michael and his daddy Rusty
Sunday, October 01, 2006
10/1/06 A Quiet Sunday
Hello to all
Today has been a rather quiet Sunday here. I slept in but still had to get on up this morning and take a run in to store and get my meds. My daughter let me borrow her car, she was probably still asleep and didn't even know I was gone!! I ran to get a black print cartridge from Wally World and the Meds plus cereal and milk from HyVee's and was back before the Foot ball game started where the Chiefs WON.....oooppppssss hang on have to add paper to printer!!
Okay, that should solve it for a short time......I am having to make copies of some papers for Legal Aid. I am having a problem thru Social Security and have had to involve Legal Aid and they need copies of my papers so rather than go make copies when i have a scanner, thanks to Mom and Dad Wood!!, it just makes more sense to do it this way. I was in need of a black cartridge anyway, kept getting a couple notices everytime i printed that it was going out. Just needed it to last a bit longer until some bucks came in from somewhere. Well, 12 more pages to go it says......
Not sure how this will work out but I surley can not afford to have them take out any more money out of my measly sum I get now, it just isn't enough for me to live on and it is rather depressing but, I try to remember who is in control and put my eye and trust back in on and in Gods hands, that is so very hard to do but I have done it all my life, especially my married life. Somehow it just seems harder this time, maybe because I'm just having to do it for me and not keep up faith and a front at all times especially for the kids this time. I am more alone this time, actually spending time by myself. In a lot of ways I have enjoyed it cause I have never ever had it where I didn't have to be or do for others at certain times.....
Spent time with my Grandkids at least the youngest 3 on Sat. The oldest and youngest were both not feeling real well. When Michael comes and snuggles up in my arms and wants to go to sleep, keeping in mind his mom had given him some Benedryl, but he usually just finds a pillow and plops on the floor.Then Jerrica the oldest kept fussing with the blanket she was trying to fix for her as she wanted to lay down on the floor. She had found a small bunny like her bunny she sleeps with in the toy box but every time she moved the blanket did too and it would upset her and when I tried to work with her she was crying and whinning when she'd say a word and i couldn't understand the word......Nana lost her cool which of course sent her into major tears!! So I went back into the hobby room trying to think it thru, even called my daughter because she is so much like her when it comes to textile feelings, you know, when things don't feel right to ya? Then I thought about how Brie use to be about being tucked in.....even my son the kids dad was like that when he was real young.....except for 1 foot had to be hanging out!! So since my daughter didn't answer, I headed back in and was going to suggest to Jerrica maybe she would be happier on the couch where Nana could tuck her in....but she had already figured that out and was working her way up there and we got her up there , said our sorries, got hugs and kisses and had her comfy, brother asleep and one to go!!!
Boy was I dreaming, Julie is a go getter, she can be yawning her head off, and she was, but she will keep on....... so about a half hour later, not sure if they got a second wind and woke brother up or brother woke up and they got a second wind but that was the end of my quiet time until they left about 3:30pm. I layed down to rest about 4pm and woke up about 11pm. Then I slept all night after I went to sleep again after midnight and woke about 10am.
Well, the printing is done and my fibro is screaming from all the extra typing tonight, so guess it is time for meds and bed!!
Today has been a rather quiet Sunday here. I slept in but still had to get on up this morning and take a run in to store and get my meds. My daughter let me borrow her car, she was probably still asleep and didn't even know I was gone!! I ran to get a black print cartridge from Wally World and the Meds plus cereal and milk from HyVee's and was back before the Foot ball game started where the Chiefs WON.....oooppppssss hang on have to add paper to printer!!
Okay, that should solve it for a short time......I am having to make copies of some papers for Legal Aid. I am having a problem thru Social Security and have had to involve Legal Aid and they need copies of my papers so rather than go make copies when i have a scanner, thanks to Mom and Dad Wood!!, it just makes more sense to do it this way. I was in need of a black cartridge anyway, kept getting a couple notices everytime i printed that it was going out. Just needed it to last a bit longer until some bucks came in from somewhere. Well, 12 more pages to go it says......
Not sure how this will work out but I surley can not afford to have them take out any more money out of my measly sum I get now, it just isn't enough for me to live on and it is rather depressing but, I try to remember who is in control and put my eye and trust back in on and in Gods hands, that is so very hard to do but I have done it all my life, especially my married life. Somehow it just seems harder this time, maybe because I'm just having to do it for me and not keep up faith and a front at all times especially for the kids this time. I am more alone this time, actually spending time by myself. In a lot of ways I have enjoyed it cause I have never ever had it where I didn't have to be or do for others at certain times.....
Spent time with my Grandkids at least the youngest 3 on Sat. The oldest and youngest were both not feeling real well. When Michael comes and snuggles up in my arms and wants to go to sleep, keeping in mind his mom had given him some Benedryl, but he usually just finds a pillow and plops on the floor.Then Jerrica the oldest kept fussing with the blanket she was trying to fix for her as she wanted to lay down on the floor. She had found a small bunny like her bunny she sleeps with in the toy box but every time she moved the blanket did too and it would upset her and when I tried to work with her she was crying and whinning when she'd say a word and i couldn't understand the word......Nana lost her cool which of course sent her into major tears!! So I went back into the hobby room trying to think it thru, even called my daughter because she is so much like her when it comes to textile feelings, you know, when things don't feel right to ya? Then I thought about how Brie use to be about being tucked in.....even my son the kids dad was like that when he was real young.....except for 1 foot had to be hanging out!! So since my daughter didn't answer, I headed back in and was going to suggest to Jerrica maybe she would be happier on the couch where Nana could tuck her in....but she had already figured that out and was working her way up there and we got her up there , said our sorries, got hugs and kisses and had her comfy, brother asleep and one to go!!!
Boy was I dreaming, Julie is a go getter, she can be yawning her head off, and she was, but she will keep on....... so about a half hour later, not sure if they got a second wind and woke brother up or brother woke up and they got a second wind but that was the end of my quiet time until they left about 3:30pm. I layed down to rest about 4pm and woke up about 11pm. Then I slept all night after I went to sleep again after midnight and woke about 10am.
Well, the printing is done and my fibro is screaming from all the extra typing tonight, so guess it is time for meds and bed!!
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
09/12/06
Well, I should be in bed and asleep.......but just can't sleep yet. Have court a little later this this morning and just can't bring myself to sleep yet. Not really worried because I know I am in the right, I did nothing wrong to cause this to happen. Even though I know there will be all kinds of people around I still find myself unsure about Scotts actions. I have'nt seen him since he left for work on the 1st of Sept..
Been working on seperating things and trying to get my things packed a little at a time. I know that since my appointments for Columbia have been postponed till next month and my ENT untill Dec that I will need to make time for the downtime that is sooo needed with my Fibro.....I have really been pushing it and not allowing it to happen and if I don't give in soon it is just going to take it's time whether I let it or not. When that happens it is always worse!!
I'm also going to take time here in a couple weeks to make some Christmas stockings. Brie and I have things for the younger girls and I need to go get one of the things i found for Alexia before it disappears. Then need to find more for hers and for the boys stockings. Of course the boys are always good with cars, Dallas with Matchbox and Michael with something a bit bigger for now. By doing it the way we have been doing it is so much easier and cheaper but as they get older it will change I suppose.....look at Alexia.
Maybe I can start looking at the $1.00 section at Target and do a stocking for Mandy and Rusty too. Hadn't thought about that!! HHUUMMMMM ohhhh they have those silk looking little purses....maybe one of those would work in Alexia's stocking too. They had some that looked like carry out boxes and got Brie one for her birthday, just big enough for her wallet, cell phone and keys!!
Last night I got this really cute black cat ceramic, well they called it a halloween cookie jar, but I'm telling ya those cookies would have to be about 1/2 inch to get very many in there!!Not much bigger around then a coffee cup saucer and only about 4 inches tall!! I just think it makes a cute ceramic bowl.....maybe a good place to put my pennies in. I'd say a good candy dish but since I'm going to be and am even now trying to cut sugar out of my diet having a candy dish is not a good idea!!
Okay it is after 2AM, guess I will try again to go to bed and sleep.
Night All!!
Been working on seperating things and trying to get my things packed a little at a time. I know that since my appointments for Columbia have been postponed till next month and my ENT untill Dec that I will need to make time for the downtime that is sooo needed with my Fibro.....I have really been pushing it and not allowing it to happen and if I don't give in soon it is just going to take it's time whether I let it or not. When that happens it is always worse!!
I'm also going to take time here in a couple weeks to make some Christmas stockings. Brie and I have things for the younger girls and I need to go get one of the things i found for Alexia before it disappears. Then need to find more for hers and for the boys stockings. Of course the boys are always good with cars, Dallas with Matchbox and Michael with something a bit bigger for now. By doing it the way we have been doing it is so much easier and cheaper but as they get older it will change I suppose.....look at Alexia.
Maybe I can start looking at the $1.00 section at Target and do a stocking for Mandy and Rusty too. Hadn't thought about that!! HHUUMMMMM ohhhh they have those silk looking little purses....maybe one of those would work in Alexia's stocking too. They had some that looked like carry out boxes and got Brie one for her birthday, just big enough for her wallet, cell phone and keys!!
Last night I got this really cute black cat ceramic, well they called it a halloween cookie jar, but I'm telling ya those cookies would have to be about 1/2 inch to get very many in there!!Not much bigger around then a coffee cup saucer and only about 4 inches tall!! I just think it makes a cute ceramic bowl.....maybe a good place to put my pennies in. I'd say a good candy dish but since I'm going to be and am even now trying to cut sugar out of my diet having a candy dish is not a good idea!!
Okay it is after 2AM, guess I will try again to go to bed and sleep.
Night All!!
Friday, September 08, 2006
09-08-06 Wow has it been that long!!
I knew it had been awhile but was suprised when i saw just how long it had been since I'd posted last!! Tomorrow is my baby girls birthday she will be ....28years old........how time does fly!!
This last week was not a very happy week for me, I had to have an ex parte issued and served to Scott, I have bruises. We go to court on Tues the 12th to see if it is to be a year long one or what. I also know that the police were talking to the prosecuting attorney about filing charges. My right arm, shoulder and collarbone are pretty sore still and may have to take them to the doctors yet.
I was asked what i was going to do and my answer has to be the same as it has been for some time now......one day at a time!!
With no car I have to rely on others to take me places so most of that will be Brie as she is the closes, and since she is off on Fridays that is when most of it will probably get done. I do have an appointment down in Columbia on the 25th and Brie is going to take that Monday off to take me. It is the first of the ones to get ready for the gastric bypass surgery so that i can loose the weight i need to lose and get healthier and get to feeling better. I am ready for that. I am tired of feeling so run down all the time and I really am ready for this life changing event in my life.
Okay, this one is short but need to get to sleep.
This last week was not a very happy week for me, I had to have an ex parte issued and served to Scott, I have bruises. We go to court on Tues the 12th to see if it is to be a year long one or what. I also know that the police were talking to the prosecuting attorney about filing charges. My right arm, shoulder and collarbone are pretty sore still and may have to take them to the doctors yet.
I was asked what i was going to do and my answer has to be the same as it has been for some time now......one day at a time!!
With no car I have to rely on others to take me places so most of that will be Brie as she is the closes, and since she is off on Fridays that is when most of it will probably get done. I do have an appointment down in Columbia on the 25th and Brie is going to take that Monday off to take me. It is the first of the ones to get ready for the gastric bypass surgery so that i can loose the weight i need to lose and get healthier and get to feeling better. I am ready for that. I am tired of feeling so run down all the time and I really am ready for this life changing event in my life.
Okay, this one is short but need to get to sleep.
Friday, August 04, 2006
August 4, 2006 Scott's Latest Boats
The upper boat is the tow boat Scott is building.
This is the Steamer Side Wheeler, like the old ones that you see in the movies where they are gambling on the.....like Maverik.
August 4,2006 Time Flies
I believe the old saying is something like this....."Time flies when You are having fun.....", well guess what? Time flies even if your not having fun, or even if your just kind of not not paying much attention to what life is like and just living life one day at a time cause that is all thet can be done!!
I can't believe it has been that long since I last wrote in here. We've had our good days and our bads as everyone does. Our worst was the day our oldest grandson was court ordered given back to his abusive mother.....yes we could not believe it either!! A lot of anger went on here in this house hold and thanks to my mom, on the spiritual side of things and one of my best friends, Deb Hecht, who lives in Bellvue Neb talking me thru things,Deb on the practical and the possibilities legally, I finally got calmed down. There really isn't anything I can do as a grandparent but sit back and pray. Which is what we have done, we have prayed a hedge of protection around Dallas for no harm to come to him and then asked Gods will to be done and for the kids, My son and his wife, to have wisdom in the decisions they make. If so inclined we would appreciate everyone how agrees with us in Jesus name to do likewise believeing it will happen.
I did get a call tonight from my son asking me to be looking at my calender for not next week but the following week to see if we have appointments that week to let him know as he plans to go see Dallas that week, just before school will start.
I have kind of put most of my quilt things on hold for now.....I felt like I needed a change or something. So this week I started putting or finishing up some of the HO train buildings we have. Right now Scott has been working on his wooden boats.....I'll have to see if he has any recent pics of the 2 he has worked on this summer but he has been doing what looks like an old fashion steam boat with the side paddles......right now it is sitting as he tries to figure out how to do the paddles and connect and make them work......and do it all cheap!!
At preasent he is doing a tow boat! This is cool also as I watch pieces of wood become shapes like some of the finished boats I see pics of that he saves and has on his screen saver program. Sometimes you look at what he has and you just have to say(to yourself....not out load, no discouraging allowed!!) NO WAY!!! The he brings it in to show me what he has done or I'm sitting close by and watch as he adds here and bend boards there and glues(and holds it in plave with good old MASKING TAPE no less) takes the sander and sands off corners. Takes a small drill and starts with a small hole and because you don't want the hole too big, you wrap sandpaper around the handle of a paint brush and sand the hole a little bit at a time trying the piece every few stoles till it is just right, of course this also allows you to keep the hole round or start it toward an oval which fits the ability of removing the piece in the future if need be for repair work that sometimes has to happen in this area.
Now tell me are you as impressed as I have been with all of this?? All from planks, sheets and sticks of wood!! When I find the pics of what is done so far I will post what he has done.
Well, the pain meds seem to be kicking in again so guess I will head for bed, but before I do......My daughter Brie took a painting class this summer at the college where she works.....because she could and she loves art!! The first url will have the photo she took of herself and we are going to work on this one just a tad and i am having this one made big and put in my family pic wall for her recent pic.....I love it!! www.deviantart.com/deviation/35998613 any way the next url is the self portrait painting she did from it!! www.deviantart.com/deviation/36068016 The next url is her standing outside at the campus on the patio and what she saw(that is what they were told to paint) www.deviantart.com/deviation/35751998 and the the last one is actually a Christmas ornament we picked up several years ago, she got the dragon fly and i got my giraffe. www.deviantart.com/deviation/35538762
I can't believe it has been that long since I last wrote in here. We've had our good days and our bads as everyone does. Our worst was the day our oldest grandson was court ordered given back to his abusive mother.....yes we could not believe it either!! A lot of anger went on here in this house hold and thanks to my mom, on the spiritual side of things and one of my best friends, Deb Hecht, who lives in Bellvue Neb talking me thru things,Deb on the practical and the possibilities legally, I finally got calmed down. There really isn't anything I can do as a grandparent but sit back and pray. Which is what we have done, we have prayed a hedge of protection around Dallas for no harm to come to him and then asked Gods will to be done and for the kids, My son and his wife, to have wisdom in the decisions they make. If so inclined we would appreciate everyone how agrees with us in Jesus name to do likewise believeing it will happen.
I did get a call tonight from my son asking me to be looking at my calender for not next week but the following week to see if we have appointments that week to let him know as he plans to go see Dallas that week, just before school will start.
I have kind of put most of my quilt things on hold for now.....I felt like I needed a change or something. So this week I started putting or finishing up some of the HO train buildings we have. Right now Scott has been working on his wooden boats.....I'll have to see if he has any recent pics of the 2 he has worked on this summer but he has been doing what looks like an old fashion steam boat with the side paddles......right now it is sitting as he tries to figure out how to do the paddles and connect and make them work......and do it all cheap!!
At preasent he is doing a tow boat! This is cool also as I watch pieces of wood become shapes like some of the finished boats I see pics of that he saves and has on his screen saver program. Sometimes you look at what he has and you just have to say(to yourself....not out load, no discouraging allowed!!) NO WAY!!! The he brings it in to show me what he has done or I'm sitting close by and watch as he adds here and bend boards there and glues(and holds it in plave with good old MASKING TAPE no less) takes the sander and sands off corners. Takes a small drill and starts with a small hole and because you don't want the hole too big, you wrap sandpaper around the handle of a paint brush and sand the hole a little bit at a time trying the piece every few stoles till it is just right, of course this also allows you to keep the hole round or start it toward an oval which fits the ability of removing the piece in the future if need be for repair work that sometimes has to happen in this area.
Now tell me are you as impressed as I have been with all of this?? All from planks, sheets and sticks of wood!! When I find the pics of what is done so far I will post what he has done.
Well, the pain meds seem to be kicking in again so guess I will head for bed, but before I do......My daughter Brie took a painting class this summer at the college where she works.....because she could and she loves art!! The first url will have the photo she took of herself and we are going to work on this one just a tad and i am having this one made big and put in my family pic wall for her recent pic.....I love it!! www.deviantart.com/deviation/35998613 any way the next url is the self portrait painting she did from it!! www.deviantart.com/deviation/36068016 The next url is her standing outside at the campus on the patio and what she saw(that is what they were told to paint) www.deviantart.com/deviation/35751998 and the the last one is actually a Christmas ornament we picked up several years ago, she got the dragon fly and i got my giraffe. www.deviantart.com/deviation/35538762
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
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