Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Morning all!
Had a very busy weekend, so tired yesterday I barely made it through the day. Rich invited some friends over to celebrate my birthday on saturday, wasn't that sweet? I only had to clean house, shop for food, and prepare the food. Oh and get ready so I didn't look like I cleaned and shopped, and cooked. Guys, I know you mean well, but really...think about it. I love my sweet husband and all turned out fine. We had a nice dinner with friends and Sunday I got to relax at the pool with Chase and read my book. I got some really lovely gifts, Chase actually cross stitched a bookmark for me with my name and cherries on it-love that! Rich got me a gift certificate to my scrapbook store as well as one to the Pink Boa, going to have to spend some time deciding what is worthy of buying if you know what I mean, LOL!!
So Chase is going to spend the rest of the week with my family up in KC, he does this every summer for quite a while now. They all have a really great time and he looks forward to it every year. I miss the boy but I have very fond memories of doing the exact same thing with my grandparents...so cool.
Well, just wanted to touch base since I was at work early today and had a few minutes, hope everyone is having a good week and staying in out of the heat.
More soon, oh I will post birthday pictures when Chase gets back into town-he took his camera with memory card with him.
Had a very busy weekend, so tired yesterday I barely made it through the day. Rich invited some friends over to celebrate my birthday on saturday, wasn't that sweet? I only had to clean house, shop for food, and prepare the food. Oh and get ready so I didn't look like I cleaned and shopped, and cooked. Guys, I know you mean well, but really...think about it. I love my sweet husband and all turned out fine. We had a nice dinner with friends and Sunday I got to relax at the pool with Chase and read my book. I got some really lovely gifts, Chase actually cross stitched a bookmark for me with my name and cherries on it-love that! Rich got me a gift certificate to my scrapbook store as well as one to the Pink Boa, going to have to spend some time deciding what is worthy of buying if you know what I mean, LOL!!
So Chase is going to spend the rest of the week with my family up in KC, he does this every summer for quite a while now. They all have a really great time and he looks forward to it every year. I miss the boy but I have very fond memories of doing the exact same thing with my grandparents...so cool.
Well, just wanted to touch base since I was at work early today and had a few minutes, hope everyone is having a good week and staying in out of the heat.
More soon, oh I will post birthday pictures when Chase gets back into town-he took his camera with memory card with him.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
You know, I really LOVE the idea of having a blog, but I have such a hard time finding the time and energy to post. Especially since my goal is to post about positive happy things, LOL! Not that I don't have a ton of positive happy things to post about, they just tend to overshadow the constant negativity of my workday. Not asking for sympathy here folks, just wanting you to know where I am at. So I had a really great ME weekend, I got a haircut and I got my first pedicure in like 12 mos, seriously.
I haven't decided on a name for her yet, I am open to any ideas. Her tutu, that you can see in the back came with a denim waistband which does not thrill me-not sure if it will get covered up, or just go away. She did come with arms made of white painted wood like her base, soon to be painted black. Thinking I might hang my excessive collection of ribbon from them when it is all said and done.
So I have been working on this entry off and on for about 1 1/2 hours now, so I guess I should get back to work.
On a parting note today, just want to thank all of you for your thoughts and prayers for my Aunt Martha, she came through surgery and will be starting chemo treatments in the near future.
Hope everyone has a great night!
I really love that instead of just one little flower, she actually put two on my toe!! ( Hope that doesn't gross anyone out, sorry)
After that I made a stop at the Best of Times, an adorable little gift shop over at Central & Woodlawn, where I picked up a a pair of "Switchflops" (I should have taken a picture) they are really cool flip flops that have a grosgrain ribbon with velcro on the back that goes across the top of the flip flop so you can switch it out with different colors and patterns-LOVE THEM!
THEN, I stopped at the Pink Boa in Andover, an even CUTER gift store (if that is possible) they were having a sidewalk sale this weekend. They had a few of the store fixtures, as well as a whole bunch of other stuff on clearance. So I scored this beauty for my scrapbook room:
I haven't decided on a name for her yet, I am open to any ideas. Her tutu, that you can see in the back came with a denim waistband which does not thrill me-not sure if it will get covered up, or just go away. She did come with arms made of white painted wood like her base, soon to be painted black. Thinking I might hang my excessive collection of ribbon from them when it is all said and done. So I have been working on this entry off and on for about 1 1/2 hours now, so I guess I should get back to work.
On a parting note today, just want to thank all of you for your thoughts and prayers for my Aunt Martha, she came through surgery and will be starting chemo treatments in the near future.
Hope everyone has a great night!
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
June 27, 2008
Happy Friday people!
(unfortunately, I have to work tomorrow )
Well I got the call back from my Dr yesterday afternoon. I have an annular tear in my lower back between the L4 & L5 nerves. I don't completely understand all the medical jargon yet, but Dr. Shuck is wanting me to see a back surgeon to get his opinion on whether I need physical therapy, chiropractic care, or worst case surgery. I am currently waiting to get an appointment with the surgeon to determine what we will do next.
This is what I found on Google about annular tears:
"When healthy, the discs separating the vertebrae in your spine have soft, gel-like centers surrounded by layers of fibrous tissues. This outer layer is called an annulus.
Due to injury or just aging, small tears can form in the annulus. When the gel-like center of the disc pushes through an annular tear, this is called a disc herniation."
It also lists treatment options of: chiropractic medicine, physical rehabilitation, Dr's treatment and MCU therapy.
So, at this point we know why my back hurts, we just don't know what we are going to do to fix it yet. As always your thoughts and prayers are always appreciated, I am just doing my best not to over react and freak out at this point. (obviously that helps nothing, LOL)
I would also like to request your prayers for my Aunt Martha who lives in OKC. She recently found out she has cancer and will be undergoing a historectomy early next month. My mom will be travelling down to stay with her through the surgery.
Hope everyone has a great weekend, maybe it will stay a little drier?!?!
See y'all next week!!
(unfortunately, I have to work tomorrow )
Well I got the call back from my Dr yesterday afternoon. I have an annular tear in my lower back between the L4 & L5 nerves. I don't completely understand all the medical jargon yet, but Dr. Shuck is wanting me to see a back surgeon to get his opinion on whether I need physical therapy, chiropractic care, or worst case surgery. I am currently waiting to get an appointment with the surgeon to determine what we will do next.
This is what I found on Google about annular tears:
"When healthy, the discs separating the vertebrae in your spine have soft, gel-like centers surrounded by layers of fibrous tissues. This outer layer is called an annulus.
Due to injury or just aging, small tears can form in the annulus. When the gel-like center of the disc pushes through an annular tear, this is called a disc herniation."
It also lists treatment options of: chiropractic medicine, physical rehabilitation, Dr's treatment and MCU therapy.
So, at this point we know why my back hurts, we just don't know what we are going to do to fix it yet. As always your thoughts and prayers are always appreciated, I am just doing my best not to over react and freak out at this point. (obviously that helps nothing, LOL)
I would also like to request your prayers for my Aunt Martha who lives in OKC. She recently found out she has cancer and will be undergoing a historectomy early next month. My mom will be travelling down to stay with her through the surgery.
Hope everyone has a great weekend, maybe it will stay a little drier?!?!
See y'all next week!!
Thursday, June 26, 2008
So little to say...so much time...
STOP
REVERSE THAT
Whew, what a week. Always tough catching up even if you are only gone a few days.
We had such a wonderful visit with family in KC this weekend, the only tough part was my lower back was a little sore before Chase and I left the house on friday, I took some advil and hopped in the car. By the time we got to KC and I tried to get out of the car...well let's just say it wasn't pretty. So I made a few phone calls and had my flexoril called into the pharmacy up there thinking that after an hour or so of the first dose I would be feeling much better.
Not so much, I might as well have been taking sugar pills as effective as they were. So monday I called the Dr's office to ask what I should do, they set me an open MRI for wednesday morning. Unfortunately, an MRI isn't really a solution to back pain, LOL! Supposedly, the radiologist will read the MRI, then get with my DR, my DR will then get with the nurse, who in turn, when she gets a chance, will call me. (maybe)
The good news is, each day I am feeling better, less and less pain anyway. It's one of those things where, sometimes when you stand up you are ok, other times not.
The other downer we got this week, when we came home and Chase tried to play Wii, the console would not power up. Went through all the trouble shooting, still no Wii. Had to call the customer service people for Nintendo, suprisingly very nice and very helpful.
They sent me a link to print a pre-paid FedEx shipping label, all I had to do was box the thing up and drop it off at Fed Ex. Hell of a deal if you ask me. In the meantime, poor Chase is bored off his little patootie. Imagine how tough it must be with no video games to play!
Hopefully the turnaround will be pretty quick and by the time he comes back to our house we will have it back.
Well thats all for now folks!
PS: Snozzberry-whats a SNOZZBERRY?
STOP
REVERSE THAT
Whew, what a week. Always tough catching up even if you are only gone a few days.
We had such a wonderful visit with family in KC this weekend, the only tough part was my lower back was a little sore before Chase and I left the house on friday, I took some advil and hopped in the car. By the time we got to KC and I tried to get out of the car...well let's just say it wasn't pretty. So I made a few phone calls and had my flexoril called into the pharmacy up there thinking that after an hour or so of the first dose I would be feeling much better.
Not so much, I might as well have been taking sugar pills as effective as they were. So monday I called the Dr's office to ask what I should do, they set me an open MRI for wednesday morning. Unfortunately, an MRI isn't really a solution to back pain, LOL! Supposedly, the radiologist will read the MRI, then get with my DR, my DR will then get with the nurse, who in turn, when she gets a chance, will call me. (maybe)
The good news is, each day I am feeling better, less and less pain anyway. It's one of those things where, sometimes when you stand up you are ok, other times not.
The other downer we got this week, when we came home and Chase tried to play Wii, the console would not power up. Went through all the trouble shooting, still no Wii. Had to call the customer service people for Nintendo, suprisingly very nice and very helpful.
They sent me a link to print a pre-paid FedEx shipping label, all I had to do was box the thing up and drop it off at Fed Ex. Hell of a deal if you ask me. In the meantime, poor Chase is bored off his little patootie. Imagine how tough it must be with no video games to play!
Hopefully the turnaround will be pretty quick and by the time he comes back to our house we will have it back.
Well thats all for now folks!
PS: Snozzberry-whats a SNOZZBERRY?
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