Pepto is my friend...

Whoa, what a BAD weekend we had. Sami was getting over being sick. On Saturday, Rick had to work for several hours. While he was there, I started feeling yucky. After he got home, I went to lie down and after about an hour the vomiting started. Ugh. I was sick all Saturday night. Then the fever started...and now things are bad at the other end.

To make things worse, before I really started feeling better, Rick started with it, so Sunday, we were both miserable. The poor kids are lucky they got fed!

I had so many things I wanted to do this weekend, including getting the lights on the house and the tree up. Nada. Nothing got done. In fact, we didnt' even get much laundry done.

Pepto is my friend...

Almost a year has passed...

Wow...a lot has happened in the last "almost" year! Let's see...

My sister re-married a really great guy, got pregnant (at 39) and lost the baby unfortunately.

We lost my dear mother-in-law to cancer in July 2008. This Christmas just isn't going to be the same.

My darling daughter turned 2!

My wonderful son is about to turn 8!

We became grandparents (OMG)... My 22 year old step-daughter gave birth on 11/20/08 to a beautiful baby boy, Alex. We are SO proud!

My manager of 4+ years got married, and then weeks later quit our company to "travel". Yeah, right...we found out later she actually moved to Texas and started working for another company. Would have been nice if she'd been honest with us. I mean, for goodness sake, we were all at her wedding!

My company was "taken over". Actually, we were taken into receivorship by the FDIC and minutes later, JPMorganChase bought us. I found out on December 1st that I'm one of the lucky ones...I'm going to keep my job. Unfortunately, my boss wasn't so lucky. We're really gonna miss her when she leaves in January. Also unfortunately, they're splitting my department up under two different managers. :(

We got a new car for R, and within weeks I managed to hit a deer with it and wreck the front end. Actually, the deer hit me, but he was uninsured so recovering our deductible ($500) was impossible. The deer had little/no damage, got up and sauntered away. I practically had a heart attack, then checked to make sure my babies were okay...then looked in dismay at the car.

After suffering with a toothache for 2 months, I finally went to the dentist and wound up in the chair, upside down for about 4 hours having a root canal. Fun, fun, fun! I go back for the permanent crown in January, once my new FSA kicks in for 2009.

So...all in all its been a busy year. I guess that's why I just never found the time to blog. :)

Wow...aren't I a slacker!

Hello again! Sorry it's been so long. There's been a lot going on. It took a while to get going again after my surgery. I guess the older you get, the longer recovery takes. We also found out that my mother-in-law has Stage IV Melanoma. She was in the hospital for 2 weeks, and they finally started chemo last week. She's home now, and feeling okay...we're just keeping our fingers crossed and praying for a miracle that she beats this. Then we had 2 Thanksgivings...one at the hospital with my mother-in-law on Thursday, and then one at our house with my parents on Friday. It was a busy weekend. :)

Since then it's been a whirlwind of work, Cub Scout meetings, PREP classes to get Jason ready for receiving his First Holy Communion, getting ready for Christmas, etc. I've just had no time to get on here and blog!

What a crazy week!

Wow, what a crazy week it’s been. Surgery went well. I do feel better, but it’ll be a few weeks before I really feel good. Halloween was fun. Jason went as The Grim Reaper (no more cutsie costumes for my almost-7-year-old!) and Sami was a pumpkin. Though, she squeaks like a monkey so that might have been a better costume. Pictures will follow, if I ever get the time to upload my camera!

I started back at work this past Wednesday. It was a difficult adjustment the first day, but by day two, everything was fine. The only thing I didn’t anticipate was that now, wearing pants that button, the button presses right on my belly button which is where one of my incisions is. It hurts while I’m sitting down, and if I happen to lean on a counter or desk or something. Maybe I should wear elastic pants next week.

It should be a fun weekend. The Sea and Sky Spectacular is this weekend at the Jacksonville Beaches (The Blue Angels will be performing) and I think we’re going to that on Saturday afternoon. The fair is also in town. I doubt we’ll get there. That’s too much to fit in one weekend along with chores, Church, soccer x 2, etc. No rest for the weary! At least soccer is almost over for the season. I doubt we’ll sign Jason up for it again. This is his third season, and he’s really not enjoying it any longer. He said he’d like to join Cub Scouts, so we’re going to go that route for a while. It’ll give him a chance to make some more friends. Now we just need to decide on whether to join the troop associated with Jason’s school or the one associated with our Church. Decisions, decisions…

We’re finally seeing some cooler weather! I’m a northern girl, and I miss having four fully defined seasons. I even miss snow, believe it or not. I hate wearing shorts on Christmas! We do get cold in winter, but it usually warms up into the 70s by afternoon every day, so I only get a taste of cold in the mornings and evenings. It’s not enough, but better than nothing.

Wow… Less than 3 weeks till Thanksgiving. Rick wants to have it at our house. I do too really. My mom needs a break after 43 years of having one or usually both holidays at her house. But we have a small house. We may have to limit it to my parents and Rick’s mom. Any more than that and we won’t fit at our kitchen table, even with the leaf in. I’m talking it’s a REALLY small house. So, I’d better get my ass in gear and get it cleaned!!

Off to the OR I go...

So...I have to have surgery. I've been on a merry-go-round for about 6 months now. You see, after Sami was born I was having some odd symptoms that I at first associated with my body getting back to normal after pregnancy. But instead of getting better, they've gotten worse. I was concerned I had a problem with my liver, because I had pre-ecclampsia with both babies and the symptoms I was having were the same as what they kept asking me about during the pre-ecclampsia, so I went to the doctor.

Now...4 doctors, 1 ultrasound, 3 CT scans, 1 CT-guided biopsy and 1 MRI later, I find that I have multiple gallstones and 3 liver lesions. They tell me that the liver lesions are something called Focal Nodular Hyperplasia which is fairly common and asymptomatic. Apparently all my symptoms are from the gallstones. They are going to remove my gallbladder on 10/24/07 and do a second biopsy of the liver lesions to make certain it's FNH and not something more malicious...however they won't remove the FNH lesions unless my symptoms don't go away or the lesions start to grow.

So...once I recover from this surgery, hopefully my symptoms will disappear. If not, I will have to undergo a second, more extensive surgery. Ugh.

I'm not looking forward to this...but it'll be better than the nausea, pain and vomiting I'm living with right now...so...hurry up and get here, October 24th!!