still in the hospital! warning i talk about my bm's..or lack there of!

last Wednesday I had surgery to fix my shoulder. it was an out patient procedure, but due to my inability to stop throwing up i spent the night. i was so excited to go home on Thursday that i packed my bags and and waited to be discharged. I left at 2:30 in the afternoon, that is when the fun began.i threw up from 3 till Dave came home at 5:45, then i went to the er. three bags of fluid later. i went home again, only to spend the night sick. So back to the hospital i went! i am not throwing up anymore. my stomach and stomach, and surrounding parts will not wake up! I have been on 1 liter of o2 since i got here and mt o2 Sat's are fine as long as i leave it on, but when i take it off they drop down to the low 80's. this stinks. i have had the best care, but i just want to go home! i wish that i could go. but not until i have a BM. i keep psyching my self up only to find that it is not working! one of the nurses gave me some prune juice with butter, yuck! and it still is not working! I am not that bored because my friend brought me enough stuff to do during my stay! but since i am always up by 5 i am wide awake. the hospital is way different when you are the patient! I have had some visits from my friends here at the hospital and my family has come to see me, but i just want to be at home. today is the day!!!

Surgery, spider, sweet smiles

Levi had his adenoid out on the 11th. He is doing great. In fact he got up out of his hospital bed refused a wheelchair and walked out...with a trip to the cafeteria and then up to see my mother. He was a such a trooper. when we got home he didn't even sleep till 5 that evening. he woke up at 8 ate some food watched a movie and then went back to sleep at 9:30 so I think that he was feeling it at that point. people keep asking me how he is doing well he is great. he only has an occasional stomach ache and that is from the drainage.

Now Everyone knows that I was playing the X-games with my friend and I dislocated my shoulder. The pain was suppose to go away by February, but it didn't I am still in a great deal of pain and with many trips to the Doctor We have decided that Surgery is a good option. of course this is not ideal but it is the only thing that we haven't tried. So I talked to my Doctor and he had his assistant call me to arrange something. So I get a call from Dave to call my Doctors office and so I did. they informed me that they had a cancellation and if I wanted it I could have it. I asked when it is and they said the 24 of march... this was my response Hum? thinking, thinking, thinking...um maybe not. After all I need more than a week to get everything in order meaning my house the kids need to be arranged for, My yard needs to get picked up and the dog stuff in the yard needs to be removed before I am out for the count! I know excuses but I think that they are very reasonable. So I decided that it should be in April, so we are able to prepare but still get it done so I can be back to work! So we scheduled it on the 7th of April. so Bring it on! I am so ready for April and the bills to start to pour in!!!

Finally spiders. Levi caught a spider and brought it in the house. instead of getting mad and throwing it out we drew pictures of it and then we let it go outside! pictures will follow I am having technical difficulties with my camera.

February is finally over

As I Have always said I do not like the month of February! (except for Crystal's Birthday) this one takes the cake. in January I hurt my self and I am still suffering! well I went to the Doctor in February and we decided that we need to look at my shoulder more so I have a MRI on Monday the 8th. (I know this is not Feb, but I it was scheduled in Feb). We have been really sick in this house, Dave had influenza starting ind February and Ashton was sick for a week and I took Levi to his well visit (I was a month late but hey it is done) and The doctor and I decided that we need to take him to an ENT to check out his perpetual green boogerie left nostril. this included having the Doc hold open his nostril and taking a look and then getting a cat scan that took us 20 mins instead of 25 seconds. (it was fun) we received a call from the Doctor telling us the there was something that was blocking his nose and it could be two things, one the adenoid which is and easy fix or something else like a tumor which will need to biopsied. (not to alarm this common for the ENT to say, it is just his adenoid) but needless to say when you hear the word biopsy a bit of fear over comes you. So we have scheduled a day for his operation. the 11th he will no longer be know for his left boogie! I am glad that February is over and has been for a few days.

Other than the yuckies that are written about up there we are okay! Hope that March is way better than February

Ashton has been helping me around the house I cannot reach the bottom of the washer so he has been volunteering to do the things that I cannot.

Denver

It is that time of year when we head off to Denver with our friends to see Monster Jam. This is the highlight of our year. Since we have three boys we really enjoy going to this event!

happy febuary

Well it has been a few days shy of a month since I hurt myself. Well I hope that I am doing better, but that is not likely, it was about two weeks ago when I fell and hurt myself again. This made physical therapy harder and I was brought back to doing the exercises that I was doing when I first went in. I go back to the Dr. in two weeks and then if things are not better I have to have an MRI. this is not much fun, but I am the ultimate optimist! so things are going to get better! really other than that there has not been much going on here! that is weird in itself but good non the less! Levi is still into every thing and Ashton is still my little shadow! I just remembered the funniest thing that happened this week I was having a bad day so Dave decided to take me and the boys out to dinner. They were very well behaved, abnormal, and they stayed in their seats and the waitress was so impressed she gave them Ice cream and coupons for free meals we really had a great time. well Dave showed them how to shoot the wrappers off the straws with his nose (this was not approved by mother!) I put a stop to that one and then I look at Isaac and he snorted his chocolate milk up his straw through his nose. Dave and I are laughing, when the waitress shows up and Isaac said "I can feel it going down my throat" he said this with tear filled eyes and a horsy voice! I love having three boys!

January!? when did this happen?

So far the month has been as eventful as the last, if not a bit more so! I have made a resolution to be more active (outdoorsy) so starting on January 2nd I decided to head up to the Ski area and get my snowboarding on (yes I am that cool and yes I just said that!) anyway It was great Dave and I had the best day! So one of my friends caught up with me and we decided that we needed to go together too, so I made plans with her to head up on the 7th. I was overjoyed on the morning of the 7th (not just because I was going snowboarding but it was also Levi's 5th birthday) we woke up early and got Levi his presents. It was really c old I think that it was -17 that morning, After a good time with the kids we started to get ready. But to our surprise we found out that our pipes had froze! that was just the start! then my suburban would not start so I had to call my in laws, (I am so grateful that they have been such a good support! ) I didn't have time to make treats for Levi's class to I bought them. Which made us 30minutes late for dropping Levi off at school, Finally the time had come and I was ready to go snowboarding! My friend Jessica showed up and we headed toward the mountain! It is amazing hoe much you remember even if you have not been there for 4 years! so We decided that we should head to the back side of the mountain. it took forever due to me be so out of shape! when we got to the other side we were riding on the best snow! I was almost to the bottom of the slope when a shrub reached out and grabbed the bottom of my board! needless to say I fell and then the i realized that my arm felt as if I broke it! not a good feeling, I yelled a t Jessica and to go and call my dad (aka ski patrol) I decide that I needed to take off my jacket and make sure that my body is intact, when I started to pull off the left arm of my jacket I felt a pain that was never felt before! then I realized that I didn't break my arm, I grabbed my jacket and strapped on my board and headed down the hill I think that the endorphins that were running through my body took control! I felt way better! I was ready to finish out my day. my Dada showed up at the same time Jessica did and when I told them that I was going to take a few more runs they simultaneously gave me the death look. I got back to the base and realized how much pain I was in. I made a doctors appointment and headed for town! Come to find out I have a shoulder subluxation. So I have not been to work for 6 days and I have been taking Hydrocodone (a lot of it) The moral of this story is my shoulder hurts! and I would never wish a shoulder injury on anyone ever!

Christmas

It was a good one this year. Isaac is old enough to understand why we celebrate Christmas! Levi is starting to grasp that we celebrate because of JESUS it is cute! every year we have the kids buy their brothers a present! this year they really got excited for this part! It was a good day, expect for Isaac, He had walking pneumonia and he was not a very happy camper but he put forth his best face and made the day good!

Dave's Niece got Married on the 28th and because Isaac was sick I was not able to attend. so Dave left on Monday he took Levi with him. I opted to keep Ash because he was also starting to feel yucky. I am so sad that I missed out on the wedding, but I am also glad that I didn't go because Ashton is really sick! I took him to the doctor yesterday and he has walking pneumonia, an ear infection and a croupie cough! He slept for 18 hours yesterday! I think that he is starting to feel better. (I am not able to upload the pic of ashton it will be here soon!)