Hello Again.

well, the weekend is over and we are into a new week. can you believe monday is Memorial Day and the sunday after that is June 1st? seems like time is just flying by this year. i turn another year older in june. hard to believe.

we went to New Life for church again saturday night. they are doing a series on Esther and i am enjoying it and learning from it too. i think that is where we will go to church for a while. its easy to blend in and not really be noticed unless you want to be, not that the people aren't friendly, they are. but its nice to just blend in and be apart of a group without standing out for a while.

we took a dear friend out for his birthday last night. it was nice to see him again and we had a good time. we went to fridays for dinner. then out for ice cream. tonight we are going out with hubby's family for his sisters birthday. it is today. she has chosen red lobster for her dinner. i love their biscuits.

i have been able to read again which is really nice. however, my ADD medicine is starting to wear off about 3pm instead of 6-7pm. shrink said this would probably happen. it bothers me. i do have my shrinks number if it gets to bad, he said to call him. am off most of medicine hospital had me on and am weaning off last one. it is difficult. i find myself being more jittery even though i take my ADD medicine at 8am. i find myself jittery now and it's only 1130am. i will make it, it's just hard sometimes.

got free tickets for our minor league team for this thursday night. if i can manage it, we will go. i woke up with a bad allergy attack yesterday morning and its making me feel blah. also, i have felt really sore over the weekend again from my surgery. my mom says with them moving all those organs around, it bruises them. plus, moving the muscles around them get stretched etc. the first week i felt like i'd done 100 sit-ups. this weekend, i felt like i'd done 50 again. just sore.

anyhow, hopefully i will feel up to going to the game. especially with free tickets. i love baseball. am a diehard Yankees fan. have been for as long as i can remember. i would like to go new york city and see the Yankees play in person next year for my birthday. its kind of a big one (the birthday). hopefully we will get to do it. just make it a long weekend. i would like to go to one game, the museum of art, and one nice restaurant where we have to dress up. thats it. hubby has been to nyc before for work several years ago. so, he sort of knows he's way around. i do know it costs a fortune to park anywhere, so we will probably use taxis or subway.

my allergies are acting up probably because of where i walk. its a path around a pond surrounded by woods. on the other side of the woods is a river, which you can see through the woods. so friday, i breathed everything in bloom plus the mold from both bodies of water and all the rain we've had. its just that time of year, finally. i didn't think winter would ever be over. it's still cool, only 52 right now, but its supposed to warm up to where our temps are actually supposed to be by the end of the week. that will be nice.

well, i guess thats it for now. sun is out today and they are mowing. i will be sneezing soon. i thought we had rain forecasted for today and tomorrow, but so far just sun. am glad.

ya'll have a great week. God Bless.

SAW THE SUN AGAIN!

thankfully it cleared up and the sun came out today. it wasn't as warm as i would have liked it to be, but it was out and felt wonderful.

walked my 1.2 miles again today while hubby ran. did it in 20minutes 26 seconds. shaved 3 minutes off my time from this past tuesday. got some sun too. it's supposed to finally warm up late next week to normal temps, but i will believe it when i see it.

watched "untraceable" tonight. makes you want to fall off the grid and crawl in a hole. good movie though.

hope everyone has a great weekend.

God bless.

CORRECTION

I have been getting the name of the church we have tried so far wrong. I guess I just kept thinking of the bookstore.

Anyhow, the church's name is NEW LIFE not Lifeway. Just wanted to make that correction.

Have a great day!

Bright, Sunny and Warm too!

It is a bright, sunny, warm day today! What a change. It had been so damp and cold it felt more like fall than spring. Unfortunately, today is supposed to be the bright spot in an otherwise cool and damp week.

Hubby ran after work at the park so I walked the path he was running. I ended up walking 1.2 miles (he ran it twice so he went further), but I thought I did pretty good. I did it in about 23 minutes. Not bad. I can't get back on my bike for 3 more weeks (cause of surgery), plus I need some supplies. I need a bike helmet, a new seat and a bike rack for the car. I have no idea how much the bike rack will cost. The helmet and seat are no big deal.

It was nice walking and at a good clip too. Also gave me a chance to get some sun on this pale white skin. I don't know when I will get a chance this week to walk at the park again. Depends on how much it ends up raining. They are forecasting that by this coming monday our high will only be 59 degrees. ugh. I am anxious for summer to get here and stay here.

Am healing well from surgery. Still somewhat sore inside. Sometimes hurts to wear jeans cause of the one incision by my belly button. But other wise, feeling much better. My back has been bothering me a bit, but I think once I am able to exercise more, that will loosen up.

We went to LifeWay again this past Sunday morning. We liked the Sunday morning service better than the saturday night. However, Hubby would like to attend a saturday night service somewhere so he can run on Sunday morning. The races he has entered are on Sunday mornings also. So we will see. We were going to try Grove City Nazarene, but with gas at $4 a gallon now, thats a long way for us to go for church. We may try Vineyard, but haven't decided on that yet. LifeWay is only 15 minutes from us, so.....

Hubby did something very nice for me last week. On tuesday he called from work and wanted to know if I wanted to go out that night for mothers day. I thought he meant for his mom, but he was talking about ME! Even though I am a mom to a dog instead of a kid, he took me out for a nice dinner. I really appreciated him doing that for me. Meant more to me than he will ever know.

I am feeling better everyday. Had a bout of depression last week, but am feeling much better this week. Head is clearer everyday and both sets of parents say I seem more like myself again. The ADD medicine seems to be working ok. I am off the two meds the hospital had me on that just left me feeling drugged up all the time. Am slowly weaning off last one, but should be off of it soon.

Even my migraines are better. Had two right after the surgery, but thats been it for over a month now. I think changing the birth control and the vitamins have really helped. I gave myself my first depo shot last week. It hurt and bruised a little in the thigh, but it seems to be helping the headaches stay away so thats the big thing.

Got out saturday. Had lunch with a friend and then went craft shopping. It was nice to see her and spend some time with her and also have an afternoon out. And it was a decent day weather wise.

Grandma is doing really well. They are talking about letting her go "home" in about 10 days. She'll actually go to our aunts house. It's amazing. A few weeks ago we thought we were going to be going to her funeral soon and then she wakes up and just keeps getting better. Quite a feat for a 93 year old. Do keep her in your prayers though.

Well, I guess thats it for now. Got a box out to my cousin in Iraq today. Hope he and his guys enjoy what we put in it. And that it arrives safely. Keep him in your prayers also. He tour there isn't up until January 2009.

Talk to ya'll later. If its nice, warm and sunny wherever you are, get out and enjoy it!

Cold and Damp

well today is cold and damp and i can't seem to get or keep warm. i hate weather like this. i am wanting to put my plants outside and some of them need replanted, but it's going to be so cool at night this next week, i am afraid they'll die. so i guess i will wait another week or so and see if the warm temps stay warm.

saw my podiatrist today. my fractures in my left foot have pretty well healed. however, my arthritis is worse in both feet. so i am getting new shoe inserts to help with that. they are casting my feet next friday and then i think it takes a couple of weeks for them to be made. hopefully this will help my feet to not hurt so bad. they have been bothering me alot lately, other than the fractures.

am trying to get our mothers day stuff done today. i am also doing my moms birthday, which was 2 weeks ago. so i hope to get her package in the mail yet today. got the gifts wrapped and in the padded envelope, but need cards. i went to my usual hallmark store and they were gone. all closed up. no notice of them having moved or anything. so i will leave early to go get hubby from work and go to the one over that way.

i am doing well on my new meds. saw the shrink yesterday. go back in 4 weeks when he will probably have to up the dosage on my adhd medicine, but other than that, things are getting better.

i am healing well from my surgery, although still sore on the inside. the incisions look good and are healing up nicely. stitches were on the inside, they will dissolve inside, so that was nice and easier too. the meds that my doc gave me seem to be helping with the pain etc i was having, so thats good too. we seem to have figured out the problem. she suspected i was having spasms in my bladder and colon from the fibro, so the meds she called in for me are helping that. it seems to be settling down too. this is the first time i have had my fibro affect my insides like that. my fibro hasn't really bothered me for quite a while. oh well, as hubby says, i always have to be the odd one.

God has been good to us. we got our rebate check this week just when we needed it. He always takes care of us even when we aren't aware of it happening. isn't God wonderful?

well, i guess thats it for this time. i'm starting to get involved in some of my political things, so am looking forward to that too. can't believe it's may already.

Happy Mothers Day to all you mothers out there. May God bless you all.

Beautiful Day

It sure is a beautiful day outside today. The sun is shinning and it's nicely warm with a small breeze. I will probably go for a walk later.

I am still here. Last week was a hard week. I was still hurting from the surgery and depressed. But am feeling better today. The incisions are healing well and am able to tolerate jeans etc fairly well.

The meds that my shrink put me on seem to be helping. My head seems clearer and I can concentrate a little better. I have tried to read a little, but its just a few pages at a time right now. The hospital had me so doped up there were things I don't remember for about that month that I was on them. And today I drove for the first time in a while.

We haven't been back to New Life yet. I just didn't feel up to it these past two weeks after the surgery, but I am intent on getting there this sunday morning. We want to see what their sunday morning service is like and if it is any different than their saturday night service. Then we will try Grove City Nazarene for a couple of weeks and see what we think. They also have saturday night and Sunday services.

I think hubby would prefer the saturday night services so he has two full days off. He works such a weird schedule that getting up for church on sunday morning isn't really giving him one of his days off. So, we will see what we think.

Am going to try to do some things around the house today. We'll see how much I can get done. My energy is still a little low and not quite where it should be just yet.

Well, I guess thats it for now. Just wanted to write a hello and let everyone know I am still here and ok.

Have a Great Day!

hi

Hi

haven't written for a while. i am still alive. the full effect of my surgery is setting it. i feel like i have been to Marine Corps Boot Camp and done 100 sit-ups or more. i still have the pain that i had before the surgery however.

my doc has given me some medicine that helps somewhat. it dulls the symptoms but they never completely go away. i am trying to get into my family doc sometime this week but can't get them to call back. have left two messages.

had my follow-up visit with my gyn yesterday. we did a few things after that, but i wore out pretty quicky. i was surprised at how quickly. it will take longer than i expected to fully recover fully.

the new meds my shrink gave me seem to be making a difference. my head seems clearer and i can think clearer. so my mind is more ready to go but my body is sitting on the brakes.

God has been good to us though. Hubby still has job even though he has missed alot. they have been very understanding, which we are thankful for.

i guess thats it for now just wanted to say hi and that i was still alive..

love you guys