Vertigo...

Well, as if I needed something else to mess with... I have somehow managed to get something called Vertigo. Oh... Let me tell ya how much fun this is. Ya know that feeling you have directly after you get off of a merry-go-round, like your head is still spinning but your body is standing still. Well, that's Vertigo. Somehow or another my equilibrium is out of sorts, I guess. Well, that's what they are treating me for at this point anyways. Last Saturday day I woke up with this feeling of dizziness and spinning and it has progressively gotten worse. It's a horrible feeling. I can't drive and I feel like an absolute drunk person. I told William this morning that I just want to hold my head still. Even when I close my eyes, I'm spinning. It never stops! It's maddening!!!!! I feel like I seriously am losing my mind. Seriously!!!! I wish I were kidding. My perception is way off so just doing simple things is insane. Like taking a shower this morning was brutal. Anyways! They have put me on medication but so far I've seen no difference. And of all weeks to get this, being the week before school starts. Ahhhhh!!!! Oh well, I will survive or at least I hope so.. he he he.... I had my sleep deprived EEG done last night. I made it though. It wasn't as bad as I thought. The medicine that they put me on knocks me out. So I took one of those and slept almost four hours yesterday afternoon and then another hour or so last night and so I was pretty good. I got pretty sleepy about 5:30 this morning but I made it. I watched 27 Dresses. It was a cute movie. William rented a bunch of movies so that's what I did to stay awake. If I'm watching a movie, I won't go to sleep. I don't want to miss it. So that was a big help. Of all things we had a storm blow up and our electricity went out for about an hour at 3:00 am. So that was a little tough. I can't really read because I can't really focus and it was too dark to read by candle light anyways. So I had to just pace the house for awhile. It ended up being some good prayer time though. :) Anyways! I best go. If I focus too long on one thing it makes me a nausea's. I wish you guys could see me. I'm typing this with one eye open. Please, forgive me if it doesn't make sense or if I have lots of errors. It's the dang craziness. :) I'll try to get with ya later in the week. Hope you all have a great weekend!

My Baby....

My goodness... where has the time gone? My baby is growing up guys. Yesterday I had to take Hailey to the Junior high for her orientation thing. She got her schedule, lockers, etc. I have so many different emotions with this new part in our lives. I'm excited for her but at the same time nervous and scared for her. As we walked her schedule yesterday and practiced her locker combinations it made me sad and yet very excited for her too. This is a whole new chapter in her life. She was dreading going back, I think she was just nervous. But since she got to see how it will work yesterday, she's now more excited. I'm probably more nervous than she is. It's just all part of it I guess,huh? I know I can't keep her a baby but man do I want to. She's certainly not a baby anymore being that she's almost as tall as me at 5'4, size ten shoes and only 12 years old. I think she's going to be very tall like her dad. But that's great. I always wanted to be taller, like 5'7. Anyways! Back to the subject. She's in athletics and hopes to get on the Volleyball, Basketball, and track teams. If not this year then hopefully next year. She got in Theater Arts and Photography. She's really excited to take those classes. She still loves animals and has always wanted to work with them in some way. So she started volunteering at our local Animal Shelter. She loves it! I can totally see her running one herself one day. She's totally into that sort of thing. She has a very tender heart with animals. She's just as happy caring for them as she is playing with them. And she doesn't mind the nasty part of it. I don't think I could. It grosses me out. Yuck! She's just growing up and I guess there's nothing I can do about it. Just pray and pray hard! I can't believe how fast this time has gone. Seems like just yesterday she was a baby. Where did the time go???? I pray these are great years for her.

Testing....1..2..3.. Testing...

I just got back from my testing a little bit ago. I had a MRI done and a CT. Let me tell ya, it is not fun. I had the CT done first. It wasn't too bad it just was uncomfortable for a fat chick. Well, okay let me back a bit. I couldn't wear my bra because it had metal clips in them so I had to go without. Well, for a fat chick with size triple F boobs that just doesn't work so well. Ya see, the only time my bra is off is when I'm in the shower. I just can't let these bad girls loose. It's just no fun. Soooo... here I am trying my best to lay flat on my back and not move, all that while trying not to suffocate. And because the girls were loose my arms wouldn't lay flat so I had to suspend them in mid air "reaching for my ankles," she said (yeah like I can reach those) for the next 20 or so minutes. Then she says, "now don't open your eyes. Keep them shut." But she doesn't tell me anything about what's fixin to happen. Next thing I feel is my shoulders being squeezed into what seemed like a tiny hole and then lights flashing but I can't open my eyes. That's a very scary feeling when you can't see what's going on. Dang at least they could say this is what's going to happen. I know I didn't breath for the first five minutes. I was sure they were sucking out my brain or something and they just weren't going to tell me. Ha! Wonder if they can tell if your crazy or not? He he he...Then she injected me with some kind of contrast stuff and that made my whole body feel very hot. It didn't last long but still very weird feeling. Then onto the fun one. On the way they said, "go ahead try to use the bathroom because we put all those fluids in you and the MRI takes about an hour." So I did. Then I was taken into another room with this very large machine that sounded like it was ready to take off. She me told to lay on the table, yet again no bra and flat on my back. Uhh Hello! Luckily because I am a fat chick I got an open MRI machine but it's still not really open. You can just see a little light from the sides of you. They strapped my head in like one of those Hannibal Lector masks and put ear plugs in and sent me in. I swear they were just trying to make me have a seizure or at best the worst migraine you've ever experienced. If you haven't had the joy of experiencing a MRI, it's like someone is standing on top of the machine with a jack hammer and sledge hammer just beating the heck out of it. And they want you to be very still and not move one muscle for the next hour. It was okay for a little while but then I'm telling you a girl with these size boobs can't be like that for this period of time. My shoulders and arms finally went to sleep and were just burning and hurting so bad. I was just praying, "please God make it stop or just let me die now." I swear if I ever have to have that done again, I'm just going to tell them to shoot me or cut my boobs off first. It's just pure torture. My chest and arms are still burning. They may not recover for a week. They are just not use to such freedom. Anyways! Thank God that's over. Best of all, my prize for being so good and still was a pounding throbbing headache. Whoo Hoo! Now next Friday I have a sleep deprived test to do. I can't believe they expect me to stay awake all night. They have lost their mind. I sure hope I can do it. I'm way to old for this. My eyes start wanting to close by nine or so. It's gong to be another torturous test for me. I'll have to go rent a bunch of girly movies to watch. Then I get to wait another week for results. At which time, I'm sure to tell me yes your a loon, here's some medicine, go home. Just sayin....

Busy Busy Days....

Man has it been crazy here. Just seems to be never ending. It's that time of year that we all have dentist, optical, and Dr. check-ups before we head back to school. So it's been insanely busy here at my house. We only have just a little over two weeks till school starts. It starts on the 25th. What happened to Summer? It went so fast. So now I will have to focus on school supplies and clothes. Yipes! I've tried to pick up some when I find things on sale but I don't have much. When you have four to buy stuff for it's insanely expensive. So I'm stressing over that a little. Plus we've had many Dr. bills as of lately. Lauren has been having migraine headaches for the last year or so, but they have been increasing. So I took her into the Dr. and he put her on medication and scheduled a CT scan just to rule out any bad stuff. I've been having a few problems as well and so I am having a MRI and CT scan tomorrow morning and then a sleep deprived EEG done next Friday. I have seizures and so they are thinking that these are just a type of seizure activity. So I'm quite sure they will put me back on medication for that. Sooooo it's just been one thing after another. I took them in for their eye exam and poor Bryan was half blind. So he got glasses, which he was thrilled to death about. Allen was none to happy. He thought he needed some too. He had to have a big cry about the whole situation. Not fair that Bryan got something he didn't, I guess. So today when I picked them up, Allen said "well you just look like dork anyway." I guess he's still mad over the whole thing. I don't think he looks like a dork at all. He's pretty cute. Anyways! Hailey started volunteering at our local animal shelter and she just loves it. I'm so proud of her. She's just growing up way too fast. She wants to do something in the line of animals so this is right up her alley. She wants to be a Vet but not go to school that long. So we'll see how that goes. But she would be good at it. Anyways! I guess that's about all that's new here. Just the daily grim... Hope your having a great day yourself.

Lauren's 1st Cheer & Dance Recital....

A few weeks ago Lauren went to cheer camp. They did tumbling, cheer, and dance. At the end of the week they did a recital for us. It was so cute. Lauren hated the dancing part but I thought it was cute anyways. She's the one with the braids, who is messing with them the whole time. She loved the tumbling and cheer but the dance she said she was no interested in at all. Although she loves to watch "So you think you can Dance" and she might want to do that one day. She said it was just too embarrassing. She was so nervous but she did a good job! She's enjoying the cheering though. So I guess she'll be our Cheer Leader girl. Big surprise, I know... He he he... Drama Queens and cheer go hand in hand. On a side note, how long has it been since you heard "Hey Mickey"? Love it!