August 5th & 6th....

We decided that our lives just weren't crazy busy enough yet so we went running around and went and saw and did some things...an understatement I assure you.

On the 5th we went to the ER suddenly to help Vanessa out.  Max took Kaitlyn, Anthony, and Lowell out the waiting room and kept them busy and happy while I was back in the room with Vanessa.  She's been having issues ever since she had her gallbladder removed and some days are just a lot worse than others.  The 5th was one of the worse days.  By the time we got out of the ER (they kept her there extra long because of wanting something...and they didn't want to send her home w/ the kit...) it was already past noon.  We ended up running down the street grabbing our lunch and running home to check and see if hopefully the mail was there by then.  We were so lucky and it had just been delivered not even 2 minutes earlier so we grabbed our mail, ran to the credit union, cashed the check, ran and got gas, and got on the freeway as fast as we could.

Where were we going?  Well, we went to Freedom, WY pretty much as fast as we could to pick up Jolene.  We weren't in time but I just don't know what else to tell you about that.  Then after a quick bathroom break and getting Jolene in the car we ran to Jackson Hole, WY.  Why were we going to Jackson Hole?  Well honestly it was to see a movie.  We were going to see if we could leave Lowell with Jodi or someone else to watch him while we went but we couldn't get ahold of anyone and so we ended up just taking him with us.  Stan & Jolene were wanting to see Cowboys & Aliens and so was Max kind of.  I saw a preview for it and in the preview it didn't look scary or anything at all like that.  Man was I wrong.

We got to Jackson Hole and had dinner cause we had missed the early showing.  Which meant that even though I had a bad feeling about going to Cowboys & Aliens there was now no chance of me bowing out and doing something else really.  The Smurfs had been showing at the earlier time but we missed it.  So after a disappointing lunch (we went to a steakhouse and due to the prices being out of sight I didn't get steak =(  I love beef) we found out that we still had a bit of time to kill and so we went to the park to let Lowell run around and see if he could burn off some energy because for the past three hours he had pretty much been totally cooped up in a car riding around.  That was almost the highlight of the whole day.

We got to the theater and we were watching the movie (yes against my better judgement I went into the movie) I had a feeling a SUPER scary part was about to occur this is after almost getting up not even 10  minutes earlier to leave cause I was just so terrified, I got up and made sure to take Lowell with me and we went to the bathroom.  When I returned there was yet another scary scene on the screen and I went up behind Max and told him that I had reached my scare limit and that I was done, Lowell decided that he would rather go with me and sit out in the car rather than sit there in the scary movie.

After playing cards and letting Lowell go bowling on the tablet the movie finally let out and we got in our vehicles and drove back to Freedom.  Why did we go back to Freedom?  I guess it was because Max wanted to get some suits, and for another bathroom break.  Then finally at 10:30 PM we finally left Freedom to come back home.

We drove back from Freedom and while on the road we saw a few skunks, something with red eyes, several cows, a deer, and I think it was a jack rabbit (it was just a brown blur).  We stopped in Soda Springs for 1 last bathroom break before just setting out for home without any more stops and we decided a snack would be a good thing because well it just sounded good.  While we were checking out I asked the guy what time they close and he said midnight then I turned and asked Max what time it was and he said it was basically midnight right then.  So the guy running the store followed us to the door and after it had closed behind us he locked it and went back in and turned out the lights.

We finally made it home at 1 AM and when we came in and turned on the lights I called out "here kitty kitty" and Jack came out of the bedroom with a sleepy look of "what?  you actually came back tonight? wow."  So we finally managed to get to bed and everything.

Then the morning came and started the funness of the 6th.

So we got up on the 6th and got some breakfast.  Then we went to the storage unit to FINALLY get the camping gear out of our trunk.  It had only been there for 2 weeks (bet that really helped our gas mileage).

Then we ran to the Heinz Company Picnic.  Oh the fun and joy.  We found out that some people stuff the door prize box because there was one name that was drawn out twice (only way we could think of that it could happen is if someone was putting extra entries in).

As part of the picnic Heinz pays for the employees and their families to either go swimming or they can go to the Ross Park Zoo.  This year we decided to go to the zoo.  It wasn't too bad but we felt sorry for quite a few of the animals because it was a darn hot day and they didn't have much shade.  We did quite a bit of walking that day and I made sure to wear my shape-ups for the whole walk.

After the zoo we came home and crashed cause we were super tired by then!  Thus ended the 6th :)

Doctor Visit...

Oh the fun.  I went to the doctor today on a follow up visit although I feel like more got accomplished in this visit than in the last one.  I am being put on medicine for my high blood pressure and well he had one all called in and I went and picked it up.  It is one that I am allergic to.  VERY VERY SUCKY I bought the stupid thing now I can't get rid of it cause once you pay for it and it leaves the pharmacy you can't bring it back...so I guess that I am stuck w/ this medicine that I can't take.

I like to read up on new meds that I am given and I was looking at this one's info and it said that if you are allergic to sulfa drugs you can't take this one.  I texted my doctor (yes a privilege that most patients don't have) and told him that I am allergic so gladly he will be calling in the different prescription for me tomorrow.

No, I am not looking forward to going to the bathroom more cause I just gotta go but if it helps my blood pressure go down and maybe it helps me feel a bit more calm (yea right) it might be worth it.  Plus I'll bet I'll loose some weight which of course will all be water weight, not that I overly care at this point because the scale will be going down.

So I get to visit the doctor again in 3 weeks to see how this medicine is going for me and by then I will have seen the hematologist.

I really have to get over this whole being 1 of 6,852,472,823 cause it is getting really old really fast.  I can't have anything that makes me drowsy (cause we are trying to get rid of it why take medicine that makes you feel that way), I can't have any that thin my blood (stupid vonWillenbrands), and finally I can't have any that I am allergic to (yea that's not pretty).  Sigh oh well.  I guess things could be worse and my doctor could not know all this about me and just forge blindly ahead making blunders; or even worse I hadn't read the information packet that they send home with your medicine and not realized that it is something that I am allergic to until after I had the nasty rash to contend with I would not have been happy camper I can tell you that much!!!

I am starting to feel a bit better though and have some more energy although I am so stressed that my blood pressure is out of sight but I am hoping that that will be corrected and I will start feeling like WAY SUPER BETTER!!!!!  Plus I am looking forward to the scale to start being my friend a bit more cause it is going down and not up cause I would really like to loose the weight that I have and it really isn't easy.  I guess that I didn't really address that situation today but I am hoping that with the more energy and the loss of the extra water that I know I have that maybe I will feel up to doing more and playing more which would be totally awesome!

The 4th of July :)

Ok so we had a fun time.  On the 2nd we went to Challis and man did we have lots and lots of fun up there!  We mostly went to visit with my mom but we also kind of went so that we could be there for the 4th because I really like having that tradition in our family :)  So we stopped on our way to Challis and got some fireworks and it was totally awesome :) Poor Jack got boarded for the whole time and I guess he really didn't care for it at all even though he got a good report card.

We went to church on Sunday and found out that they wanted kids to ride in the back of truck so that they could throw out candy and Lowell of course was totally for that!  He really wanted to be in the parade and they only thing he had to do was just show up in time to be in the truck and he could be part of the parade.

He says he had a lot of fun and when he saw us he made sure to grab a handful of candy and throw it at us :) .

Then later that night we set off some fireworks...ok so it was a little crazy but it was enjoyable although in the future we are going to wait until later and make sure we have GOOD bug spray cause I really hate getting eaten alive!

Yes we ended up setting the lawn on fire but hey Max did put it out :)  I am thinking that if we wait until later when I go to record the fireworks that we would be able to see the colors better.  There were some great colors but I guess because it was too light in the video you can't see the colors like you should be able to.

Then we spent the week there and it was fun.  We did go to Stanley :) that was awesome :) and we just lazed a bit around the house and visited :)

The river was all choppy and not all nice and smooth like a mirror like I was hoping it would be but hey if you wanna get THE picture you have to make several trips or at least watch the weather better than we did :)

This was part of the Sunbeam hot springs.  I saw this water running down the mountain and so I went over to investigate and it was so pretty so I took some pictures and just as I was about deciding to dip my fingers into the water a HUGE gust of steam hit my face and I definitely decided that putting my fingers into that water would be a VERY bad thing.

Then on Saturday my mom and I went to Carey and picked up Twlonie and brought her back to Challis which was really awesome the way that worked out :) I was so glad that we were able to get her and so we went back to Challis and then we went that evening to the Y-Inn and had dinner there for our 10 year class reunion.  I know this is going to sound strange but I guess not much has changed since high school.  Twlonie and I are still excluded, Max agrees with me on this because he saw it happen to, and so we were excluded from most of the conversation and we probably should have just gone to the main part of the restaurant and just ordered dinner and had it just Twlonie, Max, and I.  Then the rest of my class that showed up went into the bar and got drunk, why?  because they are dumb I guess.  I do know that I was super glad that the dinner was early.  Then on Sunday again we went to sacrament because well that was kind of all we had time for and so we went to church and home again and I made up my baked beans and we went to the picnic part of the class reunion and there we were once again left out.  We sat down and ate our lunch all alone and the rest of my class stood around and joked and talked.  We managed to get out of Challis at a good time but we still weren't able to get back in time to pick up Jack.  All and all it was a fun trip and I was really glad that I did get to spend some time with Twlonie :) I think that that made up for the annoyance of going to the class reunion.  It ended up being a good excuse for us to get together again.

Plus I managed to sell a few more covers and so I had more sewing to do when I got home and life is all good :)

More later :)

A small update...

Ok so as we sort of get ready to go to Challis we are not even sure if we can go.  We might be able to but lately Jack has been acting VERY sick...he will eat then go and cry a bit and throw up...it has been like this for 24 hours now and I am starting to get really worried.  I am starting to wonder if I am going to have a kitty for much longer cause this is pretty much what happened to Daisy only she didn't throw up cause she just didn't eat in the first place.  I already know that we just can't afford to have him in the kitty ER or anything like that cause with Daisy not only was it heart breaking but we are still trying to pay off a HUGE debt and yet my kitty just didn't get better.  Yes it is heart breaking to think about but I do have to think about such things because I already know what my answer is going to have to be if we do take him to the vet and the vet says that Jack is really sick...I am hoping that the vet doesn't come in and say liver failure or something horrid like that because that is what Daisy had.

In other news I have been working on diligently taking my medicine correctly and so far I have been pretty successful at it and I am going to keep on because I really want to see if this will help me get some of my energy back so that I don't feel so tired ALL THE TIME!

Lowell has been working really well in his Summer Bridge Workbooks and I am so pleased cause I know they can some times be easy but I just don't want him to veg out in front of the TV all summer.  The past 2 days have been totally TV free days and so Lowell has gotten a lot done and played a lot too.  Today he played so much that when he came home after a few hours he was so tired he needed a nap literally.  He was grouchy and whiny and I haven't seen him that tired in a LONG time.

Max is working on his classes even as I type this and it is going well.  He got his laptop so now he can take it with him wherever he goes and it should be totally awesome for him plus I don't have to give up "my" laptop.  Plus at Heinz they have started up line 12 and Max is working on it on day shift which he hates but I find it kind of nice because then Lowell and I get him home in the evenings which can be pleasant although his evening was a bit eaten up without much time with Max cause he just had to start playing with his new laptop and plus he hasn't done his homework yet this week.  We shall see if we get to go to Challis but if not then my Grandma has already invited us up to have a BBQ and stuff at her house and I think that she would really enjoy that.  :)

Doctor Visit....BLEH

I went to the doctor today again...oh happy happy joy joy...I think I liked the PA better...he at least had the guts to come in and tell us that he was in WAY over his head and that he had NO idea what was really wrong with me.  We go see the "MD" and all he can do is sit there and go over my chart and talk into his voice recorder like there isn't anyone else in the room.  Max hears him talking about how I am suppose to be taking my medications and he is like wait what...and the doctor give him a harassed look and tells Max how I should be taking my medicine with an attitude of "every idiot should of course know this!" and then goes right back to talking into his recorder...when I do actually want to discuss my problems with him which he VERY OBVIOUSLY didn't want to do he will only give me extreme choices...like I can either stay on iron pills forever and do nothing about my bleeding problem or I can just get a uterine ablation done there are NO OTHER ALTERNATIVES in his mind...I was getting really close to asking him if he wanted to have the ablation done to himself...cause I would figure out a way...

Needless to say I am VERY VERY disappointed and more than a little angry about the way I was treated!!!!  I am going to be getting a different doctor...and I am thinking it might end up being an OB/GYN even though my thyroid might be a bit above his head and I know that my vonWillenbrands (I have type 1 and it is a bleeding disorder) will probably be a bit over his head too but I am thinking that the doctor that I have in mind might work out VERY well for me and I think that he would be willing to take on my thyroid and my bleeding disorder...and if he isn't willing to work with me then I am thinking that I might end up going to a hematologist because I am thinking that I might be going after the wrong problem.  The problem I was going after was the thyroid and it might actually be just fine and my whole problem could be from my vonWillenbrands so I am thinking that for a while I am going to be attacking some of the issues it could be causing.

Idaho Falls trip :)

So we went to Idaho Falls today...it was interesting...we went to the doctor and I saw the PA and when he heard my symptoms he basically came in and said that he was in over his head and that we should come back in a week and see the full MD then.  So we are going to go back in a week but without all the shopping...to be sure!

They drew blood for thyroid and to once again check my iron and hopefully liver and kidney as well.  I am hoping that we can get to the bottom of why the heck I have soo many of the hypothyroid symptoms and maybe I will be on a new medicine...who knows for sure eh?

After we got done w/ the PA we went to Barnes & Noble...I had forgotten how much I love being surrounded by books....My Mom says she could live in Fred Meyer....well I could live in a book store...seriously!!  I don't care about the coffee part but I would read till I died of hunger and be happy every minute of it.

We met up w/ Max's Mom, Jolene, and we went to Michael's and then to lunch :) it was fun :)

Then we went to Jo-Ann's where I had a bad thing happen, not an oh my gosh gotta call the poilice bad thing....but a bad thing none the less... (not going to give details sorry) but I did get LOTS of fabric.  Then on to Porter's and then off to Hancock Fabric and Seagull Books...after that I thought I was going to be done but I just couldn't handle sitting in the car...it was making my ankle hurt so I got out and walked into DI (our last store stop of the day) and made it feel a little better cause I was at least moving it and not holding it in a funky position and making it hurt lots and lots.

Then we went to Smitty's for dinner cause we had a restaurant.com certificate to use.  And after dinner we finally got on the freeway and drove home....where I took the feet torture devices off aka my shoes...and I am still trying to calm my muscles down cause they were the shape-ups and they really keep my muscles activated....

So to end it all I guess that I don't really have any good news from the doctor yet and no changes...but when I do actually get to see the full MD next week he will have the blood working sitting right there in front of him and so he will not be able to shove me off because he wants to wait for the blood work and then tell me nothing is wrong when I can't dispute w/ him effectively like when I am right there face to face w/ him.

About Etsy

Ok so I added a link to etsy and if you are wondering what is going on it is because I sell mini Miche slip covers on etsy.  I have a little store there and so I figured I would post a link cause I dunno....I love to make the slip covers and it makes me sad when I can't find the fabric that a person wants esp when they request it special.  My purse has many faces :) and that I totally love!!

 Love the black swirls :) I like the fabric for the pockets too cause then it goes with anything...

Easter Bunnies....yea a little washed out in this pic but this was all I could find right at the moment...

My fancy silk purse cover...I still need to get pinking shears so that it won't fray out any more...it is a VERY heavy cover so I usually use this one...

The wild tiger stripe cover...too wild for my taste but who knows maybe there is someone out there who would love this type of cover!

This is the patriotic stars fabric...I zoomed in w/ my camera because I love this whole twin needle stitching on the cover esp where the red and blue thread are being pulled through so you can see the red white and blue thread and it looks awesome and it feels just as awesome!