Well I'm new to this, but Andrew wants me to give it a try. I think we might be better off with separate blogs, but I guess this will work for now.
Had a great Christmas, got lots of stuff, most of which I really didn't need, but am enjoying anyway. I've noticed the more I have the more stressful life seems to be. Have to take care of it all and that gets overwhelming when I think about it. I keep telling Andrew that if he ever dies I'm going to get rid of just about everything we own and move into a little two-bedroom place with Megan. He just loves "stuff" though, so we keep it all. I love books, and they take up more than enough room, but I could do without so much of what we have. Stuff is everywhere, but I guess that's how most people live nowadays. I keep cleaning it out, but to no avail.
Well, I hope you enjoy the blog. Happy New Year to you all!
Monday, December 29, 2008
Final update-I hope
This is for those who haven't already heard. My dizziness is finally gone! I actually felt fairly good about a week before Christmas, but then was told I have an upper sinus infection. I am on an antibiotic for it and must use a nose spray for about a month, but then should be fine. I am supposed to return to work on January 5th, so that worked out well as far as Megan being out of school. I'm sorry I didn't get this out sooner, but things were crazy with Christmas coming and me finally being able to do something about it.
Thank you for all of your prayers and concern on my behalf.
Also, for those who've not heard, Andrew has a job! Yeah! It doesn't pay much, but it's something and that's better than nothing. :-)
Happy New Year to you all!
Thank you for all of your prayers and concern on my behalf.
Also, for those who've not heard, Andrew has a job! Yeah! It doesn't pay much, but it's something and that's better than nothing. :-)
Happy New Year to you all!
4th update
I wish I could say this was going to be my last update, but sadly I don't think it will be. Not much has changed. I went to the Dr. again today, which I'm sure getting tired of doing I must say. Andrew is getting tired of being "James" the chauffeur and I'm tired of being "Ms. Daisy" who is being driven around. Alas, we still have our roles to fill. Most days I'm doing OK, yesterday however was really bad. I got through about 20 mins. of Church and then left because I was so dizzy. I drove home (though I probably shouldn't have, I thought it couldn't hurt if I didn't use the gas pedal since there would be virtually no cars moving). I made it home safely, but even just letting the engine idle was rather too fast for me. I stayed in bed for another six hours after that and finally started to feel OK about 5pm. The sad part is that I missed out on a special Relief Society meeting that I really wanted to be there for. Oh well I guess. I didn't have much choice.
Today I had to go back to bed after the Dr. appointment for another three hours roughly. I'm finally up and hoping that I'll be OK to do the shopping tonight for a needy family that I committed to doing. I'll feel bad if I can't go.
The Dr. gave me another Rx that I'll be taking for about two weeks and then I'm supposed to follow up with him again. I think he is tired of seeing me. LOL That takes me pretty much to Christmas. I feel like I'm slowly getting better, but then it seems like yesterday and today were relapses. Not sure if that is because the shot from last week wore off or what, but I'm hoping it was that since I'm really hoping I'm on the mend.
Good news, Megan got her cast off. YEAH! She has some pain where she broke it so she is wearing a velcro splint that she can take off and put on as she pleases whenever she feels that she needs it. She is excited to have the flute back and to play piano again with both hands.
Andrew seems to have a job. We are waiting to see if he passed the "drug" test. We're pretty confident he'll pass, but the formality is still there. Once the results are back, he starts the next day basically, so he is now rushing to finish the last of this semester's classes only to start on a new class today that he needs to complete as quickly as possible so that he can start more classes on January 12th. Whew!
I guess that's pretty much it for now, hope all of you are doing well and enjoying the Christmas spirit. Would love to hear from any of you...
Today I had to go back to bed after the Dr. appointment for another three hours roughly. I'm finally up and hoping that I'll be OK to do the shopping tonight for a needy family that I committed to doing. I'll feel bad if I can't go.
The Dr. gave me another Rx that I'll be taking for about two weeks and then I'm supposed to follow up with him again. I think he is tired of seeing me. LOL That takes me pretty much to Christmas. I feel like I'm slowly getting better, but then it seems like yesterday and today were relapses. Not sure if that is because the shot from last week wore off or what, but I'm hoping it was that since I'm really hoping I'm on the mend.
Good news, Megan got her cast off. YEAH! She has some pain where she broke it so she is wearing a velcro splint that she can take off and put on as she pleases whenever she feels that she needs it. She is excited to have the flute back and to play piano again with both hands.
Andrew seems to have a job. We are waiting to see if he passed the "drug" test. We're pretty confident he'll pass, but the formality is still there. Once the results are back, he starts the next day basically, so he is now rushing to finish the last of this semester's classes only to start on a new class today that he needs to complete as quickly as possible so that he can start more classes on January 12th. Whew!
I guess that's pretty much it for now, hope all of you are doing well and enjoying the Christmas spirit. Would love to hear from any of you...
3rd update
All right. The medication I took ended up letting me not sleep much at all, which was great for a couple of days but got old very quickly. I called back to the Dr.'s office and explained the problem. They advised me to take something that would make me sleepy, like Benadryl. Well, in the past small stuff doesn't work so good for me, so I went straight to a sleeping aide, Unisom. It still made little to no difference the first night, so I increased the dosage the 2nd night-that was a bad idea. I woke up Thanksgiving morning around 2am and nearly woke up Andrew to take me to the ER becauseI was concerned that I had OD's on the medication and was going to need medical attention, but I perservered and prayed instead. I got through the day finally, but not without a nap. Ridiculous because we were hosting, but it worked out OK. Friday we went back to the Dr. I was concerned about taking the medication again, turns out it was a steroid and the effects it had on me (not sleeping, couldn't think straight and my judgement was severely lacking) were not good. Saw a different Dr. again since the other was out of the office for the day. She told me to not take the steroid again, explaining it was to help with the inflammation of the ear drums. She advised me to take 800mg of ibuprofen every six hours. I have been doing so ever since. Getting old. It does help quite a bit with the dizziness, however, I'm still dizzy all the time. Thankfully I have much better judgement and my vocabulary is back.
Went to the follow-up yesterday with the "main Dr." (meaning I've seen him twice now). He was surprised that I was still dizzy (not a good sign to me) and told me to continue the ibuprofen treatment and then gave me a shot. He is hoping that this will make a difference for me. I am too, I really need to get back to work (although I found out I get paid 2/3 of my normal pay instead of the nothing that I thought I was getting) and I'm extremely tired of not being able to drive. Andrew is tired of driving me around too. I follow up again with him on Dec. 8th, which is Monday.
It appears that Andrew has a job. They are doing a background check on him. Assuming that comes out OK (we are reasonably sure it will) he will have to do a drug test. That will also come back clean so they will then offer him a job. We don't know how much longer the process will take, but are hoping it'll be before the beginning of the year.
It's nice to be home at this time of year and I'm enjoying time with Andrew, but things are going to change for the better financially speaking, and we are all for that!
We did find out finally that we were approved for AHCCCS. Now we have to get them to take care of the bills that occur before our effective date of November 14th-which is pretty much all of the bills. Megan broke her arm on October 20th, so we are hoping they will pick all of that up. We haven't been able to talk to anyone at AHCCCS yet, so we are waiting on that.
Hope Thanksgiving was good for everyone. Ours was mixed as I mentioned already. Hope you enjoy the Christmas season as well and can find the things that you can be grateful for.
By the way, totally off the subject, Elder Wirthlin passed away and his funeral is Friday at noon for those who are interested. You can get more info at LDS.org of course.
Went to the follow-up yesterday with the "main Dr." (meaning I've seen him twice now). He was surprised that I was still dizzy (not a good sign to me) and told me to continue the ibuprofen treatment and then gave me a shot. He is hoping that this will make a difference for me. I am too, I really need to get back to work (although I found out I get paid 2/3 of my normal pay instead of the nothing that I thought I was getting) and I'm extremely tired of not being able to drive. Andrew is tired of driving me around too. I follow up again with him on Dec. 8th, which is Monday.
It appears that Andrew has a job. They are doing a background check on him. Assuming that comes out OK (we are reasonably sure it will) he will have to do a drug test. That will also come back clean so they will then offer him a job. We don't know how much longer the process will take, but are hoping it'll be before the beginning of the year.
It's nice to be home at this time of year and I'm enjoying time with Andrew, but things are going to change for the better financially speaking, and we are all for that!
We did find out finally that we were approved for AHCCCS. Now we have to get them to take care of the bills that occur before our effective date of November 14th-which is pretty much all of the bills. Megan broke her arm on October 20th, so we are hoping they will pick all of that up. We haven't been able to talk to anyone at AHCCCS yet, so we are waiting on that.
Hope Thanksgiving was good for everyone. Ours was mixed as I mentioned already. Hope you enjoy the Christmas season as well and can find the things that you can be grateful for.
By the way, totally off the subject, Elder Wirthlin passed away and his funeral is Friday at noon for those who are interested. You can get more info at LDS.org of course.
2nd update
Hi everyone,
Quick update. Went to the Dr. AGAIN on Friday and saw yet another Dr. (this being the fourth Dr. I've seen in a week). He cleaned out my ears (which made the dizziness worse for several hours) and told me that my problem is actually an inner-ear infection. He gave me a medication to take, but it won't really solve my inner-ear infection, just supposed to help. I am scheduled to return with him on December 2nd and see how I'm doing. So far, the medication hasn't made a difference other than making it hard for me to go to sleep because I have to eat right before bedtime and get indigestion, which as you can guess isn't really helpful. We are hoping it will work soon though. The good thing is that I seem to need less sleep. YEAH! I was sleeping about 10 hours at night for the first week of the problem and then another 2-3 hours for a nap each day. I still need to lay down during the day usually, but not for as long and I'm sleeping less than 8 hours at night, so I have much more day to do things.
No word yet about Andrew's job, although we heard from the guy who referred him to the company and it sounds like he will be hired, we have not heard from those who will be hiring him.
Sorry it took so long to get this out, it has been crazy since the Dr. appointment. I'll leave it at that.
Hope you are all doing wonderful and would love to hear from you if you get the chance. :-)
Quick update. Went to the Dr. AGAIN on Friday and saw yet another Dr. (this being the fourth Dr. I've seen in a week). He cleaned out my ears (which made the dizziness worse for several hours) and told me that my problem is actually an inner-ear infection. He gave me a medication to take, but it won't really solve my inner-ear infection, just supposed to help. I am scheduled to return with him on December 2nd and see how I'm doing. So far, the medication hasn't made a difference other than making it hard for me to go to sleep because I have to eat right before bedtime and get indigestion, which as you can guess isn't really helpful. We are hoping it will work soon though. The good thing is that I seem to need less sleep. YEAH! I was sleeping about 10 hours at night for the first week of the problem and then another 2-3 hours for a nap each day. I still need to lay down during the day usually, but not for as long and I'm sleeping less than 8 hours at night, so I have much more day to do things.
No word yet about Andrew's job, although we heard from the guy who referred him to the company and it sounds like he will be hired, we have not heard from those who will be hiring him.
Sorry it took so long to get this out, it has been crazy since the Dr. appointment. I'll leave it at that.
Hope you are all doing wonderful and would love to hear from you if you get the chance. :-)
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