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.