Results, Daughter, and Son

What an experience!  I'm so glad that is over.  So my results are this:  I have diverticulitis (which I knew about), and to my surprise they also went down my throat and found I have gastritis.  That might explain why my stomach hurts all the time!  The doc said there were a few places he took a biopsy from, but he did not think it was cancer.  But I have to mak an appointment to see him in two weeks.  Good news is that I don't have to have another colonoscopy for 10 years!  Isn't that awesome??  Now, anybody who's had to drink that solution...oh my gosh....awful.  I praise God that He helped me get that stuff down.  I had no gagging and mentally I prepared myself that I can do this.  The first bottle of solution I got down; near the last few swallows was hard, but I did it.  When six hours later I had to drink the next bottle of stuff, well, my mind was starting to freak out, but I ask God to help me and He did.  And it wasn't so bad.  God is good!

Daughter has has the stomach flu for the last couple of days.  When I talked to her last night she really sounded she was 'out of it' and I knew she needed someone there to help her.  She didn't know if she had a fever because she didn't have a therometer.  So I packed up some stuff and off I went to her house.  She did have a fever of 100.7.  Some Tylenol and cool rag to her head and making her drink liquids got her fever down.  Also, her condo was a little warm, so I turned down the ac a little.  Today she has been complaining of stomach issues more.  If we can just get her stomach feeling better she'll be her old self again.  After spending the night with her last night at her place, she came home with me today. 

While we were at dd's apartment, my ds called and asked us if we wanted some subs.  Awesome.  I was hungry, so he brought us some food!  Ds had bought new glasses but he was so unhappy with them as they kept slipping down his nose and he had gone back to have them adjusted, but they just couldn't get the glasses adjusted right.  I suggested he go to the mall where there's another store.  Well, they were very helpful and he found a pair of frames that were so much better; he got those and he was so happy! 

Poor dh has been home all day by himself working and doing chores around the house.  He is worn out. 

And, can you believe that I got another notice for jury duty?  I get these things every year and a half.  The last three I have been able to get a doctor's note to excuse me, but how many times can I keep doing this?  GRR!

So that's where I'm at right now.

Tomorrow, tomorrow...

Well, actually it's today.  Yes, I will be undergoing a colonoscopy.  I am so ready to get this over with.  I got down the two bottles of yuck that I had to drink and here it is 2:34am and I still have to hit the pot.  No sleep this morning.   I just hope I don't have any issues when it's time to leave in the morning.

More Container Gardening

Here is more of my container garden:

Onions



more onions

and more onions

cucumbers

more cucumbers

My Container Garden and Mother's Day

I'm trying a new thing this year..container gardening.  After much consideration about where to put the garden and thinking of the weeding I'd have to do AND having to fight off groundhogs and deer, I decided to put all my 'food' in containers.  Here I have strawberries, squash and peppers.  I will take pictures tomorrow of my onions and cucumbers.  I water them every day and so far so good!!  We already eat a strawberry off the plant and it was juicy and delicious.  Oh, I hope we get some more off them. 

Tonight my son surprised me showing up and giving me some gifts.  I really didn't expect it because I told the kids not to make a big deal about Mother's Day.  I know they love me as I love them.  But still, it was nice.  My husband gave me a light set of dragon flys.  Very cute; now I have to decide where to put them!   

Did I Tell You....

Did I tell you I had a birthday last month?  Yeah, I am 55...no shame there.  But, I just can't believe I'm that number.  Wow!  Okay, with that said, you know how you turn a 'whatever' age and then things start happening to your body....it just seems your body KNOWS you turned another year older and then it had has to do things it's never, ever done before and you say 'what's going on here?' and it makes you concern, worried, anxious??....well, that's been happening to me.  Got my tooth pulled {and my mouth is still recooping from it} while my other teeth hurt and then something happened that is kinda personal but just let me tell you I'm having an colonoscopy in two weeks.  Okay, I was advised to have one five years ago but I didn't and now I HAVE to.  *sigh*  In younger days if thing happened to you physically, you'd recovery and be on your way.  These days, not so much.   These are not the golden years and I don't know who ever came up with that phrase.  But I have to thank God for the blessings I do have and I'm able to do things other can't.  That's why I keep pushing on. 

Does the Word Dentist Make You Cringe?

That's where I was today.  I've had this tooth that is broken and it's been giving me trouble.  However, the tooth behind it had a hole in it (from an attempt to fix it four years ago, but failed) and to make a long story short I ended up having that tooth pulled.  Now, after about 7 shots to my jaw, gums and other places in my mouth the dentist was unable to numb my mouth!!  She finally gives me sleepy gas, but let me just say that if you aren't breathing through your nose to inhale that stuff you aren't going to stay floating in the clouds.  Now, since the tooth with the hole in it showed to have a somewhat infection in it, the dentist believed that it was that tooth was really giving me problems.  I opted to have it pulled because I'm just sick of having root canals....the pain from those things go on for days and weeks if that work at all.  So after all the shots and sleepy stuff, I had the tooth pulled with all the pain that comes with it.  Let me tell you, it was painful!!!  Hearing the tooth cracking in my jaw and the dentist moving it back and forth, back and forth in my jaw was agonizing!!  My legs were thrashing, my arms were hitting the chair, and my voice was quite loud.  Well, the voice I had while floating in the clouds.  Honestly, I think I have to put that pain  at the same level as childbirth.  It was horribly painful.  Now it feels as if I've been hit in the jaw with a fist.  And...I'm not even sure the right tooth came out.  Because the one I wanted pull is now throbbing like before.  Unreal.  It's be one thing if the teeth were eye teeth, but these are my molars...I'll be eating baby food before too much longer if I get another molar out on the same side of my mouth.  So after that, I came home, put an ice pack on my jaw, took a nap, woke up, more ice, then Motrin, then another nap...oh my goodness..I need my mother!!!

I hope tomorrow will be better.  It's raining right now.  I got my window open and listening to the rain is so relaxing!   

That's it for the update.

Wow, Where Have I Been?

Busy and tired...hahaha.  Basically every night dh and I are in the basement renovating.  Since dd is moving in we decided that the walls in the basement needed insulating (since the person who 'finished' the basement before we bought the house didn't put insulation in the walls) we've had to tear down all the outside walls and put in insulation.  Also, the bathroom needed a redo-and therefore, dh had to repipe and tear up the bathroom floor.  What a job it's been!  But I'm happy to say that we got al the insulation up, the walls up and we've started to mud the walls.  However, we still got the shower enclosure to put up, the floors to do, the kitchen cabinets and when we are done with that we have the bedroom to start on.  I'm starting to feel a time crunch because dd has to be out of her condo before Aug. 1st.  It's just dh and me working on the basement (and we are no professionals), so I'm praying the work we do will be nice.  The worse we part with building rooms (we've added a couple to our home) is mudding the walls.  We are sooo bad at that. The finish work is really what counts on a wall after all. 

Since I've last wrote, I've had another birthday.  It's hard to believe how old one gets...What does 55 feel like?  I don't know...the body has more aches that it used to, but inside, the soul of me is still young.  I'm thinking this how it must be when we get to heaven.  We are young in heaven.  That's awesome!

Another incident has happened is that ds called me late one night...he was sick.  He was running 102.5 fever and he was a little delirious, too.  I ran him up to the 'emergency' hospital where they said he had the flu and gave him tamiflu.  I wasn't so sure he had the flu, but once he started on the tamiflu and the motrin he was feeling better.  Then a couple days after that dd called from work and said she felt like she was going to pass out.  She said she had to get up and go to another room, but didn't think she could make it.  I told her to take her c-phone with her and then a few minutes later, she called me, said, 'mom' and then a co-worker came on the phone.  She told me dd wasn't doing so good and they wanted to call the ambulance, but that dd didn't want them to.  I told them to call...the hospital is right across the street from her work.  What ended up happening was that dd took two cough medicines that had the same meds in it and so it was like overdosing.  She feels so stupid for doing that, thank goodness it wasn't a fatal overdose.  THAT would have been awful.  And so that was my week two weeks ago.

The week before that happened we took our beagle to the vets.  She ate, then threw up and then it appeared that she couldn't breath/catch her breath.  This was a midnight so we took her to the emergency vets.  I just hope all the emergency runs are done!  Hahahah.

The weather has been really strange.  Cold, hot...today we are having rain.  We need it, and besides, April showers bring May flower, but it's been warm enough that flowers have already been blooming. 

I am just now starting to think of where to put our vegetable garden.  I'm a little behind in this, but I hope this week I can get the ground tilled and plants in. 

We'll that's it for now....

Time For An Update

Hey, ya'll.  It's time for an update.  Last night I spent time with dd at her house.  We had fun.  We went to Noodles and Co., worked on her budget and did a Bible study on Esther.  As mom and daughter we don't spent too much time together so when we do it's great.  I left dh home cutting the grass.  This is the first grass cutting of the season.  It smelled good when I got home.  Nothing  says spring more than freshly cut grass!  Tomorrow night we will be back in the basement doing more work.  It's nice to be able to get the walls up and to stand back and admire all your hard work!

Ds called me the other day.  He purchased a BJ's card and wanted if I want his extra one!  He is so sweet and thoughtful.  I  love my children.

Life Can Be So Unreal at Times

There are just no words to describe life sometimes.  Here's why:

last weekend we went to dh's cousin's viewing/funeral.  If that wasn't unreal enough, we found out when we got there that Billy, the one who called me to tell me of his brother's death had a stroke.  That's unreal.  While his parents were at his brother's funeral, their other son had a stroke, unable to talk or lift his arm and leg.  Billy and I were talking about how the good ones die young and Billy said he was still there.  A day later he was at death's door.  We just don't know, do we?  Yesterday we learned that Billy has a tumor on his heart (or in his heart) and he was being transferred to a different hospital.  I haven't had an update today, but my thoughts are with them all. 

There were two songs the family had played.  One is Life Ain't Always Beautiful:
Life ain't always beautiful
Sometimes it's just plain hard
Life can knock you down, it can break your heart

Life ain't always beautiful
You think you're on your way
And it's just a dead end road at the end of the day

But the struggles makes you stronger
And the changes make you wise
And happiness has its own way of takin' it sweet time

[chorus]
No,life aint always beautiful
Tears will fall sometimes
Life aint always beautiful
But it's a beautiful ride

Life aint always beautiful
Some days I miss your smile
I get tired of walkin' all these lonely miles

And I wish for just one minute
I could see your pretty face
Guess I can dream, but life don't work that way


But the struggles makes me stronger
And the changes make me wise
And happiness has its own way of takin' its sweet time

No, life ain't always beautiful
But I know I'll be fine
Hey, life ain't always beautiful
But its a beautiful ride
What a beautiful ride

The other song was If Heaven by Andy Griggs:
If heaven was an hour, it would be twilight
When the fireflies start their dancin on the lawn
And suppers on the stove and mammas laughin
And everybodys workin day is done

If heaven was a town it would be my town
On a summer day in 1985
And everything i wanted was out there waiting
And everyone i loved was still alive

Chorus:
Dont cry a tear for me now baby
There comes a time we must all say goodbye
And if thats what heavens made of
You know i ain't afraid to die

If heaven was a pie it would be cherry
Cool and sweet and heavy on your tongue
And just one bite would satisfy your hunger
And hered always be enough for everyone

If heaven was a train it sure would be a fast one
That could take this weary travler round the bend
And if heaveb was a tear it'd be my last one
And youd be in my arms again

Chorus:
Dont cry a tear for me now baby
There comes a time we must all say goodbye
And if that's what heaven's made of
You know i ain't afraid to die

What sad songs. 

We need to live life as if this is our last day, however, being human I don't think we know how to do that.  We never really believe we will die...I mean, we know it's possible, but it happens to others, right? 

On another note Miss Puma had her ear surgery today.  I think she is deaf in one ear now.  Stitches in her ears, antibiotics for weeks, a stupid one of those collars around her neck...oh boy.  She is staying the night at the vets tonight. 

I'm so tired.  I took Miss Puma to the vets early this morning, then I went to the pregnancy clinic to volunteer.  I stayed there until around 1:30, stopped and eat lunch, then I came home, chilled out for awhile and then off the bible study.  I'm not used to days like that anymore.

That's all for now.