I really don't even know where to begin. Everything is just wonky. Let's start with the Porch.
I thought the guys did a good job, Bill however, was livid. The south column, was cracked and not where he wanted it. Not to worry though, I just spoke with the guy who did the job, and he will be here in about 1 1/2 hours to fix it.
Moving on.
Went to the doctor yesterday and he pretty much threw his hands up and said, "I cannot fix this and I would be afraid to try." Nice. So he is sending me to an OB/GYN surgeon who specializes in this sort of reconstruction. I was a bit surprised when I learned who this specialist is. It was my OB/GYN that delivered Aden and Evan. Well, he didn't actually deliver Evan, he was out of town that week, but anyway. He is the doctor who, because I had so many issues, told me that if I got pregnant again, he wouldn't see me. I was to much of a liability risk. No Shit Sherlock! There is a reason why Doctor's are required to carry malpractice insurance. I was amazed that I even got an appointment with him. I really like him, and have tried several times in the last couple of years to get in to see him. But, getting an appointment with him is like trying to get an audience with the pope. Actually, it would probably be easier to get in to see the Pope :)
So, I go and see him Monday at the hospital. Apparently, it is enough of an issue that he'll see me. Now, I like this doctor, the one I am seeing Monday. But, I had alot of issues with Staph infections after the surgeries up in St. Joseph. 2 staph infections after Aden and 5, yes 5 different stains of staph after Evan. That last one required an almost 3 week hospital stay. 1 of those infections was MRSA. Now I know that the doctor himself doesn't give you the staph infections, its the hospital. And I really don't want to go through that again. So, I would rather not have to have the surgery in St. Joseph. But, I don't know if this doctor has surgery privileges at the hospital here in town. I didn't get a staph infection after this last surgery, so apparently its a cleaner hospital.
I know that I shouldn't focus on it, but it just really sucks, and I can't come up with a backup plan for this, should anything else go wrong.
I won't know until Monday, whats going to happen.
It could be a fairly easy fix and he can do it Monday with a few quick stitches. Or, it may be that I have to be sliced open again so they can completely re-build the cuff. That is supposed to require a hospital stay, but that is not going to happen, I will not stay. The biggest problem would be the recovery from yet another surgery. having another surgery this quickly would not be a good thing. I think I should stop worrying about it for now. It is what it is and I am sure it will work out.
I got the mammogram scheduled for Friday morning. I am not looking forward to being squished, but it will be good to even if its nothing to have a baseline before I turn 40.
But I must say, I am getting really sick of being felt up lol. Well, being felt up by people who I don't want to be feeling me up :)
Bill is pretty disappointed to! I really feel for him. We just got the go ahead to get friendly and now he's cut off again. Poor guy.
Friday night, we are heading up Bill's mom's for Passover dinner. I think this year, to save myself the headache and the whining, I'll feed the boys before we go. That way they don't think they are going to starve to death, waiting on the actual food. Dinner isn't suppose to start until sunset, but she's going to start about 6pm because otherwise the boys pass out at the table. Usually they only make it till about 8:30 pm before they start nodding off. Hopefully this year we can wind it up by 10pm. No brisket this year :( But we do get the chicken liver which is all I care about :) I think she is making chicken this year.
I should probably get off here and go shut the dog in the boys room before the guys show up. Sam was NOT a happy camper when they were here before and I was sure she was going to break the door down. Mama of course didn't care. I'll post the before and after pictures in a few days. The historical society is coming up tomorrow with their architect to check out what they did and to drop of the paperwork for the roofer to fill out about the gingerbread and cornices.
Ah, The Fun just never ends :)
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Day 6, 7 & 8 of Stopping smoking & How Zumba kicked my a$$
Since I really don't get a chance to blog on the days that Bill is off work, I'll just do a combo for what all went on Friday & Saturday.
Just to recap, I have mostly been using the e-cig, with occasionally slipping in a real cigarette. And by occasionally I mean maybe 1 or 2 whole cigs spread throughout the day. I got the kit with the e-cig last Saturday, March 26th. I have been on the same battery charge and the same cartridge since then. One cartridge is supposed to be the equivalent of 1 pack of cigarettes. So I think that is pretty good. I am really surprised with how long the battery has lasted! Really surprised. But I think that I will go ahead and recharge it today, I also think I am getting to the end of the cartridge and will need to change that too. I think it would have lasted longer, but Bill was using it over the weekend too. He tried to talk me into letting him take it to work. He said he'd go get me a pack of cigarettes and he would take the e-cig. Ah, No. He is just going to have to get his own. I will share it while he's here, but he is not taking it to work.
I did tell him that if he gets his own kit, I'd be happy to give him my Cherry favored cartridge for his Vanilla one.
But today will be the real test. There are no real cigarettes here. Just me and my e-cig. I think that when I change the cartridge I will put in one of the 18mg cartridges to see if that works better. Right now I am using a 14mg. The only bad thing is I only have to 18mg cartridges. One is menthol and the other Tobacco flavored. I would prefer the vanilla :) But I am pretty sure it only comes in 14mg. I'll check the website to be sure.
Because I haven't mentioned it before, i think I will let you know what company I got this e-cig from. I didn't want to do it, until I knew whether or not it was a piece of crap. But since it is working, so far, as it is supposed to, I'll dish.
I am using the South Beach Smoke E-cig. I had gotten alot of recommendations for other companies, but I really didn't want to mess with refilling cartridges and stuff.
Now for Zumba.
Wednesday I did 40 minutes and was very proud of myself, I loved it. I loved it so much, that when Thursday rolled around I wanted to do it again. Since I wasn't sore at all from Wednesday, I figured it wouldn't hurt. Thursday I did 90 minutes and still loved it. Still wasn't really sore except for my feet. But that was my own fault. The sneakers I have are pretty bulky and made more for walking, not dancing. It was such a pain to try and wear them, I just took them off. It isn't alot of pain or anything major, just my instep and the balls of my feet. I have more appropriate shoes but they were all boxed up. I'll try using them next time.
Anyway, Friday, Bill had some errands to run so he took Evan with him and I thought that since they were gone, I'd do some Zumba, maybe just an hour or so.
That just didn't work out like I thought it would.
I have all the routines I like in the order I like to do them, so its pretty much easy to hard.
The first one I tried was just a one, two step, easy. or it should have been.
I could not move. My legs just wouldn't go. I am looking at the screen, I know how my legs should be moving, and yet they are not moving. Maybe I should stretch more. Tried that, thought I was going to die.
But I kept trying, after stretching more, I tried again. I was able to get my legs to move, but not so well.
I probably actually only did 20 minutes. Then I just gave up. I spent the rest of Friday, convinced that someone should just shoot me. put me out of my misery. As long as I didn't move very much I was okay. I have places that are sore where I didn't even know I had muscles. But yet, I still thought about doing Zumba. I am convinced, its like crack. But, at least now I am not doubting whether or not it actually working. I have learned that, I really should stick to my original plan, to alternate Zumba, Pilates, yoga & Tae Bo.
At least I can walk again. You know you are really sore when it hurts more to walk down stairs than it does to walk up them.
Aden just asked if we are going to do Zumba today. ROFLMAO. Yeah Right. Maybe Tuesday. Or Tomorrow, but not today.
Today I am thinking, something a bit less traumatic, like Yoga. Or maybe just laundry :)
Bill's birthday weekend was not to shabby, all considered. He got Chicken Marsala on Friday and Steaks yesterday. The steaks were awesome! I couldn't not taste them. I had to. One little bite, they were oh so good.
Bill took down the last peach tree and one of the pear trees. It was sad, but they had to go. They were right in the middle of back yard, and while I loved the shade from them, not to mention the free fruit, they were taking up too much room. We want to have room for the dog & the boys to run, once the yard is fenced. And we would like to get them a playset and with the trees were they were, there would not have been enough room. So, he took those out and started digging for the retaining wall. With the design he came up with, the boys & Sam will have plenty of room and I will still have lots of room to plant my gardens. But the vegetable garden is going to be moved to the west side of the house. But that has to wait until the roofers are done and the house next door is finally knocked down. Speaking of roofers, we should see them on Tuesday. Yay!!! Finally. Let's just hope the weather stays nice after Monday.
Nana & Papa are thinking about taking Aden with them down to the lake when they go next week. We still haven't told Aden, because they are still just talking about it. He loves the lake, but I am pretty sure that Nana & papa won't be doing all of the hiking we do when we go, actually I doubt if they will hike at all lol.
I had probably better get off here and get busy with my laundry before the storms roll in. We tend to lose power pretty frequently if we get good storms.
Just to recap, I have mostly been using the e-cig, with occasionally slipping in a real cigarette. And by occasionally I mean maybe 1 or 2 whole cigs spread throughout the day. I got the kit with the e-cig last Saturday, March 26th. I have been on the same battery charge and the same cartridge since then. One cartridge is supposed to be the equivalent of 1 pack of cigarettes. So I think that is pretty good. I am really surprised with how long the battery has lasted! Really surprised. But I think that I will go ahead and recharge it today, I also think I am getting to the end of the cartridge and will need to change that too. I think it would have lasted longer, but Bill was using it over the weekend too. He tried to talk me into letting him take it to work. He said he'd go get me a pack of cigarettes and he would take the e-cig. Ah, No. He is just going to have to get his own. I will share it while he's here, but he is not taking it to work.
I did tell him that if he gets his own kit, I'd be happy to give him my Cherry favored cartridge for his Vanilla one.
But today will be the real test. There are no real cigarettes here. Just me and my e-cig. I think that when I change the cartridge I will put in one of the 18mg cartridges to see if that works better. Right now I am using a 14mg. The only bad thing is I only have to 18mg cartridges. One is menthol and the other Tobacco flavored. I would prefer the vanilla :) But I am pretty sure it only comes in 14mg. I'll check the website to be sure.
Because I haven't mentioned it before, i think I will let you know what company I got this e-cig from. I didn't want to do it, until I knew whether or not it was a piece of crap. But since it is working, so far, as it is supposed to, I'll dish.
I am using the South Beach Smoke E-cig. I had gotten alot of recommendations for other companies, but I really didn't want to mess with refilling cartridges and stuff.
Now for Zumba.
Wednesday I did 40 minutes and was very proud of myself, I loved it. I loved it so much, that when Thursday rolled around I wanted to do it again. Since I wasn't sore at all from Wednesday, I figured it wouldn't hurt. Thursday I did 90 minutes and still loved it. Still wasn't really sore except for my feet. But that was my own fault. The sneakers I have are pretty bulky and made more for walking, not dancing. It was such a pain to try and wear them, I just took them off. It isn't alot of pain or anything major, just my instep and the balls of my feet. I have more appropriate shoes but they were all boxed up. I'll try using them next time.
Anyway, Friday, Bill had some errands to run so he took Evan with him and I thought that since they were gone, I'd do some Zumba, maybe just an hour or so.
That just didn't work out like I thought it would.
I have all the routines I like in the order I like to do them, so its pretty much easy to hard.
The first one I tried was just a one, two step, easy. or it should have been.
I could not move. My legs just wouldn't go. I am looking at the screen, I know how my legs should be moving, and yet they are not moving. Maybe I should stretch more. Tried that, thought I was going to die.
But I kept trying, after stretching more, I tried again. I was able to get my legs to move, but not so well.
I probably actually only did 20 minutes. Then I just gave up. I spent the rest of Friday, convinced that someone should just shoot me. put me out of my misery. As long as I didn't move very much I was okay. I have places that are sore where I didn't even know I had muscles. But yet, I still thought about doing Zumba. I am convinced, its like crack. But, at least now I am not doubting whether or not it actually working. I have learned that, I really should stick to my original plan, to alternate Zumba, Pilates, yoga & Tae Bo.
At least I can walk again. You know you are really sore when it hurts more to walk down stairs than it does to walk up them.
Aden just asked if we are going to do Zumba today. ROFLMAO. Yeah Right. Maybe Tuesday. Or Tomorrow, but not today.
Today I am thinking, something a bit less traumatic, like Yoga. Or maybe just laundry :)
Bill's birthday weekend was not to shabby, all considered. He got Chicken Marsala on Friday and Steaks yesterday. The steaks were awesome! I couldn't not taste them. I had to. One little bite, they were oh so good.
Bill took down the last peach tree and one of the pear trees. It was sad, but they had to go. They were right in the middle of back yard, and while I loved the shade from them, not to mention the free fruit, they were taking up too much room. We want to have room for the dog & the boys to run, once the yard is fenced. And we would like to get them a playset and with the trees were they were, there would not have been enough room. So, he took those out and started digging for the retaining wall. With the design he came up with, the boys & Sam will have plenty of room and I will still have lots of room to plant my gardens. But the vegetable garden is going to be moved to the west side of the house. But that has to wait until the roofers are done and the house next door is finally knocked down. Speaking of roofers, we should see them on Tuesday. Yay!!! Finally. Let's just hope the weather stays nice after Monday.
Nana & Papa are thinking about taking Aden with them down to the lake when they go next week. We still haven't told Aden, because they are still just talking about it. He loves the lake, but I am pretty sure that Nana & papa won't be doing all of the hiking we do when we go, actually I doubt if they will hike at all lol.
I had probably better get off here and get busy with my laundry before the storms roll in. We tend to lose power pretty frequently if we get good storms.
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