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_______________________________________ January 15, 2007 - 8:47 p.m. Ok so I know it has been like 13 months since I have given any kind of update. Please don't be mad! So the last year.... Hubby- the scope he had done on 12/16/05 didn't show cancer. He had/has feline esphagul disorder (probably spelled that wrong) which is where his esophagus is ringed like a vacume cleaner hose, or like a cats (hence the name). A normal esophagus is smooth. The other problem was that his esophagus was swollen to the size of a premee's. This was found out during the scope procedure. They started with an adult scope- then a childs- then had to run to the childrens hospital down the street to obtain a premee scope. They still had trouble getting it in but it worked. The treatment for this was a lot of medication. Thank goodness for insurance because the medication totaled to about 2,000 a month. He takes flovent steroid twice in the morning and twice at night. He can't inhale it he has to puff and then swallow it. That is to help with the inflamation and the rings. Then he has to take prescription prilosec once in the morning and once at night. THEN before he goes to bed he has to take 4 tablespoons of awful tasting presription strengh liquid zantic before he goes to bed. This stuff is sooo gross tasting that even when the gave it the kids flovoring injector stuff, it was still awful. As hubby put it gross with a side of grape. Because of his esophagus being so swollen he can't take any kind of pills. Now a lil more than a year later, he still takes all the meds. He still gets acid attacks at night, not as bad or as often though. His doctor put him on disability for 6 months- 2 weeks later he went to the doc and told him he felt fine, the doc said no- not yet- hubby said yes please- doc said ok but you'll be back in a week asking to go back on disability cause you are not ready- hubby went back after 3 days. He wasn't ready. His work didn't want to lose him so they created a position/promotion for him that he could do. That worked for a while, about 4 months, but it was still a strain on his health and our finances. So after much prayer, thinking, and talking he/we decided he should become a truck driver. My parents are truck drivers, so we knew what we were getting into. However, they both drive, and I will not drive. So in May 06, hubby went to school for driving, then he got a job here locally delivery agriculture, and just last week he started with a company going over-the-road. So thats him in a nutshell! There was some drama that I left out that maybe I will talk about someday. But thats hubby in a big nutshell! Me- Not much has changed. I still homeschool. Still doing it through the charter school. This has positive and negatives, as with any situation. I am begining to see why some people say homeschooling through a public charter is no differnt than just putting them in public school. Now I am not anti-public school for everyone, everywhere. If I lived near a decent school, where my child would be safe then maybe I would enroll him. Just maybe, I like homeschooling, lil man likes homeschooling, it works for us. Ok rant over. I am just starting to think that if we don't move this summer like planned (yes I know we always plan to move but this plan is different) that I will be looking into other options. Which is why I am thankful that we are moving. Its a reason for us not returning next year that no ones feelings will get hurt over. I am still doing daycare. Although I am no longer watching the same kids from before. I quit watching them in July, and there is SOOOO much more I can write about with that but again falls into too much drama. I was asked to start watching them again this fall but I came up with clever legit excuses. Truth of the matter 2 open CPS investigations is nothing I want my family around. Now I am watching our best friends 2 lil boys. They are 3 1/2 and 2 (next moth will turn 2). They are so much fun, and Mom and Dad are drama free. She is the greatest gal to work for, doesn't take advantage of me, nor do I of her. It's a great situation for both of us and sadly I am making more per day watching her 2 than I was watching the other 3. I guess my biggest change is that last summer I decied to go back to school! I attend the fall semester and did fairly well. Not as good as I wanted but I managed to get a 3.0 Last semester I took US History, Math, and a Library Tech course. This semester I am taking Nutrition, Math and 2 computer courses. My computer classes are split in 9 week incraments which I thought I would like but I realized cramming 18 weeks into 9 weeks means a lot of work. Oh the other difference from last semester- Last semester my history class was 100% on campus, my math 50% on campus 50% at home online, and my Library class was 100% online. This semster I have all my classes on-line 100% except math. Math is on campus only for the tests. Just to clarify- the classes are the same as if I was in the classroom. Same professors, same work. Just online, at my house, instead of in the classroom. This works so much better. My hardest problem last semester was getting to school, making sure lil man had a sitter (hubby worked nights at the time, his shift was different when I signed up) and driving hubby back and forth to work, and lil man back and forth to my sisters, and the late nights and early rising to accomadate it all was to much. Not to mention when lil man got pneumonia, and I got sick I would miss classes. Except for my Library class. Thats when I decided to take advantage of the online courses that were offered for what I was taking. Ok (deep breath I know I can type/talk a lot) Lil man- Is truly becoming a young man. He is almost as tall as me, has his daddys funny-smart- almost gets him in trouble attitude! He is still the social kid that makes friends easily. I am so thankful for that. Hubby taught him how to shoot hubbys air rifle and now he wants his own. He has been sick on and off with chest colds and pneumonia (once again my spelling is awful tonight) The worst being last month. We almost had to call an ambulance while we were driving somewhere because he had a bad full blown asthma attack. We drove him to the er ourselves and they told us why he was feeling so awful. The air quality was awful and we were in an inversion. Then she started to explain what inversion was, because here in Sacramento it is rare almost unheard of, but I assured her my 2 years in Utah taught me plenty about inversion. Sidenote- Lil man never got that sick there though. Knock on wood (knock knock) he is healthy has a horse right now despite the fact that I am and have been sick for the last 4 days. I have that sinus/head cold that makes you feel awful from the neck up. Normally I just let it ride its course. This was just to awful, so I relented and bought some sudafed. I got the ultimate shock when the lady asked for my ID and made me fill out a bunch of paperwork for the 24 lil red pills. Turns out they have to keep a log of sudafed type medicines and baby formula that you buy. Something about people using them for drugs. I wanted to scream. Laws are laws, and I guess this is a new law. Thankfully I don't have babies that need forula. I could just picture hubby trying to figure out why the nice lady at the store made him fill out 50 forms for a can of Enfamil! He would just say thats it milk or the breast. So if this entry seems odd with tons of mispells and typos, remember I took some sudafed. Not to get high- but so I could breath and not feel so stuffy. Hopefully I will start updating more. I know I want to change the look of this thing and I know that I am limited because I am not gold. Any ideas would be great. I hope to hear from some of you soon. I have been reading here and there. Just couldn't bring myself to update. Things were kind of depressing for a while. But its better now and getting better. And next time I will tell you about the big move. It will happen, it has to! January 05, 2007 - 11:02 a.m. I'm still here- if anyone is out there-I will update soon! December 16, 2005 - 12:23 a.m. The ballet was wonderful. I had forgotton how magical it could be. I had so much fun on my "date" today. Luckily my icky feelings went away long enough for us to enjoy ourselves. We bought our own Nutcracker, similar to Clara's, after the performance. While we were picking one out there was a lil boy in front of us who came with his class. He was wanting to buy one of the nutcrackers that was 5 dollars and he only had 4. He was starting to get big silent alligator tears, so I asked his teacher if she minded if I paid for it. First she said I didn't have to that he would be ok (mean teacher!) then I told her I had no problem doing it. We told the lil boy and he was so happy and gave me his 4 dollars towards it (I tried giving it back to him and he wouldn't let me) and thanked me a few times. I hope that someday, if my lil boy were trying to buy something and was a couple dollars short someone would help him too. Then I was trying to help my lil guy pick out a nutcracker, one that was 5 dollars also, and he grabbed the bigger one. I told him, no I don't wanna spend $15, and the sales lady said "oh it's not $15 its $10" and then I was stuck, so we got it. It is darling though. And I was shocked at the prices. I thought they would be more. My hubby goes in for his scope of his esphagus in about 9 hours. He is, and so am I, a lil frightened about how he will do with the anestesia. He has a hrad time "waking up" and staying awake after the procedure. His heart rate and oxygen rate drops real low. My job once he is in recovery is to keep him awake. Then tomorrow night is the Christmas Dinner for his work. I wasn't sure we would be able to make it, then hubby reminded me that on the last 2 scopes he was back to normal within an hour of coming home. The procedure is at 10am and dinner at 7pm. Hopefully all goes well. I will update as soon as I get the information/results from this scope. Ok I still am not sleepy. I think I am gonna go play some games now, I finished my book I was reading. I never start a new book at night so I am in limbo trying to unwind after a busy day. My fault, I took a nap late this afternoon. _______________________________________Last Five Things I Had To SayAssholes in the fridge! - January 25, 2007 An update of everyone! - January 15, 2007 Still here - January 05, 2007 Nutty Nutcracker! - December 16, 2005 Clara and pasta! - December 15, 2005 
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