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September 3rd, 2010
I’ve been a little quiet this week, I suppose.
The reason for that would be that I’ve had a bit of a head cold since Monday. I haven’t felt much like being on the computer, really! Normally, I would just take some cold medicine and go on about my business…but I wasn’t too keen on trying different cold meds that might not “play well” with the thyroid medication. I haven’t had much luck with taking other medications with the thyroid med, and I’d rather the chest pain stay far away from me. 
JB is doing well. He hasn’t had any dizzy spells since early Tuesday, and he went back to work on Wednesday. I think he was happy about that because I had pretty much put him on house arrest! We actually just realized yesterday that the office had yet to call him to set an appointment for the MRI they wanted…interesting.
We called my mom last night for her birthday. I talked to her a bit about my brother and his wife. Apparently, they seem to be doing better. Mom said my brother is like a new person. I hope and pray that’s a good thing! I was hoping some of my family might come here to visit over the holiday weekend, but they can’t make it 
So that’s it for randomness today…
September 1st, 2010
Gabbie has had a loose tooth ever since her birthday (which was July 30th). The last week or so, I could tell that it was hanging on by a tiny little thread, and it could come out at any time. It probably would have been quite easy to just reach out and pull it out myself.
I don’t pull teeth. Mainly because I don’t want to freak my kids out by yanking their tooth out, no matter how loose it is. But when I was a kid, every time I had a loose tooth, my babysitter’s husband would pull it, and it scared me to death! (Not to mention that he always joked that he would tie a string around my tooth, tie the other end to a door knob, and slam the door. HORROR. And not at all a funny joke.)
Anyway, JB tagged along with me yesterday for school pick ups (I think he was going stir crazy being stuck in the house). Gabbie jumped in the truck and immediately started grinning. I didn’t see it at first, because I was driving, but JB saw that she was missing a little something! Apparently, a girl swung her jacket and it hit Gabbie in the mouth, and out came the tooth! She said it scared her a little, and it bled for a minute, but that was it.
I want y’all to know…I was so sick of hearing about that dang tooth yesterday, it just wasn’t funny. That’s all she talked about the rest of the day, and wondering how much money the Tooth Fairy would bring her. Geez, kid…give it a rest!
We did convince her to pick her room up a bit, so that the, uh, Tooth Fairy could actually get to her bed to swap out the tooth and money. And that’s the fastest I have seen that kid go to sleep in years, no kidding!
This morning, she came busting all up in our room…”Mama, Daddy! She was here! I got 5 dollahs!”
Poor teachers…I’m sure they have gotten an earful about the tooth and the 5 dollahs today.
August 30th, 2010
This morning, like most every other morning, JB woke up before me.
This morning, however, he didn’t get out of the bed right away. It took me several minutes of waking up time to register that something wasn’t right.
He had tried to get out of bed, got severely dizzy, and plopped right back into the bed again. A couple more tries, same thing. I told him he needed to go ahead and let someone know he wouldn’t be at work today, and that he’d better not move until I got back from taking the kids to school.
One might wonder if I panicked that my husband couldn’t get out of the bed on his own power. The answer would be, NO. Not really. I mean, sure, it bothered me…but we’ve started mornings off like this before. JB has been dealing with multiple sclerosis since December 2004.
Anyway, I dropped the kids off, rushed back home, and convinced him that we needed to try to get up. Between me, the rarely used cane, and the walls and furniture, we got him to the bathroom. His head was spinning the whole time, and a couple times I was worried he might fall. I helped him wash up, and got him back to the bed. As long as he was laying down with his eyes closed, he was all good. So I let him rest there until the neurologist office opened at 8:30 am…and then he called them to find out what to do. He ended up leaving a message for the nurse to call him back.
It was around 9:20 when they called back, went through the usual questions, and decided he needed to be seen. The earliest appointment we could get was 11:30 am, and I was nervous that I’d be really pushing it to get him back home before having to get the kids from school. Luckily, they took him right back, and I had enough time to drop off his prescription, take him home, and sit for a couple minutes before heading off for the school line.
Still not really sure what’s happened…just that it’s very likely an exacerbation of his multiple sclerosis. Other than the dizziness, he feels fine…and this seems to be very different than the optic neuritis he had before. He can be pretty much fine one minute and then the room is spinning the next. They want to do a brain scan on him to compare it to his last one, see if anything new has come up since then…but thanks to insurance, we have to wait for them to pre-approve it and call with an appointment. Which could possibly be next week. Ugh.
At any rate, he was home today and he will be home tomorrow. I was glad the doctor said that before I had to…because JB was conveniently ignoring “my look” when he said something about working tomorrow.
August 30th, 2010
The most recent interesting referrals leading people to my site…July was a little slim, because I set my blog to block search engines during a spam attack, and while I cleaned up some old posts. So I’m combining two months here.
- life so lovely.com (this one was a Bing search…naturally I was the first link it showed. For the record, the second link is DEFINITELY NOT mine!)
- colorstrology blackberry (I have a colorstrology post, and I do love my Blackburreh, but I fail to see how the two are connected.)
- so lovely (that’s only half my name, dearies…but thanks for visiting so often from this search.)
- my oh so lovely life (I have to wonder if it’s the same person searching this term repeatedly.)
- life is lovely
- sahm with hypothyroidism (yep, I has it.)
- ex showed up on friend suggestion (oh, yes, that has happened to me. RED X, RED X!)
- i is lovely (oh, where are my grammar police???)
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