Great news today! Gram is awake and alert for the most part. She opened her eyes late last night/early morning and seems to still be groggy but awake. It was so wonderful to see her eyes :))) Vitals still look good and she should be taken off the vent because she is breathing on her own.
And my CT results came back as a small benign(non cancerous!) cyst (sounds scary) but the Dr. is not concerned at all!!
Amazing how much weight has been lifted off my shoulders today. Thank you Lord and thank you ALL for the prayers.
Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about what happens to you. 1 Peter 5:7
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
When it rains it pours
Holy moly! That saying couldn't be more true right now. I have always thought of myself as a glass half full kinda girl. I try and see the best in any "bad" situation and let go and let God. Here lately I have come to the conclusion that my body is falling apart. I keep this blog to look back on because my memory is not the greatest and I love going back to see what Hudson was up to two years ago or more. I don't think of it as putting my whole life out there because I really only have a few true "followers" and I consider them friends as well. This has been a struggle for me to "put this info out there" and DO NOT want pitty or poor her. I know things happen for a reason and the good Lord has far bigger plans for me than I do for myself and I hate that I have really questioned that lately. First, Gram is BACK in the hospital, has been for a week and 3 days. She went in for abdominal pain and left shoulder pain. She was later diagnosed with pancreatitis and gallstones. OY. She was admitted and moved up to a room. The next day she was sent down for a CT scan and they found something leaking in her stomach. Long story short, her Dr. preformed emergency surgery to repair the stomach and took out her gallbladder as well. The surgery took a good 3 hours and she was wheeled back up to CCU where she was sedated and put on a ventilator to help her breathe. She was given a heavy dose of meds and had been out since they put her in the surgery room. She remained "out" the next few days. Her vitals were decent and she was still on the vent to help her breathe. She has been taken off the pain meds for about 3 days now and hasn't been able to "wake up" The nurse and Dr. both assured us it is pretty normal for someone her age and given that much pain medicine to be out for an extended amount of time. But 4 days...seems like a long time. Please, if you have any extra prayers, send them her way because now it's just a waiting game.
I experienced my first CT scan yesterday. Not fun, but not too bad. I was more nervous than anything. let's go back a few weeks... I scheduled an appointment with my primary dr because I had been having some issues with my stomach. being diagnosed with Graves' I really don't hesitate anymore to get things checked out. She ran blood work and ordered an ultrasound of my stomach and other organs. The results came back and she was concerned with a "spot" on my liver. Well, that's NEVER a good thing to hear. They wanted o get a better look, so that's when the CT was ordered and I made an appointment. The whole appointment took about an hour and 1/2. I should have results later today or tomorrow. Trust me, I have already given it over to the Lord and just pray everything is normal. Of course my mind has gone 1,000 different ways and I've thought the worst but I'm not letting that get in my head. I'm 29 and feel that I am in great health, I eat healthy, am very active and all of a sudden feel like my body is falling apart. One thing after another.
Other than all this gloomy news, we just got back from our family trip to Ruidoso! It was such a wonderful weekend spent with my two boys. Just what I needed.
Tubing at Winter Park
The weather was great and Hudson loved snow tubing and feeding the deer by our cabin! A trip to remember for sure.
I experienced my first CT scan yesterday. Not fun, but not too bad. I was more nervous than anything. let's go back a few weeks... I scheduled an appointment with my primary dr because I had been having some issues with my stomach. being diagnosed with Graves' I really don't hesitate anymore to get things checked out. She ran blood work and ordered an ultrasound of my stomach and other organs. The results came back and she was concerned with a "spot" on my liver. Well, that's NEVER a good thing to hear. They wanted o get a better look, so that's when the CT was ordered and I made an appointment. The whole appointment took about an hour and 1/2. I should have results later today or tomorrow. Trust me, I have already given it over to the Lord and just pray everything is normal. Of course my mind has gone 1,000 different ways and I've thought the worst but I'm not letting that get in my head. I'm 29 and feel that I am in great health, I eat healthy, am very active and all of a sudden feel like my body is falling apart. One thing after another.
Other than all this gloomy news, we just got back from our family trip to Ruidoso! It was such a wonderful weekend spent with my two boys. Just what I needed.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Shout it from the roof top!
Hallelujah!! I can officially announce..........
That my husband is a PARAMEDIC!! This has been such a journey for him and he has studied his little booty off. Hard work and dedication really does pay off. This is NO ordinary test, there are questions on there designed to throw even the smartest EMT off and make then think, "HUH?" In a way that's a good thing because you want someone who has your life in their hands to know what they are doing but then again when it comes to taking a test that basically determines the future of your career, it's a whole new ball game. He went in to take the test yesterday February 7th, without telling anyone.....but myself. (And I had to pry it out of him) that way, if he did happen to fail, no one would know and he could take it again. Smart guy :-)
Poor guy was so nervous all day yesterday and had his nose in the books. After the test, he was even more of a nervous wreck. He came home talking about how many questions he thought he missed and how some asked information he had never even heard of before and he kept saying he thought he failed. There are only so many encouraging words you can tell someone waiting on results like this! I tried to be supportive and told him not to think like that. That he had put too much time and effort into studying for it not to pay off.
7:00 am results check. He logs in to the website from his phone and just stares...he asks me to read what it said because he couldn't believe it. "Congratulations on passing your National Registry test!" That's all that jumped out at me. Hallelujah, Hallelujah! I cannot express how proud I am of this man. Whatever he puts his mind to, he succeeds :))
This was Cody's pinning ceremony on February 1st at City Hall. He completed his first year of probation and is no longer considered a "rookie"
We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do - Ephesians 2:10
We leave for Ruidoso next Friday, just our little guy and us for a little fresh mountain air, snow tubing, shopping and feeding the deer. It couldn't have come at a better time. God is good, all the time!
That my husband is a PARAMEDIC!! This has been such a journey for him and he has studied his little booty off. Hard work and dedication really does pay off. This is NO ordinary test, there are questions on there designed to throw even the smartest EMT off and make then think, "HUH?" In a way that's a good thing because you want someone who has your life in their hands to know what they are doing but then again when it comes to taking a test that basically determines the future of your career, it's a whole new ball game. He went in to take the test yesterday February 7th, without telling anyone.....but myself. (And I had to pry it out of him) that way, if he did happen to fail, no one would know and he could take it again. Smart guy :-)
Poor guy was so nervous all day yesterday and had his nose in the books. After the test, he was even more of a nervous wreck. He came home talking about how many questions he thought he missed and how some asked information he had never even heard of before and he kept saying he thought he failed. There are only so many encouraging words you can tell someone waiting on results like this! I tried to be supportive and told him not to think like that. That he had put too much time and effort into studying for it not to pay off.
7:00 am results check. He logs in to the website from his phone and just stares...he asks me to read what it said because he couldn't believe it. "Congratulations on passing your National Registry test!" That's all that jumped out at me. Hallelujah, Hallelujah! I cannot express how proud I am of this man. Whatever he puts his mind to, he succeeds :))
We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do - Ephesians 2:10
We leave for Ruidoso next Friday, just our little guy and us for a little fresh mountain air, snow tubing, shopping and feeding the deer. It couldn't have come at a better time. God is good, all the time!
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