Endometriosis Awareness Month

March is endometriosis awareness month. As a show of support on Facebook I have changed my profile picture to the picture below. I will also be posting more info throughout the month.

Learning

I have been reading about Endometriosis like crazy. I figure since this disease is ruling my life and causing me so much pain that I should know as much about it as possible. My next book is about PCOS (polycystic ovarain syndrome). Deep reading. I want to know why my stomach is hurting the way it is and what I can change or don't have to change about my life to help with my health.

I fnally had to go to the ER on Sunday for the migrane that I had. Ten days before I gave in. I tried everything at home. I still have a twinge of it that won't go away but I think that it is just my hormones. All I can do is stay hydrated and pray it goes away. I got a pretty large dose of steriods which usually takes a couple of days to kick in. Hope that it is soon.

On a sad note...I spoke about the LaDue family in a previous post. Tracey's mother passed. My thoughts and prayers are with her and her family. My thoughts will continue to be with Tracey as she continues on this journey through breast cancer. She is one tough chick.

Crazy Day

Today has been a day of appointments for the parents. The morning started out with Daddy getting the nerves burned in his lower back, which he has every few months. We were at the Surgery Center for about 3 hours. Heaven forbid his doctor ever run on time. Then Mom got a nerve block in her neck (8 shots), which was another 3 hours at the doctors office. There was only 1 hour in between these appointments. They are both doing good, just sore.

This would have been a lot easier to do today if I hadn't been on day 7 of a migraine. I have tried everything. I started a steriod dose tonight, along with my "Bed Buddy" (stinky heating pad) and hope it starts working by tomorrow because I don't think I can take much more of this. I read an article in a headache magazine today that stated that hormone related migraines actually reduce your pain threshold. How crazy is that? So what you normally think you can take, the migraine just knocks you down. Sound just like the Endometriosis.

On a happier note...I have been looking for bedding to start redecorating my room and I finally found it last night. It is on its way(Thank you QVC). Now I have to find a mattress that is not to expensive, re-paint my great grandmothers old bed (for like the 100th time), and start organizing. Doing crafty stuff makes me happy and keeps me busy. Not that I don't have other stuff to do, but if your personal space is not happy, then you can not be happy. I will post pics of my progress.

The way I feel

I am sharing a picture that explains why I have not blogging the past view days. I just don't feel well and am having trouble staying awake and getting out of bed long enough to do anything. Hoping to feel better soon.

If you don't know what Endometriosis is I will put a link below for more information.
http://endometriosis.org/

Migraines Suck!

Today is day two of a migraine for me. I haven't had one in a while so this one is really kicking my butt. I guess its a good thing I can just lay here and relax. I just keep taking the migraine cocktail when I would prefer another kind of cocktail.

I have been house sitting since last night and all is good so far. Mamaw and Poppi left this morning at about 4:30am and landed in Texas right before lunch. I am so glad they are spending some time together and getting to see my cousin at the same time. My cousin really misses them and I know they miss her. Thank goodness these 4 dogs are being good for me. I have knocked on wood so I don't jinx myself.

We are actually supposed to get some snow of Sunday. Maybe up to 5-6 inches. It cracks me up that people freak out about that. My aunt in eastern KY said that people were doing the milk and bread run to the grocery and they are getting maybe up to 1 ft of snow. That used to be a small amount, but in recent years we just don't get a lot of snow, so people freak out. I'm not going anywhere Sunday, so it can do whatever it wants. Not to mention I love me some snow.

♥♥♥Happy Valentine's Everyone♥♥♥

I want to wish all my family and friend's a Happy Valentine's Day! My Mom and Dad were my Valentine's as usual this year. I was very excited to get my cards (hoops and yo yo from daddy) and my chocolate covered grapes.

On another note, I have not been feeling well the past couple of days so I am going to go see the doctor tomorrow or Thursday. I start dog sitting (4 dogs) for Mamaw and Poppi on Thursday evening, so I have to get some relief before then. They are going to see my cousin and her beautiful family in Texas and are coming back on Sunday. I really hope they have a great time and get to enjoy that beautiful baby girl.

I hope everyone had a wonderful day and enjoyed it with a love one, no matter who it was. I have learned not to be so bitter about it.

RIP Whitney Houston

So the World truly lost a beautiful Angel today! I understand that people have troubles in their life, but the music that Whitney Houston brought into our lives has nothing to do with any of that. I am a child of the 80's and grew up on Whitney's music.

I hope she is finally at peace. My thoughts and prayers are with her family.

Pinterest

Seriously... I'm addicted. It is almost like when I discovered Facebook, except better. This has better ideas and less people I know to annoy me. Anyway, I love love love the ideas that I get from this website, I just wish I had the money to do some of them.

If you have not been on this website yet you have to be invited to join. (Let me know I will invite you) I'm a crafty person, but these people take it to another level. Where do people come up with some of this stuff. I just go "Pin" crazy with ideas, recipes, quotes, pretty things, and animals.

I am hoping to do a couple of things from the website soon that I have pinned. I will post on here when I start some of them so that I can keep a diary of how I am doing with them. I will put a link to the website below. Happy "pinning!"

www.pinterest.com

Welcome Home-Dog vs. Cat

Just posting something funny for now. We are learning the difference with having the puppy. It is very much an OMG! moment when we walk in the door. May post more tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Lem

So tomorrow (Thursday) I am going to lunch with the ladies (Mom, Jemmy Faye, and Mamaw) to celebrate my Great Uncle Lem's birthday. He would have been 66. Jemmy is having a really hard time with his passing and we have been trying our best to help with anything she needs.

Tomorrow we are going to take her to Jalapenos, which was Lem's favorite restaurant, and we are going to celebrate his life. We are going to celebrate Jemmy and the strength that she had in the months leading up to Lem's passing and the months since. Happy Birthday Lem! Have a great day with your Mom and Dad.

Cancer Sucks!!!

It is amazing to me how quickly something can come into your life and destroy it. That is what cancer has done to so many people. It has done it to my family several times. I bring this up today because my Aunt's best friend, a very well respected veterinary oncologist in Florida, has Stage 4 breast cancer and will be having a double mastectomy very soon. She has two young sons and has been going through Chemo at the same time with her mother who also has Stage 4 lung cancer. She never smoked!

As I was coming in to write about something totally different I saw that the astronaut Janice Voss passed away at the age of 55 of cancer. That is so young. Our family also lost my Great Uncle recently from brain cancer. It was a glioblastoma. The worst there is. He was only 65. Again, so young. He and his wife had been married for 44 years. She is now living on her own for the first time in her life in her sixties. Something she never thought she would have to do.

The can come up for an App for about everything but they can't come up for a cure for cancer.

RIP
Lemual Sizmore-Glioblastoma-2011

Polly Sizemore-Ovarian Cancer-1999

Janet Ritchie-Multiple Myloma-1994

And to the many more that will be truly missed

http://www.news4jax.com/news/Veterinary-oncologist-fighting-cancer-battle/-/475880/8606464/-/vi78bdz/-/index.html

Buh-Bye 2011

2011 was another crazy ass year and I am so glad it is over.But just because one year is over and it’s a new day doesn’t mean thateverything is magically going to change. Oh, how I wish it would.  I would love it if when the clock struck, midnight that nothing would be negative anymore. However again this year thatdid not happen.

I woke up New Year’sEve and yet again had the worst stomach pains. I went about my day to a point.I didn’t go to a funeral that I really wanted to go to. My two best friend’s Nana passed away the previous week and I went to the visitations, which was very hard because it was the 4^th person that has passed away recently forour family. I was so sad that I had to miss the funeral.  First because I told my friends I would bethere and second because I truly did love their Nana.

Anyway I spent the day how I was originally supposed to spend it, with the family. My cousin and her beautiful family were coming in to town for a delayed Christmas. We went to my aunt’s house early to watch UK play Louisville (We won, of course). After that the whole family showed up to enjoy lots of food and each other’s company.  Once we got home I lay around and watched TV with Mom and tried to relax. Not easy. When I went to go to bed I must have moved the wrong way, because all of a sudden there was extreme pain and I burst in to tears. Dad was already in bed and Mom was not taking me to the ER on New Year’s Eve. I had to wait until Daddy woke up that morning to go to the ER. After 4 hours of waiting and I was told yet again nothing was wrong. However, I dohave Endometriosis and there are small cysts on my ovaries due to the PCOS which leaves me in constant pain. But as usual the MD didn’t acknowledge that. He just sent me home with pain pills.

Since then I have been in the same pain. I rarely get out ofbed or leave the house. I am in constant pain. I feel that be stomach is constantly being twisted and turned. My hips and lower back always hurt. I also have a fatty liver (my liver is enlarged) and that causes pain more often thatI would like. I also get migraines when my hormones get really out of control which is pretty much all of the time. My hormones are so bad I have hotflashes. (Crazy, huh?)

I have discussed with my Mom on several occasions about going back to work and I just don’t know if that is an option right now. I have trouble getting out of bed and staying out. Not to mention every time I have a job, I get in trouble for absences due to the migraines and the PCOS. I would try very hard when having a job, but it’s hard when you are in the ER for pain at night and then have to be at work the next morning.

I need to figure something out for health care and to help provide for myself and my animals, which I have not been able to do since August of last year.  I am trying to justify that I am not giving up on myself. I do plan to try to come up with a plan for myself. I need to get my life back in order. My health and financial life, that will be starting soon.