Happy Meals

WOW!!! I am tired!! I spent the nearly the entire day in the emergency room again with Grandma. That chest pain just won't go away. Even though the doctor has me sleeping with my upper body elevated. Kind of weird sleeping sitting up, I know. It beats sitting up with the dead though...not that I ever have, lol!!! It does wonders for your neck..lol!! I also have this stupid boils thing going again. Stay away from me....I am dangerous....oooooohhhh!!! Be afraid, be VERY afraid!!! When the nurse tried getting the IV in to me today (they had to use a really BIG needle for the kind of tests that they were going to be doing)all of a sudden blood started squirting ALL OVER my pants!!! I don't know why it hit me so funny, but all of a sudden I was laughing and laughing. I guess waiting five plus hours in the waiting room can make you kind of hysterical...lol!! So anyway, I guess I am still dealing with acid reflux. It isn't a blood clot or heart problems thankfully. The doctor was even nice enough to lance my boil....it REALLY hurts!!! I am sure Grandma thought I was just the tiniest bit slap-happy (which I was :D) after all the morphine...lol!!! That stuff knocks me for a loop!!! After I got out Grandma and I got Happy Meals at McHeartattack. I got a pink crown and Grandma got a barbie mermaid...lol!! I don't remember the last time I had a Happy Meal. It was sort of a fun day....minus all the waiting.
This coming week Grandma and I are going to get our little garden put together in the back yard. We are also going to get a few flowers. I am so excited!! I love this time of year!

I'm Almost There

Another day....another wonderful day. I am feeling so much better!! I woke up yesterday morning feeling like a human being and the feeling has not left me yet.

This morning found me on my knees in front of the mailbox. I only went out there to put some things in there for Grandma and nearly got lost in the jungle that was surrounding the area. Nearly fighting for my life, I attempted subduing the monster weeds that nipped and snarled at my body, getting dirt under my fingernails, and grass stains on my jeans. One of the monsters had an extra dose of fight in it's weedy little heart and nearly sent me sprawling over backwards....I hope none of the neighbors saw...lol!! Anyway, it was wonderful to be so close to the earth. Everything was so alive...including the weeds....GRRR!!!

Date...with a NUT!!!

Hello...again!!! I am up late due to the medication keeping me up. I hope and pray that I can get off this stupid prednisone once and for all!!! It gives me headaches, puts me in a terrible mood, I am hyper and hungry, the love-handles come out for a peek at the world, and my face gets to looking rather like a chipmunk...LOL!!! But really, it is NOT funny!!! And those are just the obvious side-effects. OK....ENOUGH!!! I really did have a pretty good day. Every day is a good one when not spent in the hospital or flat on your back in pain.....or in and out of the bathroom every few minutes.
The day didn't turn out to be as rainy as I thought it would be. It sprinkled some....and smelled marvelous mostly!! I love this time of year!! Didn't end up going on a walk after all. Went to Wal-Mart with Ben and Heather to grab a thing or two...or three. Then we all made a trip in to town to see mom at work. She was busy making a BEAUTIFUL flower arrangement with a fancy name...she would have to tell you. Heather ended up going to the clinic due to a fever and strep-throat...poor dear :(. She and I spent the rest of the afternoon on the couch....both doped up with meds and watching a movie on Netflix....Race to Witch Mountain. And then, last but not least, I went on a "date" with my nut of a brother. It was fun....as far as "dates" with brothers go. We saw Clash of the Titans, which turned out to be pretty good I thought. We were amazed that there were no kissing scenes..lol!! I can't wait to go on a real date...even if it is with a nut...lol!!

Anyway, I guess I will lay my head down and try to get some beauty sleep....even if the meds want it some other way. So goodnight world...this flower will open again in the morning.

Spring Rain

When I woke up this morning....something felt different. The air was close and cool. The room was darker than usual. I felt sad. It is a day for rain I guess.



Mum and I planted flowers in the window boxes on the porch yesterday. It was so fun to be up and around helping out. And being so close to the dirt and flowers was like food for my soul. It is a good day for rain. All the flowers that got planted will do really well to get some moisture after all the trauma of being planted yesterday.
Mum is at the flower shoppe helping out with the arrangements for the Military Ball that is coming up here in a bit. Wish I had someone to go with. I think that later....if it is not pouring buckets, I will walk in to town and see her there at the shoppe, and maybe do a little window shopping.
I am sure this post is pretty boring and pathetic....oh well!! Maybe I will have more to write at the end of my day.

The Perfect Day

All I can do is sigh with contentment as I write this. My two younger sister and I sat out in the sun this evening after my four hour nap. We blew bubbles, talked about boys, and watched our crazy dog tear around the yard at the speed of light. She ran all over Heather's homework...lol!! Martha showed me her track warm-ups, which look like a lot of fun. I felt like a flower soaking up all those dazzling rays of sunshine. When I got home from the hospital this afternoon I tried to eat lunch...which did NOT go well! So I then took a pain pill which resulted in me drooling on the couch for the next four hours. I had the craziest dreams!!! I am hoping that tomorrow proves to be another sunshine-filled day. If so, I am going to take a book out or my i-pod, some sunblock, and go stock up on sunshine. Maybe I will even sit in the garden and meditate...pretend I am a flower and lift my face to the sun and smile :). Life is so good when you are not having to lay on a hospital bed and haunt the lonely halls. Supper went down well....no pain!!! All of us sat on the porch eating mashed potatoes and BBQ chicken for supper...then the sun went down, some of us stayed on the porch doing homework, some of us laughed and cried together. All we needed to complete the evening would have been root-beer floats and lightning bugs :)....naw, it was perfect. I love my sisters....my brothers....my whole family <3. I am so happy and thankful that I was spared...that I am alive today. Jesus lives!!

Back in the Hospital Again

I kind of associate being in the hospital probably similarly to how the cowboys associated being "back in the saddle"...not very fun, but necessary non-the-less :P .I already knew that my body was not one for handling stress well, but going to the hearing in Vermont was necessary, and now, for the most part it is over.
Anyway, so here I am...bored, sitting in the hospital bed AGAIN!!! I have been sleeping a lot, which can be good I guess....I can't do much else. I would most definitely go bananas if it weren't for Netflix!!! Other than this I take medicine...IV and otherwise, lots of bathroom breaks, try to keep down each meal as it comes. I am the resident ghost that haunts the lonely halls. And then there is the occasional giggle that happens late at night when the male (married....bummer!!) nurse rides the computer cart down the hospital hall like a kid on a shopping cart....LOL!! And I am pretty sure all of the other patients up here are elderly because I can hear them and the nurses quite well from all the way down the hall...trying to understand each other. Yesterday, my elderly lady neighbor was "whooping" and "yahoo-ing" because she got to go home.....I lay there thinking to myself "what did they give her?" "I want some too..lol". One guy has no teeth...I am sure of it. Or at least they reside in a container somewhere in the hospital room. Each nurse is different...some wear TONS of make-up, some look scary, and then there are the really nice ones. The one that is on this evening is from India. She is so sweet but I can't understand a word pretty much...lol!! She smells like spices.
I keep hearing that the weather is beautiful outside and I want to go out so BAD!!! But until I can Mum and Heather have picked tulips from the garden for me...they are so BEAUTIFUL!!!
Think I will end for now and write more again later.
Thinking that I might be able to go home tomorrow....fingers crossed :D

Back Home

Loved ones....we are home once again. You wouldn't believe the relief that washed over me the moment we stepped off the plane on to good old Missouri soil. Vermont is a lovely place, a place that we once called home, but as fate would have it it is now a very dark place for me and members of my family. I am so thankful to be home once again. Will write more later....