Good Morning All!

Havent read to catch up with your posts but I know you are all doing a great job.

Its been a whirlwind couple of days here, but I realize that life gets in the way sometimes and a messy house is not as important as life is, sometimes it takes something to happen to make you realize just that.

Long story short....came back from taking my son for his license test Friday afternoon(he passed this time by the way!) and one of my twins, Danielle, wasnt feeling well complaining her belly hurt. No fever or anything so I was laying with her on the sofa and about a half hour later her body began to convulse as a nurse I knew it was a seizure but when its your child its different. She was then unresponsive and I panicked

I was home with just the twins and the 12 year old, so I got them all in the car and drove to the hospital, when we got there her temp was 104 explains the seizure. We were there a while and then she was fine so we came home and I have been paranoid ever since, so I have spent every second with her glued to my side. She now has a GI bug which I think explains the fever, she still has one but she is much better today, eating and playing Thank God. Was scary though!

Needless to say my house has really suffered because all the older kids have been all out of sorts too, wanting to be near her, but it has brought my family closer together I think they all realized dont take things for granted. My oldest even came home from work yesterday with all kinds of goodies for her...so sweet.

So today I am going to play catch up...maybe...LOL, though Danielles Godmother is coming for a visit so we will see how that goes she doesnt care if my house is messy!

Todays JDI:

• Unload and load dishwasher
  
• PUPA and ETE in Kitchen
  
• Sweep and mop kitchen floor
  
• 2 loads maybe 3 of laundry washed, dried and put away
  
• PUPA and sweep living room floor( we have all been eating in there to be near Danielle..what a mess...LOL)
  
• Dust living room
  
• Some decluttering in DR
  
• Clean off desk yet again
  
• Grocery store, need goodies to watch the SuperBowl
  
• Make Calzones with kids help
  
• Try to relax and enjoy the day
  

Dont worry I am recruiting the older kids to help

Have a great day

Kim

Kim
So sorry about the scare with your DD, but TYG she is okay.
Right, people are important, not the house. WHOOOOOO HOOOOOOO
on having the kids help out too.

Today, we have another 2 more inches of snow. It looks so clean and pretty....and I don't have to go out! LOL

Routines and ETEing (house in good shape)
Work on Branches
Finish up ornament kit in process
crochet
Put extra soup into freezer

Thankyou ladies for your advice.(I told DH if you find me sitting with a blanket over my head DO NOT CALL THE WHITECOATS.) Thankyou Simplicity I can see that working for some. I must say I remember being stuck in a turtle neck sweater. However it did NOT help at all. It is good that you told me about noise SUZY. Boy they seem to have pulled out all the stops on "torture". Diana thanks for the vote of confidence. I am doing my very best.I have noticed that even now my breathing is becoming erratic. so time to check myself and WATCH THE BREATH.Change the topic now I think. here goes a reality check
Change our bed(the sheets)
laundry.
I think a day of slow exercise and reading .(maybe build some inner control) IF ONLY.
Thanks againeveryone. Have a nice Sunday. Ann39

Kim: So sorry to hear about your daughter being sick! Glad to hear that she's on the mend, though. Yes, definitely take care of the family first. Housework can wait.

Ann: (((HUGS)))

Suzy: Sorry to hear that the pain is coming back and is so severe, too. I hope the doctors can pinpoint the cause and treat you for it.

Diana: Stay warm! Glad you don't have to go out in the snow.

JDIs for today:

- Finish up my list from yesterday
- Cheer my favorite team to victory!

So I managed to get through some of my list still plugging away at it, but I squeezed in cleaning 1 bathroom too so not too shabby....


* Unload and load dishwasher
* PUPA and ETE in Kitchen
* Sweep and mop kitchen floor
* 2 loads maybe 3 of laundry washed, dried and put away
* PUPA and sweep living room floor( we have all been eating in there to be near Danielle..what a mess...LOL)
* Dust living room
* Some decluttering in DR
* Clean off desk yet again
* Grocery store, need goodies to watch the SuperBowl
* Make Calzones with kids help
* Try to relax and enjoy the day

Well off to the grocery store to get SuperBowl goodies

Kim

kim, sorry about the scare

bless, good luck

diana, no football for you?

ann, you'll do fine

suzy, hang in there

jdi sun
dailies
60 min
wash decorator towels (red ones)
relax
last night i scrubbed the bathroom door for 1 rag then knitted and worked on xstitch during 4 shows. i ate a mac and beef snack, finished the aug cosmo and then caught up on email and the forum and went to bed at 6am.

up at 4pm. i did the dailies while listening to a show and washing the red towels. i restocked the pepsi, tp and tissues, then got on here w a break for pizza and 60 min. mike and the guys are watching the game in the living room as i type.

jdi mon
dailies
dool
wash mike's clothes
bj's
dust lr and mtr bedroom

mary

Suzy, I will be praying for you. Along with my next-door neighbor and friend, who will have brain surgery this week. She also had an MRI. I hope everything medical will improve for you soon.

Good morning!!!

Still recovering from the weekends events but plugging along. Danielle is getting better everyday so I am happy with that

Todays JDIs:

• Laundry 2 loads washed, dried, and put away
  
• Unload and load dishwasher
  
• Dust living room
  
• Wash Living room Floor
  
• Declutter in DR
  
• Pay bills
  
• Work on taxes
  

Have a great day all!

Kim

Suzy
I missed your posting. So sorry to hear you are having trouble AGAIN. Goodness there has to be something they can do for you!
I usually pray thru tests, it helps me to relax and breathe and I feel like I have God at my side.

Mary:
NOPE, not a football fan! Love baseball and hockey!

Ann:
Hang in there. Don't think about the upcoming MRI. I always think the worst and it isn't half as bad as I make it in my mind. Prayer helps too.

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Well, I got off my lazy bone, and really cleaned up the bedroom. Have been watching tv, etc in there (warmer under the covers) and made sort of a mess. It is now clean and looking nice. Did the bathroom also.

Hoping to:
Do Desk day today, and clean out the desk files
Cabinet above the desk
Cabinet with works in progress in the family room
Work on some more ornaments.

Made a small baby blanket with the left over yarn from the larger one, and hope to do another one. These are given to the premies at the hospital as the other blankets are way too big for them. Only takes a couple of hours to do.

Have a good day today.

I just read the beginning of this thread & learned about your daughter's horrible high fever & seizure, Kim! I would have been so afraid. And now you have added 3 boys to your family suddenly--7 kids!! I must admit you are a mighty big inspiration as I would have a lot of resentment towards the mother for "dumping" the kids on you & your husband & then not even visiting them weekly as she said she would.

But you are right in that the most important people here are the children & helping those boys feel loved & secure. They certainly do in your home & so it is right they should be w/you & not a mother who is uncaring. You can even have a sense of humor after all these major things going on! Good for you & good for me to read & learn from you about "attitude adjustments."

Part of my "attitude adjustments" are I keep a daily list of how much money I am saving by not being able to do things I used to be able to do (due to pain issues)! Like no more manicures (hand pain) or pedicures (driving hurts hands even w/gloves & can't wear enough layers of gloves or can't "feel" the steering wheel properly), no more going out to lunch w/friends (social life is doc visits & getting MRI's, apparently). No more therapy or group therapy (driving problem again; did try to talk to therapist over the phone but ins. will not pay for it unless I am physically in her office so can't afford to pay that out-of-pocket), no more shopping...

One of my JDI's I hope to do today is go to the grocery store to get something for dinner (10 min. drive). My husband has been doing all the grocery shopping & I've been cooking infrequently as have to use hands!! Just feel so useless.

Maureen: Hope you are feeling better.

Ann: I don't know if you asked about "open MRI's" but if they were available to you, I'd bet your doc would have already told you about it. Some other things: They give you a "panic button" to hold (sort of like at the hospital to call the nurse) so if you feel utterly out-of-control & in terror, you can push that.

Plus, I ALWAYS have my doc call ahead to WARN the people involved or new doc about my acute anxiety issues (or whatever may be involved that might cause a problem) or I even call myself & speak to the nurse & often then the person I spoke to will even offer to be there for my appt. for support (nurse from anesthesiologist's office did this for my last procedure in the hospital when I was freaking out about the anesthesia not working; has happened to me before but have a top anesthesiologist working w/me now & he is also my pain management doc--not doing too well in that dept., though. But he did knock me out good) & this really paves the way for me (like I had started crying in the waiting room of a doc's office once & everyone looked at me strangely so then I developed this fear of it happening again so kept canceling my medical appts. & my anxiety was sky-high; my therapist offered to come to my appts. w/me free of charge!--then I felt like a real baby--but she did call my doc & explain about my anxiety issues & ask if I could be put in an exam room right away, not wait in the waiting room).

My therapist also asked the doc to have the nurse attending me to be informed about my "condition" & be calm, warm & non-judgmental as she--the therapist--would guarantee that I would be crying & probably shaking in that exam room & I was, but it helped so much to have them prepared for me to be like that so they wouldn't ask me what's wrong or look at me strangely, & just go on w/the exam & talk to me in a soothing way, etc. I was treated like a queen & was looking around for my Perrier & pate on toast!

That appt. for a physical had to be split into 2. I talked to the doc for about 1 1/2 hours (internal med doc) & then made another appt. to actually get into the gown & on the table, but I was able to do it & the office knew to usher me in quickly & quietly & not treat me like a freak. Doc said she treats the "whole person" & not just the physical so that is why she spent so much time talking to me at first appt.

Good thing I learned to go to doc appts. & now have no problem sitting in waiting rooms as they are like my living room to me nowadays, though I am usually crying on the WAY OUT which is not as noticeable as waiting to get into seeing the doc. The office staff are used to that, too. No wonder I'm thirsty all the time w/the waterworks constantly going! I'm getting dehydrated from crying.

Ann, also during my MRI's (8 so far, I think) the person will periodically talk to you & warn you about how it is going to be really loud for 3 min. or ask if you are OK & I have sometimes asked how much longer til it will be over. Mine took about 30 min. & I would just close my eyes (so as not to see that I was in a "tunnel" & encapsulated) & then I would do my slow, relaxing breathing & sometimes if my mind started to get panicky I would slowly start counting in my head; you have to stay still.

The first MRI they gave me earphones to listen to music, but it really was too noisy to enjoy music & I didn't want to take up too much time trying to pick out music I would like so I ended up w/"golden oldies" & I didn't much like listening to the Monkees when there was a minute or 2 of quiet. Add torture to torture!!

I also would remind myself how many people have had this procedure (I did this while giving birth w/no medication--Lamaze style) & they made it through just fine & I would, too. I would remind myself that in just an hour I would be home having lunch or doing something I enjoy so I can do this for 30 min. w/my slow breathing, "self talk", paving the way by calling or having my doc call to warn about my acute anxiety so they will be aware & treat me w/that in mind, etc.

I figure it is like making "accommodations" for someone who has a disability (here in the US these kinds of mental conditions are considered disabilities under the American Disability Act {officially the ADAA now, I think} so at work if you need reasonable accommodations & it is not a huge financial burden to the company they are required to meet those accommodations--for a quiet work space, for example. I have a very hard time concentrating w/background noise so I couldn't work well w/an office where they have a radio playing all the time & those darn doc offices always have TV's on in the waiting room! I have had to ask them to turn the volume down sometimes. How annoying to force me to listen to that drivel.) Rant--hyperventilating. Slow breathing, Suzy.

Thanks for all the encouragement. Next surgery on 2/15.

Have note to buy "V D cards" sort of looks like cards for venereal disease; that actually means for Valentine's Day!

Another JDI for today is to do back ex. & a phone call. Also, read info. from doc about upcoming surgery.

Well, Ann don't tell your husband where I live as he would surely send the WHITE COATS to get me! Except we have had so much snow & ice they couldn't get to my door! Ha Ha!--Suzy