a day off...

I had to work on my usual day off, Monday, so today was my day off however I didn't get to spend it like I had wanted to. First thing this morning I went in to wake my son and he complained with a head and belly ache, last night his stomach hurt so I thought maybe he was playing off of that to get a day out of school since he knew I was off but I put my hand on his head so that I could use the "you don't have a fever so get up" line on him and was actually a bit shocked to find that he indeed was running a fever so he stayed home. Mr. B and I were supposed to go out for lunch today as well and that didn't happen. Mr. B had planned on taking the day off but he just signed on a huge commercial contract, 40,000 sq. ft. of hardwood flooring to be exact, this work was not supposed to start until next week but the guy called last night and needed one space done today so Mr. B worked all day long and I didn't get to spend any time with him.

After a dose of Children's Motrin and a few more hours sleep my son was feeling somewhat better and I had to go to Wal-Mart so I loaded him off with me. I got in the middle of Wally World and almost collapsed from sudden pain in my nether regions, I have to say that I can't wait for that stuff to be gone from me. So pretty much most of the day I have spent in pain which worries me a bit because the majority of it is in my lower back and I am hoping that my uterus isn't falling farther back than it already has. I just pray that I can handle it for 26 more days and that nothing eventful happens in that time while waiting for surgery.

One good thing is that I am working a lot in my new position and that means that I am not on my feet much which is a good thing right now but sitting too long seems to bother my back as well. Monday was my first day in the mammography office as a registrar. I was up there at that desk all alone and I was ready to get going then the patients started coming in. It was easy but it takes about two to three minutes to get each patient registered and when you have four patients coming in at the same time even though three of them don't have appointments until an hour away things can go south fast and that is exactly what happened. At one point I had eight patients sitting in the waiting area to go back and about five of them were not happy however they all had their mammograms done at the time they were scheduled. The patients still weren't happy because they felt like they had shown up early so they should have got in early. On top of all of this the computer started to mess up, needless to say I became a bundle of nerves in a very short time which made my new boss giggle like a school girl because she said she had never seen me worked up like that. All in all it was a hard day and I was very ready to come home and go to bed at the end of the day.

On Tuesday the computer was working perfectly and I had no back ups, things went so smooth that we finished early then Wednesday I felt like I had been at it for years so it was smooth that day as well. The only thing I need to learn now is basically just the departmental stuff like what to do with all the paperwork or as they call it "busy work" . After that I will be all set up and ready to roll. Monday I didn't have to go in until 8 and I really liked that because I didn't get up until 5:45 instead of my normal 4:30 when I have to be there at 7.

We have been getting much needed rain around here and it is starting to look like fall. I was worried that all the leaves were just going to turn an ugly brown and fall off the trees but the rain seems to have revived them somewhat.

Before I go, today I received wonderful news. My little sister is getting married. Her boyfriend, now fiance, asked her to marry him the other night. They have not set a date yet but that should be coming soon. I am so excited for her and I really like her fiance. He is a sweet guy who treats her great and makes sure that she is taken care of. Congratulations to them!

Well it is getting late and I have to get up at 4:30 in the morning so I am going to call it a night. Y'all have a great weekend!

xoxo

a date ....

Hey all! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. We had a great weekend. We went to North Carolina with some friends Saturday to see a gospel bluegrass band, the drive was beautiful and we had a lot of fun. Yesterday was our Pastor Appreciation Day, our theme was "Old Timers" day. All of the teens dressed in old time floral skirts with matching bonnets, all the men and boys wore over alls with white t-shirts. There was lots of food, music and games.

I am usually off on Monday but this week I get a different day off because I am working in the Women's Center today. This will be my first day alone up there and I am ready to do it, the rest of the week I will be working in the file room.

My doctors office called me back Friday and I have a surgery date, November 20 at 1:00pm. That gives me four weeks to get things done around the house and to teach my kids and husband how to do laundry and all the little extra things that I do. I am not trying to sound like my family are idiots, their not, I am just very picky about the way my laundry is done and I realize that I will just have to not be so picky while I am recovering from surgery but at the same time they need to know how to at least fold clothes and keep the wrinkles out.

It has already been decided that my kids will accompany Mr. B and I to the hospital on Nov. 20 when I have my surgery because they are all worried about it now so I don't want them sitting in class all day that day worrying. I should only be in the hospital for one to two days if everything goes the way we are hoping they do.

I was talking to my new boss on the phone telling her the exact date of surgery Friday and she told me that I would have to give her and my other boss directions to my house so that they can cook a couple of meals and bring over for my family while I am recovering, I thought that was so sweet of her, I have the best bosses!

Right now my only worries about the surgery are that I am dreading the first couple of weeks after. My doctor said that the first couple of weeks are very important and I am not to so much as make my bed, lie around is all I will be able to do for fourteen long days, looking at it right now makes it look like a hard thing to do but I am sure once the surgery is done I will be thinking that it sounds perfect. In a way I kind of wish that surgery wasn't four weeks away because of all the anxiety but in another way I am glad because it gives me time to get things done so that I won't worry during recovery.

Thank all of you so much for your kind comments!

I have to go now or I will be late for work, y'all have a great day!

news from the dr.

Hey all! I had a few minutes before bed time so I thought I would get on and share my news from my doctors visit yesterday. I haven't been poked, probed or prodded that much in a while, want to talk about a thorough exam...my new doctor doesn't play around. Once we introduced ourselves and got to the matter at hand she wanted to know my entire history on my female organs. We were at that for a bit and she asked me a lot of questions. Once all the problems were out on the table, including my latest problem, we started talking about solutions.

There are several very effective solutions to some of the problems I am having but only one that will solve all of them, a complete hysterectomy. I am only 32 so that was a concern that we talked about because in a complete hysterectomy they take it all out including the ovaries and when the ovaries are taken out if you haven't gone through menopause it sends you into it which means that hormone replacement comes into play. In some women my age it takes considerable time to get the hormone levels stabilized. This stabilization period can be very hard by causing unusual fatigue, moodiness, loss of libido and so on. Considering the problems I am having and have had for years my doctor says this is the only way to permanently stop them. I should go in for surgery in 3-5 weeks.

I am excited yet scared. I knew this was going to come eventually so it is better to get it over with sooner rather than later. I am excited because once it is done I don't have to worry about scheduling my life around what my feminine organs are doing. I am scared because it is a major surgery and there are some complications that can happen however, I have a wonderful doctor who has a very high success rate with all types of hysterectomies and other surgeries. Remember, this is a new doctor for me so I wasn't going to go to her without researching her medical background.

With all that being said, I would like to ask all of you to say a prayer for me. I will be posting the date of the surgery on here, I am sure as the date approaches I will be posting on my fears and concerns just to air them out. I will be out of work for four weeks. The good thing in all this is how wonderful my boss is being about it, I will have to save that for another post. I am working up until the surgery date so I don't have to worry about that, but I worried about the four weeks of recovery and my boss told me not too.

Okay, it is bed time for me, y'all have a great Friday!

the good and the not so good....

Hey! It feels like it has been a hundred years since I last had time to post something here. Last night I tried to stroll through my blog roll to try to catch up on everyone a little so I thought this morning I would post to catch you all up on what is going on here in my little corner of the world.

First off, as I am sure you all probably already know, we have been really busy with work, church, and doing all the kids things and I have had no time left to get online and visit. I do have some wonderful news though...remember me posting about applying for the part-time position over at the hospital initially? Well last Wednesday I got called to my bosses office and not only was my boss there but so was the other lady I interviewed with for the part time. The girl that got the part time position put her notice in because she needs more hours so they offered me the part time position, I started training that afternoon. The thing is that I can't completely step into the part time position until December 17 because the person that was hired to take my full time position in the file room has to graduate first and that will happen on December 15. So in the mean time I have to juggle both jobs in the forty hours I am allowed to work each week. I am so excited about the part time position and I can't wait to get to that point , on the other hand I am really going to miss the ladies I work with in the file room right now. I will still get to see them here and there but I will miss them none the less. I am just glad that everything worked out for everyone and all of us are happy with the end result, God sure does surprise me sometimes with the way He moves things around. Once I am in the part time position only I will be working Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 8-4:30 so that will give me two extra days a week to take care of my home and everything outside of work.

Normally I am not home on Tuesdays but today is different because I have a medical problem going on and I have orders from the doctor to stay home, stay off my feet, and get some rest until I go to my new doctor tomorrow afternoon. I have felt really terrible since this little medical episode started Friday night and not being able to go to work this morning or tomorrow makes me feel awful because right now we have one lady on vacation and we were stretched in the first place so I feel like I should be there but it is hard because I can't go so it makes me feel like I am pushing my responsibilities off on others but I can't help it because right now there is no way that I could be at work with what I am dealing with medically. Hopefully my new doctor will be ready to do something about this problem I am having and I won't have to worry about it anymore, however to make my medical problems go away would require a complete hysterectomy and at this point in the game I am all for it just so I don't have to deal with this anymore. My biggest fear is cancer if a hysterectomy is not preformed.

I think in my last post I mentioned that we are in a drought, well we are still in the drought. We are expecting some rain today, tomorrow and over the weekend but I will believe it is coming when I see it.

We are having wonderful temperatures though. As a matter of fact, on Thursday of last week we had to turn the heat on to knock the chill out of the house a bit and we left it on until Sunday night. Now I don't have the air or the heat on and I love it because you can open a window and enjoy the fresh air.

If you haven't already, go over and congratulate BSoholic on his marriage this weekend. I am so happy for him and his beautiful Nurse and I wish them the best!

I think I am going to sign off now and take my foot stool into the living room and watch some tv. Y'all have a great day and hopefully I can come back for a visit tomorrow.

thank God for Mondays ....

Good Monday morning ! Today is, as usual, my day off so I will have a bit of time between loads of laundry to read all those posts in my blog roll. Starting November 2 I will be off on Fridays for seven or nine weeks then change back to Mondays.

We have finally hit a cool down where our temps are concerned however, there is still no rain in our seven day forecast. In the town that I live in there is a mandatory water conservation right now due to no rain but we don't really have to abide by that because we get our water from a well, we are still going a bit easy on it because other people that use wells are having problems with them drying up. About the temps though, last night we hit the upper forties as a low and today our estimated high should reach somewhere around 80-82 and I do have to say that I am loving it because the hot three digit temps that we saw all through August and part of September were about to get to me.

Everything else in my life right now seems to be in a big ball that is being spun 'round and 'round. I am still adjusting and things are getting easier each week. My daughters Girl Scouting year has kicked in full force and they have things planned almost every single weekend through half of November but my daughter will not be participating in all of those things because it is getting ridiculously expensive. Each activity, except one, that they are doing is costing us from $35-$50, I informed my daughter that she needed to choose carefully on what she wants to do because we aren't doing them all. Aside from the cost I don't want every weekend taken up by one even after another so I refuse to let her participate in all of them, I would like some family time now and again. Friday my daughter will be leaving to go spend the night in Gatlinburg at Ripley's Haunted Mansion. It is known as Ripley's Haunted Adventure but we locals refer to it as the haunted mansion because that is what it looks like from the outside. One of the other trips I will let her go on is to an overnight lock-in at WonderWorks in Pigeon Forge, it is an amusement park for the mind.

I am going to try to make it around to all of your blogs today but if I don't make it I should be by Friday because I have taken Friday off to spend a long weekend with my family. The kids are on spring break next week and we have one lady on vacation that week so I can't take time off then.

Can you all believe that Halloween is just around the corner? This year has flown by it seems however, I have already started my Christmas shopping, I only have a few small things bought but at least it is a start, I plan on completing all of my shopping by the middle of November.

Well my dryer is once again buzzing so I need to go put those clothes away, y'all have a wonderful week!