Another post;)

Well, I felt like blogging again.

From my phone this time

So there were like five kids running around the neighborhood wishing everyone a happy twenty fourth of July! It was cute, Ashley and I were sitting on our porch throwing poppers at the ground. When they passed our house one of the kids, who was no older then twelve shouted " and I'm single!" Ha ha ha, what a flirt for such a young guy, I shouted back " sorry, I'm not"
Ha ha ha

Another story. This one is about my colonoscopy that I went through a couple of weeks ago.

So I had been sick for three days, and RB had to stay home and literally wait hand and foot on me because I couldn't do anything (such a great guy!), but the day of my colonoscopy my sisters Daline and Ashley came to take care of me that morning so RB could get some hours in. For those who have had a colonoscopy they make you drink tons of disgusting juice!!!! Blah, blah, blah, makes me icky thinking about it! It left a disgusting after taste, and my sisters took such good care of me! Ashley even tried some of the disgusting juice to see how it tasted! She, of course, hated it;) they would both encourage me to drink 8 sips every ten minutes ( there was a lot to get down), and Daline would hold my water bottle right close to me so as soon as I had gulped down 8 sips( with my nose plugged of course), I could quickly grab it and take sips of water to get the taste out of my mouth....I have wonderful sisters! I'm lucky!

I think the juice wouldn't have been so bad if I didn't just mix it with water (RB was the one who was actually mixing it) definitely mix it with a really strong tasting drink.....sprite might have been good with it. 

Colonoscopys's are a really interesting experience, this was the second one I had had, the first one was definitely not this dramatic.  I had just been having lots of upset tummy aches and just wanted to make sure nothing was seriously wrong.
Which it wasn't, just I have a sensitive stomach and I have to be careful with what I eat. This recent colonoscopy, was because I had horrific pain in my stomach and then I was super sick, nauseous and dizzy.....and I was bleeding out of places I wasn't supposed too!!!...........sorry, tmi?

So I ended up in the emergency room twice on the same day, it was an interesting fourth of July!  The second time was because my body had a bad reaction to the drugs they had given me earlier in he day. Blah......that was the worst I have ever felt in   my entire life.....I think;-).
So that was Wednesday and I got scheduled to get a colonoscopy on Friday, so I was pretty much sleeping and feeling really awful on Thursday and then Friday morning. Friday afternoon I had my colonoscopy.
I had such a wonderful wonderful nurse! She made me feel all better, well at least mostly emotional!  She was so sweet and helpful, it was nice to be covered in warm blankets and get some stuff for my nauseusness.  I was put in a bed, given an IV (for third time in two and a half days),I was wheeled into the surgery room, and met the doctor. He was nice too, he asked me a couple of questions and then the awesome nurse told me she was going to give me medicine to fall asleep. I tried REALLY hard to stay awake, just to see how long I could......that didn't last long, she just laughed at me. I think I got through saying, "stay awake" twice before I was out.....

Before I knew it, I was being woken up! It was all over and they had brought RB in, yay!! I always feel better to have RB around!
The doctor came in and explained what I had....which was ischemic colitis.....in short a colon stoke ! Wow, what a crazy thing to have happen to me, luckily it shouldn't happen again and I just need to change my diet a little;) so there is my awesome story....had

It is time for another update!

So I just got back from willow park, and I decided that I needed to blog about what happened there.

Today is the twenty fourth of July and I really wasn't planning on doing much, Ashley wanted to go over to willow park where they are having the celebration for the holiday. It was actually a lot of fun and I love looking at all the booths, I saw a person drawing character drawings and I thought it would be awesome for me and Ashley to get on. Kind of to prove that I had actually done something for the fourth of July!

So we got our cute picture and we were going to go home, when I got stopped and asked by a random guy what I thought of his art picture thingy ma-jig. I was thinking, wow It doesn't look to pretty. It really wasn't that great and I didn't know why he was asking me how it looked. I kindly replied that it looked very bright and colorful and Ashley said the same thing. He explained what it was supposed to be and we just nodded. During his explaining I was really confused at why he was just asking us anyway. So after he was done explaining we  told him good luck and started to kind of walk away, when he started asking us what we were doing the rest of the day.... I kind of stopped to think "Geez, what am I going to be doing the rest of today" . Ashley said something like going home and making dinner.  Then he proceeded to ask if I (or we, not sure)  wanted to go on a hike or something.........OK I have to stop the story for a second.....So when he asked me that, a  lot of things went through my mind. I hate having to exlpain to people that I have something called CFIDS and can't do that stuff to well.  I decided just to stick with, "I cant really go hiking" because I didn't feel the need to explain to him the reason why, so then he asked if I wanted to go for a long walk.......OH Geez, I though to myself...I think this guy is actually hitting on me......Me, no make up on and I am married........So I really don't remember what I said next, but finally I showed my ring finger and told him I was married, and I don't know why, but I added on that this (pointing to Ashley) is my little sister. Thinking that it was the end of our conversation, but nope it wasn't. He actually thought Ashley was like fifteen, but found out she was 20 and asked her to go do something. She said flat out no! Wow, brave girl, but she told me later that she didn't want to be second choice......I wasn't even seeing it like that at all........ SO we finally got away and I felt embarrassed and bad....don't know why, he seemed like a nice enough guy. I think when he found out my age, he was shocked because he thought I was like 20.....ha ha!  Why don't guys look for wedding rings before they start asking girls on dates. So another story, but his

Colonoscopy!!

WOW! This last week has been a difficult week for me.....For some reason right now I don't feel like going into all the details, but Tuesday I had the worst stomach ache in the world. I thought maybe kidney stones? but it wasn't in the right spot. So after going to the ER twice and having a colonoscopy on Friday. I have/had ischemic colitis! Crazy huh! My poor colon, and no wonder I was in so much pain!

It is kind of cool to see pictures of my colon and see a little cute scar on my colon....oh crazy colon!!

Summer happenings

Hello fellow loggers,
Today was a good day. I went swimming! I love going swimming! I got to go with some of my family.  I especially love swimming when the water isn't freezing cold. My favorite pool was closed today though, and that is usually the perfect temperature in the summer. Apparently it is closed every Thursday for cleaning. Next time I won't go on Thursday.

My poor RB is sick and I am not near him to take care of him! I know he will be ok, but i would rather be by him to make sure he is ok.... I'm glad that I left nyquil down there. I miss him so much! 

This summer has been different, I feel like I'm back in college. I have my sister and her best friend living here with me and my husband is usually here on the weekends. So during the weekdays, its  just like I have roommates again.

My brother and some of his roommates came over this evening. We played a couple of games while we waited for my brothers laundry to get done. It was pretty fun! They are fun to hang out with.
I can't believe it is already Thursday, basically Friday! Geez! This summer is flying by way to fast. It has been a hot summer so far too. I can't believe how many fires are raging across the state! I really hope all the fire fighters are getting enough sleep, if I had an rv, I would donate it to them, during this fire season,so they could have a nicer place to sleep and shower!  I saw this picture of a bunch of fire fighters just sleeping at the end of a cul de sac, near one of the fires.

Well it is time to go to sleep.
Bye

Love this

Beware of first picture on my link ( just shows a lot of skin and some(lots) cleavageish) ........sorry, but the other pictures were just so good not to share!

This is just so beautifully done! I just had to share! Beware, Of the first picture though, not for kids eyes.......

The last photo on the page is definately how I feel most the time!

Crazy adventure

So last Friday morning RB called me with a bizarre  request. He had decided that he wanted to go and drive up to Oregon for the weekend......He had basically already made up his mind, so I was to tag along or not. Me being a big worry wort decided to tag along.

On our way through Idaho, we saw a bunch of wild fires. We stayed in Boise ID for the first night of our trip

The light house at Astoria, OR
This town is the oldest town west of the Mississippi river

I wanted to take a picture of the blue bush :) This is also in Astoria.

In Astoria,  by a big anchor.

There is a light house buoy (spelling)

RB and I both standing by the big anchor, I had been in a car all day and no makeup, still in pj shorts......so I really think I look stupid in this pic.

This light house was really tall, pictures just don't do it justice.

you could take the stairs up to the top of this, I only made it 3/4th's of the way. I got tired and chickened out. I am pretty scared of heights

After Astoria we drove down the Oregon coast for a little bit and then headed inland into Salem, and we stayed the night in Eugene OR. This is the next day, we went to crater lake and finally got some use out of our annual national park pass.

Yes, I am still in my pj shorts...........I was really tired and just didn't care. Although I did change into jeans because it was super cold here.

as you can see, super cold and still tones of snow!

This is the actual crater lake. It is the deepest lake in the US and it wasn't formed by a crater. It was formed by a collapsed volcano

This is an awful pic, but yes, we went to San Fransisco also! We wanted to go a different way home, this has the lights of a bridge in it. One of the only ones we got in San Fransisco because it got so foggy and misty!

Another terrible picture, but this is of the bay bridge

Wendover NV

I decided to use a dollar and gamble.....ha ha ha ha.....I won two dollars, but didn't think it was worth cashing it out so, I just used it all up. I didn't ever expect to win anything :)

The Utah tree, it was on the other side of the interstate, so we weren't really able to stop

So that was our quick and also long trip (because it felt long with so many hours we spent in the car) to Oregon and then onto California

If we did a road trip like this again, I would definitely plan it out better and I would only like to drive up to maybe 8 hours a day!

My legs got so sore from attempting to go up that light house, that I wobbled the rest of the weekend. I should have stretched after I got to the bottom of it. I would have liked to see more light houses also, because I really only got to see one.


Whew, what a trip!

Howdy

So my blog titles seem to always seem to be hi or howdy;-) lets see what has been going on lately. I ate terrible yesterday and probably did to much, so I have been pretty tired today.  I went  to the library yesterday, and the post office....i  also had to go to a store and buy a new sheet..... My favorite got a hole in it...... It is a bit weird that it got a hole in it, too much time sleeping, or maybe I roll around too much? 

It is late, but I haven't really tried to go to bed, I probably should now......

I should write more so I can remember what I do..... Because I can't think of what has been going on for the past couple of weeks..