I got bit by the Party Bug a couple of weeks ago.
The "try to get your friends to impulse buy items they rathar not buy, party". You know, the 70's tupperware big bang parties. I was at a jewlrey party when the bug bit me. I now am hostessing a jewlrey party at the end of April! Wanna come to it? I already have earned some $ in free jewlrey.*Yea!
Tonight at Daisy Scouts I booked a Passion Party. OMG. If you haven't been to one, you need to go. It has been over 2 years since m
I've been thinking about this for a while, really I have been obsessing, on where me and my hubby are going to get buried? How many people already have burial plots? What age do you make such decisions?
It would be nice to have a family cemetary.A Little House on the Prairie type(that actually gets the grounds cleaned and mowed) with a big tree above you.
I don't want to be the loner corpse in the ground. Everybody would be asking who are you?? You here alone?
I hate to
I know this isn't anything that cannot be replaced but I lost my cell phone last night. I think it is in my friends car's floorboard, but I cannot be for sure. WE went lots of places together last night. And I fear it fell out of the car and is lying in the road somewhere. My cell phone doubles, as my morning alarm clock. Timers are always going off all day long to tell me 3 different commands
1. Pick up kid from school
2. Have kiddo brush teeth and get into bed
3. Wake
Oh boy, did I get my anxiety flared up last night watching this ABC show Miracle Workers. The patients were heart patients experiencing heart failure. A young woman, and 4 year old. I should of changed the channel when I knew the nights premise of the show. But nope, I kept on watching. I ended up easing my anxiety by cosleeping with my daughter. (Hubby was called in to work last night).
Tonight I have been invited to a jewlrey party(sigh), which I am now dreading, going to it out of
It felt so good to get up early and have a goal to do today( take my daughter to school) I think I know why I didn't enjoy my Spring Break very much. Brain damage, but I wasn't making my morning coffee. :bop: That is why I was a total B.
I did my cardio today, Asha. 40 min. of walking 1.6 m.p.h.
Feels good to get up in the a.m. and get the day going.
Now, it feels good to take off shoes/socks and get ready to recharge batteries.
-night,
Ames
Spring Break is over for my daughter. I must say this week I did more working than I have in a while.
I am ready for her to go back to school. I am not used to sharing the t.v., and being a personal entertainer. I have loved our time together, but I am ready to settle back down into my routine again.
My high school friend mailed me a Christopher Moore book "A Dirty Job". I have only been able to read a few pages here and there, before I am interrupted. Monday I will be able to
My hubby has found a way to end his insomnia, by listening to CarTalk radio.
I have grown to enjoy listening to Click and Clack too. Funny guys and I love the people who call in their car problems. When you have a family like ours, you can learn a lot from the show. WE both have payed for older cars, that run great. And my husband tries to do the repair work himself to save us money.
-Amy
Somedays I feel so normal, and other days I feel like a damaged person. I really felt my physical deficits today while at the zoo with my family. I can walk fine, but I guess after so much up hill, downhill, I fatigued quite bad.
I didn't know if I was going to make it back to the entrance of the zoo or not. My affected foot toes turn under and I end up walking on my toes.
My husband went and picked the car up for me so I didn't have to walk all the way with them to get it.
W
My brain has been fried by sitting here for 3 hours trying to make Medicare choices. I called a help-line for help. I was given 3 numbers, 2 of which were no longer working, and one was a sex hotline!
I swear this Medicare stuff, made me feel like I was learning a new language. I also will not be able to qualify for a Medigap policy until I am 65. I feel like crying and I am still un-for-sure of my choices. Can I just go to bed now?
I really feel the lack of competency of my
I really forget how damaged I am until I travel.
I guess getting outside my comfort zone takes a toll on my brain/body.
We got back from our weekend trip on Sunday late afternoon.
I turned my alarm clock off Monday morning in a brain damaged induced drowsy spell. Oh boy, did that start my day off great. My daughter was late for school, on the day she started her Iowa Basic Skills test. If your child isn't at school on time, then they have to wait at the office until the t
Hum, I had planned on giving out my new stroke bracelets this weekend. I am afraid I am giving them a key to my blog though. Maybe I could change my username, to something not so obvious. Who am I kidding anyway, not very many people have 8 hours a day to play around on the computer. Ahem, I dunno? :uhm:
-Amy
Enjoy your weekend. I'm off to see my boys(nephews)
Last night I had my first phone conversation with my 2 1/2 year old nephew who never wants to talk to me on the phone:(.
It was so sweet to hear his voice over the phone. Just to my yes/no questions. Then I heard the precious," I love you Amy, Bye-Bye." Now I need to see him and his brother in person, so hubby, daughter and I are going to go down and visit late Friday night and spend the night with them. Then Saturday get up and drive to my parents and grandparents for a needed visit
My daughter asked me yesterday to be the first mom/car in line to pick up after school. All the cars wait in a big string of cars and my baby wanted her mommy to be first in line. I guess to a five year old that says something about you/or your mom.
Well, yesterday I got there 35 minutes early to pick up, and was the 4th car in line. I was crushed.
Today I plan on getting there an hour early to pick up, and hopefully, by golly, I will be the first-if not,at least I tried.
Last night my hubby, daughter and I went miniature golfing. It was fun, but challenging to hold the putter.
I could hold the putter with my effected hand if I held the putter straight up, them let it down easy. My wrist needs to work on Range of Motion. I finally got the hang of the game, and had a lot of fun. I did come in 2nd (and I wasn't wanting us to keep score.)
-Amy
Okay, post stroke I have changed a little. I used to be high strung and cry very easily. WEll, last night that side of Amy came to visit.
For no known reason I had this feeling like I needed to cry. I don't know why, but I called my hubby to see if he could come home, I couldn't cry until he was present. I started talking to him, and an emotional release happened. For no reason. I don't know when the last time I cried had been. He asked me if the old Amy was coming back. I told h
Today, I had a nice visit from a surprise visit from my parents. I am glad they came, and it felt nice. It made me miss being around their company. I think it may of been b/c my moody dad was in a good mood for once and it was in my home. I felt like an adult and not a moody teenager, as I revert back to when I see them.
Nothing to blog. My parents mentioned a trip we might take to visit my uncle who is living on an island alone and working. You know the fun Aunt and Uncle who never
I made the call, and told my OT I was doing home therapy for a while.(Yeah right) Gosh, I feel like such a quitter but I really am happy with where I am in recovery. I wonder if my OT saw it coming or not? I feel the out-of-pocket, $50.00 a month for OT can be spent for something different like my new medicare not covered Rx drugs, which I am scared to death about.
*Blog subject change*
I am very scared to be on Medicare, and not my old BlueCross Blue Shield. Gosh, the decisions abo
Every now and again, I have deep burning stroke effected pain, on my whole left side, and I have always relied on a RX pain to ease it, but to my amazement I tried Extra Strength Tylenol and it worked!! The sun is shining a little brighter today!
-Amy
My kiddo and I juts got back from her doctor's appointment and it was proven she doesn't have the flu.Thank God, and it is only a severe virus. I will sleep better tonight knowing her ears,throat and lungs sound healthy and it is only viral.
-Amy
I got my daughter a doctor appointment at 10:30 this a.m., with Dr. x (the chatty doctor). Then after our appointment I am calling another mom from dd school who caught the same thing from 'mystery sick kid' and tell her what exactly they have.
Fortunately I have no boss to call in at work and say"Can't come in, I have a sick kid", instead my laundry backs up and the dog gets *beep* for having to wait on food/water.
I will check back in after doctor appointment.
-Amy
I have had one busy week and it isn't even Wednesday yet. My daughter is home sick with high, high fever, the flu is going around at her school, we have both had our annual shots, so today while I was out grocery shopping I stocked piled nighttime and daytime bottles for hubby and I to have if/when the sickness hits us.
I take her to the doctor tomorrow to hopefully get a diagnoses. She has had the fever since Sat. night. Fever ranging from 102.2-104.0.
I had a mother from her
I think I have come to a place in my recovery that I thought I would never get to.
I think I am happy with where I am in occupational therapy recovery. I don't care if my left hand ever paints/writes again.
I can make do with my right hand. I have grieved my left hand's death. My left hand is functional for gross motor. It makes a good paper weight. I am tired of working to make it perfect again, when I know it will probably never be 100% again. That is okay by me. Is it
It is Friday!! My hubby's truck is fixed, and I will get the car back. :big_grin:
I just went 2 days without and walked to take and PU my daughter to school Thursday. I shouldn't complain, I can walk, but my gait isn't correct and it makes my foot painful. :head_hurts:
I have withstood all the pain my left foot can take for almost 3 years. My left toes(except the big toe gets tired easily and can't do their job, so I end up walking on top of my baby toes. It didn't bother m
Yesterday was an expensive day. Hubby's truck had it's brakes worked on $250ish.
The heating sensor stopped working, on our house gas heating. Repair man to come to our house to dust it off cost, $100.00 (And we were told we would probably have to replace it soon.)
Today? Hum, my tooth started to hurt as I type. My husband's truck goes back to the dealership to get 'something' checked out requested by our mechanic.
Let's give life a hand, and watch money flutterby that the IRS
I love Sunday nights t.v. line up on ABC. I seem to really enjoy watching Extreme Makeover Home Edition.
It shows a real life family/person going through their own struggles. Watching it makes me realize that other situations could be worse than my own."Misery loves company."
Then my favorite no brainer t.v. watching after that show, Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy.
Nothing to blog. Our snow/ice is melting!!!!!!
Yea!
*Amy
