Really Good Day & Prayer Updates

I had a REALLY good day today!!!
It started bad. I was suppose to have lunch with a really good friend (she was like an "other" mother while I was growing up), but when I woke up this morning, I wasn't feeling well.
I took some pain meds and rested for a while, and then decided that I NEEDED to run my errands. I had a list of them and it was growing.
I ended up going everywhere today: Blockbuster to return a movie, the post office to mail a Netflix back, the bank, Wal-Mart ( I actually went twice, to 2 different ones), my dad's house ( whom I haven't seen in 2 months, he went to Israel in Feb. and he got me a lot fo cool stuff), Lowes ( to buy some gardening stuff). Then I went home for a while, and then my mom called, and I met her and my grandmother ( and later my aunt and uncle showed up) at the Cracker Barrel. I got a "big dinner", thinking I could eat it, because I hadn't eated anything else today, but couldn't eat but a few bites, because nothing would go down.
I came home, go back into my PJ's, and then made a late night trip to HEB to get some groceries.

I've just felt really good today (other then the intense pain after eating). I've been more up and about today than I have in 6 weeks.

While I've been a home, I've been watching CSI:NY. My fav. of the series. I'm on Season 2, disc 6. There's 4 season's on DVD. I'm half way through.

So, all in all I had a pretty good day. Tomorrow I'm getting my hair cut. First time since Oct. when I cut off 9 inches to give to Beautiful Lengths ( think Locks of Love, but by Pantene).
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Prayer Requests and Update on Stellan

I have a couple of prayer requests and an important update on Stellan.

I'll start with Stellan.
Stellan is at 24 hours and counting with no SVT and his heart beating in Normal Sinus Rhythm!
But, he has tested positive for the rotovirus. (stomach flu for kids).
Just because he's been SVT free for 1 day doesn't mean he's out of the woods, he's no where close to that. Check out his Mama's blog for more info.

My friend Emily, is in labor (if she's not yet had) a beautfiul baby girl named Abigail Joy. Emily lost her other baby girl, Miller Grace 18 months ago, and has been on a journey with God to learn about His redemption and peace after such a loss. Check her page for an update on details on Miller Grace's story.

You may have noticed a new prayer button, for a cute little boy to the left of this post. His name is Gavin and he's almost 4 yrs old. Gavin was rushed to the hospital this afternoon, after it was discovered he has some chronic internal bleeding. He is having an endoscopy tomorrow afternoon to see what's going on. Gavin has alot of the same digestive and intestinal problems that I do, so I know what he is going through and how he feels.

Thank you for praying for Stellan and for the ones listed above.

Family Reunion Day 2

Day 2 of my family reunion was somewhat better than day 1, atleast I found out there is no day 3, thank God!

I tried to go to church this morning, but was so uncomfortable I left early. I went to Hell-Mart to get some pudding and then on to my aunt's house.

When I arrived I found this in the backyard:

As more of my family got there, more kids got there and soon the moonwalk was full.

Finally it was time for lunch. Steak and Chicken. I ate 1/4 of chicken and my potpie and that was it. Then I took one of my cousins outside to play and eventually the rest of kids came out, so I went back in. I then had dessert: some peach cobbler and ice cream... bad idea. Almost immediatly I got sick. My mom and I gathered all me stuff and I snuck out the back door. No one said anything to me and I was glad. I came home, started throwing up, took some meds and slept for 3 hours.

I didn't use my pump at all yesterday.

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This morning when I woke up my mom and I had a heart to heart talk about what happened this weekend. I had several family members completly ignore me. My family seems not to be able to accept me for who I am and can't look beyond my feeding tube and pump. That's not what a family is suppose to be about. If this is how it is going to be, then I won't be attending any more family functions. If they can't accept me and my differences, then I don't want to be apart of them. I hate that it has come to this, because there are some people in my family that treat me normal, but all my life I have been different and all my life my family has struggled to accept me, but what happened this weeked was the last straw.

The Outside World

Yesterday I was sick. So sick that I couldn't keep food or formula down. So, I got no feeds yesterday and very little food. I slept most of the day and kept taking my anti-naseau meds all day. I paid for my naps last night, when I didn't go to sleep until 3:45 this morning. Then I woke up again at 6am in extreme pain because my tube holder was pushing into my skin, so hard it left an impression of itself in my skin. I took some pain meds and slept until 10:15 this morning.

I can't do much while I'm on the pump. One can only watch so many movies and read so many books. I re-read 3 Chicken Soup for the Soul books in the last few days. I have 2 word search books I am working on and 3 suduko books. I begged my mom to take me to the Libaray this morning to get some new reading material, and she did. Then we went to Walmart because that is the only store that sells the type of pudding that I like. I hate shopping at Walmart. But, our shopping trip took less than 15 min, and that was the shortest shopping trip at Walmart that I have ever had.

I don't know what I am going to watch once the Olympics end. I don't have cable, and I don't watch Soaps or the talk shows. But, I got 3 new movies from Netflix yesterday, so I guess I will do my part to keep them in business the next few months.

Even though I don't feel well, I feel better than I did when I was only eating and not on my formula. My formula gives me all the vitamins and nutrients that I need and don't get from food.

Well, that's all for now, I have to go hook up to my pump.