A Good Day

Today was a good day. Long and tiring, but good. I had an 11am Dr.'s appt. Which went well. More blood work is ordered, but I got some answers about last week's happenings. After the Dr. I went and visited Dakota in the PICU at the hospital. She looked ok, considering. She was more talkative while I was there, but she was also having an ultrasound done. Her fever got to 105 today, with no real answers of why. Her mom and I got to visit some as well. I'm praying that Dakota starts feeling better soon and home is mentioned soon. I know she's sick of being in tht e hospital and wants to be home playing with her siblings, like a normal 3 yr old - not stuck in a hospital bed, consistently being poked and prodded.

After I left the hospital I started running errands like crazy. I went to pick up some calling cards I had made, I went to the medical supply comp. to buy some materials needed for my dressing changes, I went to the mall to see about getting my IPOD fixed, and we fixed it, I went to Half-Priced Books, and bought 2 movies for $5 each, and 3 books by Jen Hatmaker . She is my pastor's wife, but she is also a Christian Devotion Book Author, and a Christian Speaker (she travels the country speaking at Women's Conference's and such). She is the nicest, most genuine person I have ever met.
After the book store, I had dinner with my mom, and then I came home and took a nap, I am just waking up from.

Tomorrow is a "big" day. I am having lunch with my father, in which I have written a speech in my head about how I will never be to old to need a father, in which I give him a book called
" Why a Daughter Needs a Dad", with certain parts starred, which are the ones I especially want him to work on or the ones I think I need the most right now.
My dad and I have never had a close relationship, at times we've had far from it. But, the older I get the farther away he gets. I don't want it to be like that. We were never close, but I don't want "us" to turn into the relationship he had with his dad. When his dad died last year, I had to plan the funeral because my dad wasn't/ didn't have a clue what he was doing. My dad and his dad never talked on the phone, just because. My grandfather was showing all the signs of Alhazamier's (sp?), but by the time my dad figured it out it was too late.
I have watched both MY parents loose their father's this past year. It was a stark contrast in how each parent grieved and then dealt with the loss of their fathers.
I don't want what little years left with my dad to get any worse than they already are. I'm going to try to do what I can to mend the relationship, but I also know that that road is a 2 way street. Nothing will matter if he doesn't want the same.

But before lunch with my dad, I have talk therapy. So I will be able to talk out my meeting and talk about what could and might go wrong or what could and only on a miracle go right.

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.

No Surgery this week

Well, I had to cancel my appt. with my surgeon this morning because I was in so much pain. I have re-scheduled for next Monday. Another big problem is that I have been getting very naseauous lately and more often.
I don't think that the botox in my esophagus worked, since I am still having issues with my food going down or getting stuck.

But, this week, I am going to try and do some things that I haven't been able to do, like deliver the last of my Christmas presents, and I might even work a little too. I have a friend who had a baby last week, and is needing some help.

Please pray that the naseau will go away and that the botox will start working.

Also, my blog has been featured in the magazine called "Serious.Life.Magazine"