4th Fun

My uncle invited us to an awesome party at his place for the 4th of July.  It was amazing and we had SO much fun.  There was tons for little ones to do and JD didn’t want to leave.  Poor kid didn’t get to bed till after 10:30pm.  He really loved the cotton candy, Doritos, and the bouncy toy.  I’m so glad I was able to take him.  Jeremy was working at the Stadium of Fire so I made sure to take a lot of pictures for him, enjoy.

Happy Independence Day

Hope you all have a great day with family and friends celebrating the day our Nation gained it’s independence.

Finally Some Good News!

The lung issues aren’t too bad.  I think it’s finally starting to go away.  It can still hurt when I take deep breaths but it’s not nearly as bad as it was before.  Tomorrow I go in to get the other 3 moles removed so pray they are A-OK.

I had to make up a class today so a friend from school offered to watch JD for me.  He got to have his first taste of kool-aid while there and they laughed as he downed 3 glasses of it.  I personally enjoyed his kool-aid smile after.  I hope you can see it in the little picture.

Since the past week or so have started to get REALLY hard for me we were worried that it might be time for me to take a medical leave from school.  I was not happy about it since there are only 5 weeks left but we thought it would be the only option.  After talking to people at the school for the past 2 days we finally worked things out so I could take most of the classes I have left during the days and not at night.  I don’t feel great any time of the day but nights are by far worse than the afternoon so hopefully this new plan will keep me on track to graduate with my class on Aug. 6th!  It was a huge relief to have them work this all out for me.  Hopefully this will help a bit.

Plurisy

Yesterday I started to get some chest pains on my left side.  Around 9pm it had been persistent enough that we were a bit concerned so I headed into the ER.  To make a long story short they ran a series of tests from CT scans, X-rays, and lab work to make sure that it wasn’t my heart or a Pulmonary Embolism.  Come to find out it is a condition called Pleurisy.   It is a swelling of the thin layers of tissue (the pleura) covering the lungs and chest wall.  When it becomes inflamed the layers rub together causing chest pain.  Normally they glide, with this it’s more like sandpaper.

By midnight when Jeremy and I got to head home the pain was getting worse.  :-(  Sadly because its viral there were no medications he could give me to help it, so he gave me some painkillers and told us to take it easy.    Needless to say I didn’t sleep well last night and it was a pretty rough morning but I am feeling a lot better now, thanks to the painkillers I’m sure.  They told me to follow up with my doctor and lucky for me I have an appointment to get those other moles removed on Wednesday anyway.  What a fun week this has been.  Can you sense the sarcasm through the typing?  I get to finish it off by pulling a double in clinic tomorrow.  I could wait 2 weeks and do it then but it’s stressing me out not having it done and I’d rather have it taken care of.

JD has figured out not only how to open his door but also how to break off the child proof door knob thing so I finally had to tape it on this afternoon so he (and I) would nap.  Smart cookie.

Quick Update

We are back from the doctor.  He explained the situation to us a bit more and told us how shocked the mole was that bad since he didn’t think it would be because it was pretty small.  He took about a nickle sized area of skin around where the mole was removed to make sure they got all the cancer cells.  It took 7 stitches to close the site and since I don’t have stretchy skin (at all) it’s probably gonna feel nice and awful in an hour or so when the numbing stuff wears off.  He even commented on how non-elastic my skin is. 

I go back next week to get 3 more moles removed.  One on my back, one on my tushie, and one on my thigh.  Good news is it keeps my mind off all the pregnancy stuff.  Bad news is I’ve missed a bit of school and it’ll be no fun to make it all up.

Great Video

My friend Sarah sent this video to me and it made me laugh so hard.  Especially since we worked together doing crowd controll at Disney for Lord of the Dance during a summer.  I STILL sometimes have dreams where I can play the entire show in my head.  I’d been having a hard day and it made me smile, thanks Sarah!  (Molly you’ll love it)

ps I go in this afternoon to get more skin around the one area removed and possibly more moles taken off.  I’ll let you all know how it goes.  :-/

Instructional Video

Not many people will know who this is but, it is MMA fighter Bas Rutten and he has put a bunch of these  ‘instructional’ videos online.   His sound effects are funny, and when was the last time you ’stabbed’ someone with a chair.

You have got to be kidding me….

I got a call tonight from our family doctor.  The mole I had removed last week on my leg came back as stage 2 pre-melanoma.  I have to go back in tomorrow and have more removed from around where that mole was and then a rechecking of all my moles and possibly have more of them removed to be tested.  Fair skin is the pits.  Needless to say I’m not emotionally my best tonight.  I’m not too worried but sometimes when things pile up it just gets to you.

Baby

I just wrote a post about the Periantologist appointment today HERE.  Go read if you wish.

We are off to have some dinner then go to the Strawberry Days Carnival.  PEACE OUT!

Adventures in Sugar

JD and I went on a little outing today to Krispy Kreme.  I thought he might get a kick out of watching the doughnuts be made.  I was right.  He would have stood there squealing with delight if I’d let him.  He also got his first taste of doughnut.  Really the biggest hit was picking the sprinkles off one by one and trying to eat them.  I think the pictures speak for themselves.

All clean again!