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Monday, 08 June 2009

I haven't blogged on here for awhile. Will I be starting all my blogs on here with that sentence? ha ha The kids are out of school and we're all excited for drive to Utah for the summer. I have been so so busy with primary and cubscouts. Daycamp is this week and I have been working for weeks on it. Hopefully it will all go off without a hitch! Everyone showed up at the church this morning and they all drove off for camp. They get to go five days from about 8:30 to 3:30. Should be fun! I am going tomorrow.
Rylie's birthday is thursday! I can't belive she will be 6 years old. She has grown and matured so much this year. We're going to have a Kitty party with a few little girls from church. Should be fun.
On Saturday we'll start the drive to Utah. I am scheduled to take one class this summer at BYU. Still slowly working on graduating!

Thursday, 09 April 2009

Not Much Going On......

Not alot happening this week. It's a test block for David, so he is busy busy busy studying. This semester he has five tests, one more than last semester. Neurology has been interesting, but a lot of work. I'm glad he got that one over with on Monday. Did anyone see the ad for the Nova show on PBS about doctors? They filmed a few people going to Harvard med school and through their intern year and residency into their current life. Part one was last night and part two is next tuesday on PBS, but you can see it online too. I think it was really interesting and truly portrays everything so far. There's this part where a 3rd year med student goes in the corner and cries when a patient dies. Then they show her and the surgeon in the hallway and he's saying to her, "Yes you are having a normal reaction, but we have to pull it together, we can't go out to the family like this." It's kind of sad what people have to go through to become a doctor. You have to become a little abnormal.
Here's the link if you're interested.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/program.html
Speaking of David and school, I made some Easter baskets of cookies for him to take and share with his group. I thought they turned out really cute! I made easter bunny sugar cookies and the russian tea balls. I colored the tea balls green and purple. Very eastery.... although David said he felt a little funny walking through campus with a pink basket of bunny ears. ha ha

And speaking of Easter.... we had a fun family night on Monday. We learned an Easter song from the childrens hymnbook and I told the story of Easter using my picture box. (I got my picture box on my mission and it has been one of my best investments!) Then we colored eggs. Weston was so wild that he only got to do one. Then when I tried to put him to bed he FREAKED out so I had the big kids pretend to put their stuff down and go get in their beds. Weston and I went to each bed and said good night to each sibling. Satisfied that he wasn't missing out, I successfully put him to bed! Then we all snuck back to the kitchen to finish! Am I a horrible mother??

Monday, 30 March 2009

Hypo-Update

Wow, thanks for all the nice thoughts everybody! I like posting on Xanga. So just an update.... I've been on the medicine for a full five days now and I've lost 5 pounds. That is so weird, is it a coincidence? I don't think so because I haven't been exercising since I'm so tired, and I haven't changed my diet or anything. But I have noticed since I started on the medicine that my stomach feels just the slightest bit nauseous and I haven't been eating as much. I guess it's still too early to get any energy back... I still feel dead every morning when I wake up. And tired through the day. Yesterday I kept falling asleep in church, so embarrassing! Especially since the Bishop was giving the combined lesson (fifth sunday) and he was telling everyone to get to church on time and not miss sacrament, saying "you all need to get to bed earlier on saturday night!" ... as my head is rolling back and snapping forward. I was so embarrassed!
I'm starting to get really excited for kids to get out of school. I'm packing up the car and heading to utah where we'll stay at Nancy's house, right next door to my old house. It was so sad before and I wasn't able to stay at her house at Christmas time but I think I can do it now. We're going to head up to Issaquah, WA for a week in June. I reserved the Warnick house for a week (it's an executive rental now) and I tell you I was lucky to get my week. The house was almost totally booked up for the summer by March. It's on such a beautiful setting, all the trees and fields and the Issaquah stream running through. The house is set up high and you have the most amazing view of the local mountains and poo-poo point, yes that's what it's called, ha ha. They use that view in Gray's Anatomy a lot. Then we'll drive to Idaho at the end of our week to go to my cousin Rachel's wedding. Maybe over to Spokane if David is with us, to visit his two sisters and a new baby. We will go to Riverwood park and ride the carasoul. Spokane is where my Mom grew up and we would go to visit my grandparents. The highlight of the trip was always riding the carasoul. They have an "arm" with rings on one side and you could reach up and grab the rings and then throw them in a clown's mouth on the other side. There was one golden ring per ride and if you got it, you got a Free Ride! After Spokane we'll head back to Utah, hang out for a bit and then get back to Oklahoma for the end of summer break. I'm so excited. I hope I have energy by then!
Of course these plans could change at any time depending on David and what he'll be up to this summer. He finds out in a couple weeks if he got a reserach project in orthopedics here at OU.
later skaters

Friday, 27 March 2009

Hypothyroidism.....Not Fun

So now that I know what's wrong with me, I can finally talk about it here. I really was starting to wonder. When you need to sleep about 16 hours every day, you know that there is something wrong. It seems like it probably started after Rylie, and increased dramatically after having Weston. I just assumed that being pregnant, breast-feeding, having a baby etc... would make you tired and irritable and everything. But after Weston turned one, and then two and every symptom continued to get worse, I knew something was up. I have to say that when the doctor called with my test results, I was so happy! I just was relieved to know what is wrong with me. David and I have been researching Hypothyroidism and when I read through the list of symptoms I was jumping up and down saying I Have Almost All Of Those! Here is the list of symptoms that was listed on the Mayo Clinic website:

Fatigue
Sluggishness
Increased sensitivity to cold
Constipation
Pale, dry skin
A puffy face
Hoarse voice
An elevated blood cholesterol level
Unexplained weight gain
Muscle aches, tenderness and stiffness
Pain, stiffness or swelling in your joints
Muscle weakness
Heavier than normal menstrual periods
Brittle fingernails and hair
Depression

You know, the weirdest one that has been so annoying is the sensitive to cold. I'm continually turning up the heat, putting on heavy socks, annoying everyone by being cold. Always always my hands, feet, nose and face are cold. My family always makes fun of me for being cold. Now maybe it'll finally get better.
Since we moved out to Oklahoma and things have been getting worse, as probably my TSH levels have been rising, I have been dragging myself out of bed at 8:20 to get the kids off to school. Then get back in my bed, sometimes staying in bed till 11:00. Rylie has been my hero playing with Weston every morning. They bring toys around or in my bed, or watch TV together or play with the dog. Then when I get out of bed I do a few things with the little guys, get Rylie off to school and come home to put Weston down for his nap. We both have a 2 - 3 hour nap. My sister Amy has been wondering why I am so adament about getting my downtime in the afternoon instead of playing. I would die without this nap. The kids get home a little before 4pm and drag me out of my bed, then I wade through the afternoon with muscle and joint pains, my face sometimes feels puffy and then the headache starts. I make dinner, drive to sports, and struggle through the 8:00 bedtime while David is usually studying. Finally at 8:30 I crash into my chair upstairs and watch TV till I'm falling asleep. I am sound asleep when my head hits the pillow. This is how I've been living for the past while. In Utah, I had a busy church calling and the symptoms were just getting worse so I could drag myself through my day and crash in the afternoon or night. But by now, I just can hardly do anything. It's been so horrible.
I started on medicine three days ago. I am so excited to see changes that I'm scared too, that it won't work. The doctor said it could take months for everything to start to adjust and levels to normalize etc..
I'm just grateful to my family and especially my kids for being so nice to me during all of this and so understanding. About a month ago Alexis asked me, Mom what is wrong with you!? The kids were even relieved to hear my diagnoses and that I'm starting medicine for it. They are so happy for me to, hopefully, get some energy back. Let's just hope and pray, that it works!

Friday, 13 March 2009

Haven't posted on xanga for awhile. First day of spring break today for kids and for David. We get all next week off and today. It would have been nice to hop in the car and head to Utah. It's just such a loooooong drive! For only one week it just didn't seem worth it. Plus, every time I go home I get too homesick to leave. Then I get back to OK and it takes WEEKS to recover and not feel depressed about being here. I really hope that we can spend most of the summer in Utah. It will make me feel so much better if we could spend summers in Utah, but I wonder if all the parents will get sick of us visiting so much! ha
David is still doing well in med school, getting almost all A's. He's been working on the brain this semester and has really really enjoyed it. He is also rotating with a hemotologist/oncologist. He comes home and seems to tell me one sad story after another about cancer patients. Especially those who wait too long. IF you EVER have anything suspicious on you, a lump or mole or spot or whatever, GET it checked out!
Sundance has been cute and fun to have! Every morning after the kids get off to school, Rylie, Weston, and I take him for his morning walk. Rylie rides her bike and I make Weston ride in the stroller cuz he's too slow to walk and keep up. Then after school one of the kids will take him on another walk, or out to play. He definately has been theraputic for the whole family with being homesick. (Do you know that Oklahoma doesn't even know what a cinnimon bear is?) He's growing a ton and is probably already getting close to 50 pounds. Only 4 1/2 months. When you come home and he sees you his WHOLE body wags!
Gotta run!