mrsamymichelle

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  1. mrsamymichelle
    Daddy's gone and now our daughter has come down sick. He wears the nurse scrubs around here. I can do it, he just is so good at it, I like to watch them interact.
     
    She complained of tummy problems throughout the weekend. I picked her up after school, we went to our scheduled activities. She was still complaining, I felt her head and it was on fire. Temp only 102.3. I really miss not having my hubby home to talk to about all this. So you guys can hear me ramble. She has already missed 5 days of school this semester. 10 is the limit. All 5 she missed we have a doctors note for* I made a copy of the dr.'s not before handing it over. One for my record, and they kept the original.
     
    Okay, so I start googling fever and stomach aches. I read some info that freaked me out, so I called the after hours call line to talk to a nurse. I told her my situation:hubby is out of town and he plays parent nurse. Good news, it doesn't sound like anything emergency related, but wants me to go ahead and make her an appointment to be seen tomorrow. *wipe brow*
     
    My baby is very upset, b/c tomorrow was a field trip out of town with an hour bus ride round trip. I told her that Daddy and I would take her to the place sometime soon.
     
    The school rules say not to bring child to school until fever free for 24 hours. Looks like we won't have a strict bedtime tonight since she can't go to school tomorrow. She feel asleep about 30 minutes ago, and, that isn't typical at all. So you know she feels bad.
    I called my sister to ramble about this with. My inlaws live in town.
    Thanks for listening!
    ~Amy
     
  2. mrsamymichelle
    I faced a big fear of mine today. It is gonna sound silly, but driving to the airport. My hubby wanted me to drive him to the airport, so I can pick him back up when he comes in. It sounded like a hassle to me. I always get lost coming back home from the airport.(prestroke also). I took the wrong exit home today. No biggie turned around the right direction at the closest exit. I think it is b/c I rarely drive there.
     
    It makes me nervous to drive anywhere outside of my routine paths:church,school, grocery store, daisy scouts. I made it though and hubby said I did a good job with my driving. He is my toughest critic also. There were times when I was so scared that I wanted to give up. Like when I saw a blowout happen and traffic stop suddenly.
    Glad 2 B Home now.
    ~Amy
     
     
  3. mrsamymichelle
    The festival was fun. As fun as you can have in the 70 degree rain. I had my raincoat and hood on(felt like eminen). I had enough crowds to last me a good long year. My husband swears this festival off every year proclaiming it is the last time he is going. Somehow he gets coaxed into going year after year.
     
    My funnel cake was the worst ever. It could of been the 20 minute wait, or the rain the gooped up the powdered sugar on top. I don't know which one. I ate maybe a fourth of it. It was too greasy/sweet to enjoy.
     
    I would have to say, I had more fun watching my sister, change and examine a diaper that weighed about 5 pounds and a load of waste, about the size of a six week old puppy..no lie.
     
    Her 3 year old got very constipated, she laced his milk, with Milk of Magnesia, and in one hour on the dot the front and back door were open airing the house out. His poor tummy looked pregnant before the BM, and crazy skinny after it was over.
     
    He doesn't like to poop,so he fights against it until it wins or the laxative does. It looks miserable fighting against your body's functions. He clenches his cute little butt so tight, it's sad. It was the fullest diaper I have ever seen. It got on his shirt, on my carpet. But nothing that a little Tide can't get out.
     
    It is the best feeling being around my nephews. I get this non-disabled, young feeling, spirit come over me.
    It may take a week for me to recover energy wise....but it's all worth it.
    ~Amy
  4. mrsamymichelle
    My sister is coming to visit me today!! I have cleaned my house, just need to mop the kid's play room real fast-shouldn't take long.
     
    I like having company over, b/c it makes cleaning a lot more fun for some reason. I will get to see some of my favorite nephews this afternoon. 7 months, and almost 3 yrs.
     
    I spanked/spatted my 3 year old nephew one time he visited me, but his Mommy had left, and I had permission to punish. He threw a major fit b/c the dog walked into the other room. I think that phase in his life has dwindled down.*I hope. WE'll see, I guess this weekend.
     
    My mom and Granny are coming into town tomorrow!!! We are all going to go to the town's annual festival. You can get anything on a stick there. Fried oreos(yuck), fried twinkies(yuck), my baby's favorite is a classic funnel cake. I am thrilled that my Granny is coming with Mom, b/c she spends her day at the nursing home with my grandfather lingering with Parkinson's. She loved events like this before she was a caregiver, and maybe this will be a nice break out of the normal daily grind sitting at the nursing home with her spouse.
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    New Shoes

    By mrsamymichelle,

    I bought some new Tennis Shoes this week, and my walking has gotten better since my affected foot hasn't had the chance to break the shoe down. I go through shoes fast with my affected side ruining the left shoe. It has been like getting a new pair of feet, I am able to walk longer. My new shoes don't last me long, maybe a month.
     
    They still look new when their life is over for me. I bought some that had laces, even though I tie basically with one hand. I am known, when we are in a hurry to run to the car with shoes in hand, and tie them once we start rolling. Okay so maybe I am running in my mind, but in actuality I am limping fast to the car.
     
    ~Amy
  6. mrsamymichelle
    Alleghlulia, our Toad has been found, now my daughter can take it to school to race it against the other found toads.
    I have been stalking the Toads in our landscaping and found one. I tried to find more, so we could bring for any child who happen to not find one, but we only found one. WE usually literally see them at our doorstep.
     
    WE practiced racing this Toad, and it is a feisty fellar and almost got lost in the house. The thing jumped out of the kleenex box, and breezed my face when I was peeping in to check on him.Scared me to death. Now if we can keep a pulse in him while we sleep. He is in a box with grass and holes punched in the top. WE taped up any holes that looked like an escape route. I guess maybe I should google Toads and see what else I can do to help keep him alive over night.
  7. mrsamymichelle

    I need a Toad!

    By mrsamymichelle,

    WE need a Toad. They are usually all around our house, but this cold snap must have them back undercover.
    My daughter needs to take a Toad to school Monday. WE have been lookin since Thursday, no Toads. They have to be Toads not frogs.. so I guess we should better hunt again for one tonight. Maybe if we can't find one, then all the other parents won't be able one either!!! I feel panicked!!!!!!!!!! Someone Fed Ex me a Toad please! :big_grin:
    ~Amy
  8. mrsamymichelle
    My 5 year old daughter started t-ball this week, she is so excited and is so proud of her t-shirt with team number on it :cheer: ! The practice is organized chaos. I think it will be fun entertainment for parents. This is the first sports team she has been on, and the excitement is contagious.
     
    My tomato plants have flowered! The cucumber seeds and radish seeds, I have planted have sprouted. This is my first time to ever plant something from a seed and watch it grow. I bought my tomato plants.(didn't do seeds) I still have some more soil left what else should I stick in a pot?
  9. mrsamymichelle
    My Jewelry party is over :Clap-Hands:
    I didn't have as many people show up that I expected, but the ones I really wanted to were able to come :cheer: I did a good show. I received $171.00 in free jewelry off of my party. One party down, and one more to go. My passion party is in June, and it is my most looked forward to party :chat: oh yes with :cocktail:
    Argh, big stretch. I 'm off to bed.
    ~!Amy
  10. mrsamymichelle

    Jewelry Party

    By mrsamymichelle,

    Call me crazy, but tomorrow is the day I scheduled my jewelry party. Planning this thing was a little bit more than I bargained for. It's good thought organization therapy. I am just now getting nervous about what if nobody shows up?
     
    I have a good number of presale orders. My hubby says don't worry about it. I think I am going to make myself get to that point. Screw it, I did what was expected out of me. The rest is out-of-my-hands. I baked chocolate chip cookies this morning. I'm going to make a batch of peanut butter tomorrow. The house is ready, my goodies are going to be.
     
    I just can't be too frazzled that my stroke deficits show. Like thought organization when I speak. It is so embarrassing to say a sentence with the words all jumbled up.
     
    My hubby is home from work sick with a cold today. I really hope I do not catch it, cause I really can't take a day off of my job. I guess I can let the house and laundry go, and make every one make their own food. If I was sick I guess I could always still drive my daughter to school.
     
    This week will be my last week to tutor my 2 kids at my neighborhood school.
    I'm starting to ramble..signing off.
    ~Amy
     
  11. mrsamymichelle

    Love Note

    By mrsamymichelle,

    My 5 year old brought home a love note today from kindergarten!!
    My gosh! It basically said, he loved her and wanted his mom to take them to a restaurant. :nuhuh:
     
    Love Notes start at this age? Plus, he is the classes 'Bad Boy-trouble maker'. Things like this may make stroke #2 happen sooner. Ha,Ha.
    In Shock,
    ~Amy
  12. mrsamymichelle
    Yesterday, I tried to multi task*ahem* TRIED
     
    As a result, I didn't notice my "snail mail" address book falling into the washing machine and getting washed to shreds. So while it was still wet and able to gently open the pages, I transferred it to a copy on the computer.
     
    I forgot to put baking soda or powder in the cornbread I made, and had to redo it. It was as flat as a tortilla.
     
    I now know why the washing machine reads on the liquid bleach dispenser: DO NOT OVERFILL!! Well I knew I was over filling it, but did it really matter? Heck yeah, the extra liquid bleach ran out the bottom of the washer into the floor on my green bath towel. It's green with bleach spots now.
     
    Today I braved a field trip with my daughter's classroom to the college's planetarium. I went up stairs and down stairs trying to keep up with the other non-stroke Mom's. I am tired now to say the least.
     
    I'm sad today and at the verge of tears thinking about my only niece's birthday and she died 2 days later. It isn't fair, and I wish I could take some of my sister's pain away and carry it for her.
     
    Enough about my feelings, I'm going to sort through the my real mail now.
    ~Amy
  14. mrsamymichelle
    Today I set myself up for cleaning out my dresser drawers and throwing things away if I hadn't used them in a year.
     
    I did throw some things away but not all. It was a little unsettling looking through my past stroke stuff. acceptance of resignation, teaching certificate, my husband's list of my visitors, old PT/OT exercise hand-outs, my old splints and therabands.
     
    I have a drawer designated for dead(no longer needed) splints/therabands. What if I slip back and need them again for a reason? I just can't toss them yet, but hopefully in another year or so I will be able to toss them. I came across some of my first handwriting with my non-dominant hand, and my gosh it sure has improved. I still am not happy with my penmanship, but at least the postal service can now read it. You don't know how many times my letters found their way back home for 'can't read your handwriting'
     
    For some reason, going through all that has me all sad. Get over it Amy...
     
    I did find an address I have been looking for of an old co-worker that moved to Scotland. I am happy about that, we have been out-of-touch for almost 3 years! Now maybe I can mail her letter off.
     
    Today I am just going to concentrate on The Master bedroom , and hopefully by the end of the week, our little house will shed some clutter weight. I've gotta go put on my purple tennis shoes and tu-tu.
    ~Amy
  15. mrsamymichelle
    You know when you get new neighbors and then after a certain amount of time passes, it would be awkward to go over and finally meet them after x days/x months?
     
    WEll, those days/months turned into 3 years, and last weekend we finally met them. It was kinda awkward for us to just waltz over and meet a houseful of bachelors. I didn't want to look to dorky, Like a 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' here's you a homemade cake,"Nice to meet ya." I mean we are all in different chapters of early adulthood. They are still into partying down, and we are settled, responsible with a kid type, staying up to watch David Letterman is late/wild for us.
     
    Anyway, One of the housemates came over for some reason, and it was really nice to finally meet them.
     
    They offered to help us anytime, as one is an EMT/Fireman. Kinda nice to know we have someone else watching our back on our street.
     
    I found out some things about our newest neighbor that is a little unsettling. She just got out of rehab, and not the kind stroke survivors get out of.
     
    Okay, I am home all day and notice cars after cars drive up, get out, and they are all scary looking,' up to no good type'. I suspected her her being a little wild, as I could smell someone blazing up in her back yard one night.
     
    It is really a little it unsettling to know what else usually goes with drug users. And that being right beside our home.
     
    But you can't pick your neighbors, can you? Our old ones that moved last summer really spoiled us.
    ~Amy
  16. mrsamymichelle
    I put my 2 little Tomato plants out yesterday. I am tying container gardening. I only put 2 plants out, and will adjust next year. Maybe my family needs 3? I dunno. I calculated the cost of how much $ I have spent just to get them ready, and it is really ridiculous. I could of bought a bushel of tomatos for that amount. I guess the fun of growing is gone if you buy them.
     
    I just have this fantasy of using my tomatoes, like making fresh chicken salad this summer and using a tomato my only hand helped grow.
     
    Yesterday was a very hard day trying to manage a sack full of soil with one functioning arm. I have found that one hand can do lots, carry big bag of dog food and huge bag of potting soil.But last night when hubby got home, I asked him to help me finish folding clothes.
     
    My baby really wanted to buy a strawberry plant. I have enough soil left over for one more pot, so I think Friday we will go get her a strawberry plant. It may only grow enough for 5 berries, but a fun summer project to supplement our other scheduled plans.
     
    I hope I have good luck with my container gardening!!!
  17. mrsamymichelle
    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 my last party and by the looks of things, they have new products out. :cheer:
    I guess it will be me, old friends, and the Daisy Scout Moms, drooling over the girl toys that night.
     
    Hum I divided my friends in 2 groups1. Jewelrey Party Group
    2. Passion Party Girls -(very few spilled into both categories.)
    Not much going on these days, but parties.
    -Amy
  18. mrsamymichelle
    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 be the odd ball in a group.
     
    My sister and husband have plots already for themselves where their daughter was buried. My inlaws are squeezed in beside her parents. My parents are with my dad's parents.
     
    I just kinda like to imagine a row of monuments that all have the same last name lined up.
     
    Since the husband and I only have one child, I don't want to leave her one day to make all the decisions on our death. We are not planning on dieing anytime soon though. I have thought about going ahead and making plans like that, but what if you move, then you would have to resale the plots or have a cross state funeral.
     
    Ok, am I the only one that thinks this way, or are all of you already paid the grim reaper?
     
    I tell myself that we will make such arrangments when our baby turns 18. My thoughts started when I attended a funeral that she had planned for herself. It was BEA-U-tiful. Gosh, we'll probably go economy across the board!
    Talk to me!
    -Amy
     
    *(I'm not depressed just thinking about stuff I shouldn't I guess??????)
  19. mrsamymichelle
    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 up time
     
    Everybody's number is in there. I would have to start all over if my phone isn't found. I last remember turning it off, to save the battery (since I had only 2 bars left.)
     
    I should of made a hard copy of the contacts for just incase. I blame my new purse. It is so tiny, that I had to clip my cell phone to the side of my purse. I guess it is time to get my big purses out of retirement and stuff them full again. I always tinker with my cell when I am waiting in the doctors office/ to pick up my baby.
     
    Suck it up Amy, you will have to buy a new one:( Or I could wait until December and get a new one for free. I feel really naked in the car without it. help I'm jonesing for my cell! I bet there is a patch I could wear to ease the cravings.
  20. mrsamymichelle
    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 start reading again without interruptions every few pages.(Hopefully)
     
    It is a nice Spring Day here windows open, breeze blowing in, birds chirping. Tonight we Spring our clocks forward an hour.
     
    WEll, this blog was a little break from my first 20 minute walk scheduled today on my treadmill. Must go continue my cardio!
    -Ames
  21. mrsamymichelle
    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
  22. mrsamymichelle
    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 brain damage on frustrating things like today. I couldn't return to a job, when Medicare choices has my brain in a bind.
     
    I am going to go cry now. My pity-party is over. My brain is a bowl of mush now:(
    -Amy
  23. mrsamymichelle

    Travel Fatigue

    By mrsamymichelle,

    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 test is over. I took my daughter to school late after testing was over, but she got to make it up that afternoon.TG.
     
    I went for my PT/INR and it was way out of whack 4.8! My therapeutic range it suppose to be 2.5. I held yesterday's dose and get to go again this afternoon.
     
    Today is Parent Teacher Conference's. It is weird being on the other side of the table. I like being on the parent's side of the table instead of teacher's though.
     
    I am frazzled at the medi- effing care choices. I discovered that the Rx plan doesn't cover Benzo's. WTH? I plan to call their helpline after I do all my to-do list for the day. Maybe I can find a plan that meets my needs.
     
    -Amy
  24. mrsamymichelle
    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)
  25. mrsamymichelle
    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. I have my energy back from my cold virus, and it feels so good to feel spunky again. A virus can really wipe a survivor out fast, huh? It made me feel like I had just had a stroke. Scary.
    Oh, Oh, I forgot to tell you that my five year old baby has her first loose tooth!!! I kind of got sad that she is growing up when I wiggled it.
     
    Anyone know the average cost of tooth for the tooth fairy these days?
    -Amy