CT Angiogram…

July 31, 2008

I went for my CT Angiogram this morning. They had to give me an I.V. and man do I hate needles!!! I am so super sensitive to the tape they use its not even funny. You should see my arm it looks horrible. I feel a little bubble like under my skin so I am watching it. Could be from the dye they injected me with. Speaking of dye, man that was some freaky feelings. I got this gosh awful taste in my mouth and this warm sensation all throughout my body I didn’t like that at all. I was so nervous my entire body was trembling, I did my best to stay at calm as I could so they could get the images from my head.

I have to go back tomorrow to pick up the images. They needed 24 hours to make the 3D images then there will be a reading and report sent to my neurologist. I feel really nausea. They told me to push fluids to flush the dye out of my system. As soon as I left the hospital, I stopped for a large sweet tea! My daughter begged and pleaded to take me to lunch so we went to the Olive Garden (that’s where she wanted to take me). I didn’t eat very much, brought home salad and the rest of my pasta. But I drank a lot. I feel like I just can’t get enough liquids today. I got a beverage in a to go cup too!

On the way home we stopped at Walmart, my daughter needed a few things and then I hit Subway for hubby and dad’s dinner. I think I am going to go and lay down a while….

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Wanted to do something special

July 31, 2008

My dad’s birthday is coming up in September. He will be 67 years old. I been thinking about calling and trying to reserve the center, but afraid they may be trouble again. I like to have a party for him and even order some birthday invitations, party supplies but can not seem to decide on a theme. Do I want to go black and white and get a bunch of joke decorations from like Spencer’s or a more serious party. I love to be able to have his sisters come from out of state too. I have written them letters about this but have not heard back from anyone regarding it either. That is very frustrating. I will give it a few more weeks then decide. I know if my friends online lived near us they would come just because! Funny it seems I get more support from my friends than family!!

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Now that he signed the bill

July 31, 2008

So today I been thinking, well when your at the hospital waiting for your test to start you tend to think, and I wonder now that President Bush signed that housing bill, how this will not only effect those home owners facing foreclosure, but the mortgage lenders? Will companies benefit too? Although I will never understand someone buying a house that can not afford at a sub prime rate which made their payment literally below what they would of normally paid in the first place, and think they would not have trouble later on? I feel sorry for them BUT I don’t. They got over their heads and I don’t feel sorry for the banks that did that either. What were they thinking? I guess I have a hard time with this because there are so many folks who can barely make ends meet, there are those who are Veterans and get little to no help, and those sleeping on the streets because they are homeless, that I think need more help. I am very torn about this bill.

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Nervous

July 30, 2008

ONE word to describe how I feel? Nervous! Very much so! My hubby keeps asking me questions about the CT Angiogram and what they are going to do, how long will it take. I have NO idea how to answer him I don’t know. I feel over whelmed from his questions. I know he is worried but it just more than I can handle at the moment. I have another headache, its like every day this week. I wonder if this one is a tension headache since I am nervous about my test tomorrow.

I don’t understand why I can’t eat or drink for three hours before my test when they are just doing the test on my head. So unless I get up really early, I will be getting up brushing my teeth and spitting out water and that will be it till after 11:00am sometime.

So I am heading to bed… Have a good night

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How can they be missing?

July 30, 2008

I have been going through stuff getting ready to have a garage sale. I was going to have it starting tomorrow but since I have my CT Angiogram, that’s not going to happen now. Good thing I didn’t place my ad for the sale in the paper yet. So I found our old digital camera but the memory cards are missing. I had two memory cards for that and there are some photos on the one I wanted and you think I can find them? I know they were in the case with the camera, so how could they just come up missing? I checked every where. I know my stepson borrowed the camera when he was putting stuff he wanted to sell on EBay, I think that is where they are, but he swears up and down he doesn’t have them that he returned them. So now I am driving myself buggy trying to find them. Don’t you just hate that, you know you put something some place and then poof missing?

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So very sad

July 30, 2008

I am active at a scrap gallery and viewed a layout today that just made me feel so very sad inside. This couple had a baby and was a preemie and she did a layout with journaling that talked about all the Christmas presents she had to take back and how she broke down because her baby didn’t make it. Such a scary and sad thought. It reminded me of something. As a parent you never want to think about getting child life insurance, when your purchasing life insurance for yourself. You know once when my kids were little I thought about getting insurance on them because its expensive whether its an adult or child to have to bury them and my mom thought I was being cynical. She actually tried to make me sound like I was just being morbid when I wasn’t. Sadly enough when it comes to life insurance, it is really a necessity anymore, in todays times when things are tight without extras added to it.

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The girls mom called

July 30, 2008

The girls mom called me a little bit ago. She forgot their lunch bags yesterday. It’s so cute, sometimes they pack their lunch to bring to my house, if mom is packing a lunch for herself. She was telling me how next Tuesday she is leaving to go down to her moms to stay for the week and has the luggage out, to start packing this weekend, since she works those two long days. I have the girls my Build a Bear Kitties, so when they are not coming to my house anymore they can give the kitties a hug and I would would feel that hug each time they hugged the kitties. Well they both told their mom they have to take “Suzy and Suzy-Q” with them so they can send me lots of hugs from their grandma’s. They even sleep with the kitties. Isn’t that just cute. I teared up. My last day with them is August 12, I lost two weeks due to vacations they are being taken. I am so sad but can not show that in front of the girls. I will miss them so much.

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Neurologist called with results

July 29, 2008

Today has definitely been an eventful day to say the least. First after I was checked in for my test, the MRI equipment went down so they had to call one of the hospitals to figure out which one could squeeze me in since that medical campus was out of order. I ended up at the hospital and squeezed in. I was sent home with a CD of the images (yes I looked). I was home for about two hours when the phone rang.

It was my neurologist calling, the radiologist faxed him my report which is leading to another test unfortunately. One of the main arteries shows something, that is about 2 millimeters in size and said a further scan is needed. I am scheduled to have a CT Angiogram on Thursday morning. For this test I am not to eat or drink for three hours prior to the test. I have to be back at the hospital by 9:45 Thursday morning.

Needless to say I am a bit shook up and very nervous. However my neurologist said he doesn’t feel this issue has to do with my headaches, just something that happen to “pop” up while checking with the MRI/MRA. So he is very confident my headaches are only migraines. But he has not ruled out the possibility of a blockage or aneurysm.

They have to call my insurance company again for pre-authorization. I was literally shaking when I was talking to the doctor, and my hubby still doesn’t know yet as he is not home from work yet.

I did the MRI/MRA today w/o a sedative but let me tell you that thing was so noisy I have a headache, shock shock right? I mean really loud. They put a wash cloth over my eyes to help me keep my eyes closed. My chest was so tight when I got out that I had to sit a few minutes I could not stand without staggering.

I may end up in bed early again tonight……..

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