It's been a very long time since I have written on this blog. It was before we moved from Dayton to Bradner. We moved here 2 years ago this past November. The move was extremely hard, but is so much for the better.
We are slowly working on the house the best we can. We put in laminate flooring, as the house had horrible filthy carpets. We painted all the walls, Have done a lot of landscaping. We still have some to do, but it looks so much better than it did.
My health has been pretty crappy, but things could be worse, I suppose. I spent a week in the hospital at Christmas last year (2014). I was the diagnosed with COPD. They called it a pneumonia, COPD exaberation. Never even knew I had COPD. I smoked for about 6 mos back in 1999, but only smoked a few a day. They think it is from second hand smoke from childhood and from my hubby. He no longer smokes and hasn't since 2007. He has severe COPD. I also had a C Diff infection since the month before I was in the hospital. We never could get it healed up with medications and ended up having a transplant for it, in July, 2015. My grand daughter was the donor for me. I owe that sweet girl, my life as I was so sick and immune suppressed. I have some really great doctors up here in the Toledo area.
My daughter and grandchildren who live across from my house have been such a blessing to David and I. They keep us both more active and happy. We take them to school and pick them up. Cooper will be 9 in March, Sydney is 13, and Morgan is 15. Taylor will be 21 in March and lives in Bowling Green with room mates.
I have been diagnosed with drop foot in both feet and need custom braces for both legs. I just have to come up with the funds to purchase them. My medicare deductible has to be paid and the 20% co-pay, so now I just need to win the lottery..LOL. I will look like Forest Gump, if and when I can get them. My foot specialist doesn't seem to think I will be able to walk much longer as I have lost so much muscle and strength in my legs from the neuropathy. I am hoping to prove him wrong, but need the braces to help.
Lots of other things have happened this past 2 years, but will close for now. Wonder if anyone will read this? I know I have been terrible, but with all the changes, illness, depression, from those, I just have not felt like blogging. Let me know if you came by.
God Bless~
Debbie
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Thursday, October 10, 2013
1 year ago today, my sweet Momma.
One year ago today, I lost my sweet Momma. I miss you so much. I didn't get a chance to say goodbye. There's been no closure for me. I want the phone to ring, one more time, and see her number on my caller id, and to hear her say, Hi, Debbie. I want to tell her I love her, I miss her and want her back. I know God is taking good care of her, but I am selfish, I want just one more call from her. I want to say goodbye. I hope you knew Momma, that I loved you dearly. She always cried when she told me goodbye and that she loved me. Momma, I hope you can hear me. I LOVE YOU!!!!
God Bless~
Debbie
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Saturday, August 17, 2013
So many things............
So many things have happened this summer. Some wonderful, some not so wonderful.
1st my grand daughter Taylor, graduated high school.
I so remember the day she was born. I was there in the room with my daughter, when Taylor was born. I took one look at her and fell so in love with my new grand daughter. She made me a grandmother (Nanny) at the young age of 39.
When I saw her walk to get her diploma, that love was only larger. She makes me so very proud. She will be attending Bowling Green University this year, where she plans to be a doctor, or Doctor's assistant. That was on June 2nd. We stayed a week up at my daughters then, as my older daughter, who lives in Mississippi and her 3 beautiful children, stayed also. We had a absolute blast.
We came home for a week, then went back up there for her graduation party. It was on the 22nd. We cooked all the food for it, and I made 240 cupcakes, with my grand daughter Morgan's help.
My son, and his son, came up that week, and stayed, so again we stayed a week.
To say June was tiring, is a understatement. It took a week of rest to get caught up.
Then in July, I had my surgery, where they went down and injected botox into 2 places inside my stomach, for the achalashia and the gastroparesis. When I woke up, I was in a full blown active asthma attack. I took some hits off my inhaler, they gave me oxygen, and they sent me home. I no longer got home that I started wheezing again, sneezing, coughing like crazy. My nose was swollen twice it's size, my eyes were crazy. I am allergic to botox!!! I looked and felt absolutely miserable!! It lasted for days. My stomach felt better for about 3-4 days and then that was it, back to all the stomach problems. My doc said no more botox. I see him on Monday to see what's next.
Then we learned we are once again losing our house due to crap from Bank of America, and all the wrong they have done us, so we decided to just give in. So we will be turning the house over to them by November 1st.
Then our van went out. The week before that happened, we had a blow out, and had to spend almost $200.00 on a new tire. We were lucky we were not on the interstate, when it blew, as I am sure we would have rolled the van. David did well at controlling it until we could pull over. God was with us, as we had just gotten off the interstate. It literally shred.
It is a 1996 Ford huge conversion van, so we traded it in and got a small 2010 Toyota Scion. The van didn't have running AC or heat, so at less we can stay cool, and warm!!!
Now we can't take our power chairs anywhere. David says he will make a trailer and we will pull them. It's a nice car, but now we have a car payment, and no way to get our chairs anywhere. In time, I suppose.
Life has been a roller coaster for us lately, and I am ready to get off it. I am ready to get this move taken care of, be able to come up with the money for it, and continue life. I will have to get all new doctors, specialists, etc., which sucks, as I have such good doctor's here. It's all scarey. It's cold enough here and we are moving 2 hours north of here. But the good thing is, we will be where, my daughter is, and if something happens, she is there to help us. Puts my mind at ease.
I know I don't blog a lot, but please know, I do read all your blogs and enjoy them. If you get a chance, let me know you were here. Keep us in your prayers, that we can make this move smoothly, and be able to sale enough things to pay for a truck and gas. I would appreciate all the prayers we can get. God listens and is good to us. And a word to the wise, don't ever finance a home through Bank of America!!!
God Bless~
Debbie
1st my grand daughter Taylor, graduated high school.
I so remember the day she was born. I was there in the room with my daughter, when Taylor was born. I took one look at her and fell so in love with my new grand daughter. She made me a grandmother (Nanny) at the young age of 39.
When I saw her walk to get her diploma, that love was only larger. She makes me so very proud. She will be attending Bowling Green University this year, where she plans to be a doctor, or Doctor's assistant. That was on June 2nd. We stayed a week up at my daughters then, as my older daughter, who lives in Mississippi and her 3 beautiful children, stayed also. We had a absolute blast.
We came home for a week, then went back up there for her graduation party. It was on the 22nd. We cooked all the food for it, and I made 240 cupcakes, with my grand daughter Morgan's help.
My son, and his son, came up that week, and stayed, so again we stayed a week.
To say June was tiring, is a understatement. It took a week of rest to get caught up.
Then in July, I had my surgery, where they went down and injected botox into 2 places inside my stomach, for the achalashia and the gastroparesis. When I woke up, I was in a full blown active asthma attack. I took some hits off my inhaler, they gave me oxygen, and they sent me home. I no longer got home that I started wheezing again, sneezing, coughing like crazy. My nose was swollen twice it's size, my eyes were crazy. I am allergic to botox!!! I looked and felt absolutely miserable!! It lasted for days. My stomach felt better for about 3-4 days and then that was it, back to all the stomach problems. My doc said no more botox. I see him on Monday to see what's next.
Then we learned we are once again losing our house due to crap from Bank of America, and all the wrong they have done us, so we decided to just give in. So we will be turning the house over to them by November 1st.
We are going to move up to my daughter's town, a 1 light town, called Bradner, Ohio, this is near Bowling Green, Toledo area, where we will be doing a land contract on a house across the street from her. It's much smaller, so I have been selling a lot of things that will not fit. This house is half the cost of the house we have here. I will be in the country with corn fields behind me, and to the left of me. Cows right down the street, small town farming USA. My daughter is going to work now, and I will be able to help with the kids. This is the new house. Really needs some landscaping and major updating. We will do it a little at a time. My daughter is going to help me.
Then our van went out. The week before that happened, we had a blow out, and had to spend almost $200.00 on a new tire. We were lucky we were not on the interstate, when it blew, as I am sure we would have rolled the van. David did well at controlling it until we could pull over. God was with us, as we had just gotten off the interstate. It literally shred.
It is a 1996 Ford huge conversion van, so we traded it in and got a small 2010 Toyota Scion. The van didn't have running AC or heat, so at less we can stay cool, and warm!!!
Now we can't take our power chairs anywhere. David says he will make a trailer and we will pull them. It's a nice car, but now we have a car payment, and no way to get our chairs anywhere. In time, I suppose.
Life has been a roller coaster for us lately, and I am ready to get off it. I am ready to get this move taken care of, be able to come up with the money for it, and continue life. I will have to get all new doctors, specialists, etc., which sucks, as I have such good doctor's here. It's all scarey. It's cold enough here and we are moving 2 hours north of here. But the good thing is, we will be where, my daughter is, and if something happens, she is there to help us. Puts my mind at ease.
I know I don't blog a lot, but please know, I do read all your blogs and enjoy them. If you get a chance, let me know you were here. Keep us in your prayers, that we can make this move smoothly, and be able to sale enough things to pay for a truck and gas. I would appreciate all the prayers we can get. God listens and is good to us. And a word to the wise, don't ever finance a home through Bank of America!!!
God Bless~
Debbie
Saturday, July 20, 2013
THINGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME
Things my Mother taught me and I passed on to my kids...
1. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
"Your room looks like a tornado hit it."
2. My mother taught me about RELIGION.
"You better pray that comes out of the carpet."
3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week."
4. My mother taught me about OSMOSIS.
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."
5. My mother taught me about the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, I can take you out."
6. My mother taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of less fortunate children in the world who don't have wonderful parents like you."
7. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
"You are going to get it when we get home."
8. My mother taught me about GENEALOGY.
"Shut that door... You think you were raised in a barn?"
9. My mother taught me about JUSTICE.
"One day you'll have kids... I hope they turn out just like you!"
10. My mother taught me about LOGIC.
"Because I said so, That's why."
11. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until your spinach is gone."
12. My mother taught me about IRONY.
"Keep crying. I'll give you something to cry about."
I read this and loved it, as it's so true for me. I heard each one of these things growing up!! LOL.
I hope everyone is staying cool, as it's HOT out there. We have had a High Temperature Warning for 5 days now. It's supposed to cool down a little this weekend. I sure hope it does.
I am having some stomach surgery Thursday, the 25th. I have a condition called achalasia, and also have a condition called gastroparesis. They are going to put me to sleep under general anesthesia, put a instrument down my esophagus and take a needle down and try and inject botox into 2 different areas on my stomach. At the top and the bottom. We hope this helps for a while. The longest is 6-12 mos. I can have this repeated as long as it works, but if it doesn't, it will require a quite extensive serious surgery. Praying this works. I am keeping optimistic. :-).
1. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
"Your room looks like a tornado hit it."
2. My mother taught me about RELIGION.
"You better pray that comes out of the carpet."
3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week."
4. My mother taught me about OSMOSIS.
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."
5. My mother taught me about the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, I can take you out."
6. My mother taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of less fortunate children in the world who don't have wonderful parents like you."
7. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
"You are going to get it when we get home."
8. My mother taught me about GENEALOGY.
"Shut that door... You think you were raised in a barn?"
9. My mother taught me about JUSTICE.
"One day you'll have kids... I hope they turn out just like you!"
10. My mother taught me about LOGIC.
"Because I said so, That's why."
11. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until your spinach is gone."
12. My mother taught me about IRONY.
"Keep crying. I'll give you something to cry about."
I read this and loved it, as it's so true for me. I heard each one of these things growing up!! LOL.
I hope everyone is staying cool, as it's HOT out there. We have had a High Temperature Warning for 5 days now. It's supposed to cool down a little this weekend. I sure hope it does.
I am having some stomach surgery Thursday, the 25th. I have a condition called achalasia, and also have a condition called gastroparesis. They are going to put me to sleep under general anesthesia, put a instrument down my esophagus and take a needle down and try and inject botox into 2 different areas on my stomach. At the top and the bottom. We hope this helps for a while. The longest is 6-12 mos. I can have this repeated as long as it works, but if it doesn't, it will require a quite extensive serious surgery. Praying this works. I am keeping optimistic. :-).
This should be in and out if all goes well. Had all my pre-op lab work done yesterday.
I was out in the back yard yesterday and saw this bird's nest on the back wall of our patio.
It was way to high up for me to see inside it, to see if it was empty, or had eggs or baby bird's, so David came out and snapped a pic for me.
It was empty, but isn't it amazing how birds build a nest? Look how perfectly round it is. God's handy work for sure.
Well if you got this far in reading, let me know!! LOL.
I know I am the world's worst blogger, but I am still a blogger, just a bad one...LOL..
I love you all!!!
God Bless~
Debbie
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