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First off I wanted to update everyone on how I’m doing with my pneumonia. I’m feeling a bit better, but I have found that simply going down stairs to change laundry, or vacuuming is enough for me to over due it! I get weak and shaky and cough my lungs up after trying those simple chores. Its SO frustrating! Grrrr! I feel like such a useless ‘gimp-a-zoid’! I have a hole new respect for anyone who has been through this! I always thought of pneumonia as a flue like thing that just came and went, but after this I really know what its like! And man, I feel for ANYONE who’s had this Nasty, icky, craptastic crud!

Thankfully I have had some Wonderful people helping me out! Mark has taken the job of Daddy and Mommy for the past 2 weeks!!! He does better at it then I do!!!! ;) Mark has been such a trooper! I totally am the luckiest woman in the world! (Mark YOU ROCK! Thanks Sugar!!!)

And my WONDERFUL sister in law Rachael was here for almost a week, and she graciously helped with feeding the kids, doing cleaning, and being good company for me!

One of the Most frustrating things for me is I can’t laugh at all!!!!!!!!!! And for those of you who know me well, you’ll know how bad that is! I’m like the guy on Mary Poppins “I Love to laugh He he ha ha! Loud and long and clear.” Its TERRIBLE for me! If I even let a giggle escape I start coughing so fiercely that it drains my whole body of energy!!!!!! So basically I haven’t been able to enjoy a good laugh for 2 weeks!!!!! And its Really hard when Rachael and Mark get slap-happy at night! They are hillarious! I really had coughing fits with those two around!! But what even worse was Rachael and her twin Erin! Those two just have to sit together and they start giggling! Their brain waves are connected and they are just a giggly pair!!! I love those two! But man, I just couldnt hold back the giggles and that would start me coughing up a lung again! Then they started saying that they were killing me! LOL sigh Ahh well, it was worth it! ;)
(Thats just been totally ‘Sucktastic’ for me!!!)

I also wanted to send out a HUGE thank you to Everyone who has brought in dinners, or picked up the kids to go play at their house!!! I really have a great neighborhood and ward!
My friends are the most ‘Fantabulous’ bunch of people I could have ever wished for!!! Thanks Everyone!


I also wanted to post the pictures of my more recent crochet projects I’ve done. I was so sick there for a while that I couldn’t even do that, but now that I’m not sleeping all day, I have been able to pick that up for something to do. So here are some that I have finished:

I also finished a dragon, but didn’t get a good picture of that, I’ll have to do that and post it, he was cute!


Also, in other news, 4 of our puppies have been reserved for a new home when they are able to leave mommy. I’m shocked because I haven’t placed an add or anything, its just been ‘through the grape vine’ that people call and ask to see them. Crazy! But they are all going to Great homes! I’m just Thrilled for them!

I went to see my doctor today for a check up on my lovely wonderful hacking cough thing that has had me flat on my back for 7 days. It was originally diagnosed at an after hours clinic as an infection in the sinuses, but today, I apparently have pneumonia in my left lung!
He has me going in tomorrow morning to check my oxygen levels, he said if its getting worse he’ll want to admit me to the hospitol.

Well, fun for me.
So, I wont be online much, I’m still just doing what I have been doing for the past 7 days, laying down, or sitting and resting.
Well, TTFN

So, I thought I would make a quick note on what we have decided to do for school for our girls this coming year.
We have both decided FOR SURE that public school in this area is just NOT an option!!! Mark recently learned of the high percentage of teenage kids in our area that are illiterate! (Mind boggling isnt it!)
So, I got thinking why I wanted some kind of change…. and I finally figured it out! K12 stressed me out. It was more like doing public school at home, except the kids were actually getting a fairly good education!!! haha
Anyway, so what we decided to do is to branch out on our own and start buying our own curriculum and using that.
We talked about all the social interactions/activities that the girls do, so we know they wont be starved for socialization.
I’m am going to be meeting with several home school mother friends of mine to look at what they use so I can make an educated decision on what I would like to get for the girls.

If anyone has a suggestion, I’m WIDE open for thoughts on that!!!


So,.... thats it.
and remember; Your mind is like a parachute, it works Best when Open!

Savannah had a follow up with our Dr.this week, the one that is treating me for fibro. He previously had Loads of blood tests done, and we got an x-ray of her spine for her scoliosis. Good news is, her scoliosis is pretty slight, so thats Great!!! He said if the adjustments keep the head aches away, then to keep doing it.
As far as her other pain, he was going to have her see a specialist, a neurologist, so they could get an idea of what’s going on with the nerves and the brain.
He said they’ll probably do an MRI. And then I told him she’d already had one at the beginning of this year when we went to the ER at Primary Children’s Medical Center, when she was getting weird stuff happening with her vision.
So, then the doctor said “Well, I can’t think of anything else to check for. I’ve never diagnosed or treated a child with fibro, but it sure seems like she’s got it”.

(Side note- this doctor is the coolest MD I’ve ever met! He is not afraid of new ideas or possibilities that he is not familiar with! He said he is going to have to start doing research in Fibro in kids. So, Kudos to our ‘Rock-tastic’ Dr Miles!!!!!!)

So, he is having her take a VERY small dose of a muscle relaxer at bed time, the same one I take, only a much smaller dose. He is hoping this helps!


My wonderful mother found a couple useful web sites for me, I wanted to post one in case anyone was interested in reading up on it:

http://health.learninginfo.org/fibromyalgia-children.htm
In this site, and in a book I’ve read, some children actually grow out of it! So, I’m hoping and praying that this is how Savannah’s fibro will be!


Her fibro will be treated Very much the same way as mine. Exercise, but not overdue it, and lots of support from family and friends!


In other news, I currently sound like a canadian goose that swallowed a fog horn!!
2 days ago I took a nap while Mark was watching the kids, and I woke up with no voice. I felt fine though. But, by the time night hit, I was feverish and every inch of my skin hurt! (don’t ya just love that feeling?)
During the night I started learning how to do impressions of a “Canadian-foghorn!” LOL I feel like I’m trying to cough up my lungs! Oie! Not much fun!


Moving on now, our puppies are almost 2 weeks old now, and none have opened their eyes just yet. That happens at about 14 days. So, thats pretty soon now… WEEEEEEEE!
We have one that we think is trying to sing!!! I kid you not!!! Mark and the girls came up with a great nick-name for that pup, Elvis!
(They were trying to come up with a cute singers name) Anyway, its adorable to listen to him sing!!! LOL
The girls LOVE this part of the puppy thing! They get to name a pup ANYTHING they want, and in this litter, they get to name 2 each!
Mark and I came up with a GREAT name for our grey and black dapple colored one.
I was suggesting something that might make you think of an “inkblot”, or splattered paint, but sound more name-ish. So mark typed in Inkblot, and he found the name of the guy who invented the very first inkblot test, and we named that pup after him.
Rorschach! (pronounced Rore-shack)
I love it cause its So… different, and its meaning ROCKS!
I’m still trying to convince Mark that we should keep him!!!!
So, in 6 weeks or so, we’ll see what happens there! ;)


My thought for the week:
“If “that which does not kill you makes you stronger”, having Fibromyalgia must make me invincible!
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Goodnight folks!

Here are our 7 pups at 4 days old.
They kinda stay clumped together so we’ll get better pictures when they are a bit older. hehe


Enjoy!