Category: My Life

Sunday was a wonderful day. A new friend of mine, Diane, came by with my s=cousin, Janet, and we talked about Lyme Disease. Diane has it and she told me all she has learnt over the years. She had prepared a notebook for me, with all the information about Lyme Disease, treatments available, and doctors in the area that treat the disease.

I’ve been rather depressed about having been so sick for so long, but today I felt hope for the first time. Now I know treatment is still a a ways down the road, but I will be patient and eventually I will get the treatment I need.

Then in the late afternoon I hopped over to another friend’s home. She was having  a small gathering for a man who is running for Congress. I liked him very much, and with him good luck.

However, the best part of the evening was seeing friends from the town I live in. No one has really seen me since I had all the plastic surgery. Everyone was kind. They told me how well I’d healed.

It felt great to be out again.

Saturday was the first time I have been out and about since last August. Pretty much all Autumn and Winter I have not been able to do anything alone. Poor Hubby has driven me most places, except a few times I was feeling I could make a trek.

Today I literally did a big trip. I gassed up the station wagon, and picked up a few things at the Warehouse Club we belong to, I went to Walmart to get a few things, and then did a full grocery shopping at Market Basket in the crazy, madness of Saturday afternoon.

There were screaming babies, harried parents, the elderly in their electronic carts, and people restocking shelves as quickly as they are emptied.

About three o’clock I realized I had missed lunch and my blood sugar was low, so I grabbed a quick hamburger and diet root beer. That kept me going until dinner tonight.

Hubby worked really hard while I was gone. Our driveway was all snow and ice, and pretty bad. Hubby chopped up the ice, and pushed it all off the tarred driveway. It’s a tad tricky at the very top, but really, he did a great job on the 500 feet of our drive downhill to the house.

Arnie has been such a comfort to Jack. They pal around together, and Arnie is so loving. You know, Arnie wasn’t supposed to be ours. I had sold him to someone else and because of life changes, this person changed her mind. Well, after 12 weeks of Arnie being with us, we were sunk. Arnie was ours!

This morning at breakfast an economist was talking about buying meats, chicken, fish, etc. when they are on sale and freezing things. Today it was corned beef brisket. I had already gotten one for Monday, but since they are only $1.99 a pound I grabbed two more and tossed them in the freezer.

So the day is done, and I am really tired. I think I will go to bed and read and then go to sleep. Night everyone!

Those of you who have been with me for a while will recall that I do not have the Midas touch with thinks like, computers, coffee makers, watches, TV’s or printers. In fact my theory is, that I have some sort of electrical disturbance within me which causes things to just blow up, malfunction or quit.

Tonight Hubby was trying to print some documents and suddenly we noted that all the laptops on the network had their print drivers changed.So none of our computers were speaking to our old Hewlett Packard PS1000 printer.

After about a half an hour of trouble shooting I decided to remove the installed printers (there were like four PS1000 printers installed on each machine, so throwing caution to the wind, I did the remove and then a fresh install.

I then held my breath and printed a test page from each computer. One, two, three, and it printed off of one machine, and then the other.

Now this made me feel pretty good. However, both Hubby and I are operating on Windows XP, which of course will not be supported very soon. Call me disappointed! This Toshiba Laptop is the first laptop I have had that did not die on me.

I have had a rotten day. Well, actually not fully rotten, but since I had hoped to see Mandy and Savannah today and didn’t, well call me disappointed.

I haven’t been feeling well for a while. In fact it’s been a long while. I didn’t know why I was, but I just thought that I kept getting the flu. Over and over I was getting sick with severe flu-like symptoms and terrible high fevers (103.6). Most of all, joint arthralgias that have left me nearly unable to move.

I finally have reached the point where I knew if I was going to get better I needed to be assertive and fight for answers.

I’ve done research, read books and gone over my records with a fine tooth comb. Finally it all fell together and I realized what was wrong with me. I armed myself with pictures, records, and such and went in to see my regular doctor last week.

After going through everything, including a bulls-eye rash on my leg 2 years ago, my doctor and I are more than convinced that it is Lyme Disease. Since it was left untreated at the start it has become severe.

I have almost no immune system left, and I get sick almost as soon as I am off antibiotics. So when I heard that both Mandy and Savannah were ill, we postponed the visit.

Truthfully, today was a bad day health-wise. I ached and felt weak, had a fever and had to force myself to get things done.

So, Gentle Readers, I will be sent to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, for evaluations and treatment options.

I’ve been reluctant to write about this, but at this point, I needed to get it out. Perhaps so when I don’t write as I normally do, you will understand and forgive me. Writing Dackel Princess has been a true joy for me since I began in May of 2005. I fear it will be a long road to recovery, but I am willing to fight back.

Hubby and I went out today to get the grocery shopping done. It was a crappy day, but Hubby was convinced that the stores would be empty and we’ve breeze in and out.

How wrong he was. The stores were packed and this meant it took us forever to get the shopping done. Worse than that was driving back home, we got his with a fierce hail storm. Unbelievable!

We finally got in, and I raced in so I could walk the dogs and get them their dinner. Hubby was a doll and brought up all the groceries. Of course I still had to put it all away, but that’s okay.

Tomorrow my girls are coming for lunch. I can hardly wait!

In the last few days we have had snow, and then snow, and then more snow. In fact as I write, it is snowing once again!

Enough! I want spring!!!

I went to Weight Watchers and I did indeed lose some weight! Yay! I think the key for me is to write everything down that I eat and keep track of my points. I also need to make better selections. And learn to love what I am eating. More fruit, more vegetables, and more fish!

Right now I not only need to lose weight, but I need to use nutrition to help rebuild my immune system. I’ve had a rough Autumn/Winter physically and I don’t think I have much resistance to anything.

In fact I go to the doctor today to see about finding a way to get well and stay well. I sure hope he can help.

Well, I was talking to Hubby the other day about my frustration in organizing my life. Where on earth do I start? Unfortunately I am not one of those super neat people who goes through life touching things, only to find that the item leaves my hand and miraculously arrives right where it is supposed to be. No, that’s not me. I will confess that I have junk drawers in every room! Doesn’t everyone? No?

So my goal is to start and room by room rid myself of these junk drawers and do something that is very hard for me to do.

Throw things away!

I’m one of those people who thinks, “How can we throw this away? We might need it in ten years!”

So, since I am mostly house bound these days due to the snow and ice, I might as well make good use of this time and start organizing. I have to do this before that TV show “Hoarders” comes a calling.

Yes, it’s time for me to break out the cleaning tools and clean up all my junk!

On Wednesday I returned to Weight Watchers. I had been unable to go since before Thanksgiving. I was so nervous and although the “news” wasn’t good, the fact that I went back and now want to start and get myself back on the losers wagon, is good news indeed!

Last year wasn’t good to my waistline. With all of the surgeries, and the fact that I looked like Frankenstein, I just did not care how many chocolates I ate, or cookies, or anything else that was going to make me fat. What did it matter?

However, my face has healed and my body is not the body I want to be walking around in. So, it was back to class I went.

The other members were all so wonderful and made me feel welcome to be back once again. I listened to everyone and today I just kept my mouth shut. Sometimes you just need to soak things up.

I have a long way to go, but I promise to keep you all up to date on my progress.