St. Agony Strikes Again!!!

At this very moment my mother is in emergency surgery on her bowel. Over the weekend she was struck w/ an overwhelming stomach pain. It hurt for her to even breath. So dad took her to St. Anthony Hospital in Effingham where they ran up some blood work and gave her some zantac and nausea medication. Which seem to work at the moment, then they decided to run some x-rays of her abdomen.

In the x-rays, they of course found nothing. No problems in her stomach at all!! They didn't even feel on her stomach to find her sensitive points - NOTHING! Then they sent her home.

At home she seemed to be better but still having a little abdominal discomfort. They gave her quite a bit of pain medication before she left the hospital so she thought she was doing good. However, as the time seemed to pass and the meds wore off the discomfort started creeping back. She was able to eat but not much and for her not much is bad anymore. The pain still continued....

Finally on Monday she called her specialist in Springfield who immediately ask her if they ran this test or that test and her response was always no. All they did were x-rays. Her specialist was furious and wanted to see her right away. So Tuesday afternoon she and dad headed up to Springfield where she was taken in for testing and they quickly found out what her problem has been all along. A twisted bowel!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, St. Anthony Memorial Hospital ER completely MISDIAGNOSED my mother!!!!! So now we found out that her bowel was 180 degrees twisted and if she wouldn't have questioned Effy ER part of her bowel could have died and needed to be removed. Which would have been even more devastating!

The good thing of all this is my mom is now fixed. I just got a call from dad and her surgery went great and since they did it orthoscopically she may even be able to come home late this afternoon. Somedays I feel if it wasn't for bad luck our family wouldn't have any luck at all. Hopefully now this will all be behind us and mom's going to be her spunky, bubbly self again.

No thanks to ST. AGONY HOSPITAL

Is it just my hormones?

You know I'm very weight conscious and in all reality I'm very hard on myself prego or not. Today I had a moment where I was talking w/ my boss out in our shop about a customers concern when I hear from the side "Man your getting fat!" from an employee we just hired two weeks ago.

I think he knew by the look on my face I was less than thrilled by his comment. You know, I am pretty open minded, and yes I work in a shop full of guys and yes were all pretty close and joke around a lot. However, coming from a guy I barely know this comment made smoke roll out of my ears.

I don't know if I'm overreacting a simple comment or maybe my hormones are just taking over, but this comment has put my mood down and I'm a little bummed out.

Damn New Guy!!!

Need to Gripe!

OK, I know I haven't been on here much lately but I think I'm going through a bloggers blah or something. I haven't been in any mood to blog about my simple happenings in life. To be honest with you, I've been very moody lately and extremely opinionated. I usually try to keep my opinions to myself but today I lost it w/ one of my guys here at work.

I'm really big on appearances and when in the public eye on a daily basis I feel you should take pride in how you represent who your working for. Now from my past blogs I'm sure everyone understands how much I appreciate my job. I wish everyone at my job treated our bosses with a little more appreciation. I think starting with your appearance is crutial.

I walk into work this morning, not having the best of Mondays to begin with, sit down at my desk and in walks one of my tire techs and he stands right in front of me. What is the 1st thing I see, A BIG FAT HICKIE on his neck. This is just uncalled for and very unprofessional and it's not the 1st time with him. Pardon me for saying, but I feel it's soooo white trashy! Can't people get enough love makin in bed without leaving the details. To be honest, thats an inmage I care not think about every time I see him either, yuck! I of course had a comment explode from my mouth immediately:

Me:

Did you forget to feed your girlfriend this weekend?

Co-Worker:

Ha Ha, ya I guess so.

Me:

Don't you thing a T-bone would have been more nutritious?

CW:

(He snickers quietly at me with this very intelligent answer)

Ya probly.

Then he walks away laughing, like what he has on his neck is a trophy to the fact he has a girlfriend. I just wanted to knock him out!!!

I'm not really sure why this has upset me so much but hopefully after finishing this blog, taking a few deep breaths, and checking out what everyone else has been up to, I'll feel better.

FAMILY: What would life be like?

Do you ever just feel like barricading yourself in your house and secluding yourself from family drama? Well I do sometimes, and today is one of them. I would love to give some people a piece of my mind.

I'm not saying in any sense of the fashion that I always do everything right but I know when I go to bed at night I have done my best to help anyone who needs it. I'm a giver not a taker. When I am wrong, I do my best to fix my mistake.

I get so sick of being the nice guy. So tired of doing the right thing. So tired of always being the bigger person. I'm only human and my skin is only so deep.

That saying "The straw that broke the camel's back". Ya that has huge meaning to me when it comes to one certain unnamed family member. You know who you are and I'm tired of your inconsideration to everyone in the family. I think just maybe once you should step up and be a responsible person.

It doesn't matter what your background in life looks like. At some point you have to WANT to better yourself as a whole; as a mom, as a friend, as a wife, as a daughter, as everything. I know I've had my ups and downs in life, who hasn't. You just have to learn from the mistakes and grow from the good times. That's life....get used it!! Your not a child anymore your an adult w/ children, START ACTING LIKE IT! You shouldn't expect everyone else to still take care of you and your family. We have our own to take care of!

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Now that I've said my piece I feel a lot better. I still haven't decided what I'm going to do w/ my current situation but I have a little time to determine my options.

Oh Happy Days :-)

Warning!

Well I have had some bad days but last Thursday was by far the worst! On July 24, 2008 I was pulled over for speeding!!!!!! I was doing 43mph in a 30mph -- UHG, busted! There is no worse of a feeling that just knowing you are at the mercy of a Police Officer. Luck being abnormally on my side that day the extremely nice officer let me head off w/ a simple warning....wow!

Disturbing Show....

I have always wondered how I wasn't a Vegetarian. As much as I LOVE animals of all species I've always had very little problem eating a nice juicy steak or a good pork BBQ sandwich. I think I've managed so long because I never really thought about what I was eating at that moment.

Well, this past Tuesday Caleb had a ballgame and we went to eat dinner afterwards then we stopped by my gma Millie's to visit for a bit. To make a long story short, we got home a little late. By the time I got to bed it was about 10:15 and I wanted to watch some t.v. as I always do to help me fall asleep. I know, its a bad habit. Anyway, I flipped it to channel 60 which is FX in our area (cable). The show that I found was called 30 Days. I've heard of it before but had never seen it. This time it was about the abuse of animals. All animals, pets and farm raised. I have never been so disgusted by something in my life. The way these farm animals are handled and treated from birth on is horrendous!! These poor babies are stuck in a 4 X 6 crate standing side by side what looked like for miles. These "farm hands" were needing to move the babies to a different location and would open the back of the crate and just pull the poor, scared, and defenseless babies out of them by the tail, leg, whatever they could get there hands on first and herd them onto a trailer for transport. TRULY PITIFUL!!!
I also watched how they would take the sick and sluggish babies and just throw them on the side of the road or in a field somewhere to let them lay there alone and DIE!!

I know I'm a "city girl" and I know nothing about farming but just from watching this show Tuesday I haven't been able to touch any kind of meat since then. It simply makes my stomach turn thinking about it! I'm sure not all farmers treat there livestock like this and I realize what I was watching came from the state of TX and they were all verrryyy large cattle plants/farms but I still don't understand there concept of "farming". I can only pray for the animals that must suffer so inhumanely.