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Well, there has been a lot that has been happening lately,
so I’ll fill you in on fun stuff first.
My family and I took a long road-trip for my husband’s
niece’s wedding. We left from Michigan
last Tuesday, and arrived in Columbus, Texas on Thursday, with the wedding
being on Friday, May 8th. I didn’t get to do any driving, since my
doctor has not allowed me to resume driving, which is very frustrating to me,
since it’s been almost 4 years now, but between my hubby and my daughter and my
step-daughter whom still has her permit, we did okay for the 22 hour
drive. The wedding was VERY
untraditional, a country- theme with all the bridesmaids wearing cowboy boots
with their fancy dresses. Even the bride had on cowboy boots under her
beautiful dress, but we didn’t learn that until they did their first dance at
the reception. The reception was outside under a pavilion with picnic tables
covered in white tablecloths and the entire thing had white lights strung all around,
flowers in mason jars. It was very pretty. My husband was a DJ for 25+ years,
and although he has retired from spinning tunes, he borrowed equipment so he
could keep his promise to her that he would DJ her wedding. But, even that has a story to go with it. On
Friday morning we had to drop Allison (my step-daughter) off at the hair salon,
since she was standing up in the wedding, and then we went to the pavilion to
setup the music equipment, did a little bit of estate sale shopping (I didn’t
find anything I wanted L
), then we attempted to go back to our motel, only to learn there was a huge
car accident right in front of our motel and the police wouldn’t let anyone
through. We were stranded for hours before they opened part of the road, And,
by some grace of God, we got back with just enough time to change clothes and
run a brush through my hair and we were not late for the nuptials.
Unfortunately we did learn that the accident was an 18 wheeler/semi-truck that
had jackknifed and had a man in a Ford F250 pickup trapped in the wreckage. We
never got any other details, so I don’t know if anyone died, but I’m sure
prayers would be welcome, regardless of when you’re reading this. Anyhow, we
all had a great time at the reception. On Saturday we just relaxed while
Allison visited with family from her Mother’s side of the family and on Sunday
we worked our way to Memphis for the night… and drove through all of the bad
storms, then on Monday we arrived in Nashville and had dinner with my nephew
and his family. We spent Tuesday site-seeing and my nephew went with us too,
which I’m grateful for that time with him since it was the first time I’ve seen
him in 4 years. Its so hard when family live out-of-state. It costs so much to
fly, especially when you need to buy four tickets, so I don’t get to see many
members of my family as I wish, with my nephew in Nashville, his dad/my brother
and my sister and their families live in California. I’m sure I am not alone in
wishing for a cheaper way to be developed…i.e. transport machines, it is 2015
after all. I thought when I was a kid that we would be living like the Jetson’s
by now.
So, now that I filled y’all in in my vacation, I’ll give you
the rundown on my health. I am meeting
with my Gastroenterology doctor and my Neurology doctor at the end of this
month. As usual, the Ct-scan they did came back as normal and they didn’t see
any hernias, even though I can feel them. No one seems to have any answers and
I am back to being the hot-potato that gets passed around. I’ve been so
frustrated with everything and thinking that maybe this is all in my head, so I
setup and appointment with a psychiatrist whom I saw before we left for our
trip. She was very nice and listened as I explained my whole story and she said
that she believes me and no, it’s not all in my head. Seeing her didn’t help
much, except give me some ideas and a place to vent. She suggested that since
it appears so many people are in a similar situation having had bariatric
surgery or has had their gall bladder removed and are now having the same
problems, that I should start my own support group. I am actually qualified to
do so, since my Associates Degree is in Health Administration and my Bachelor’s
Degree is in Human Resources and Management. I’ve just never thought it was
something I could do since I started getting sick, so now that the trip is done,
I have some thinking to do.
One other note (I am posting this on the facebook page, as
well as the website, so no one in the group misses it.)
I have joined another closed group on facebook and although
this is mainly for jewelry makers, you all may want to check it out. https://www.facebook.com/groups/bsueboutiquescreativegroup/
Brenda Sue Lansdowne is absolutely one of the nicest people
I have met through FB. She has an actual
store B’Sue’s Boutique where she sells all kinds of jewelry findings, chain,
pendants, charms, pearls and a ton of vintage or vintage remade items. Her
prices are better than anywhere else I’ve been able to find. She has tons of
free jewelry making tutorials on youtube. Also, she does contests/challenges,
offers great discounts and even gives free stuff away. It is definitely worth
checking out, if you haven’t heard about her already.
So, that’s it for now. I’ll keep you all posted if anything
changes.
Love, S.
