Month in review!

Here are a few pictures to go with my review:

Since Christmas life has been slow around my house. I'm enjoying the cold weather. I got all my Christmas decorations down and semi put away. I packed my ornaments away, individually wrapped and in their own tub but everything else is just piled up waiting to be carefully packed away in a new tub I bought a couple weeks ago. Just can't seem to bring myself to stop walking past it and to it to get it done. Before I can actually store it away in the closet I need to clean out the closet and organize and get rid of things but...............I'm not in the organizing mood! That mood has either gone to sleep or on a long extended vacation. She'll be back someday and when she does she will do some damage around here.

A week ago Sunday I had one of my episodes to where I feel like I am going to pass out, my heart is racing, I'm sweating profusely and my body is not responding to my mind. SCARY!!

I finally, not sure how, compose myself enough to get down some orange juice, potassium tablets and some peanut butter and within 15 minutes I felt like a new person. I can usually tell when these episodes are going to happen and I am able to head them off with the OJ, potassium and some protein but this time there was no warning. It scared me pretty bad and so I decided with some persuading from Crystal and Danny to go to the ER to have it checked out. This was around 5 pm Sunday evening when Danny and I left the house. They did blood work to check my sugar and my potassium and said those looked good. I told them of my families history of silent heart-attacks and so my doctor decided to keep me over night for a 23 hour heart monitor and a brain scan to make sure I didn't have any bugs in there!! Everything checked out great. SO...................................................... the problem? Seems to be that being a post gastric by-pass patient I am experiencing what they call DUMPING!! Where my sugar will just bottom out. I have to catch it as soon as I feel it coming on so I don't pass out and possibly go into what is called a diabetic coma. Even though I'm not a diabetic it could happen. I was instructed to eat evey 2-3 hours to keep my sugar up. Man, I feel like I am eating all the time. So if you happen to see me eating in Church, while walking thru Wal-Mart, in the doctors office , where-ever...........that is why. It will more than likely be me with my trusty jar of peanut butter and a spoon. And....NO .....................I won't share. S O R R Y !!!!!!!

Last week it snowed a little and we were prepared food wise. We went and bought our bread, milk, canned soups and goodies. Danny and I were settled in for whatever was to come. I even made sure we had plenty of kerosene for our heaters incase the power went out. I think we got maybe a inch of snow. I was a little disappointed, but at the same time excited that we didn't lose power. That is so depressing to me. I can handle it for a while but not very long. God knew exactly what he was doing when he put me in the 20th-21st century. I would not have made a good cave woman or pioneer woman. I LOVE my electricity.