Little update~ The Critical Care Solutions main office in Houston just called. They just got the orders faxed to them from my transplant coordinator. Ramona, my nurse will be coming Monday to draw blood from my port. Ramona is my home health nurse, she is a RN. So I won't have to worry about getting blood drawn. I just have to get the x-ray and PFT scheduled. I was just told by nurse in my local doctor's office, that I don't have to schedule the xray, I can just show up any time that the radiology outpatient department is open and give them the orders then. I have to have the PFT scheduled in advance though.
And I forgot to tell you about this.
Last Thursday, Mr. Curley McCarey passed away. I found out when I got home from transplant clinic. He was 92yo and a great horseman, he gave me lots of good pointers and advice! I used to ride my horses down to his house and he and his wife, Mrs. Shirley, let me use their arena to practice and exercise in. His funeral was Sunday, 2pm, at Claybar in Orange. My parents went, I didn't go as I was having nausea and dry heaves yesterday.
After everything was over yesterday. Dad went back to Pat and Debbie McCarey's house (they live next door to Mr. and Mrs. McCarey). Mr. Curley is Pat's father. And Debbie is my NBHA's disctrict Tx 26 Director. She had some gifts for me that were sent from other of our Tx26 members for Christmas for me. One was a breast collar, with cowhide and crystals and barrel racer conchos, it was purchased at the benefit auction and playday they held for me and the lady that ended up getting in the auction gave it to me. Another member handmade a sign, like a welcome sign but it says "Alleyway" on it, the name of my paint mare, its made out of wood and paint and is really pretty with the bible verse: Phil 4:13 in the bottom right corner. And Pat and Debbie for Christmas went on a vaccation to Las Vegas to the NFR, they watched a few rounds of the NFR and got me a t-shirt from there that says NFR Thomas & Mack (I named my lungs Thomas & Mack after this NFR arena). Debbie was just now able to get them to me, as they have been dealing with health issues their selves and with Mr. & Mrs. McCarey, and then I had my own health issues going on.
My digatal camera is on its last legs, it doesn't work more than half the time I use it. So not sure if I will get pictures, but I'm going to try to and will post them. I will be getting a new digatal camera from my parents for either my b-day or Christmas this year, thats what my Dad told me.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Update
Sorry for not posting in a while. I've been busy and posting here got pushed aside. So this one will be long, sorry.
I went to Beaumont a few weekends ago. Went to Target and got a few books and a DVD and a few gifts. Didn't stay long and look at everything I wanted to though. I was having dizziness problems which made me nauseated. I felt like the room was spinning and wanted to black out once, but didn't thankfully.
I have stopped taking the experimental shot. And since then, the dizziness has stopped, so I'm thinking it was a side effect of the shot, but who knows.
All 13 of the horses were de-wormed and recieved their WNV (west nile virus) vaccine. That is all of them except Nacho that is. He is warry of Dad (all the horses associate him as the "bad man" cause he gives them shots, trims their hooves, etc.. he never catches them to pet them or give them a treat), so he knows something was up and refused to be caught. I'm going to try to catch him this afternoon, keep your fingers crossed! After he has been chased around by Dad, I'm sure he is going to be leery of me and hard for me to catch. Usually I can catch him easy.
Nacho, by the way looks fantastic! He is in a really good stage right now, just his head/neck look a little off. But his shoulder, hip, and underline look awesome! He is going to be stocky when he is grown! Right now it looks like he could use some exercise though, he is a little over weight. I'm not to concerened with his weight though as I know as soon as he hits another growth spurt he will lose a little bit.
I had transplant clinic last Thursday. Blood work was normal. Prograf level was a little low, so the dosage was increased to 1.5mg twice a day. Lung function was 94%. The 6-minute walk, I walked over 1400ft. My heart rate while walking got faster than I would like to see. It got up to 148 bpm (beats per minute).
Dr. Harish said that I could try a major surgery to fix my nausea. But I'm not totally convinced on this idea yet. I know my body can't take a major surgery like this one so soon yet from my last big surgery. I'm not sure of the name of the surgery, but its sorta like a gastric bypass surgery. They will remove the part of the stomach that controls the nerves to the stomach. And was told that then I wouldn't have any nausea, would be able to eat, and eventually have the feeding tube removed. But this brings about many questions. Its not a quarentee it will work. Recover will be hard. I'll have that horrible NG tube down my nose (I hate NG tubes with a passion).
I'm not sure how it works, because people that have gastric bypass surgery get gastroparesis from gastric bypass surgery. But he said that since they remove the nerves that I wouldn't get it. I still don't understand that.
I know I don't want gastroparesis when it was bad like I had right after transplant and for up to 4 months after the transplant before it let up enough so I could go home, I don't want that again! So I'm cautious with any surgery that pretains to the stomach, worry that it will mess with my gastroparesis or make it worse.
I have lots of research to do before I say no or yes to this surgery. And I need to talk to my gastro doctor, as Dr. Harish doesn't know all the specifics about this surgery since he is a lung doctor.
This coming Monday I have to have more labs drawn, PFT, and chest x-ray done locally. This ought to be interesting, haha. I'm not sure how the lung transplant center is going to set it all up locally when they are in Houston and don't have priviliges to any of my local hospitals, unless they fax/mail me the orders, but then I would still have to secdule the appointments for xray and PFT. And I'm not sure where they do it locally to draw from a port, they don't draw from ports at the local draw site. I think I'm just going to go to my local general doctor and have him give me orders and his nurse set up the tests, I think that would be easier. Then get the results faxed to the transplant center.
I have to see the transplant clinic in 3 months. As long as I don't have any lung problems, I don't have to have another bronch until next year, sometime between May-July.
The horses are doing well for the most part. A few of them I think get a kick out of making me worry, lol.
Harley is well, Harley. Which means she is a pest as usual. She is a rat terrier/chihuahua mix and is full grown, she weighs about 7-10lbs. She thinks she is the biggest badest dog ever. So I have to pay close attention when there is something she can reach. She eats everything and eats it like she is starved! Last night I put a banana peel in the trash, she knocked it over and then ate half of the peel before I could get it away from her. She also will try to eat non-edible things. She stole and ate my multi-vitamin and calcium medicine once, and another time she swallowed my nexuim capsule. I can't leave anything in her reach, everything has to be high off the ground and where she can't get to it as she will jump on things. Like once to get on the table a kitchen chair wasn't pushed under the table, so she jumped on the chair and then onto the table. In the living room she gets in the recliners and then on the end tables to search for food, as well as getting on the coffee table. I think I'm always saying "Harley, no!, Harley stop!, Harley, drop it! and Harley!" She will stop doing what I don't want her doing, but when she thinks I'm not looking or she will forget that I got onto her, she will go right back to doing what she isn't supposed to do.
LOL, but she does keep me entertained. When she wants to explore around the house, she brings me her favorite squeaky toy and drops it in my lap and if she has a rawhide chew stick, she will put that in my lap as well. Then she goes exploring. She thinks if she leaves her things on me that Buzz won't get them and I will protect or watch over her things and not let the other dogs get them. Its so funny. And she will come to me every now and then and make sure I'm still holding her stuff for her. If I have thrown them back on the floor, she gathers them up and puts them on me again. Or if I let Buzz get her stuff, she pouts and mopes around until I get them back for her.
I went to Beaumont a few weekends ago. Went to Target and got a few books and a DVD and a few gifts. Didn't stay long and look at everything I wanted to though. I was having dizziness problems which made me nauseated. I felt like the room was spinning and wanted to black out once, but didn't thankfully.
I have stopped taking the experimental shot. And since then, the dizziness has stopped, so I'm thinking it was a side effect of the shot, but who knows.
All 13 of the horses were de-wormed and recieved their WNV (west nile virus) vaccine. That is all of them except Nacho that is. He is warry of Dad (all the horses associate him as the "bad man" cause he gives them shots, trims their hooves, etc.. he never catches them to pet them or give them a treat), so he knows something was up and refused to be caught. I'm going to try to catch him this afternoon, keep your fingers crossed! After he has been chased around by Dad, I'm sure he is going to be leery of me and hard for me to catch. Usually I can catch him easy.
Nacho, by the way looks fantastic! He is in a really good stage right now, just his head/neck look a little off. But his shoulder, hip, and underline look awesome! He is going to be stocky when he is grown! Right now it looks like he could use some exercise though, he is a little over weight. I'm not to concerened with his weight though as I know as soon as he hits another growth spurt he will lose a little bit.
I had transplant clinic last Thursday. Blood work was normal. Prograf level was a little low, so the dosage was increased to 1.5mg twice a day. Lung function was 94%. The 6-minute walk, I walked over 1400ft. My heart rate while walking got faster than I would like to see. It got up to 148 bpm (beats per minute).
Dr. Harish said that I could try a major surgery to fix my nausea. But I'm not totally convinced on this idea yet. I know my body can't take a major surgery like this one so soon yet from my last big surgery. I'm not sure of the name of the surgery, but its sorta like a gastric bypass surgery. They will remove the part of the stomach that controls the nerves to the stomach. And was told that then I wouldn't have any nausea, would be able to eat, and eventually have the feeding tube removed. But this brings about many questions. Its not a quarentee it will work. Recover will be hard. I'll have that horrible NG tube down my nose (I hate NG tubes with a passion).
I'm not sure how it works, because people that have gastric bypass surgery get gastroparesis from gastric bypass surgery. But he said that since they remove the nerves that I wouldn't get it. I still don't understand that.
I know I don't want gastroparesis when it was bad like I had right after transplant and for up to 4 months after the transplant before it let up enough so I could go home, I don't want that again! So I'm cautious with any surgery that pretains to the stomach, worry that it will mess with my gastroparesis or make it worse.
I have lots of research to do before I say no or yes to this surgery. And I need to talk to my gastro doctor, as Dr. Harish doesn't know all the specifics about this surgery since he is a lung doctor.
This coming Monday I have to have more labs drawn, PFT, and chest x-ray done locally. This ought to be interesting, haha. I'm not sure how the lung transplant center is going to set it all up locally when they are in Houston and don't have priviliges to any of my local hospitals, unless they fax/mail me the orders, but then I would still have to secdule the appointments for xray and PFT. And I'm not sure where they do it locally to draw from a port, they don't draw from ports at the local draw site. I think I'm just going to go to my local general doctor and have him give me orders and his nurse set up the tests, I think that would be easier. Then get the results faxed to the transplant center.
I have to see the transplant clinic in 3 months. As long as I don't have any lung problems, I don't have to have another bronch until next year, sometime between May-July.
The horses are doing well for the most part. A few of them I think get a kick out of making me worry, lol.
Harley is well, Harley. Which means she is a pest as usual. She is a rat terrier/chihuahua mix and is full grown, she weighs about 7-10lbs. She thinks she is the biggest badest dog ever. So I have to pay close attention when there is something she can reach. She eats everything and eats it like she is starved! Last night I put a banana peel in the trash, she knocked it over and then ate half of the peel before I could get it away from her. She also will try to eat non-edible things. She stole and ate my multi-vitamin and calcium medicine once, and another time she swallowed my nexuim capsule. I can't leave anything in her reach, everything has to be high off the ground and where she can't get to it as she will jump on things. Like once to get on the table a kitchen chair wasn't pushed under the table, so she jumped on the chair and then onto the table. In the living room she gets in the recliners and then on the end tables to search for food, as well as getting on the coffee table. I think I'm always saying "Harley, no!, Harley stop!, Harley, drop it! and Harley!" She will stop doing what I don't want her doing, but when she thinks I'm not looking or she will forget that I got onto her, she will go right back to doing what she isn't supposed to do.
LOL, but she does keep me entertained. When she wants to explore around the house, she brings me her favorite squeaky toy and drops it in my lap and if she has a rawhide chew stick, she will put that in my lap as well. Then she goes exploring. She thinks if she leaves her things on me that Buzz won't get them and I will protect or watch over her things and not let the other dogs get them. Its so funny. And she will come to me every now and then and make sure I'm still holding her stuff for her. If I have thrown them back on the floor, she gathers them up and puts them on me again. Or if I let Buzz get her stuff, she pouts and mopes around until I get them back for her.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Edouard - tropical storm/hurricane
Right now we are under a hurricane watch/warning. So far its a tropical storm but they are saying it has a good chance to become a hurricane one. And have to watch out for tornadoes.
So we have horses moved around. And anything that might "fly" we put in the horse trailer, like trash cans and such. The outside dog, Sparky, will come inside and go in the washroom and will sleep on some bath towels and rugs in there. He is scarred of bad weather.
I emailed my coordinator today, they still haven't gotten my blood lab results from last Monday, to see what my Prograf level is and check on my renal function. I still have some hard feelings with my doctor. He apolozied and I accepted, but the things he said was very hurtful. And one thing he said crossed the line. I guess I will just take it slow each time I have to go in and see the doctors, and I'm sure our relationship will be repaired slowly. Thats all I'll say on that matter.
I'm glad that I have my friends and Mom, since I feel that I can tell them anything.
Mom and I went to Wal-Mart today, I got 3 new books. That should keep me busy tonight since I'm sure I'll be up all night babysitting the horses making sure they are okay.
The weather channel is saying that we might get up to 8" of rain now, between tonight and in the morning.
So, to all my family and friends in the path of Edouard, take care and let me know your safe after the storm passes. Becareful of the tornadoes, as you know we live in tornado alley!
Candi
So we have horses moved around. And anything that might "fly" we put in the horse trailer, like trash cans and such. The outside dog, Sparky, will come inside and go in the washroom and will sleep on some bath towels and rugs in there. He is scarred of bad weather.
I emailed my coordinator today, they still haven't gotten my blood lab results from last Monday, to see what my Prograf level is and check on my renal function. I still have some hard feelings with my doctor. He apolozied and I accepted, but the things he said was very hurtful. And one thing he said crossed the line. I guess I will just take it slow each time I have to go in and see the doctors, and I'm sure our relationship will be repaired slowly. Thats all I'll say on that matter.
I'm glad that I have my friends and Mom, since I feel that I can tell them anything.
Mom and I went to Wal-Mart today, I got 3 new books. That should keep me busy tonight since I'm sure I'll be up all night babysitting the horses making sure they are okay.
The weather channel is saying that we might get up to 8" of rain now, between tonight and in the morning.
So, to all my family and friends in the path of Edouard, take care and let me know your safe after the storm passes. Becareful of the tornadoes, as you know we live in tornado alley!
Candi
Friday, August 1, 2008
Finally an update!
A lot has gone on since my last post. But I should be back to posting regular updates now.
I recovered from the hysterectomy very well! No more of having to deal with those issues! Although I was informed that I did have endometeosis on 3 places and they left both of my ovaries in place. The doctor said years down the road that I could get endometerosis on the ovaries. But I will worry about that if that should happen down the road.
I ended up back in the hospital about a week after the hysterectomy with the stomach issues (gastroparesis) and having a lot of feeding tube pain. So since I'm always getting poked and my veins are used up the doctors put a port-a-cath below my left collar bone. They can give me medicine through it and draw blood out from it for lab work. Now I won't have to get my veins poked and give them a chance to heal up. I can have the port in for up to 10yrs before it needs to be replaced or just taken out entirely.
Then a few days later they changed out my feeding tube, to a new one. Its the same kind/type, the old one they say was still in good working order but they can cause some issues with pain and stuff when sediment from medicine and/or tube feeding stuff. The interventional radiologist was really nice and I trust him, he is very compasionate and caring of his patients. He said that I need to have my feeding tube changed out every 4-6 months, and if I don't then that will cause the pain and issues that I was having. I was orignaly told by my doctor that it would only need to be once a year to once every other year. So hopefully by going by Dr. Weiner suggestion and having it changed out every 4-6 months, I will no longer have feeding tube issues!
Then I went home. And the next week 4 of my horses had procedures done.
Cherokee~ regular standing gelding, coggins, teeth floated
Charlie~ gelded under general anesthesia, wolf teeth pulled (only had 1 so have to wait for the other to come in so it can get pulled out), and coggins.
Nacho~ regular standing gelding, coggins, wolf teeth pulled
Scooter Bug~ Cryptorchid gelding (under general anesthesia), coggins, wolf teeth pulled.
So had to nurse to them, give them their medicines, make sure they were moving/walking around enough to keep swelling down, watching for drainage/infection, and give them pain medicine.
The day after they went to the vet I went back to the hospital with nausea, retching, and a migriane. I stayed in the hospital for 7 days. I had first went to the local hospital, all they did was give a dose of nausea meds and sent me home while I was still dry heaving into a nausea pan. I didn't want to go to Houston, so I toughed it out that night and dry heaved all night and into the next day. Mom said thats was it, and she forced me to go to Houston Methodist hospital.
I was admitted, and not happy about it. I don't like going there because its so stressful to be there. Worring about my horses getting taking care of properly. Then have to worry about the nurse taking care of me, that she is doing her job right and giving me my medicines correctly. Having to tell every single fellow/resident that comes in the whole story of whats going on. Then when the doctor comes I have to say the whole story again. Whats the point of telling the fellow if I'm going to have to tell the doc anyway? And then sometimes when the fellow does speak out and say whats going on, they usually only get half of it right. Then I have to make sure the nurses give me my medicines on time and draw my blood in the morning on time.
Dr.S doesn't know what to do to help me get better and is tired of me. So he made accusactions that were wrong and he went about asking questions and saying things the wrong way. There is a right way and a wrong way to go about things. A few things he should not have said at all. He talked to my Mom the next day and she set him straight and he appoligized. But damage has been done. I can forgive, but not forget. All this did was stress me more.
After talking to a few of the nurses and the PA and the NP, I felt a lot better. And a lot of stress was relieved.
I had a new doctor come see me, he wants me to try this shot out that isn't FDA approved, so its experimental. Yeah! I'm a gunia pig again! Its a shot that I take just under the skin every 2 days. He wants me to try it out for at least a month and see if it helps with the nausea. Hopefully it works. It has some not so good side effects though. Like nausea, headache, seizures, and diahhrrea. Grrreeeeaaaattttt, LOL. But so far, no bad side effects happening!
They did xrays of my lungs and sinuses all were normal!
My lungs are doing great!
Ginger, Eno, and Dolly went to new homes almost 2 weeks ago. Ginger went to a little girl to use for a 4H project for halter and pleasure classes. Dolly and Eno will be pasture pets and stay together. I miss Ginger very much.
Dad gave me Turbo. And when I save enough money up, I'm going to send him to a trainer. He has to have his coggins, teeth floated, and get freeze branded before he can go too. And Mom gave me Nacho, I guess because he is Sioux's last colt and Sioux means the world to me and she won't be here much longer. And Nacho seems to like me best, I can handle him very easy, whereas sometimes it takes Dad forever to catch him, hehe.
So my personal horses are now: Turbo, Toast, PacMan, Charlie, Nacho.
And I can do anything I want with any of the others. Perks, Scooter, Shady, Alleyway. I'm going to finish Cherokee on barrels and Mom says she wants to start riding and barrel racing again and wants to on Cherokee. So after I finish him, she will take Cherokee over. It will be fun.
After I have paid for Turbo's training, and getting everyone the vet care yearly stuff they need, like wolf teeth pulled and teeth floated and coggins and freeze branding. I'm hoping to save up for my own 28ft gooseneck aluminin stock trailer, with a nose cone for saddles to go in and 2 center slam gates, with the rubber floor planks. No wood flooring for me! I'm excited, its going to take forever to get it though. But I can dream, hehe.
I'm doing good. I've been reading books lately. Mom and I have been passing them around. This weekend might go to a movie. One day I want to spend messing with the horses, can't do much with them still though as they are still recovering from their surgeries, but they can get a bath or get brushed. Depends on the weather, if it rains or not.
Well, see ya later. My new BLING headstalls just arrived! I can't wait to open the box! Its Cherokee's, Turbo's, and PacMan's gorgeous alligator and crystal headstalls. You can see them on www.trickedoutpony.com I got the red one, lime green one, and the purple one. The red one is for Cherokee, purple for Turbo, and lime green for Pacman. I might put up pictures later.
Candi
I recovered from the hysterectomy very well! No more of having to deal with those issues! Although I was informed that I did have endometeosis on 3 places and they left both of my ovaries in place. The doctor said years down the road that I could get endometerosis on the ovaries. But I will worry about that if that should happen down the road.
I ended up back in the hospital about a week after the hysterectomy with the stomach issues (gastroparesis) and having a lot of feeding tube pain. So since I'm always getting poked and my veins are used up the doctors put a port-a-cath below my left collar bone. They can give me medicine through it and draw blood out from it for lab work. Now I won't have to get my veins poked and give them a chance to heal up. I can have the port in for up to 10yrs before it needs to be replaced or just taken out entirely.
Then a few days later they changed out my feeding tube, to a new one. Its the same kind/type, the old one they say was still in good working order but they can cause some issues with pain and stuff when sediment from medicine and/or tube feeding stuff. The interventional radiologist was really nice and I trust him, he is very compasionate and caring of his patients. He said that I need to have my feeding tube changed out every 4-6 months, and if I don't then that will cause the pain and issues that I was having. I was orignaly told by my doctor that it would only need to be once a year to once every other year. So hopefully by going by Dr. Weiner suggestion and having it changed out every 4-6 months, I will no longer have feeding tube issues!
Then I went home. And the next week 4 of my horses had procedures done.
Cherokee~ regular standing gelding, coggins, teeth floated
Charlie~ gelded under general anesthesia, wolf teeth pulled (only had 1 so have to wait for the other to come in so it can get pulled out), and coggins.
Nacho~ regular standing gelding, coggins, wolf teeth pulled
Scooter Bug~ Cryptorchid gelding (under general anesthesia), coggins, wolf teeth pulled.
So had to nurse to them, give them their medicines, make sure they were moving/walking around enough to keep swelling down, watching for drainage/infection, and give them pain medicine.
The day after they went to the vet I went back to the hospital with nausea, retching, and a migriane. I stayed in the hospital for 7 days. I had first went to the local hospital, all they did was give a dose of nausea meds and sent me home while I was still dry heaving into a nausea pan. I didn't want to go to Houston, so I toughed it out that night and dry heaved all night and into the next day. Mom said thats was it, and she forced me to go to Houston Methodist hospital.
I was admitted, and not happy about it. I don't like going there because its so stressful to be there. Worring about my horses getting taking care of properly. Then have to worry about the nurse taking care of me, that she is doing her job right and giving me my medicines correctly. Having to tell every single fellow/resident that comes in the whole story of whats going on. Then when the doctor comes I have to say the whole story again. Whats the point of telling the fellow if I'm going to have to tell the doc anyway? And then sometimes when the fellow does speak out and say whats going on, they usually only get half of it right. Then I have to make sure the nurses give me my medicines on time and draw my blood in the morning on time.
Dr.S doesn't know what to do to help me get better and is tired of me. So he made accusactions that were wrong and he went about asking questions and saying things the wrong way. There is a right way and a wrong way to go about things. A few things he should not have said at all. He talked to my Mom the next day and she set him straight and he appoligized. But damage has been done. I can forgive, but not forget. All this did was stress me more.
After talking to a few of the nurses and the PA and the NP, I felt a lot better. And a lot of stress was relieved.
I had a new doctor come see me, he wants me to try this shot out that isn't FDA approved, so its experimental. Yeah! I'm a gunia pig again! Its a shot that I take just under the skin every 2 days. He wants me to try it out for at least a month and see if it helps with the nausea. Hopefully it works. It has some not so good side effects though. Like nausea, headache, seizures, and diahhrrea. Grrreeeeaaaattttt, LOL. But so far, no bad side effects happening!
They did xrays of my lungs and sinuses all were normal!
My lungs are doing great!
Ginger, Eno, and Dolly went to new homes almost 2 weeks ago. Ginger went to a little girl to use for a 4H project for halter and pleasure classes. Dolly and Eno will be pasture pets and stay together. I miss Ginger very much.
Dad gave me Turbo. And when I save enough money up, I'm going to send him to a trainer. He has to have his coggins, teeth floated, and get freeze branded before he can go too. And Mom gave me Nacho, I guess because he is Sioux's last colt and Sioux means the world to me and she won't be here much longer. And Nacho seems to like me best, I can handle him very easy, whereas sometimes it takes Dad forever to catch him, hehe.
So my personal horses are now: Turbo, Toast, PacMan, Charlie, Nacho.
And I can do anything I want with any of the others. Perks, Scooter, Shady, Alleyway. I'm going to finish Cherokee on barrels and Mom says she wants to start riding and barrel racing again and wants to on Cherokee. So after I finish him, she will take Cherokee over. It will be fun.
After I have paid for Turbo's training, and getting everyone the vet care yearly stuff they need, like wolf teeth pulled and teeth floated and coggins and freeze branding. I'm hoping to save up for my own 28ft gooseneck aluminin stock trailer, with a nose cone for saddles to go in and 2 center slam gates, with the rubber floor planks. No wood flooring for me! I'm excited, its going to take forever to get it though. But I can dream, hehe.
I'm doing good. I've been reading books lately. Mom and I have been passing them around. This weekend might go to a movie. One day I want to spend messing with the horses, can't do much with them still though as they are still recovering from their surgeries, but they can get a bath or get brushed. Depends on the weather, if it rains or not.
Well, see ya later. My new BLING headstalls just arrived! I can't wait to open the box! Its Cherokee's, Turbo's, and PacMan's gorgeous alligator and crystal headstalls. You can see them on www.trickedoutpony.com I got the red one, lime green one, and the purple one. The red one is for Cherokee, purple for Turbo, and lime green for Pacman. I might put up pictures later.
Candi
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Surgery is done
Hey All!
My total abdominal hysterectomy surgery was done June 9 at 8am by Dr. Hunt and her fellow, and the anesthesiologist Dr. Carter. Surgery went well they said. Said they found 3 areas that had endometeriosis, and it was a good thing I got it all removed now when I did. Or if I had the surgery done in the future the endometeriosis would have spread and been harder to remove.
The first day was bad, they were scared to give me to much pain medication. Even though we already had a discussion that I have a high tolerance to pain meds and it takes a lot of it to help ease pain.
Then I was on the Woman's floor because the Transplant floor was full. The nurses there were good, but I still prefer my transplant nurses.
I had one pyscho nurse. She broke down crying and cussing because she crushed up one of my medicines that you can't crush it up or break in half because its enteric coated and won't work if you do that to it. And I told her that before she did it. And her being a nurse, she should have known that in the first place and I shouldn't have had to tell her. So she had to throw it away and start over.
Then later that day the same nurse was changing my IV out and moving it to another site because it had blown and I need to get a bag of IV fluids. Well my one of my transplant doctors were there and she didn't have anything ready. Just whipped out my IV out of my hand and blood stars gushing all over the place. She had no gloves on. She smashed her hand on top of mine. The doctor was appalled. He told her to put gauze on it. She goes, oh I don't use that we just use napkins out of the bathroom and goes and gets some thats sitting on the sink and puts them on my hand. The doctor eyes were huge and he rolled them then told his fellow to go get some gauze. Then said that I needed to be transferred to the transplant floor STAT so that I'm cared my nurses that know what they are doing. So she almost broke down crying again. My doc was worried that with her putting her hand on mine without any gloves is that I would catch a germ from her through the open spot on my hand where the IV was.
Then later when I had a visitor she came to give me my meds and couldn't do anything right and I had to keep correcting her. Then my feeding tube got plugged up and instead of trying to help me, she gets upset and almost starts to cry again. Then finally just walks out the room without saying anything.
The night nurse said I wouldn't have her again during my stay and that they would talk to her after I left.
Then I had bad gas pain! I had to get 3 suppositories. And did a LOT of walking.
The next day I felt better so Mom and I went to the deli and got a sandwich. Then they day after that we went to a hamburger joint thats in the hospital and ummm it was so good. I only took a few bites of Moms food though.
Later that afternoon a nurse took out my staples and put steri strips on top of the incision. Well, the glue that was left un covered. Ended up sticking to my underwear. So the next time I had to pee, I was glued to my undies! And I had to pee badly so it was not a time to be stuck in your panties!
Saturday, I'm to be discharged. And guess what? the psycho nurse is back! She did her job and didn't mess with me and check on me very much, so I was glad for that. I think she knew I didn't really like her cause she wasn't as friendly as she was before. I was discharged and just waiting on Dad to come pick Mom and I up. So he got there right at 9pm and we got home a little after 11pm. I also took one of the hospital pillows home with me. I needed it for support to hold on top of my incision on the ride home. Ooopps. Didn't want to just take it, but I needed it. I'm still using it to hold on my incision for support too.
The ride home made me sore! Then Sunday I was really sick with nausea. And had dry heaves, so every time I started having dry heaves I cried cause it felt like my incision was going to rip apart and my insides were going to come outside! Later Sunday night when I started to feel better, Mom and I watch "Juno" and "The Golden Compass". Both are good movies.
Monday I had my blood drawn. CBC, BMP, and Prograf level. Also got my lung clinic follow up appt for June 24. And my GYN follow up for July 21.
I'm hoping that my renal function is back to normal because during the hospital it went really high and they said over 40% of my kidneys weren't working. So gave me lots of IV fluids and got it down but on the higher end of normal side. They may lower my dosage of Prograf again depending on if its still high or not. The drugs I have to take to keep me alive are hard on the kidneys and they say some people eventually have kidney failure and will need to have a kidney transplant.
Also Monday. I went and ran some errands with Dad. Went to the feed store for horse feed. Got Pacman and new lime green halter. (now I need to find him a lime green matching lead rope). And 2 pecan pies for Mom. Then went to post office to mail some foal halters to Lexi and get some stamps. Then to pharmacy to pick up my medicine. Then went to hot dog stand so Dad could get something to eat. Then went to TSC where I got a Jolly Ball, blue bubble gum scent/flavored for the 3 2yos to play with, some EZ ALL foamer and gallon of shampoo for it to wash the horses with.
When got home gave the colts the Jolly Ball and they love it! They roll it around and pick it up by the handle and swing it around and hit each other with it. I need to get another one for Shady and Scooter Bug to play with. I know that they will love playing with one!
Also the new floral painted headstall and noseband that I got for Ginger came in while I was in the hospital. Its really pretty, I like it! Now I need to save up so I can buy the matching breastcollar for it too! The new Legacy Classic Equine boots came as well, they are purple, got a set for her front feet and set for her rear legs. I also got her a new rope halter with attached lead rope. Its light blue, pink, and a little bit of black in it.
I also told Hannah last night that she can have one of my Carrie Underwood tickets and come to the concert with me! So I'm excited about that! I know we will have a LOT of fun! Its this Saturday.
I also won some barrel racing training videos from winningruns, I can't wait to start watching them! There are 13 DVDs in all to watch! I'm going to learn a LOT from those!
I'm still excited about getting Pacman all his new tack! I finally picked his color to be lime green. And it helps that Mom got me lime green with purple straps Professional Choice Elites boots and some lime green over reach boots. So now I have a halter. And now I need a lead rope and reins and lime green water and grain buckets for him and a hay net/bag. Also need to get him a canvas duck blanket, but I have never seen them in lime green.
My lungs are doing wonderful! And the incision pain isn't that bad anymore unless I over do it, hit my abdomen on something, or pick up something thats to heavy. I'm supposed to stay off the horses for 6-8 weeks. And no driving until I'm cleared by the doctor.
While in the hospital. I think it was my 2nd day post-op I got a visit from a fellow Tx 26 barrel racer Karen. It was so great to meet her! She is a sheriffs Deputy. So gets to carry a hand gun, taser, and hand cuffs, along with some other neat gadgets I presume as well. She is such a nice person. I wish I could meet more people like her! She has been faced with illness as well and she is pushing through it so well. I wish her the best on her first barrel race back, its on the July 4th weekend! I hope she does well! I'm so happy for her! She brought me a gift, a couple books and a card all in a gorgeous looking bag. She is so sweet!
And finally, I'm glad to be home. To sleep in my own bed!
My total abdominal hysterectomy surgery was done June 9 at 8am by Dr. Hunt and her fellow, and the anesthesiologist Dr. Carter. Surgery went well they said. Said they found 3 areas that had endometeriosis, and it was a good thing I got it all removed now when I did. Or if I had the surgery done in the future the endometeriosis would have spread and been harder to remove.
The first day was bad, they were scared to give me to much pain medication. Even though we already had a discussion that I have a high tolerance to pain meds and it takes a lot of it to help ease pain.
Then I was on the Woman's floor because the Transplant floor was full. The nurses there were good, but I still prefer my transplant nurses.
I had one pyscho nurse. She broke down crying and cussing because she crushed up one of my medicines that you can't crush it up or break in half because its enteric coated and won't work if you do that to it. And I told her that before she did it. And her being a nurse, she should have known that in the first place and I shouldn't have had to tell her. So she had to throw it away and start over.
Then later that day the same nurse was changing my IV out and moving it to another site because it had blown and I need to get a bag of IV fluids. Well my one of my transplant doctors were there and she didn't have anything ready. Just whipped out my IV out of my hand and blood stars gushing all over the place. She had no gloves on. She smashed her hand on top of mine. The doctor was appalled. He told her to put gauze on it. She goes, oh I don't use that we just use napkins out of the bathroom and goes and gets some thats sitting on the sink and puts them on my hand. The doctor eyes were huge and he rolled them then told his fellow to go get some gauze. Then said that I needed to be transferred to the transplant floor STAT so that I'm cared my nurses that know what they are doing. So she almost broke down crying again. My doc was worried that with her putting her hand on mine without any gloves is that I would catch a germ from her through the open spot on my hand where the IV was.
Then later when I had a visitor she came to give me my meds and couldn't do anything right and I had to keep correcting her. Then my feeding tube got plugged up and instead of trying to help me, she gets upset and almost starts to cry again. Then finally just walks out the room without saying anything.
The night nurse said I wouldn't have her again during my stay and that they would talk to her after I left.
Then I had bad gas pain! I had to get 3 suppositories. And did a LOT of walking.
The next day I felt better so Mom and I went to the deli and got a sandwich. Then they day after that we went to a hamburger joint thats in the hospital and ummm it was so good. I only took a few bites of Moms food though.
Later that afternoon a nurse took out my staples and put steri strips on top of the incision. Well, the glue that was left un covered. Ended up sticking to my underwear. So the next time I had to pee, I was glued to my undies! And I had to pee badly so it was not a time to be stuck in your panties!
Saturday, I'm to be discharged. And guess what? the psycho nurse is back! She did her job and didn't mess with me and check on me very much, so I was glad for that. I think she knew I didn't really like her cause she wasn't as friendly as she was before. I was discharged and just waiting on Dad to come pick Mom and I up. So he got there right at 9pm and we got home a little after 11pm. I also took one of the hospital pillows home with me. I needed it for support to hold on top of my incision on the ride home. Ooopps. Didn't want to just take it, but I needed it. I'm still using it to hold on my incision for support too.
The ride home made me sore! Then Sunday I was really sick with nausea. And had dry heaves, so every time I started having dry heaves I cried cause it felt like my incision was going to rip apart and my insides were going to come outside! Later Sunday night when I started to feel better, Mom and I watch "Juno" and "The Golden Compass". Both are good movies.
Monday I had my blood drawn. CBC, BMP, and Prograf level. Also got my lung clinic follow up appt for June 24. And my GYN follow up for July 21.
I'm hoping that my renal function is back to normal because during the hospital it went really high and they said over 40% of my kidneys weren't working. So gave me lots of IV fluids and got it down but on the higher end of normal side. They may lower my dosage of Prograf again depending on if its still high or not. The drugs I have to take to keep me alive are hard on the kidneys and they say some people eventually have kidney failure and will need to have a kidney transplant.
Also Monday. I went and ran some errands with Dad. Went to the feed store for horse feed. Got Pacman and new lime green halter. (now I need to find him a lime green matching lead rope). And 2 pecan pies for Mom. Then went to post office to mail some foal halters to Lexi and get some stamps. Then to pharmacy to pick up my medicine. Then went to hot dog stand so Dad could get something to eat. Then went to TSC where I got a Jolly Ball, blue bubble gum scent/flavored for the 3 2yos to play with, some EZ ALL foamer and gallon of shampoo for it to wash the horses with.
When got home gave the colts the Jolly Ball and they love it! They roll it around and pick it up by the handle and swing it around and hit each other with it. I need to get another one for Shady and Scooter Bug to play with. I know that they will love playing with one!
Also the new floral painted headstall and noseband that I got for Ginger came in while I was in the hospital. Its really pretty, I like it! Now I need to save up so I can buy the matching breastcollar for it too! The new Legacy Classic Equine boots came as well, they are purple, got a set for her front feet and set for her rear legs. I also got her a new rope halter with attached lead rope. Its light blue, pink, and a little bit of black in it.
I also told Hannah last night that she can have one of my Carrie Underwood tickets and come to the concert with me! So I'm excited about that! I know we will have a LOT of fun! Its this Saturday.
I also won some barrel racing training videos from winningruns, I can't wait to start watching them! There are 13 DVDs in all to watch! I'm going to learn a LOT from those!
I'm still excited about getting Pacman all his new tack! I finally picked his color to be lime green. And it helps that Mom got me lime green with purple straps Professional Choice Elites boots and some lime green over reach boots. So now I have a halter. And now I need a lead rope and reins and lime green water and grain buckets for him and a hay net/bag. Also need to get him a canvas duck blanket, but I have never seen them in lime green.
My lungs are doing wonderful! And the incision pain isn't that bad anymore unless I over do it, hit my abdomen on something, or pick up something thats to heavy. I'm supposed to stay off the horses for 6-8 weeks. And no driving until I'm cleared by the doctor.
While in the hospital. I think it was my 2nd day post-op I got a visit from a fellow Tx 26 barrel racer Karen. It was so great to meet her! She is a sheriffs Deputy. So gets to carry a hand gun, taser, and hand cuffs, along with some other neat gadgets I presume as well. She is such a nice person. I wish I could meet more people like her! She has been faced with illness as well and she is pushing through it so well. I wish her the best on her first barrel race back, its on the July 4th weekend! I hope she does well! I'm so happy for her! She brought me a gift, a couple books and a card all in a gorgeous looking bag. She is so sweet!
And finally, I'm glad to be home. To sleep in my own bed!
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Surgery tomorrow
What a day, what a day!
Didn't get much sleep last night because of the menstrual cramps and along with that the same unbearable pain I've had before by my feeding tube is back. Not sure if its a kidney stone or what. But it started to hit me at 2am. I'm taking pain medicine every 3 hours and all it does is makes it tolerable. If I turn a certain way or take a deep or fast breath is has a shooting sharp pain run through my left side. Ugh. I can't wait for tomorrow to hurry up and get here. Hopefully get this new side pain fixed and say bye-bye to horrible periods!
Last night Mom and I walked 2 miles around the track. I wanted to keep walking some more but Mom's knees and feet were hurting her. The bottom of my feet were burning too, but I still wanted to keep walking. It was fun, we talked about so many things. I wanted to keep walking so that we could keep talking and enjoying the afternoon. But, we had to get back home so I could take my medicines and get the horses taken care of and tucked into bed. We did stop by WalMart on the way home and got some last minute stuff to bring to hospital. I got 2 DVDs for Mom and I to watch.
I finished packing for the hospital stay today. This afternoon will put my bags in the truck.
Yesterday watched the Belmont Stakes, hoping to see Big Brown win, hoping he would so that I would get to see my first Triple Crown winner. It was a disappointing finish, Big Brown placed last, he was pulled up by his jockey. His jockey felt that he had no horse under him and he wasn't running his game or being his self and he was almost kicked from being to close behind another horse, so was pulled up. Da'Tara won the Belmont Stakes. So this year marks 30 years since the last Triple Crown winner. Maybe next year there will be an awesome colt to break it! To be a Triple Crown winner, you must win the Kentucky Derby, a few weeks later win the Preakness Stakes, and lastly another more weeks and win the Belmont Stakes.
Today I've kept myself hooked up to feeding tube stuff. Normally I only run it at night while I'm sleeping with 3 cans of tube feeding nutrition and about 200ml of water. Well, I did that last night. And then this morning I put in 1 can of the nutrition and the rest, about 900ml of water. I did this to keep my hydrated and because at midnight I have to go NPO (nothing to eat or drink) so I'm doing it during the day so that when I go to bed I don't have to worry about it or have to wake up at midnight to turn it off. Its easier this way for me.
Tonight, my last meal is going to be chicken stir fry with carrots, broccoli, onions, squash, water chestnuts, mushrooms, radish, and sliced up garlic clove. Served over rice and of course with soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce, YUMMY! For dessert I will have a piece of cake most likely.
We are getting up at 2am. Leaving the house at 3:30am. Check in at 6am on Main 6 NW, I think this is the woman's floor. Surgery is scheduled for 8am. Its at The Methodist Hospital. After surgery I should go to the transplant floor on Dunn4 as long as there is a bed available.
I'm excited for surgery to hurry up and get it done and over with! No more pain! (Once I'm healed anyway, lol). Then I have a LOT of plans to do with the horses! I don't think I'm going to get much sleep tonight at all!
Oh, can't believe I almost forgot! I ordered new horse stuff today! I LOVE getting new tack/horse stuff! I got front and rear pair of Legacy Classic Equine purple boots for Ginger, she needs new ones badly! Her old pair of purple Professional Choice SMB lls are 13yrs old! I also got her a new floral painted browband headstall and matching tie down (nose band). Also ordered horse de-wormers for the everyone. I'm guessing it will get delivered while I'm still at the hospital. Oh, well, Dad will be here.
Also have to have Dad ship off the package to Lexi, its foal halters for her newborn foal Remedy! I hope she can use them and they fit Remedy Ann!
And I have finished another book today. Its titled "Riding Lessons". Its about a woman and her daughter move back to her parents farm as her father is dying. So she buys a rescue horse who happens to be a full brother to her horse from her childhood. The twist to the story is the horse she bought, was supposed to be dead, died in a fiery trailer accident so the owner could collect insurance monies on him because he found out the horse has a joint disease and he also lost his left eye. But the horse got away somehow, so the owners "re-created" the horrific accident and burned another horse to death so that the autopsy person couldn't' tell that it wasn't the correct horse. And AnnieMarie figured out the plot. In the end she ends back with her horse named Hurrah, full brother to her childhood horse named Harry. Harry had died in an accident and supposedly Harry and Hurrah are very rare color of chestnut brindled horses. So AnnieMarie also gets her daughter Eva a horse, an yearling Arabian filly named Flicka who had a dislocated shoulder and was found in the kill pen who was abused by horse tripping. (people get horse running as fast as they can, then rope their legs, and knock them down) At the very end of the book AnnieMarie is getting up the courage to ride Hurrah. She gets her tack ready and is getting Hurrah ready and thats the end. So you can speculate that she rides him. AnnieMarie hasn't rode since the riding accident with Harry, she was jumping him in an event and he broke his neck and afterwards she never rode again... until now? Also AnnieMarie is newly divorced. Her husband already has a girlfriend, named Sonja. And AnnieMarie and Dan, the vet and founder of the horse rescue, start dating.
I'm hoping to read the next book called "Flying Changes" to find out if she rides Hurrah and what becomes of Eva and Flicka. And if the relationship between Dan and AnnieMarie goes anywhere. Unless this is the book I should have read first that lead up to everything I read in "Riding Lessons"! I hope its the continued book of Riding Lessons though so I can see what happens! Plan on taking it to the hospital with me to read. That and another book called "Lost Souls".
Hopefully next post I'll be recovering from surgery and doing well!
Didn't get much sleep last night because of the menstrual cramps and along with that the same unbearable pain I've had before by my feeding tube is back. Not sure if its a kidney stone or what. But it started to hit me at 2am. I'm taking pain medicine every 3 hours and all it does is makes it tolerable. If I turn a certain way or take a deep or fast breath is has a shooting sharp pain run through my left side. Ugh. I can't wait for tomorrow to hurry up and get here. Hopefully get this new side pain fixed and say bye-bye to horrible periods!
Last night Mom and I walked 2 miles around the track. I wanted to keep walking some more but Mom's knees and feet were hurting her. The bottom of my feet were burning too, but I still wanted to keep walking. It was fun, we talked about so many things. I wanted to keep walking so that we could keep talking and enjoying the afternoon. But, we had to get back home so I could take my medicines and get the horses taken care of and tucked into bed. We did stop by WalMart on the way home and got some last minute stuff to bring to hospital. I got 2 DVDs for Mom and I to watch.
I finished packing for the hospital stay today. This afternoon will put my bags in the truck.
Yesterday watched the Belmont Stakes, hoping to see Big Brown win, hoping he would so that I would get to see my first Triple Crown winner. It was a disappointing finish, Big Brown placed last, he was pulled up by his jockey. His jockey felt that he had no horse under him and he wasn't running his game or being his self and he was almost kicked from being to close behind another horse, so was pulled up. Da'Tara won the Belmont Stakes. So this year marks 30 years since the last Triple Crown winner. Maybe next year there will be an awesome colt to break it! To be a Triple Crown winner, you must win the Kentucky Derby, a few weeks later win the Preakness Stakes, and lastly another more weeks and win the Belmont Stakes.
Today I've kept myself hooked up to feeding tube stuff. Normally I only run it at night while I'm sleeping with 3 cans of tube feeding nutrition and about 200ml of water. Well, I did that last night. And then this morning I put in 1 can of the nutrition and the rest, about 900ml of water. I did this to keep my hydrated and because at midnight I have to go NPO (nothing to eat or drink) so I'm doing it during the day so that when I go to bed I don't have to worry about it or have to wake up at midnight to turn it off. Its easier this way for me.
Tonight, my last meal is going to be chicken stir fry with carrots, broccoli, onions, squash, water chestnuts, mushrooms, radish, and sliced up garlic clove. Served over rice and of course with soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce, YUMMY! For dessert I will have a piece of cake most likely.
We are getting up at 2am. Leaving the house at 3:30am. Check in at 6am on Main 6 NW, I think this is the woman's floor. Surgery is scheduled for 8am. Its at The Methodist Hospital. After surgery I should go to the transplant floor on Dunn4 as long as there is a bed available.
I'm excited for surgery to hurry up and get it done and over with! No more pain! (Once I'm healed anyway, lol). Then I have a LOT of plans to do with the horses! I don't think I'm going to get much sleep tonight at all!
Oh, can't believe I almost forgot! I ordered new horse stuff today! I LOVE getting new tack/horse stuff! I got front and rear pair of Legacy Classic Equine purple boots for Ginger, she needs new ones badly! Her old pair of purple Professional Choice SMB lls are 13yrs old! I also got her a new floral painted browband headstall and matching tie down (nose band). Also ordered horse de-wormers for the everyone. I'm guessing it will get delivered while I'm still at the hospital. Oh, well, Dad will be here.
Also have to have Dad ship off the package to Lexi, its foal halters for her newborn foal Remedy! I hope she can use them and they fit Remedy Ann!
And I have finished another book today. Its titled "Riding Lessons". Its about a woman and her daughter move back to her parents farm as her father is dying. So she buys a rescue horse who happens to be a full brother to her horse from her childhood. The twist to the story is the horse she bought, was supposed to be dead, died in a fiery trailer accident so the owner could collect insurance monies on him because he found out the horse has a joint disease and he also lost his left eye. But the horse got away somehow, so the owners "re-created" the horrific accident and burned another horse to death so that the autopsy person couldn't' tell that it wasn't the correct horse. And AnnieMarie figured out the plot. In the end she ends back with her horse named Hurrah, full brother to her childhood horse named Harry. Harry had died in an accident and supposedly Harry and Hurrah are very rare color of chestnut brindled horses. So AnnieMarie also gets her daughter Eva a horse, an yearling Arabian filly named Flicka who had a dislocated shoulder and was found in the kill pen who was abused by horse tripping. (people get horse running as fast as they can, then rope their legs, and knock them down) At the very end of the book AnnieMarie is getting up the courage to ride Hurrah. She gets her tack ready and is getting Hurrah ready and thats the end. So you can speculate that she rides him. AnnieMarie hasn't rode since the riding accident with Harry, she was jumping him in an event and he broke his neck and afterwards she never rode again... until now? Also AnnieMarie is newly divorced. Her husband already has a girlfriend, named Sonja. And AnnieMarie and Dan, the vet and founder of the horse rescue, start dating.
I'm hoping to read the next book called "Flying Changes" to find out if she rides Hurrah and what becomes of Eva and Flicka. And if the relationship between Dan and AnnieMarie goes anywhere. Unless this is the book I should have read first that lead up to everything I read in "Riding Lessons"! I hope its the continued book of Riding Lessons though so I can see what happens! Plan on taking it to the hospital with me to read. That and another book called "Lost Souls".
Hopefully next post I'll be recovering from surgery and doing well!
Friday, June 6, 2008
I feel good
Hello all!
I've still been walking at the track. Yesterday I even jogged one lap and walked the last three. (4 laps equals a mile).
I've been feeling really good the last couple days except for cramping. I woke up and took some pain medicine then almost 2 hours later I was still in a lot of pain to the point of crying so Mom gave me some morphine. It helped make the pain more bearable, still didn't get rid of it totally though. But I was able to go back to sleep.
This afternoon Mom and I walked at the track then went to walmart. I got a few things like shampoo, toothbrush, 2 DVDs to bring to the hospital.
Got home and packed up a few foal size halters to give to a friend in Oklahoma for her newborn filly Remedy. Will have that sent to her soon.
I've decided that I'm going to try and breed Ginger this year. Not sure if she will get in foal. I don't even know where she is at in her heat cycle. I figure by the time she has the foal and foal is weaned or almost weaned, she should be ready to ride again. I'm excited at the thought of having another foal from Ginger, but trying to not get my hopes up. She is hard to get in foal.
Chase, my brother, came to visit tonight. I made him carry me piggy-back across the yard to where our Mom was at. I love spending time with my brother!
I've finished reading 2 books already this week. I've read "Mistaken Identity" and "The Ruins".
And my nausea isn't bothering me much today! Mom bought Little Ceaser's pizza home for dinner and I ate a whole slice. Also ate a few pieces of left over cake from my 1 year anniversary and a plum. That plum was soooo sweet and juicy!
My 1 year transplant anniversary was Wednesday, June 4th!!!!! Thomas and Mack have been with me a whole year now! I've come a long way since then! Dad took me to Books A Million and bought me some books. Mom bought a cake. And Dad set off a couple of fireworks outside and I accidentally set one off inside the kitchen, oopps!
I've been thinking about horses a LOT lately and I can't wait to get back to riding, but especially barrel racing!
My plan is after I recover from surgery to get Cherokee going and enter him when I think he can catch the 4D, then as he learns and is ready for more push him a little more until he is eventually finished and I hope he ends up being at least a 2D horse. And get Alleyway going to. Then after I have those 2 going well, start messing with the others on ground work, roundpen, ground driving, and the sort.
My hysterectomy surgery is Monday. This afternoon while I was in the shower Dr. Hunt called me and left message on my cell. Just checking on me and seeing if I had any last minute questions and that she would see me Monday. What an awesome doctor she is! I can't wait for surgery to be done with and I'm recovered so I can get back to riding!
Oh, and I need to keep my eyes out of the Jeffers Equine catalog because I saw a headstall and a loping hackamore that I want! And some other things too, like new purple sport boots for Ginger! And some polo wraps, all kinds of colors I want!
I've still been walking at the track. Yesterday I even jogged one lap and walked the last three. (4 laps equals a mile).
I've been feeling really good the last couple days except for cramping. I woke up and took some pain medicine then almost 2 hours later I was still in a lot of pain to the point of crying so Mom gave me some morphine. It helped make the pain more bearable, still didn't get rid of it totally though. But I was able to go back to sleep.
This afternoon Mom and I walked at the track then went to walmart. I got a few things like shampoo, toothbrush, 2 DVDs to bring to the hospital.
Got home and packed up a few foal size halters to give to a friend in Oklahoma for her newborn filly Remedy. Will have that sent to her soon.
I've decided that I'm going to try and breed Ginger this year. Not sure if she will get in foal. I don't even know where she is at in her heat cycle. I figure by the time she has the foal and foal is weaned or almost weaned, she should be ready to ride again. I'm excited at the thought of having another foal from Ginger, but trying to not get my hopes up. She is hard to get in foal.
Chase, my brother, came to visit tonight. I made him carry me piggy-back across the yard to where our Mom was at. I love spending time with my brother!
I've finished reading 2 books already this week. I've read "Mistaken Identity" and "The Ruins".
And my nausea isn't bothering me much today! Mom bought Little Ceaser's pizza home for dinner and I ate a whole slice. Also ate a few pieces of left over cake from my 1 year anniversary and a plum. That plum was soooo sweet and juicy!
My 1 year transplant anniversary was Wednesday, June 4th!!!!! Thomas and Mack have been with me a whole year now! I've come a long way since then! Dad took me to Books A Million and bought me some books. Mom bought a cake. And Dad set off a couple of fireworks outside and I accidentally set one off inside the kitchen, oopps!
I've been thinking about horses a LOT lately and I can't wait to get back to riding, but especially barrel racing!
My plan is after I recover from surgery to get Cherokee going and enter him when I think he can catch the 4D, then as he learns and is ready for more push him a little more until he is eventually finished and I hope he ends up being at least a 2D horse. And get Alleyway going to. Then after I have those 2 going well, start messing with the others on ground work, roundpen, ground driving, and the sort.
My hysterectomy surgery is Monday. This afternoon while I was in the shower Dr. Hunt called me and left message on my cell. Just checking on me and seeing if I had any last minute questions and that she would see me Monday. What an awesome doctor she is! I can't wait for surgery to be done with and I'm recovered so I can get back to riding!
Oh, and I need to keep my eyes out of the Jeffers Equine catalog because I saw a headstall and a loping hackamore that I want! And some other things too, like new purple sport boots for Ginger! And some polo wraps, all kinds of colors I want!
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