"If I had only one thing to tell the world,it would be to love. Blessed are those who understand what miracles love can accomplish, for it is the power of love that makes all dreams a reality."---Music Composer/Perfomer Medhi
Between my knee and the new dx of diabetes I sure have neglected things here. I have slowly but surely been designing a few things and getting my computer in better order to find things lol...if that is possible!!!!!!!!!!!! I am pleased to say I have purchased a commercial use liscense from Scrappin Cop~~~
I added some new stuffies to both 3Scrapateers and Digitals so make sure to check them out ! Will add more as to life goings on later when time allows but for now I hope you all have a wonderful and joyful upcoming Holiday Season! Hugs and Blessings!
Jolene
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I am a bad bad blogger but have good excuses lol. Lets see i prolly won't blog much as health reasons have been worsening and getting me down so really do not have the energy to be honest. I found I do have to have a knee replacement to my right knee but the surgeon says I could not handle the surgery right now until my meds and the diabetes get under control andto top it off I had a kidney stone so feel like a wet washrag most of the time. PLUS good old menopause seems to have set in and the hot flashes and sweats that come with it are not fun AT ALL! Have called my primary doc to see bout getting some HRT in the form of premarin but have a feeling he will tell me to go see my gyn which takes me a year to get an appt with sucks dont it! Ok more poor me's sorry but not much else to catch up on right now. Have been tryin to scrap but my heart just isn't in it despite the awsome pics of my kiddos .....say a few prayers will ya i sure could use some guidance nowadays. Waving frrom PA Jo
PS DEAR YAYA I canna talk to ya when ya do not answer ya phone so YAYA stay home lol or answer the telly woman!! Love and miss you too oodles.
well I guess i am over my poor me's lol or at least the worst of them. I am up to the two pills a day but getting my sugar levels adjusted is not an easy task. I wake up at odd hours in a cold sweat and shaking and need to get some orange juice in me and some food and feel better in about 20 minutes. The nausea still happens somewhat but think it could also be the other med which is a high powered antibiotic causing some of that as well as the glucophage. I don't feel as tired as i had been and have been a constant visitor to the lil girls room so guess I had alot of fluid buildup. The dr says all of it will regulate and to be patient and I am trying really I am! I need some get up and go and inspiration as right now nothing seems to suit me ugh!
Day two...the upset stomach reaction to the diabetes meds is some better today...it comes in waves but at least not lasting too long today hooray.
The rest of our lives here are in turmoil still...precious ds is still having many issues both physically and emotionally. He was hospitalized for several weeks and they are playing with meds to try and get him stablized but it is not an easy thing when depression and other things mix together. Bless his wife for she is trying so very hard to be supportive and comforting but I am sure things are not easy as living with a depressed person can be trying at times. They cannot control their own depression so how can their partner really help? Please keep them in your prayers. DD has had her share lately as well with a rocky relationship of 9 years but they are trying to work thru it and I hope they can but I have my own reservations..it's as I told her actions speak louder than words and unless her fiance' gets himself on the road to the right things with his daughters they have little chance of making it work and that worries me daily. Sweet alex is doing better tho has a rolly polly look to him I assume from his ra meds but overall is doing much better. We lost yet another young person...ds's best friend lost his wife very suddenly to a blood clot a few weeks ago leaving behind him and 5 young children! This is the third young person in less than 6 months we have lost that has been close. We had all just been together on Memorial day for a picnic at our son's and two days later she died suddenly. Ry is dealing as best he can and is raising the two youngest children while the 3 older ones who are not his were taken by their grandfather but they are all very close so there won't be wrangling over the children and they are still able to be together most of the time. Life is so short!!!!!!!!
Needless to say most of my scrapping is on hold..i have no oomph as they say but hopefully it will come back soon as I do miss it but just have no energy or patience to even play let alone scrap.
Boy it's been awhile..looking back to my last post i just didn't realize how long it's been! I struggled so long with the pneumonia and then things with family just took over and they were the most important thing for me. Now i find it's again time for ME to take care of ME! I went for my semi yearly bloodwork last thurs am and by mid afternoon the dr's office was calling me to get my butt into the office. Warning bells went off in my head and was pretty sure why as had been extra extremely tired for several weeks, my vision was doing funky things, i was constantly hungry even after eating a well rounded meal. Not to my surprise when I saw the Dr on Tuesday I now have the extra added bonus of being Diabetic! I guess I have known since I was dx'd with gastroparesis that the diabetes was not far behind since all the research I had done said they usually come together. Still it's a devasting blow..with all the other health problems I have like my Lupus,Fibromyalgia, Gastroparesis, High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol, RA, OA, Apnea, Restless Leg Syndrome, Asthma, etc I just wasn't ready to add this NOT SO LOVELY disease to my growing list of "Guess what I have?"! Add another pill to the evergrowing pile, add another gadget(a glucometer) to my lil bag of tools to manage my health--gee whiz what fun! YES i am feeling sorry for myself today, YES I am down down down, YES I do know I can manage the diabetes probably better than any of the other ills I have but that does not make it any less scary to be told one has it! I lost my father and his sister both to pancreatic cancer which in many cases is common for a diabetic or so I was told back then. My great grandmother was insulin dependent which thankfully at least for now I am not and a pill and excercise and diet will help me they say. But I have all those scary remember when things running around in my dreams and memories. With that said I will stop, go figure out what to do with my day today and feel sorry for myself just a little longer and then pick myself up and get in gear to see what I can learn and absorb about this new disease to me. Life goes on and so must all of us in our own ways..I just needed some "POOR ME" time this morning so you all get to read my ramble!
"This too shall pass" and " God never gives us more than we can handle" is what my precious Gram always told me and I know it's true just this morning I am wishing I didn't have to handle any of it lol.
I am still struggling with the effects of the stupid pneumonia..seems like it just does not want to let go ugh! In the meantime hubby is NOT doing better and we are running around dr to dr with no definitive answers other than they know he is hurting but cannot find out exactly why! FRUSTRATION can you say? Yeppers! We also have found that in all likelyhood his onset of diabetes several years ago may well be related to his service in Vietnam under Agent Orange as he was on the coast of Vietnam most of his tour. We are going to be filling out all that massive paperwork Friday over at VA. To top things off we think that the health issues our adult son has are related to his military service during Desert Shield! He has 8 or 9 of the signs of Gulf War Syndrome and some of them are so severe it is causing him and his wife alot of issues worrying. We never connected his health problems with this until this week our family dr stated he has extremely small red blood cells and when doing some research I found links to Gulf War Syndrome and all the other health problems he has had are all there in big bold print! We are going to look into it further as his frustration and I think even fear of it are getting the better of him and his wonderful wife! Please keep all of us in your thoughts and prayers..we all need some answers and some hope that there is a light at the end of the tunnel with some if not all of the health problems for two of the most important men in my life.
It's been a horrid two weeks here. I am down with pneumonia yet again for the third time in 6 months and am not happy! I feel like crap! I am on high powered antibiotics yet again and am feeling better to some degree physically.
Emotionally right now I am in shock..our neighbor's daughter in law was found dead by her husband when he came home from work morning before last. She was only in her 20's and the cause of death is not known yet but we all have our suspcions that she may have accidently overdosed on something. My heart aches for her husband who we have known since he was a little boy and for the 3 children she leaves behind. They also live where I saw their back door from our front door so knew them fairly well. Please say some prayers for their families! The whole neighborhood as well as the families are shocked and devasted by her death.
I had a go around with paypal this morning as yesterday when i checked my acct there is a double charge listed from my one monthly payment and the seller says they only requested payment once and yet pp shows it twice and pp refuses to do anything until after the 5 days authorization expires and then they will escalate if need be. Now when the seller says they didn't and believe me I trust the seller as have dealt with them almost 8 years now with no problem i would say someone needs to check on it but noooooooooo nobody seems to give a rats butt that my money is absent! Luckily it doesn't make my account in the negative but still it's money I use for my prescriptions, website payments etc and i don't want it messed with!
To top it all off this week I was purchasing from several different scrap stores and had issues with two of them that I couldn't get my downloads or got a wrong download! Grrrrr! I know these things happen and both stores have quickly been working on the problem but it is frustrating when i get an idea and then can't implement it because i can't get the basic portion i want to work with ugh.
So that is my lovely two weeks ick ick and ICK! It's still snowing here and only about 20 degrees and that sucks!
On a SUPER DOOPER NOTE i got a surprise package in the mail from my brothers and sisters when they were together for my one brother's birthday..they had taken time to make an old fashioned family recipe called Dutch Loaf which is a bread loaf made with cardimom, muscat raisins and a bunch of other delightful things like cinnamon and sugar! They safely had wrapped upa loaf and mailed it to me! I was in heaven and as I was feeling so icky it just hit the spot to make me feel comfort! I LOVE my brothers and sisters for thinking of me when I was not able to be there even more for sending me some! I adore them all if you haven't guessed but just wish I did not live such a distance from them or that I could travel more often. I know my grandfather would be smiling down on them as he was the one who always made the Dutch and it was a labor of love on his part every year at Christmas time. That sliced in thin slices, buttered along with a wedge of extra sharp cheese is one thing I remember my daddy snacking on when he came to stay! Better than chicken soup for this old sick gal!
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I wear black and gold - don't fit your mold - of what a lady should be I live football, I yell at bad calls, wear Dad's Bradshaw jersey I was raised this way, know every play, don't get me on the offensive Look at me now, got my terrible towel, don't care if it's 3 degrees
Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it In the superbowl, the Steelers will be bringin' it Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it
Here we go, oh oh ohhh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh (2x)
Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it In the superbowl, the Steelers will be bringin' it Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it
Yes we can, we got Big Ben, Farrior, Miller and Reed Holmes & Hampton, you know Tomlin came prepared to lead Hines Ward grinnin', Willie spinnin', Lebeau is on a mission Polamalu is gonna come through with another Super Bowl trophy
Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it In the superbowl, the Steelers will be bringin' it Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it
Here we go, oh oh ohhh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh (2x)
Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it In the superbowl, the Steelers will be bringin' it Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it
Here we go, oh oh ohhh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh (2x)
Don't you know we are champions of the world- see history unfurl what we are plus what we were, makes us Pittsburgh We're the team that takes the lead and makes you believe in the destiny and the legacy of the Steel City and beyond! It gets into your heart, it's a feeling all our own We're back on the throne, with one for the other thumb
All the Steeler ladies (7x), Now put your hands up
Here we go, oh oh ohhh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh (2x)
Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it In the superbowl, the Steelers will be bringin' it Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it
Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it In the superbowl, the Steelers will be bringin' it Gonna win it and they're gonna put a ring on it
HERE WE GO! Info Courtesy of SteelerLadies website http://steelerladies.com/
Well I finally made up my mind the other day to chop off all my hair! I have let my hair grow and grow over the past two years mainly because I am afraid of losing it as the Lupus causes some hair loss but it just had gotten to be way too long and way too hard to care for. I took my tush to the local beauty school as my daughter loves the one girl there and she does a beautiful job on hers so figured hey why not! It costs only 5.50 for a shampoo and cut/style so hey how can you go wrong! While they were registering me the teacher said would you consider donating your hair to locks of love and it took me all of 2 seconds to say yes by all means! They measured it and they cut off almost a foot of hair!!!!!!!!!! Who Knew!!!!!!!!!! LOL. Needless to say I feel alot lighter hahaha..if only it worked that way! Ewww tho all that was left was black and white and while it may look good on some people I had naturally dark auburn most of my life so it shook me a bit! I do love the hair cut and it's really easy to take care of and does not get all tangled up in my CPAP machine like it was doing despite the ponytail i would put it in! the end result was that I did not even have to pay for the haircut! Talk about bargains for a good cause! Of course yesterday i promptly went and got some lady clariol and am back to my redheaded self :-)
If you don't know what locks of love is here is a link: http://www.locksoflove.org/ They weave wigs for children who are cancer victims so it was well worth it in my humble opinion! Maybe i will get brave and post a pic but don't count on it..i hate my own pic being taken lol. K off to bed it's 1am and just talked to my sis Marsi for an hour and think I better hit the bed. Have a great weekend and if you are a sports fan (wink wink)
All of the stock photos were taken by me with my new digital camera and hopefully you will like the results as much as we have! As always any questions on my products can be sent to me via the Digitals Contact Us form or by PM'g me in the Digitals forum user name is jolene.
Just some new layouts I finally am getting to posting! Thanks to the super blogs with Pretty Scrappy and their blog train I got some great Boy quickpages! Will edit when I get back from the doctors tonight as we go yet again to Pittsburgh for dh's doctor appt! JOY oh Joy!
Our soninlaw with his grandkids Bubba and our sweetie Alex QP by LateNightScraps
Well the good news is they have finally given Alex a diagnosis and PTL it is NOT cancer ...he apparently has Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis which is very painful and can be debilitating but he is responding well to meds so all is not as terrible as we had been originally told! Thanks to everyone for your prayers and emails --they mean more than we can we say!
I am going to be redoing both this blog and my site over the next few weeks and try to get myself back in some sort of normal routine as much as my health will allow! Bear with me if you see bleeps and bumps along the way lol.
Happy over the hump day from SNOWY Western PA! Have a look at our errrrrr not so lovely weather!
Well it has been awhile since I updated this hasn't it! We got some devasting news that our precious 6yr old step greatgrandson has been diagnosed with cancer this morning...we are all in shock, in tears, in anger and feel totally devastated! I know that there have been great and wonderful strides in the care of children with cancer but NOT enough from what I have read tonight. I don't know yet exactly what type of cancer it is nor the dr's plan of treatment as they were on their way home from Pittsburgh the last I spoke with my daughter. I just need to ask any and all of you to put him and the family in all your prayers, your blessings, your thoughts or what you happen to believe in! His name is Alex and is such a joy to everyone and we could not love him more if he was a true greatgrand. He calls me Nana, he calls my daughter grandma..he IS family maybe not by blood but by love. Will update more later when I can think clearer and not cry quite so much.
