Brandon at work

This is a photo of Brandon at a work event. He was a speaker promoting his new video production company. Pray for success!!!

Thanksgiving, already?

My brother sent me an email and reminded me that if I did not post soon, I would once again forget my password and such. (Truthfully, I did get it all confused and had to make a couple attempts!.......my brain is after all, two weeks older and less cooperative.........) Could it really be that I have not posted here for an entire two weeks? I will add more expression and Annette-isms in the next day or two. In the meanwhile, from my heart to those of you who are courageous enough to stop in..............Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Progress?

Obviously I am not up to par when I have to force myself to check my emails and manipulate the internet. A trip to my family physician this afternoon is both reassuring and frustrating at the same time. Blood work ups show that my white count has dropped and my hemoglobin is getting better since the last hospital labs. My incisions look well healed and I am not throwing up or feeling sick to my stomach so that is great. I have had quite intensive pain and we believe that it is all coming from adhesions. I am still swollen and without predictability, it feels like rubber bands snapping and stinging (sometime sporadic and sometimes in long spells) under the incisions and even along my old C- section scarring. I am one of those individuals who develops extensive scarring on the inside. Topping it all off is a yeast infection and inflamation along the South Pole.......(Murphy's Law?)......This was my seventh abdominal surgery and each time I have to go under the knife, the surgeon always takes longer in the OR cutting away and dissecting adhesions. My gallbladder was almost completely covered from prior adhesions and inflamation. So my insides are still inflamed, nerves cut and pulling, and my body still is totally disagreeing with my wishes and activities. Fortunately, I can rule out in entirety a pregnancy, appendicitis or gallbladder stones.....................time to get over it!!! Thanksgiving is two weeks from today and then Christmas right behind.............this is no time to be feeling so out of sorts!