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I went back to the specialist today! The good news - SURGERY! It's inevitable. But that's good!
I am scheduled for August 22nd. There are few things they will do. It's orthoscopic surgery which means that they'll go in a scope out my knee. Repair any torn ligements, fix the disc that's somewhere it's not supposed to. And see if we can relieve some of the pain and pressure off my joint. I have also developed a ballstic (sp?) cist on the back of my knee and some sort of lump. He wasn't too concerned with the lump since it was behind my knee. He didn't say much about the cist but that if it's there it will get cleaned out. This is GOOD news! I keep telling myself. It swells so much at night now. Ice is a good reliever. No more therapy. I am also very relieved about that!It was not fun!

Anyway - this weekend will be insane but fun! We are going camping with Sue and the boys. That will be a lot of fun. After I get work and medical stuff takin care of in the morning.
Then I come home for a day and then leave for Salt Lake to go see family! Carl won't be going unfortunately!! I am so sad about that but it's okay. He has to go up the following week for farmors bday. I talked about that a few weeks ago. I think we've resolved the dilema! I hope.
So if I am not on for a while that's why! It might be around my bday (Aug 14th) before I'll be back online and running normal, before my surgery. Wish us luck!!

12months of me...

My Sister In law sent me this from her myspace account...

January
1. Who kissed you on new years?
My husband of course
2. Did you have a new year's resolution this year?
what's that?!
3. Does it snow where you live?
No Thank heavens (that's why we moved!)
4. Do you like hot chocolate? Yes
5. Have you ever been to Times Square to watch the ball drop?
Not to watch the ball drop

♥FEBRUARY♥
1. When you were little did you buy valentines for the whole class?
YUP!
2. Who was your Valentine this year?
Carl is my Valentine all the time!! AWWWW! (you can throw up now!)
3. Do you care if the groundhog sees its shadow or not?
Yes! I love this holiday - it's silly!

MARCH♥
1. Are you Irish?
NO I better not ever be called that - I'm scottish thank you!
2. Do you wear green on St. Patrick' sDay?
no
3. What did you do for St. Patty's Day in 2007?
worked that's all i remember
4. Are you happy when winter is pretty much over?
YES YES YES!

♥APRIL♥
1. Do you like the rain?
YES!
2. Did you play an April fool's joke on anyone this year?
No
3. Did you get tons of candy on Easter?
Some - Carl always buys me Peeps
4. Do you celebrate 4/20?
what's 4/20! I am drawing a blank!LOL!
5. do you love the month of april?
Yes

♥MAY♥
1. What is your favorite flower?
Tulip
2. Do you like the spring?
Yes
3. Finish the phrase "April showers":
Bring lots more! ha ha!
4. Do you celebrate May 16th: National Piercing Day
I didn't know there was one!
5. Is there anything special about May to you?
Carls bday and my neices and nephews bday

♥JUNE♥
1.What year did/will you graduate in?
1992
2. Did you do anything fun during this month?
Yes a Cruise around the Baltic Sea, From Stockholm Sweden - Russia
3. Have a favorite baseball team?
Dbacks - Yankees

♥JULY♥
1. What did you do on the Fourth of July?
stayed home and watched movies
2. Are you going on any vacations during this month?
Yes, Utah next week
3. Do you blast the A/C all day?
It stays the same tempt.

♥AUGUST♥
1. Are you doing anything special at the end of your summer
seeing my nieces and nephews and the rest of my family
2. What was your favorite summer memory of '07?
not sure yet, ask me at the end
3. Did you go to the pool a lot?
not as much as I'd like

♥SEPTEMBER♥
1. Will you be attending college/school
No
2. Who was your favorite teacher?
Mr Drew 5th Grade- Mrs Bird 7th & 8th Grade!
3. Do you like fall better than summer
No

♥OCTOBER♥
1. What was your last Halloween costume?
I don't dress up
2. What is your favorite candy
Three Musketeers/Kit Kat
3. Who's birthday is during this month?
My brother Mike and my dad
4.Whats is your favorite thing about this month?
Football!!!

♥NOVEMBER♥
1. Whose house did you go to for Thanksgiving?
Christy' s -where she was house sitting - I think
2. Did you know GoofyAuctions.com was started this month in 2005?
HUH?!
3. What are you thankful for?
My Family, living in Arizona
4. Do you love stuffing?
Yes, Especially Carls homemade stuffing

♥DECEMBER♥
1. Do you celebrate Christmas?
it's ok it stresses me out
2. What is December 1st, 2007?
a cold day?!
3. have you ever been kissed under the miseltoe?
Yes
4. Get anything special last year?
I think Carl had a necklace made for me.
5. What do you want this year?
A new printer or monitor
6.Do you like cold weather?
NO NO NO! That's why I live here!

A new Week

The best part about Friday is it's the end of the week. The best part about Sunday is it's the beginning of a new week. Last week was HELL - I'll just put it like that.
I'll see if I can break it down into the short version.

1. Janet was supposed to have her Thyroid removed on Tues. Didn't happen. They prepped her for surgury and during the million ?? prep they listened to her lungs and didn't like it. They did xrays and found some kind of growth in her lungs, that has been there for a long time! So they halted the surgery! Don't ask why they haven't found this before - we can't even think straight. So they can't get her in to see a specialist until July 20th! That's a week and half!!

2. Christy had flown up for the surgery to take care of her mom. Alexis went into the hospital with a cist on her ovaries. Not pretty. They were afraid it had ruptered. It didn't fortunately for her. That sucks I had one in High School. They are PAINFUL! So Christy flies home Tuesday night because Alexis was admitted into the hospital. (Lucky Janet didn't have her surgery!)

3. So we pick Christy up from the Airport Tues night. Neither one of us have slept. She got in REALLY late on Tues. Alexis was released the next day. She'll be okay, but she has to see another dr. and get on some other medication.

4. We have a freak out lady at work - we have kids classes this summer I've mentioned. I won't go into detail but she was ready to press charges because her kid got tapped on the top of the head with a piece of paper (not an employee, like she thought) I probably shouldn't even be discussing. But since she's not pressing charges (but wanted a written apology from those involved including the store!) I'm not all that worried. No one from work knows I have a blog and it' all over anyway but it made for some big drama with her filing a police report. It was really ridiculous!! It wasn't my class fortunately this was Tues! LOL! But I did have both my kids classes on Thurs.

5. There is another bit of drama with one of the teenagers not showing up for shifts. I've covered her both times. Anyway that's awhole other long story but apparently I'm being to "hard" on them so I need to not be reminding them to do their chores anymore (which is what I was supposed to do to begin with!!) I am soo confused!!

6. Therapy -is about what I expected. But I was trying to remain really hopeful! On Friday he wasn't even sure we were going to continue because we can't keep the swelling in my knee undercontrol and he wasn't sure why. He was going to call the specialist and see what to do. He also wanted me to go back in for another cortozone shot on the other side where the tendinitis is. I SOOOO didn't want that!! That would hurt worse than the other one!

Monday - he decides to just do a different treamtment. I have an anti inflamatory patch that I wear for 24hrs after each session. We are also changing the excerises and where they do the ultra sound on my knee. We'll see. So far the knee is not responding. We'll see if it keeps up for another week. I am trying REALLY REALLY hard to continue to be optimistic about it. I am really I promise.

So that's it in a nutshell. Please pray for some good news or a lot lighter week! Oh yea and some rain would be nice!LOL!

Old News

I forgot to post last week!I think! We went to see Transformers on Saturday. LOVED it! I was really suprised. Carl was like a kid in a candy store. He's been excited to see it since we saw the previews. I wasn't sure. It wasn't a cartoon I was into (being a boy thing!LOL!) but my brothers all grew up watching it, so I was somewhat familiar with it. I loved the cast and the Transformers were really cool! I think so far my favorite movies are Transformers and Fantastic Four.

blogging, music and random stuff

I am a little disheartened with blogger right now. I am not sure why.
Just lots going on I suppose.

I have been listening to some of the recent releases by U2 at the end of 2006. "The Saints are Coming"and "Windows in the Skies" okay so far I don't like. I suppose I am a classic U2 fan. I do really like the last album "All that You Can't Leave Behind". That's one of my favorites. Rattle Hum being my first favorite. Then of course Joshua Tree. and Bad.

I am a little hesitant in the Bon Jovi new release. I LOVE LOVE "Who says you can't go Home/ the SugarLand version. I have that one on the ipod. I love the video to that one too. I love Keith Urban "I wanna love somebody like you" and Rodney Atkins"The Devil Knows Your Name."
I like the country depending on my mood. I guess I am a classic rock girl at heart. I still go for the Queen, AC/DC (if I need a boost). Aerosmith, Journey,CCR (Creedance ClearWater). and of course Bon Jovi. Although John Cougar was on the 4th of July special and he's always been a favorite. I don't agree with his politics but I love his music. It always shocks people, especially the girls at work, when they catch me singing the words to AC/DC when it comes on the radio! LOL! 93.3 KDKB is my favorite station here. They have a morning show that has me in stitches.I try to listen to it on my way to therapy in the morning for happy prep! LOL!They play a lot of the old rock that I love too.

In Sports, the Suns picked up Grant Hill. Which is a good pick up for them. We've been following a little bit of the off season news. As well as the NFL. I need to start doing my homework for the new season Fantasy Team. Our friend son plays for his JR JV team. He is studying football as she puts it. He really really wants to be on our fantasy team this year. I've got some catchin up to do. Lots going on this season.

So much to do so little time.

HAPPY 4th!

I hope everyone had a safe and Happy 4th! Especially with as hot as it's been.
We did absolutely nothing for four days and it was nice. Even on the 4th were supposed to go to Christy's house, but Carl was fighting off a migrane and I just didn't feel up to doing anything. I spent most of the day icing the knee. Holy Moly it hurts! The therapy is no picnic in the park!So a great way to spend our Independence Day, we made the decision to do nothing! It was nice to decide to do NOTHING! LOL!

I was in a fantastic mood this morning. It's been a weird day but a good one. We all keep thinking it's Monday instead of Thurs! We have some really wierd computer issues. That's all I can say about that.

4th of July

I know it's not the 4th yet, but I usually change my blog with the holidays! (see I try not to change it more than once a week!!LOL!)
Carl took a few days off. He took off Monday and Tuesday of this week and the 4th is on Wed. So he has a five day weekend. I have a two days. Tuesday and Wed.
Wed we have a BBQ with Christy and some friends. That should be fun.

I gave Buster his summer hair cut, It's just to dang hot for him to have any hair! We're supposed to get to116-118* degrees on Wed(depending on who you watch!) No that's not a type error! I thought it was when I saw the forcast!! It might be a new record!!

Not much else to report, should be a calm weekend.
Oh tonight I am making Oven Fried Chicken and mashed potatoes, and Pound cake from scratch. I am anxious to make the Pound Cake. I gotta wait for it to cool off a bit though. That's the one bad thing about it getting so hot. It's too hot to cook! If the Pound cake turns out, I'll post the recipe.