Neglect to this blog comes for many reasons lately. The biggest reason is that I’m damn busy! The biggest issues have been school…and the simple fact that we’re buying a house NEXT WEEK!
School has been going well. Slacker classes still take time because I’m not willing to get C’s. Medical Terminology takes a lot of time just to get the work done. And two photography classes are quite time consuming as well! I’ve posted some of the pictures here, and have ended up randomly posting several pictures over on REEN (some of my most recent pics for my online digital photography class here). I only have a few weeks left, and have a ton of pictures from those classes that I haven’t posted…but I may get around to it this summer when things settle down a bit!
Probably the best news, I found out a couple weeks ago that I got into the Dental Hygiene program at Iowa Western! I had my interview on my birthday and found out that Saturday that I got in. I can still hardly believe that I got in the first time applying! Over 200 people applied, 35 had interviews, and 20 got in! A girl I had several classes with over the last two quarters I was at Metro. Community College got in as well which rocks! Its always a little less intimidating when you know someone else! I’m really excited, but extremely nervous. Its been a while since I’ve gone to school FULL time. And let me tell you…this is full time! I’ll be in school 8-4/5 three days a week and 8-12 two days a week. I’m sure it will be fine, just less sleep and learning to manage time differently!
After 22 months of not talking, my mom emailed me on my birthday. I wasn’t sure what to do or what to think. It was probably the worst time she could have possibly done it. That was the busiest week I’ve had in recent years…and she chose then to butt back into my life. After almost two weeks I wrote her back thanking her for the email, but that I didn’t know what to think or say. That was it. She wrote back within an hour saying that that was fine that I could write back whenever I wanted. Whatever. She told me that I would have to crawl back on my hands and knees and beg for forgiveness. That I was evil and abusive because of the things I said. (Remember, telling someone how you feel is abusive.) I obviously have issues concerning her, life has been easier without her…and I can’t deal with it now. Or the near future. Having to explain to my kids once why they can’t talk to their grandma and aunt is bad enough…I can’t go through that again if we get into another fight…which I see happening.
On to my headaches. Things are about the same, maybe a little better. My stress level is slightly lower…maybe different. That is always helpful when you get a lot of headaches. I’m not seeing the retarded neurologist that sent me to the pain specialist anymore. She told me that she didn’t understand why he would send me away so quickly and try to make me go to the “pain clinic” (the month or two month long every day-all day thing). My new doctor is really nice and is really trying to help me. She started me on 15 mg of a medication that the neurologist started me on 30 mg of. This stuff makes my fingers up to my elbows, my toes up to my knees tingle (like after they fell asleep or something), as well as my scalp, and sometimes my face. Its only supposed to make your hands/feet, but I’m really sensitive to most medications. I have progressively worked my way up to (just yesterday) 55 mg. She wants me to get to 60-100 mg. I think it has taken me 4-5 months to get this far. I have 15 and 25 mg pills to do this with. Switched from 50 to 55 mg and I’m still getting a lot of tingling. Its rather annoying and can almost hurt. But, if it can eventually (she told me it can take as long as a year to help because I’ve had the headaches so frequently for so long) help, I’ll do what it takes. She also told me, which no one else did, to only take the “pain” type pills for when I do get a bad headache/migraine no more than twice a week. Seriously, this is something no one has said to me before. But if you think about it, if you’re taking medications all the time, when you’re not, the headaches are just going to be that much worse! I don’t know why I didn’t think about it, but I guess when you’re in a lot of pain and no one tells you NOT to… UGH Also, last week I got SHOTS in the back of my head! lol It was interesting. Two weeks before that at my appointment, she pressed on the back of my head and I had an instant headache and felt dizzy. (Which of course didn’t go away for several hours.) She laughed and told me to come back in two weeks so she could “numb” my occipital nerve. Here is a link. The back of my head still feels like its bruised really bad or something and I haven’t noticed any difference in my headaches. I dunno, I guess we’ll give it time and see…still makes me feel nervous to numb/block a nerve in my HEAD!!!
On to the house. We’re buying a house! This came about suddenly, I’m still surprised at how suddenly! Roby went from “there is NO reason to buy, I don’t want to buy here!” to “ok, lets buy” in a matter of days. Military housing is such a shit hole, I think our duplex neighbor chain-smoking in the house and it coming onto our side was just the last straw. The one thing we just cannot “deal with” or ignore. Every time we walk in the house it reeks. Our things smelling like smoke, drying off with a towel that smells like smoke, its just too much. I called my friends realtor, we set up a time to look at six houses. Set out. Ended up only looking at three because I decided that looking at houses that were built before 1990 would cost too much for us out of pocket. Found one that is in our budget, area we want to live, had one owner with no kids, slightly bigger than what we are living in now! Put an offer in, had a counter offer in three hours…this was fast I’m telling you!!! We close on the 24th, I wish it was today! I spent a good 40 hours packing while Roby was on his last trip…there is still a little more to do, but its mostly things that have to wait until the last minute. We have a guy coming later today for the “pre-inspection.” More or less to tell us what we have to do to the house so we don’t get charged outrageous amounts of money for them to pretend to do it.
Right now, I’m avoiding homework. 12 week classes tend to drag at the end. Really…really drag. I need to get this weeks and next weeks medical term stuff done this week so I can not worry about it next week. But its really freaking boring!!!
I think that was enough of an update!!