Busy, Busy, Busy...

I know, I haven't blogged in a long time.  So here it goes...I finished up the 2012 Spring semester at JU with three A's and one B (had to drop my 5th class at the recommendation of the Doctor).  It was really tough will all the pain I have been in due to the car accident in December.  Grammar, which I believe wouldn't have been so hard if not for the constant migraine headaches and severe neck and shoulder pain, would have been easier.  Grammar is the class that I received the B in.  It was hard to focus while trying to learn the sentence diagramming.  But even though it seemed really hard for me, I found it interesting, but, I would never want to teach grammar.

I picked up Humanities as a second major, I took Ancient Cultures this past semester and made an A.  I also finished Spanish 202 with an A, and my Outsiders Literature class with an -A.  Overall, I don't think I did too bad considering all the stuff going on.  Pain, kids, house, husband and physical therapy twice a week.  

With school and all this mess going on it's been quite stressful.  But my dear husband has been so great.  We celebrated his birthday last month with a small gathering of friends and family and then my birthday was in April as well.  He did an awesome job for my birthday, I have the best husband in the whole wide world!

Huck graduated this weekend, and we had a small dinner party to celebrate.  He didn't want to make a big deal because he has to take two more classes this summer before he 'officially' gets his masters degree, but JU made those that are finishing this summer go ahead and walk with the rest of the students.  So we will probably have another small get together at the end of the summer. **JU 2012 Graduates

Speaking of summer, I am taking three classes this summer; Philosophy, Speech Comm, and Spanish Essay Writing.  I have to get in as many classes as I can while Huck still works at JU.  Once he leaves next spring, that will be my last semester of paid college.  I will have to find scholarships to pay for my senior year.  I hope it won't be that hard.
I made the Deans list again this past semester, and also was selected for the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society.   It is a lifetime membership, so proud. :-)

Huck was also accepted into a Business Society, the was invited in the same time and ceremony as Major Alvin Brown.  I am so proud of my dear Husband!

My sister has been a huge blessing during  the past four months since the car accident.  I don't know what I would have done without her.  She helped with cleaning and the occasional neck massage when I could barely move.  Love you Christina!  And thank you to my friends who have given me emotional support, you know who you are!  I love you!

The kids are doing great.  Christian is doing great in school, and his teachers say he has a very bright future (he's Huck's son, of course he does!).   Christian is choosing to remain single for now, too much drama...and to be honest most girls now-a-days can't appreciate a respectful godly young man with virtue.  Plus, he is a republican and a Christian who doesn't believe in evolution, hard to find compatibility in a public school.  I have to get him back into church!  Son, I am praying for God to send you christian friends.  We will be enrolling him in martial arts again soon, and hopefully his friend Heather might help him learn to play the guitar (I hope).  And he will swim again when school starts in the fall.

Elijah is having a great time with his cousins.  He loves Judea, they get to spend a lot of time together now that they live in our neighborhood.  He hasn't dealt with any bullying at his new school (Parsons Christian Academy), but we are still having to work out some issues with kids that come over sometimes who have hit him and called him names.  I found out about it today, it is hard to know that your kid is picked on for his differences/disability.  It's just that kids can be so judgemental, I'm sure I was as a child myself.  But it is so hard seeing your child get called names and being treated harshly.  I hope when he grows up he can share with others about his struggles with Asperger's syndrome.  He's my baby, and I love him...I couldn't imagine him without it and I would not change him.

I did get some bad news recently, I finally had an MRI done of my neck and shoulder. The results? Well, here it is...

CERVICAL SPINE:

• C4-5 Broad-based disc bulge, abutting the thecal sac
• C5-6 Central disc herniation, projecting 4mm posteriorly with a transverse diameter of 1cm, impinging upon the thecal sac and abutting the spinal cord
• C6-7 Central disc herniation projecting 2mm posteriorly with a transervse diameter of 4mm, abutting the thecal sac
• Abnormally straightened cervical lordotic curvature

IMPRESSION: C5-6 central disk herniation, impinging upon the thecal sac and abutting the spinal cord. C6-7 central disk herniation, C4-5 broad based disk buldge. Abnormal spinal curvature

LEFT SHOULDER FINDINGS:

• Small glenohumeral joint effusion. The anterior articular cartilage of the glenoid adjacent to the anterior labrum is undermined by parallel linear increased signal intensity, indicating a tear.
• Diffuse increased signal intensity centrally within the rotator cuff on T1 and T2 imaging indicating tendinosis without tear
• Mild arthritic hyptertrophy the joint margins and join capsule of the acromial clinical joint. Small arthritic cyst along the intertubercular groove of the humeral head

IMPRESSION:
Tendinosis of the rotator cuff without tear. Tear of the anterior cartilage of the glenoid. Small glenohumeral joint effusion. Minimal degenerative arthritis.

The Doctor has told me that I will require neck surgery in the future, but we are not at that point yet. I suppose it will only get worse. I'm starting to believe I'm going to need some stronger pain medication too. I also have to continue with Physical Therapy twice a week.  BTW...I've burned out another heating pad....lol.

Friends, please continue to pray for our family.

I also started going back to my weight loss doctor today, he checked my lap band and it looks good.  Now I just have to do what he tells me to do.  So, starting tomorrow, no more than 30 carbs a day and I have to keep a food diary and see him again in 4 weeks.  I hope to lose 40 pounds before Christmas because my GYN said that is what she wants me to lose before I get a hysterectomy.

Anyhow, if you have made it this far, thanks for caring enough to read.  I will TRY to update more often to avoid such long posts. ;-)