What a crazy month

This month has been crazy and busy. First I started by helping Andrea create her blog for her jewelry. Took a couple of tries to get that right. Then we spent 2 Saturdays getting photos of the jewelry. Hot 95* days outside using the natural light as much as we could. Then I put the photos on the blog. (over several days) I did not like how I had done one batch so I deleted it and re-posted those. Now it's looking good and I'm still trying to find a way to promote the blog without spending any money. ASKreations...Jewelry

Got a new doctor at the VA who actually knew what fibromyalgia was and apparently can treat it. He put me on some new meds that do seem to be helping, but at the same time I apparently have a pinched nerve in my lower back. So I have been sent for lumbar x-rays and MRI. Then one of my teeth that had been broken for a while, started chewing up my tongue. Extremely painful. When I went back to the VA for this my doctor was running at least 2 hours behind so I saw another doctor who gave me more pain pills, antibiotics  and called the head of the dental department and left a message. Two days later I got my tooth pulled (after listening to numerous lectures on the fact that I didn't qualify for VA dental care and this was a one time, emergency thing and not to come back...really rude but I got the tooth out)

I have also started going to the YMCA for their Aqua Fit program 2 days a week. (I wonder how thats going to work in the winter, it's in an outdoor pool) and I go to The Digital Underground Cafe a couple days a week. So I have gone from a stay at home bed slug to and over scheduled on the go girl. In ways coming out of that depression has been wonderful. Interacting with people and life, but it sure can be exhausting. Even thought I'm doing better with the new meds for the fibromyalgia I still have to be careful as to how I do things and an active day can wear me completely out.  I look forward now, to the days I can stay home and not do anything, except maybe straighting out the apartment some. I'm trying real hard to keep up on that so I can actually have people in and not be embarrassed.

Well time to get going. Another day of Aqua Fit and The Digital Underground Cafe. Hope to be home by noon and be able to rest up a bit this afternoon.

As always, thinking of my kids, missing them and loving them ALWAYS & FOREVER!

My favorite photo ever!

I have just recently been able to deal with some hard things. One that I'm working on is sorting and organizing three shoe boxes of photos. It's going to be a much bigger task than I first thought. I looked through them and found some of my favorites. This one is the best of the best. This is my love of my children. I miss them so bad some days.

Me and my children, Aaron and Megan, and of course Clint