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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Just a little update on Kelly

Many of you know that Kelly has been experiencing medical issues since July. She has gone through so many tests and we have learned that she has orthostatic hypotension, hypoglycemia, mononucleosis, low vitamin D. While we have been frustrated to not find a diagnosis that ties all of these symptoms together and to know why she is fainting, dizzy, and in pain, we are thankful that some of her symptoms have improved over the last 3 weeks. She has only had a couple of mild attacks in this time frame. She is still dizzy every day and has leg pain daily but she is feeling more like herself and able to cope better. We have limited sugar in her diet which appears to be controlling the hypoglycemia. We are hopeful that as she recovers from mono, that she will continue to improve. She had a tilt table test done last week and while it takes most patients about 30 minutes to pass out, she did so in 4 1/2 minutes. After reviewing her heart and bp monitors during this time, the dr did not think she has POTS. We are so grateful for the power of prayer and thank all those who have offered prayers in her behalf. We keep praying that she will continue to improve so that she may return to her normal activities.

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Quotable Quips and Laughable Life

I decided that I wanted to add a small section with little things that my kids have said or done over the years that I never want to forget and I think are worth sharing. Unfortunately I was much better at writing these things down a bit late in the game....Chelsie steals the show here a bit. If only I could remember all those things I thought I'd never forget. I hope you take my challenge to write down all those things you hope to pass on one day.

When Chelsie was about 2 she had been jumping on my brand new couch, so I promptly told her to stop jumping on the nice furniture. Her response was very logical. "Then where's the mean furniture?"

While camping in the Sequoias, the entrance sign read, "1 bear incident this week...." Kelly mispronounced it as 1 bear accident....later in the bathroom, Chelsie noticed wet spots on the floor, and announced, "This must be where the bear had the accident."

We had a family home evening on choosing the right, and we thought Chelsie understood but when we asked her she said, "Yes, don't choose the left!"

When Kelly was in the 5th grade, she needed to use the classroom phone to call me. She dialed 9 to get an outside line, then she had to dial 1 because I have a long distance cell phone number, but she accidently hit the 1 twice. When the 911 dispatcher answered she was scared and just hung up. 5 minutes later the front office called the classroom stating that 3 sheriffs had arrived ready to take action and were wanting to know who called and why. Now it was by sheer coincidence that this was a morning that there was a prison breakout, so officers were on high alert. Kelly was embarrassed then, but can laugh about it now!

When Wes was about 4, he used to tell everyone that he was going to marry his friend Elizabeth, and that they were going to have 16 kids, and maybe a car.

When Chelsie was 3 1/2 we told her she needed to learn to spell her name. She responded, "I already know....A L I Z A."
(That was her best friend who taught her)

I was talking with my girls about the weather, and Kelly said, that stupid beaver was wrong, spring is not around the corner. Chelsie then chimed in, it's not a beaver, it's a warthog. Clearly I have failed them.