new meds working great!!!

I've been put on Lyrica, which is the drug specifically for fibromyalgia.
Actually, I take the generic, gabapentin. Anyway, it's wonderful! Starting the first day it just made me a different person. I'm happy, more energetic, my house is very clean...as opposed to the mess it was a few days ago! I feel like a new me...actually I feel like the old me!
I'm still taking ambien, and norco, and paxil too. But the Lyrica is the best drug I've ever taken!
I have an ultrasound scheduled next week for the lump in my neck. I was supposed to go this morning but guess what? We got like 7 inches of snow!!!
We took the kids out and played in it for a few minutes. Aidan didn't know what the hell to think. He just kept walking around, and then he would fall face first and just lay there...not even trying to get up. It was weird. Of course we were right there to get him.
Soooooooooo, my doc has put me on a strict 1500 calorie diet. Today I have done well with just under 1300, but I can tell you it is hard!!! But I know the ends justify the means, so I'm optimistic and ready to go!
Suppose that is all for now. I love you, my faithful readers!!!

Boooooooooooored

I am bored. Bored. Booooooooooored. Like I may actually clean out of boredom. Now that's bored! So bored I may organize the refrigerator. So bored I may try to break the worlds record for throwing a ball against a wall over and over. So bored that I may actually PAINT MY TOENAILS. That, my friend, is bored. So bored that I may alphabetize something. So bored that today might be the day that I actually start exercising regularly. Booooooooooooooored.

ha!

Sophie and Aidan were fighting and Sophie comes up to me crying and saying she "wants a nicer baby"..."we got to get a better baby"....hilarious!

tattoo idea

what do you think? To me she represents the strong, independent women of the 1940's. The ones who were left at home while their men were at war, or had to care for their wounded husbands. They did what was previously thought to be "men's work". They got dirty working in the factories, then came home and took care of their families and clipped coupons and found inventive new ways to use leftovers...all with pantyhose and heels on and a smile on their face!
We Can Do It!

New Doctor

Hello and welcome to 2009! This year will be a good one, I can feel it! Go Obama!
Anyway, I don't know how many of you know that I have fibromyalgia, and have been trying out different docs for the last couple of years trying to get one that sits well with me. Well, yesterday I saw a new one and it went well! He's a pirate!! Okay, not really. But he does have a hook hand...thank God he's not an OBGYN!!! Ouchie! Well, he was really nice. He sat down and looked at my paperwork for awhile and then just closed the folder and was like "okay, so what's up?" I started giving him my story and he kinda cut me off and asked if I had a more recent pic of myself (he was looking at my license). I said no. Then he goes "how much weight have you gained in the last four years?".. okay that made me bawl like a baby and I wasn't sure where he was going with it, but I told him. Then he was talking to me about fibro and it being an "umbrella" disease for those who don't feel like doing the research to find out what is really wrong. Then he said he could tell me after 5 minutes of talking and examining my back what was wrong...and I really think he hit it on the head. He said that my spine is straight where it should be curved, because of the weight of my enormous ta-tas...okay not in those words but you get the gist of it. I developed really early, and because of the extra weight up front my spine didn't develop right and so that's why I have so much pain. It makes sense folks, it really does. I got too much boobage. So anyway, he gave me some Norco to take for the pain, some Ambien to help me sleep, and Paxil for depression. And as for the mysterious lump in my neck, he is going to schedule an ultrasound for that. I left feeling good. He actually talked to me, honestly for like a half an hour....those other people waiting must've hated me! He was a cool doc, he made me feel better, although he was a bit flirty....but maybe he was just trying to make me feel better after making me cry, who knows.
Anyway, feeling positive today. Life is good.

Don't take SOMA- ever!

Wow, okay so here's a story for you...I found a lump on my neck several months ago, and I've gotten two different "diagnoses", one was a muscle that is knotted, and one is a swollen lymph node that may require further testing. In the hopes that it is the former, just a muscle, I was given these muscle relaxers called Soma. I took one for the first time on Friday and fell asleep, no problem. Then came Saturday. Now, I'm supposed to take these 3 times a day, so I took one in the afternoon and told Donnie I was going to go downstairs to lay down because they make me sleepy. I kinda of remember having a dream about bugs crawling on my hand, and then the next thing I know I'm standing in the garage literally BASHING my wrist with the heavy side of a wrench. Seriously. Over and over. I screamed and ran upstairs, looking at my swollen and possibly broken wrist and calling for Donnie. He rushed me to Urgent Care where x-rays revealed it is just a really bad sprain. So now I'm wearing a brace for a few days and my wrist is swollen and turning all sorts of purdy colors. Crazy, right? All because of some muscle relaxer, which is not something new for me to be taking. Because of my fibromyalgia I take them often, just not that particular one. So anyway, yeah, don't take Soma if you're ever offered any!
Today I went to the mall and got the most amazing, beautiful shoes I've ever seen. I saw them and instantly fell in love. They're purple and black plaid pumps. I looked at them, went across the way to another store and bought an outfit to match, and then returned for my prized heels. I'm wearing them now, with my pj's! I think I may sleep in them. They're beautiful.
That is literally about the extent of my life these last few days. Christmas went as expected, the kids opened their presents way too fast and made a big mess, and already they're getting bored of them. But it was wonderful also, I took tons of pics!
How were your Christmases?

Free money anyone?

Hey it's me again! I think I will continue to blog, what's the harm even if no one reads it?
I have been making some extra spending money online lately, not like hundreds of dollars but an extra $50 a month or so just for my own personal spending. Anyway, if any of you are interested here is the link to sign up under me (so I get the referral, of course!). All you do is fill out these surveys. It's monotonous work, but not in any way, shape, or form is it hard. And almost all of those survey sites are scams, by the way. But not this one. You can google it to see, if you like. But I have received several paychecks from them so I know they're legit. I'm going to try to post a link here, though for some reason it never seems to work. If not, please copy and paste!
http://cashcrate.com/977075