Hello World! It’s Reba again. Just wondering what your plans are for the weekend? I am cleaning, doing laundry and school shopping to get everything ready for the start of school.
If I go anywhere’s, it will be to hobby lobby and walmart to get crafting and cleaning supplies and a few groceries.
Later,
Reba
Good morning, well almost good afternoon here in sunny, HOT, southeast Louisiana. I hope everyone is having an excellent Friday and has lots of plans for the weekend to come.
Wednesday, my grand daughter, Kristie, had an appointment w/ her neurosurgeon in New Orleans. It was the get the results from recent MRI to see if the spinal fluid is backing up into her neck. After all the prayers we had with us, I was sure hoping the results of the MRI was going to be more welcomed results than they were.
Unfortunately, the MRI results were not what we were expecting. Her chiari malformation has severely blocked her fluid flow, so surgery is our only option. Aubrie’s symptom of choking on nothing, has also only gotten worse, so Dr said to monitor her 24/7 to make sure she doesn’t choke. He was really an advocate for the surgery, he feels one of these times she will choke, and we, as her parents and grandparents, won’t be able to help her pull out of it.
So her surgery has been scheduled for 8/22, we have to be at the Oschner’s Hospital in New Orleans for 5 AM, surgery is set for 7.
I am babysitting and cooking lunch, I will post more in a few, I am also reading/liking/commenting on the blogs I follow.
Later,
Reba!
Well, it has been quite a long time since I posted here. I had my surgery, the partial hysterectomy is a done deal….HAPPY, HAPPY!
Recovery was nothing nice, in fact, it was rather tough! Luckily, I had my oldest daughter, Becky, and my youngest daughter here to help take care of me. I hated to be in bed for that solid week, so I thought I was going to get up and do housework, the pain was thru the roof, needless to say, I learned my lesson from that very painful experience.
Life is starting to level off, for the most part. Trying to get my business up and running again, as well as life back into some sort of order.
I will post more in a few,
Later,
Reba
Well, this blog is several days late, and probably a couple dollars short as my Paw-paw used to say, but here it is!
My youngest granddaughter, kristie, was diagnosed w/ a chiari malformation in mid May 2013.
What brought us to this point is the fact she was having migrants so bad, that she was turning purple crying in pain! She was sent to Oschners hospital in New Orleans to see a neurologist who was going to diagnosis her migraines after viewing her MRI.
The neurologist is a very dry man in the fact, he says what he has to say rather bluntly then leaves out! My daughter, Becky, had taken her BFF to this appt as I had a pain management appt that I couldn’t miss. Come to find out kristie, had other chiari symptoms that we had taken her to our local pediatrician for before, yet it was always brushed off!
Symptoms off top of my head was her choking on a cup of milk, to the point where I was ready to dial 911. Her body aches and pains were called growing pains. Her speech going from very clear and understandable to barely understandable at times, was diagnosed as her “being silly”!
The neuro surgeon wants an MRI of her neck, if her spinal fluid is backing up there, then surgery is our only option!
If the spinal fluid is not backing up into her neck, even though there’s not treatment for chiari, we do have options!
We didn’t get the “misdiagnosis” that we were so hoping for, but at least now, we do know what we are definitely dealing with, even tho kristie future is still unknown!
Thanks for letting me ramble on,
Later,
Reba
Mother Nature hit Oklahoma again last night leaving behind more devastation and destruction, plus more deaths, 5 total I think!
The storms are in no means over, producing some pretty serious flooding, softball sized hail, and massive tornadoes!
The areas that were hit, a few was already hit 2 weeks ago, shawnee for sure, but places like Oklahoma City, got hit hard with flooding and tornadoes!
Our supply load last weekend went into Shawnee and carney, ok areas, so to hear that the area was hit again is exceptionally hard!
The picture above is just part of this weekends load going into broken arrow, ok leaving this afternoon!
Well I haven’t been here in bout 2 weeks, I m currently working w/ a local group collecting donation them to carney and Shawnee ok!
The photo is donations picked up yesterday waiting to be sorted and boxed!
Hello World! Greetings for the swamps of Southeast Louisiana. How’s your Tuesday going? I hope this post greets you in the best of health and spirits. Today started off bad, I had my GYN appointment, which was very painful on many levels, but that’s behind me now.
My hysterectomy is scheduled for 6/5. I am trying to get everything done and ready to go for me to be down for about two weeks. I am hoping that my granddaughter’s Chiari brain surgery can wait at least til I have recovered enough to go to the hospital to stay the length of her hospital stay. Kristie will see the neurosurgeon on 6/3, so we will know from there, when the surgery will be and what we should expect.
Lauren has another art class at the library tonite, so I am sitting outside on the deck, typing this blog. Again, weather is nice and warm, light breeze blowing, sun is going down and no mosquitoes are out, so yea at this moment life is good today.
Dinner will be either egg or grilled cheese sandwiches, depending on what Lauren wants when we get home. I usually throw something into the crockpot on days when I know I won’t be home most of the day, but the day started off late, since Lauren and I both overslept, so we had to dress, eat breakfast and out the door we went for me to make my doctor’s appointment.
I am not a Mom to swear off processed foods for my child, although I do monitor the amount she has because so of those additives in the processed foods have been known to cause allergies and with her mental state, I don’t need any other problems. So, 90% of what is fixed in my house is fresh or at least out of a box. I tend to stay away from those tv dinners. Not only due to the additives, but with Lauren growing so much, so fast, it would take at least two of the smaller dinners to fill her up.
Ok, I guess that’s about it for this babbling session,
I hope everyone has a great evening,
Reba
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