Thank You

I wanted to tell my family 'thank you' for all that they have helped me with the past 2 weeks since my concussion. I wanted to thank them for their concern. I want to especially thank them for getting Tim to school. It has been nice just staying in bed and resting. I want to thank them for putting up with my mood changes, driving me everywhere, going to the store etc.
I wanted to thank my friends for their concern and for checking up on me. I feel loved by my family and my friends. I miss my friends.
I also want to thank all the good friends in my ward that have shared their love and concern to our family and not giving up on us in the past few months. Mike and I are now going to be primary teachers. Yay! It will be fun, right?! 11 and 12 year olds! They might teach us a few things. They might even know more than us. What do they say? The teachers get more out of the lesson than the people they are teaching. I've heard someone say that before in Relief Society or Sunday School.
My family has alot going on right now. 2009 is going to be a little bit of a challenge. My mother in law can't go home from rehab to live on her own ever again. As a family we are going to have to work everything out so everyone agrees and everyone will have to be committed to what they are suppose to do. We are going to have to love each other.
I also want to thank my Heavenly Father for blessing my family. I could have been hurt worse when I fell. My mother in law could have been hurt worse also when she fell. I want to thank those friends and family that listened to the spirit and followed what they needed to do. I hope my family and our friends and ME can continue to listen to the spirit and turn more to our Heavenly Father for guidance and comfort.

anterograde amnesia

I went to MY doctor today for a follow up for my concussion. She examined me more fully than the ER doctor the day after I fell. Weird er doctor. She looked at my eyes with a light, she had me follow her fingers, she had me walk in a straight line (the er doctor did that too) and walk with my eyes closed too. I passed. She said that a concussion is bruising the brain. So, it takes a few weeks to get better. That makes sense. She said since I can't remember falling or starting to fall or anything at all about the fall other than opening my eyes when I was already on the ground...she said I have something called anterograde amnesia. That is when you can't remember things from like 5 mins ago or more. So, I was probably knocked unconscious for a short while is my guess. She said to keep myself hydrated which I haven't been doing that very well but I will. To stop taking my aspirin for a week. And she excused me from work another week. I talked to my boss, Julie and dropped my doctors note off to her. She has already covered all my shifts for this week which is good and she wants me to take enough time as I need to get better. She has been saying that all along though. I miss my friends at work! I'm nervous about returning back to normal and walking, walking and more walking for 6 hours a day and checking and lifting etc. Hopefully by the end of this week I feel great!

week 2 of concussion

I made an appointment to see my regular doctor tomorrow to see about my concussion. She told the nurse that my symptoms right now aren't normal but aren't uncommon either. I talked to Julie, my boss today and she is awesome. She is so worried about me and about me losing my sick pay if I come back too soon. Ranae is awesome too. She got me all my days covered last week as sick time. She talked to Jim about it and he wasn't even aware of my accident. Communication at that place really needs to improve! I am getting a little tired of asking my daughters and husband to do all the running around. Like going to deposit my check, pick up a prescription, grocery shop, taking Tim to the library and taking Timmy to school,etc. I really do appreciate everything. I did do a little bit of laundry though today. Yay! Laundry. It will always be there. We can all count on laundry. It will never let us down. :)

My Concussion Experience

Everything seemed fine on January 3rd. I had come home for lunch from work and ate with my family. I went back to work and I parked, I look where I am parking cuz I don't want to fall on ice. So, I parked in a good place and got out of the truck and the next thing I knew I was looking up under a parked car in the parking lot. And my head HURT! I got up really slow. It was like really slow motion. One arm lifted part of me up and then the other arm lifted me up so I was sitting up. I then got up the rest of the way really slow. I saw a car coming into the parking lot and they got out and came towards me. They were customers I recognized. They walked with me and asked me if I was ok. They said I better go sit down cuz I didn't look good. I went inside and I was soaked on one side of my body. My pants were soaked and my apron on one side of me. And my head HURT! I talked to a manager and him and another manager went to look outside where I had fallen. Alex said he almost fell going out there in that same area. Warren and Alex put salt all over that area and throughout the parking lot. They came back in and Warren filled out an accident report and told me to go to Alta View Hospital if I felt I needed to. I was a little disoriented the next two hours. I stayed at work for awhile until Hannah got there and we counted the safe and then I went home. Mike was at the hospital visiting his mom. He said he would come home but I didn't want him to have to drive home just for "me". I came home and Nic and Ash laid by me on my bed and wouldn't let me go to sleep. I just wanted to sleep. My head and neck were sore but I wanted to sleep. Later Mike came home and that night he woke me up a couple of times to make sure I was ok. The next morning when I got up 'oh my goodness' I was nauseous and dizzy as heck. I went through the motions of throwing up but didn't actually throw up, just nauseous. I decided then we better go to the hospital. The doctor asked me questions and examined me and decided to do a cat scan. That came back normal. So, I rested the rest of the day Sunday and Monday and Tuesday. I was scheduled to work Wednesday but I didn't feel good still so I called Julie and she told me to take the rest of the week off. I didn't realize concussions could be this serious. I mean I knew they were serious but I didn't realize it took so much time and rest to heal. I went to visit Mike's mom yesterday and also picked up some dinner with Nikki and it wore me out. When I got to bed and closed my eyes the bed was rocking. I think I am going to call the my doctor tomorrow and see what she says. Julie told me to NOT come back to work until I am for sure feeling good because it messes up my sick time. I am thinking I might take another week off to rest up. I don't want to go back to work and then be sick again. Brain injuries are serious. I mean, look at the description...brain injuries. It's your brain! That is what controls and makes everything work in your body! Everything!

New Year New Choices New Changes

Mike and I went to Sacrament meeting today. It was a nice feeling. There are quite a few people I don't know who they are. We have only been maybe 10 times in 2008. No overwhelming reason for not going much last year. Just tired and so easy to just wanna stay in bed. This year 2009 is going to be better though. We were both asked to be Primary teachers for the 11-12 years old. That should be fun. I think it will be different than when I taught them when they were 5 years old. These kids know more things now about the Gospel. They will keep both of us on our toes. It was nice seeing friends too today. I can actually say I have some friends there. A couple of years ago not so many friends. It was a little uncomfortable for me. It was a good feeling being set apart today for our callings. I needed the blessing. Timmy is in the Primary class we will be teaching. Today he said after he was finished watching the football playoff games that he is excited to go to church next week. We will HAVE to record the football games! I think a big thing to help us get to church will be planning. Make sure all the clothes are clean and ironed for the next day. Make sure the guys have matching socks IN their drawer. What a novel idea...in their drawer? Not in the laundry basket where they have to dig for matches. Gee....what's next???? Family prayer??? Husband and wife prayer???? Personal prayer???? Scripture reading as a family and alone????
WOW! The possibilities are endless.....

Hi...this is like my 7th blog or so that I have started. I just keep starting blogs. I wonder if I like playing with the colors and designs more than blogging. I am going to start off tomorrow which it already is tomorrow because as usual I am up way too late.