Christmas

Was good. Had the family over on the 23rd for our get together..which i cooked for. Went very well, minus me exploding the casserole dish holding my cheesy potatoes, but other then that, it was snag free.

Christmas eve went down to toldedo and to church and had dinner with alicia and her family then came back home. It was kinda weird going to bed all alone in the house..didn't feel like Christmas eve at all after getting home.

Woke up, went to shan's to watch the girls open their gifts, which they slept in for (figures). And then came back home, where i spent the day lounging around..again, kinda weird feeling being so quiet, never felt like Christmas till the girls came over at 4pm. They ran into the house and began screaming "santa was here! santa was here!" really cute. Shelly loved it and was much more into it at my house then she was at shan's it seemed like. i'll do pics later...

I also won my fantasy football league..second year in a row, 3rd out of the last 4 years...i'm a good fantasy baller....

And, finally, my tooth fell out last nite. One of my eye teeth..had a root canal on it a couple years ago, so i knew it would crack eventually, and last nite was the nite...basically, i look like bum, but i think it's pretty freakin' sweet lookin.....Bottom line, it doesn't hurt at all, but i'll need to see a dentist for what i'm sure will not be a cheap appointment...

alright....

My last bunch of posts has been basically me talking about how uncomfortable the last month and a half has been for me. I'm done with it. I feel better, even my back and neck are finally feeling better. So, on to my normal mindless crap.

Christmas is coming. Well, duh, of course it is. I've got all my shopping done. First time before Christmas eve i've accomplished this ever i think. It's nice. I'm having the family party at my house this year and want to plan on that as well as i can and not have to worry about last minute gift giving. Crap, speaking of which, my grandma is coming over and I have to get her something. I'm not done shopping....son of a bitch. Oh well...she'll take something from the Pharmacy in town no problemo!

Work has been great. Financially, my best year ever, and boy did I need it. i'm almost a full year ahead of my plan to recover financialy from my divorce and be where i was at prior to it money wise. I'm VERY happy with that. IT feels great. I feel very fortunate for that.

Let's see what else...oh, Alicia and I have basically come out of the closet at work..so to speak. It was never something we really 'Hid' as much as it was something we didn't/don't want to draw unnecessary attention to with our relationship at work. Espeically with some of the jackoff's at that place, when i'm at work, i want to work..well for the most part i do :) and i know it's the same for her. Same time, we aren't tip toein' around anyone anymore. She was a lifesaver for me when i was sick and not feeling good the past month. I'm VERY grateful to her....

Just watched the movie Bloodrayne, which quite possibly may be the worst movie of all time. I knew going in it would be bad, what i didn't expect was the all star B movie list of actors it had...Michael Madsen(complete with mullet), Michelle Rodriguez, Kristina Lokennian (sp), The once proud Billy Zane and for some unearthly reason Sir Ben Kingsely. Man, that guy must have really needed a paycheck. Bottom line, don't watch it.

I haven't been working out since i've been recoupperating, and it's been driving me nuts. I am going for walks every nite, but it's not the same, i miss lifting and workin on the stairclimber. I'll get back to it..eventually, but i'm DEFINITELY not gonna rush it...

Big fantasy football weekend!! I"m in the playoffs in both leauges..and want to see a shootout monday nite with Carson Palmer, reggie wayne, joseph addai and tj houszmanzadeh doing all the scoring :)

I'm good...finally

After 5 weeks of tests, scans..imaging..bloodwork. I'm done. And i'm healthy. I feel good, relieved and frankly like a new person. Very thankful. For a lot of things.

Last test done

Just gotta wait till i get the call tomorrow with the good news. Which after recieving, and if it's 50 degreesish or so, i've decided i'm going to golf in the afternoon to celebrate. i deserve to unwind after this past month with my health scares. So, that means of course, it will probably rain. Either way, i'll feel WAY better this time tomorrow.

Keeps getting better

Well,i was premature with my earlier post. My doctor called me about 20 minutes after i wrote it and said my blood cultures came back good, but my high levels are still a major concern. Basically, he's afraid there may be an infection hiding somewhere in my body. So, that means more labwork on Thursday and the worst part, not knowing again until Friday. The waiting game is the worst, and frankly, i'm tired of it. What i want: Lower or normal blood cell counts. What I don't want: What i had last week

Train wreck

That's the best description of how i've felt. I've been absolutely the most miserable feeling since i've been in a body cast 18 years ago. My run of luck has been staggering on the bad end of the teeter totter healthwise.

First, i start with the afroementioned pain in the head/neck/spine. Well, cat scan shows a large cyst, which shouldn't be a problem....which..has been verified to me multiple times, which...if you've ever seen an mri of your brain with one of these in it is still pretty frightening. Frankly, it's absolutely AMAZING i don't have any problems with this thing, and in fact, all my doctors (yes, plural) seem almost matter of fact about it. I just gotta get it checked about once every 6-12 months..probably forever. Eh, i can live with that, and accepted it..no big deal.

Of course, that wasn't contributing to my problems, SO, i had an mri, which if you've never had one, you don't want one. It's like being in a coffin inside of a fire truck that is blaring all it's horns and sirens and you can't move for 60 minutes while this is going on, which, you can't anyways, cause you are IN A COFFIN.

So, that one came back...my head, brain, and neck are all perfectly fine. SO what the fuck next? i still have problems..altho...my neuro didn't understand me i guess clearly (which he defended quite adamantly at my last meeting with him) SO, we ordered ANOTHER MRI on my spinal cord. Sweet.

SAme time, all this was going on, i noticed the pain was getting really amped up last week..like REALLY amped up. THen, it hit me...some nasty bug. I got a fever of 103 and was taken to the ER for the second time in two weeks. Took xrays of my chest to make sure it wasn't pneumonia. Luckily, they only found NODES GROWING ON MY LUNGS. Seriously, come on. i really didn't need to hear that, altho, that was quickly followed up with 'well, their benign, they aren't cancerous and appear to just be a couple blood vessels..." A-holes. next time, don't eve freakin' tell me. Seriously. I'm at the breaking point of bad health news. At the same time, all i have is a fever, which scares all the doctors, i don't have any other flu symptoms ,but the fever, so, i have lots of tests done. blood drawn. urine given. and finally, the sweet, sweet, shot of pain killing drugs. That was the best i've felt since i was 14...seriously. Nothing hurt. anyplace. for like 5 hours. i miss that shot....

anywho, i was basically bedridden wed nite thru fri afternoon..went to work for 4 hours..back to the doctors and to give blood, then slept for about 40 of the next 48 hours.

Just got back my final mri results on my back and, it's perfectly fine. So, i should be okay...however, my back still hurts. it is WAY better. Today is actually the first day i've been at work where i will leave and not think "thank God i can get out of here to rest my back" which is VERY VERY VERY GOOD. So, i think i'm on up the swing.

Bottom line, i need some good freakin' karma coming my way.....maybe from Santa.

Direct TV CAVED

So, they came out and finally fixed my satellite. Apparently the original tech didn't fix it firmly on the roof.

So, i called last nite after he left to get my "credit" back from the 5 weeks of sunday ticket i missed due to their goof, only this time, they said, they can't do that. So, naturally, i went off on the rep, after being transferred twice and disconnected once already, i had no qualms about giving someone a minor earful. And, what do you know, the more i complained, the more i got for free. It started as $5 off my bill the next 6 months, then it went to $10 off my hbo the next 6 months, THEN it went to $10 off hbo the next 6 months, PLUS free Starz movie channels for 3 months. i settled there. cost even'd out for what i wanted and now I can watch the Chronicles of Narnia for free anytime I want until march.

AND, i'll never leave the sunday ticket. That was all big talk in my earlier post. i can't . i Love football.