WHATS HAPPENING FRIDAY
I got up at 5am to get to my appointment by 7am spent 5 hours there. They put an iv in and put in some radio active dye then sent me out to the lobby to sit and eat a half of a bagel and drink water. Then back in and did an echo of my heart, over to another room to do some pictures of the heart , they said at rest. Then sent me back out to the lobby for about 20 minutes took me back and did the chemical induction for the stress part, my lord that isnt any fun at all. Felt like a 200 pound weight on my chest and I started getting flushed and nauseated. Good thing that doesn’t last long. …Back out to the Lobby for another bagle and more water then back in to take more pictures of the heart after being stressed. I thought that it would just be a simple thing and be in and out but it took all morning. I will know the results of all of this in a few days they said they will call me and tell me what they found. Im really not worried , don’t think there is anything wrong.
After all of this I went shopping for a little while. Bought some Christmas presents and me a new robe and p.J.s so I will have them when I have surgery.
Finally got home around 3pm. And im tired and on top of all of this because I couldn’t take my allergy pill this morning and all the wind that was blowing, I now have sneezing and drainage. I stopped at the drugstore and bought some Sudafed, hopefully it will dry it up quick. I don’t like having allergies and thought surely it would be ok by not taking it this morning but oh no the wind had to blow something in. Oh well.
I have been taking Echnacia , Sudafed, and using nasal spray too. Hopefully it will be ok
I have to work this week end and sure done want to if im sick. But I have worked such a small amount this month that I don’t want to call in either.
Hey Chipster this is your last week end before surgery. Just know that all of us will be praying for you. God will watch over you and you will be fine.
TRACI: that is great about the private school, that is the way all schools should be and used to be a few years ago until they thought they had a great idea and get rid of all the small schools and bus them all into a central location. I think the school system started losing right then. I know if I had kids now I would home school them or get them into a christain school somewhere too.
The bean soup sounds good. I just got threw putting the ham bone with all the left over ham in the pot with some pintos to cook over night. Yummy good protein.
BOBBY JO: wow scary when the brakes go out on something when you are driving it , that is for sure, glad you all are safe.
Hey if you do get down to Branson let me know we will meet up somewhere.
That sounds like a really neat tradition you all have the week end after Thanksgiving and doesn’t cause a lot of friction for the exes.
BRENDA: I know what you mean about far away to go get groceries. It is 60 miles round trip for me from our house into Forsyth, and if we really want more than our town has to offer it is about 150 round trip to
LANA: I will check with target next week sometime. I have to go to Branson on Monday so will run into our Target and see if they have them. Thanks for the tip. And we all love you too your know.
BEV: hopefully you got a call from Margie today with good news.
Your dad should have already gotten the results of his stress test. They told me today that they would be calling me in a couple of days. I ask them by Monday? They said at the lastest Tuesday.
JANET; has any one heard about Trudy or Vesta.? Thanks for praying for me too I really appreciate it. Before I forget it , it is so good to have you back posting daily. I really missed you sooooooooo much. Lol
Did you hear from the doctors office about your test today? I hope it was what you were wanting to hear.
That is so great the cooking for the homeless, I know they will really appreciate that. That someone took the time to cook for them not just buy it already made and all.
Yeah they are saying the MRSA that is being picked up in the general public is twice as bad as what has been around for years in hospitals and all. maybe we should all start wearing masks too. The world is getting to be a scary place people.
Know that a lot of us are still praying for you and yours. See God is working on your oldest son already. Hopefully Renee and her daughter was put into your life now to help Steph. And your health will get better we just have to keep praying and beliving. God has a special plan for you and he isnt done with you yet. So hang on because when he does get you well no telling what he will lead you to do.
Im sure that God let that little girl come home so he could hold her and make her all better. Her life isnt or wasn’t in vain , there will be something come out of it that is good , it may not be right away but there will be something.
I agree with you about what should happen to them, in my opinion they are nothing but wild crazed animals and we don’t take them and try to rehabilitate them .
RENEE: lol so your cat doesn’t want to even chase this mouse huh? I got tickled at you about this mouse. We always have at least 2 that come in the house when it gets cold out. but we just set traps for them and then I make Joe take them out and throw them away. Lol
TINA: so sorry about your job? What do you do? Maybe you can find something else that you will like better.
Hope your oldest child wins in his competition , I know it is so important to them to win.
Will you be at the COF meeting on the 26th? Hey ok about the vent, we should all feel safe to be able to do that on here.
HUGS AND BLESSINGS
JAN
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The kiddos finally get to go back to school today. Double YAY!!
Jan: I remember the stress test I had before WLS: definitely not fun and good it didn't last long. Glad that's over for you - now on to the surgery!
I'm off to start my day. Have a great day everyone! 
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Good Morning Jan and OH Peeps~ I am so glad you did okay with your test, Jan. I thought you were having the simple one-on the treadmill-but maybe they didnt want to do that one, because of your knees. I did that same stress test-weighing almost 450# and I honestly thought I was going to die before it was over!! PLUS, when I had all that pressure-I had to kick my legs to get my heart pumping even harder. OH man, it was B A D!!! Im glad thats all over with for you and we know your okay-because we have already claimed it~
I did get my much dreaded call, but the results I knew I was going to get...or was hoping to get. The best of everything it could have been. Docs office called-they said they have only seen one gb worse than mine in all of his years of being radiologist. Great. They said it was chalk full of stones and cant even understand how I am walking around. LOL....If they only knew. Ok-so there are 3 surgeons who will take my insurance here AND work on gastric bypass pts. Guess what? 2 of them cant even see me until AFTER Christmas. Great again. Those 2 are in Joplin and at the big Freeman hospital that I like, or would choose to go to anyway for surgery. The 3rd is in Neosho, which is fairly close-BUT....I have never ever heard of him and IF I go to him, I have to go to the tiny little hospital that I dont like whatsoever. HHMMM....then there is the problem with my medicaid for people with disabilities. They called me from the hospital yesterday and this girl-Michelle-basically called me a liar because she called to verify my spend down and my worker told her that I wasnt eligible, because I didnt send in requested paperwork. I have never gotten anything requesting ANYTHING or I would have sent it in. I think they are covering their butts because they didnt do their jobs. At any rate-I called when I hung up with the wench at the hospital, I called my worker and asked her WHY she didnt call me when I brought in my urgent care and ER bills so she could show my spend down met (which, at the window, you have to give your ss# so they can see who your worker is). Oh-they were in her inbox supposedly and she hadnt gotten to them yet-whatever. So now I go in AGAIN today to get that all squared away, which means I really cant do anything until its reactivated. Cant afford to be a selfpay patient and dont get my medicare until March. I did call my doc office back to see if there was any way that gb would last until March and when my doc actually laughed at me-I took that as a no, before he answered me and verified it. The girl from the hospital, when she accused me of being a liar-I dont think was prepared for the butt chewing she took from me-and how I know that they are NOT to talk down to ANY patient-whether they are selfpay, millionaires or anywhere in between. Told her that I worked there for almost 7 years and that we had the same director, Marion-and that she could talk to Marion about my character, because Marion always liked me and SHE hand picked me to start the billing for the cancer institute and also hand picked me to be a patient advocate so I had direct contact with those pts when they came in for their chemo treatments and such. HA! Once I said that to her- it was amazing that her tone and demeanor actually changed, just as I thought it would. So, there is my delima for this week or day or whatever. Crap. If its not one thing, its another. Im about sick of all of this, I can tell you that. Oh, and did I forget to mention that this is the SAME county/government agency that didnt go and check on Rowan Ford when her teachers hotlined in that they suspected abuse? Yep, good old Newton County. The land of the lazy ass's. When I had my surgery-with my spend down being so high-I would take ALL of my bills in, at once-usually 4-6 weeks after the DOS, well-I would have to take them in 2 and 3 times BEFORE they would even be entered. They even let some of them go to collections before they would get processed-because MY worker wouldnt get them in the system. I have a different worker now, my old one got fired or quit-whatever it was-but its looking like the new one isnt any better. Then they said the boys didnt qualify for medicaid because of Mikes income-BUT...they gave Steph medicaid when her dad DID, at that time, have insurance on her? Go figure that one out? I cant. When asked about it-my worker said its because Stephs income went off of mine-but Jons didnt. Hmmmm....At any rate-she said IF we would put insurance on the kids through Mikes job-at $360 per month PER child-we would qualify for food stamps. What the hell? They will give me food stamps every month if I spent half our income on insurance premiums every month-BUT...wont give us medicaid for the kids that maybe will use it once or twice per year? Never mind! My bankruptcy attorney told us that he has seen more cases since Matt Blunt changed the medicaid laws and made spendowns so high. Your spend down-is 1/2 of your monthly income. Who can afford that? Or at the least the medicaid I had and a couple of my friends have had-and we all have disability medicaid. Maybe different for the other kinds, but you get the jest of it. Ok, I gotta get off that soapbox, its making me mad. Yes, I am excited about cooking for the needy. It makes me feel good to help others, at least I can do that. I have always said, if I ever won the lottery, I would help people. I would. I would help the homeless and children, things like that. The people that fall through the cracks, and are in between that need it. I also, every year, take the kids and have each kid pick a toy and we donate it to Toys 4 Tots. We have done that every year for 15 yrs or so-and since my grandpa died, we do it in his honor and his name because he was really big into that and he was a shriner and they did special things. Every year he would get tickets to the Shriners Circus and we would take the kids. He was way up there-not sure what thats called, but one of my cherished items is his shriners hat. As old and worn out that it is, it is still so special, and holds many many special memories and he and my grandma would go to the Shriners Ball every year, dressed in formal wear-ball gowns and tuxs and go in a limo. It was awesome. We have made a scrapbook of all of the pictures we would take of them getting ready to leave for their Shriners Balls! Well, I have a busy day today. Megan just pulled up and we have to go to Carthage to get my prescription picked up and then we have to go to Neosho to get my paperwork finished up and then my dad called and asked if I could work today since his clerk that goes to TX once a month for her hubbys treatments called and this time, is going to be 10 days late coming back from what she told them. They did hire a new clerk, but he has already worked all of his rent off this week-and so since dad would have to pay him, Im going to go in for a few hours and since Megan has the day off, she is going to watch Jon for me.
My older kids are getting sick now too. I have rebuked this and been running around the house sanitizing everything, like a crazy woman! They have been started on antibiotics and Jon, I do believe, is going to end up at the pediatric clinic again today so that he can too. I dont think he is going to get better without it. I know several things are going around-per the pediatrician, BUT....he got worse and not better. Maybe I should take him to urgent care so that we have a different doc this time and maybe they will give us the antibiotics and some cough medicine that he so desperately needs.
Ok, well I am going to close for now. Want to get dressed and get out of here. Have a lot to do before I leave and will be gone until tonite. I hope all of you have a good weekend and as always, your in my thoughts and prayers. Janet
Hi Everyone...
WooooHoooo! I haven't seen the mouse today, but not holding my breath that it's gone. LOL I'll just give it a couple day's, and if I don't hear or see anything I'll start the search for the body.
I got my patient packet all filled out and ready to go in the mail, I'm so ready to get thing's started. I've even tried pushing it a little and making my first appointment before they get the paperwork, but so far no luck with that yet.
Jan Ono is so fat and lazy we have put her inside the shelf with the mouse before, went back a few minute's later, and there she was fast a sleep. I told Tiff it was pitiful, and to stop feeding her so much so she could earn her meal. LOL Of course Tiff didn't.
Have you heard anything about your stress test yet? I sure hope everything comes back good, and that you can get your surgery soon.
I'm keeping my finger's crossed for you.
Janet so sorry your having all that trouble. Some people just need a good shaking. I would love to be able to choke a few over the phone. LOL Keeping my finger's crossed for you and sending you good vibe's.
Chip it wont be long now. Good luck.
Barbra I know you read this every day, so girl get in here and start posting so everyone get's to know you.
I hope everyone has a great night. HUG'S 
Renee
If He bring's you to it.... He will bring you through it. 
