Update on Lilly's operation.

I meant to get back here and give everyone the update that Lilly's operation had been moved to April 25th which was yesterday but life gets away from me from time to time. She came through with flying colors and even got on the phone to talk to me.

The only problem they had was when Lilly came too after the operation she was trying to tear the IV out so they gave her Morphine so she would calm down other then that she did great.

You can see Lilly when they first tried to get her to eat something, and how motherly worried Samantha is for her. 

This morning she wouldn't eat or drink so Samantha spoon fed her a ice pop before leaving for work. Samantha was going to stay late at work but doesn't want to leave Lilly alone too long with David, she wants to be there for her. Samantha is stopping by our house after work to pick up the humidifier (the Dr. said that would help), some broth and noodle soup for Lilly to see if she likes that better.

I will have Lilly and Lainy Tuesday and Wednesday so I can cuddle with her and see if she will eat better for me. It will be my first time having both girls at one time with no one else here but me so it should be interesting to say the least.

I had my tonsils out when I was 28 and it was not picnic it took me over 16 weeks to heal. I feel for her. Prayers for a quick recovery for her would be most appreciated. Thank you.

Prayers for Lilly

A few weeks ago my grand daughter Lilly went to the Dr.'s or should I say she went again. She actually had gone a few months before and they thought she might have a sinus infection, then they thought allergies. Nothing was working and finally they sent her to a specialist because she had something stuck up inside her nose. It was a ball of some sort of fiber the size of a large jelly bean. Long story short the horrible smell that had been coming from her mouth disappeared right away when they removed it.

Lilly's tonsils were pretty swollen then but they all had agreed it was probably from her nose being clogged for so long so they said they would just watch it. They put her on antibiotics for it last week, but with today's appointment they agreed that the swelling was not going down. So they are going to take both her tonsils and adenoids

My daughter Samantha will be taking Lilly to the specialist to see when everything will be happening. She was told if Lilly goes one whole day without eating and drinking they are to go straight to the hospital. She is having a hard time breathing and her snoring is through the roof.

We went out to do shopping today and she did eat a little for Papa so that made Samantha and me feel much better. Just keep her in your prayers and I will update as soon as I get more information. Thank you in advance.

The Marksville Run Down

Holy Cow it has been a long time since I have updated. All I can say is we have been really busy. Let's see if I can give you a run down.

As of January 1st my healthcare insurance no longer is approving the medicine that works for my Fibromyalgia so I have been in a constant state of pain. The Dr. tried me on a new medication that made things so bad I was literally just getting up to go to the bathroom. We stopped that medication and my Dr. is contacting the insurance company and trying to get them to pay for the medication I was on before, so right now we are just waiting to hear what they decide to do.

If you remember my post Financial Melt Down in Marksville  you should know we went through a bit of a money shortage which started back up in January. The Dr. had sent the wrong papers into Unemployment so they said my Husband committed fraud from October to December and we would have to pay all of the money back so they were with holding his checks until the amount he had gotten wrongfully was paid back. It took a while but the Dr. re-sent in the right papers and they were able to reverse everything and deposit yet again a big amount into our account which was gobbled up quite quickly. 

Mind you our landlord had been getting crumbs for rent so he had sent me a 3 days eviction notice, which happened to come on the same exact day as the money. God has great timing is all I can say. With that being said my husband finally got his reimbursement for gas mileage back and forth to the Dr.'s  which we had been waiting 7 months for, and I finally filled out for our income tax and even though it is small our tax refunds have started coming in. I can't say enough good things about owning your own business other then tax deductions rock.

During this time Dennis started College and right now is looking at being on the Dean's or President's List. The Dr. is still leaving him at 50% disabled as he just has no strength in his left leg. His quads are doing well but the lower leg is pretty much just dead weight at this time. My husband keeps telling people that between his knee and his foot feels like nothing is there, but we hope with the new exercises the Dr. wants him to start we will see an improvement. 

Our daughter Samantha gave birth to our second grand daughter AlainaMarie Faith Ortiz but we all call her Lainy. Lilly loves her baby sister and does very well with her. Samantha and David are doing well with both girls. They are good parents. I love my children and I love having grand children.

Dennise got a part in Les Miserables for a production company so we are all really excited about that. Dennise is also in All county, NYSSMA, and got another part in the High School Play or Musical forgot which they were doing this year. With this being her Junior year it is quite full, I can only imagine what next year will hold for us. 

Deanna had a bit of a rough start to the year. She started the school year off with a substitute while her teacher was on maternity leave, then she came back and was only there a few weeks if that and then she changed positions within the school, leaving her class to a new teacher all together. Deanna and her did not see eye to eye and at one point Deanna was written up and we got a letter home. I did respond and with my guidance so far everything is going well. Deanna now is back to enjoying school for the most part and has found a liking for her new teacher. They just needed a way to bond. Now that we are through that Deanna is back to going to her band lessons, not sure if I mentioned it but she wasn't in the winter concert because she needed more practice.

Deanna and Dorothy are in their last month of playing basketball and are looking forward to Soccer already which doesn't start back up for us until Fall. A long way off for them. Deanna is starting wrestling today. They don't go against other teams until they are in 7th grade. Right now it is just a learning experience.  Dennise was in wrestling for a short time before me moved to this school district and she didn't show an interest in it anymore, and we hadn't heard anything about it either. My husband is really excited to see her in action though, so time will tell if she stays with this or not. 

Dorothy is doing well and any day now we should have her Girl Scout Cookies and will be able to deliver them to everyone who ordered. She really can't wait for summer to get here. All she asks is when the school will give her lessons to swim. Where we live we have a kiddie pool in the park and a big area for people who can swim to enjoy. There is no in between for learning swimmers. She really wants to swim in the big side this year but can't because she doesn't know how to swim. Wonder if there are lessons anywhere around us? Will have to check into that. 

I guess that is pretty much it for a fast run down of everything anyways. Hope you all have been doing well and I would love to hear from everyone. Here is to the coming of Spring and lots of fun for everyone. 

MarksvilleandMe

Not sure if everyone knows that I have other blogs here or not but in case you are interested you can . find them over at MarksvilleandMe. I will try and work on adding page tabs to the top here so it will be easier for my readers to see everything I have on the internet but until then you can see everything I have by visiting MarksvilleandMe which has all of the tabs to my blogs. Thank you again for your support throughout the years.

Financial Melt Down in Marksville

Shortly after my last post things seemed to all fall apart.  My husband's checks were missing from the post office as were mine, which caused a snowball effect since most of our bills are automatic payments which come out of our account it went bad real fast. Just days before this happened, I was driving our van with our girls inside and the breaks just stopped working. I took it right away to the repair shop and they fixed it and got me on my way of course I wrote a check knowing our money would be in the bank that Monday. Yep it wasn't there, this is when the checks were missing. Big mess. Now on top of all of that our rent was late, and I mean really late.

Then I noticed that my husband's unemployment had not been deposited for a few weeks and that made things even worse. Our financial outlook was in the dumps really bad, we saw red everywhere with no black in site.

The rest of November and most of December we were in a state of panic to pay the landlord, the car repair shop, our other bills, keep food on the table, and of course get a few gifts for my oldest two children as well as my  mother-in-law. Everyone else was taken care of and Dennis and I can always wait till Birthday time to spoil ourselves a bit, but it was just weighing heavy on everyone including our children.

During this time we fought a bit more then I would like to admit, but thankfully we are a big family and we helped each other get through the yelling, tears, and frustration. Money started to roll in again and we were able to pay almost everything off except our landlord. We still have one more set of checks this month which will go to pay our landlord and our telephone/internet bill. Then we will be pretty much back on track.

We are still awaiting my husband's gas reimbursement from his insurance company which was received by them the first week of September. They assure us they are working on it. The last time we sent one in, it only took them 15 days to get it done. We have a whole bunch more to give them but won't until they cut the last check. I am thankful that his lawyer and his insurance company have been so good to him while he is injured but sometimes even we get a bit impatient.

I will get to how Christmas was later but wanted you to know that God blessed us and all worked out, we made it through a rough time. Thankfully we didn't have to borrow from anyone. God knows we do not like to owe anyone anything. I know the few people we do owe. That list consists of two people, wonderful friends how helped us out in our time of need who I keep putting on the back burner. We also came up with plans to safe guard as much as possible in case this should happen again, of course after we get back on track fully from this mess first. It does pay to prepare and thankfully my couponing and stockpiling sure were a great help during this time. I am ever thankful for God giving me the means to be able to do this for our family. Time and again it has shown it's worth.

Autumn Photos in Marksville

Even though we took these a few weeks ago I thought my readers might want to see the pictures we took. My husband is not present as he couldn't walk as far as we had for the pictures. Also missing are my sons Buke, Bryan, and my daughter Samantha. With a busy family it is rare we can get everyone together for photos so these will just have to do.

Dennise, Deanna, Dorothy, and my grand daughter Lilly.

My grand daughterLilly

Dorothy, Deanna, Lilly, and Dennise

Deanna

Dorothy, Deanna, and Lilly skipping.

Dorothy, Lilly, and Deanna running.

Dorothy just hanging around.

Dennise taking some time for a self portrait.

Lilly and Mama (Me)

Dorothy and Lilly

As you can see not all pictures come out great but look at these faces. 

At least in this one they were all looking in the same direction just not the cameras.

Deanna and Dorothy

Dorothy pretending to be a Turkey

Dennise and I

Our first time using the timing feature but here we all are. 

I think this came out really well.

Dennise said hey mom and I looked back at her.

Hope you enjoyed our Autumn Pictures.

Back on my feet again.

Almost a month has gone by and there has been so much that has happened. I guess I will start with first and foremost, then work from there.

I have been battling severe pain under my ribs on the right side in on my back for over 4 weeks. I tried heat, resting, and working through it. Nothing worked and it was getting worse so yesterday I broke down and went to the Dr.

Thankfully it is not my kidneys which already have damage from when I was younger, but I do have a big knot near my spine in the back that will not loosen and has been causing all of the pain. My Dr. ordered muscle relaxers and said if after a week I am not showing improvement then I will start physical therapy. So as I am writing this I have a heating pad on my back and trying to take it easy.

I took the muscle relaxers yesterday afternoon and they made me really drowsy, then another before I went to bed. I know I made it into bed but other then that I must have been out really fast because the next thing I know the kids were getting ready for school and arguing about something to do with shoes. I fell back to sleep and the next time I looked up it was 9:41 and 10:10 before I was up and out of bed.

So here I am trying to catch up on everything with my blogs that I was doing minimal work on for the last month, and we won't even go into how backed up my email is. I am just thankful that I am still alive and well, being able to be here for my family. God is good.