Has Anybody

ever done geneology of their family. We are trying to find out if we have any kind of Indian blood in our family history. We are running into lots of road blocks and trying piece together family when you don't have birth and death dates and names and places of birth and death. Yowza. Wouldn't a blood test be easier?

On a sad note - Izzy and Brian are taking a separation from each other. She is having a hard time but she has an amazing group of friends and I am hoping they help her through this time.

Prayers for Ashlee

Izzy's friend Ashlee and others were hurt in a wreck a few weeks ago. Please go to www.prayersforashlee.com to read her updates and to follow her progress through this time. Her family is military and they have went from two paychecks to one while her mom is staying with her.

New Hair Whoop de doo

We - her daddy and I - decided it was time for a new do for the dawling little one. So we went from wild and bizarre to cute and Nancy Grace. As stated as we are leaving the hair salon "I love my new hair and I look like Nancy Grace - But I ain't wearing no ding dang dresses - EVER!" An hour and a half later - I hear - "I hate my new hair." Well isn't that nice Pedro.




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Went to Dr yesterday- decided I am either overmedicated or there is something terribly wrong. Took me off of my motion sickness patch and they said the withdrawl can be as bad as before I had it.

Yesterday when I was going through some testing with my fingers - touch your fingers to your thumb, shakiness, start of a migraine, still walking funny, light headed feeling, memory tests and speech problems and following a pencil - I failed. This is finally making the Dr worried enough that he is finally ordering an MRI. Charles has cancelled his trip to Indiana to an awesome auction with tractors so that he can take me to get my MRI.

I am sure I won't know the results for awhile but I hope that they find nothing or something.

Izzy got bumped up to JV and so she is fighting a head cold and playing Libaro for JV tonight at Holton. Go Falcons!

Vertigo and Back to School!

No pictures as I haven't been real good about taking any lately. Sorry kids. I got Pedro on her first day of school. Izzy I didn't get any of because I am still being chauffered to work and she just wasn't up that darn early!

I am still having some problems with the vertigo. I am not dizzy anymore but I am still having trouble controlling my balance and I feel like I am walking around in a bubble. Things are there -but they aren't there. I don't know how to explain it but it is very frustrating. They had cleared me to drive but when I do - it drives me bonkers. Almost like driving through a tunnel that keeps getting smaller and smaller - like I am playing one of those race car driver games.

When the dizziness stopped I started getting headaches. I am not sure why I didn't have headaches with the vertigo.

Going for a checkup today to see if anything can be done or if we can move ahead and have some more tests done I would suppose.

On a good note - Our Tractor show had 104 tractors and there was a write up of a whole page in our weekly wipe of a newspaper which has taken another jump in price with more ads than ever. Bad note of that - I didn't take a whole lotta pictures this year.

Benign Paroxsymal Positional Vertigo

Benign Paroxsymal Positional Vertigo BPPV is the official diagnosis. I have had this since last Friday and I am going insane. I can't drive, I can hardly eat, my back is killing me from sleeping in a 45 degree angle on the couch and only two have gone to the ER, a regular doctor, and a physical therapist. Next stop a neurologist. Possibly surgery if this doesn't reverse myself. The worst is that I am using sick leave and then will loose my vacation time and then my long term and once that is gone I could lose my job.