Cory has the Plague

Cory has what he is calling the plague. He has the feared Chicken Pox! I would post pictures if he would let me because it is really really bad. He came down with a fever on Thursday night of 103.5 and when it broke he started getting this little blisters. I thought it was just because he was so hot that they were like fever blisters. The next day he told me they were getting worse and when he went to the doctor she told him that he has the pox. He cant be around kids, elderly, and pregnant women. Which means the plans for the weekend had to be canceled because they involved a kids party and spending time with his grandparents and then he was going to go to Nascar which he wont know the crowd. He is totally bummed and i can already foresee him getting restless since he cant do anything all week. It is unfortunate timing so if you know him and you have had the chicken pox give him a call or text this week because he will need it.

Two days of no fun to end in disappointment

So yesterday I learned quickly that the not eating part isn't nearly as bad as the crappy stuff you have to drink in order to "prepare" for the procedure. I got extremely sick off of the first medication so that I couldn't have anything that would stay down (not even Jello). then I tried the drink I was supposed to drink a gallon of....lets just say that didn't stay down either. I e-mailed my doctor (1 feature I really like about Kaiser) and within the hour I had another prescription to pick up to help the nausea. Needless to say I was up until about 3. (one trick that I liked is to drink chicken broth right after as it was the only thing to cover up the terrible taste.) Well today Cory took me to get this done and it took only 6 nurses looking at me and 6 pokes later to get an IV started. I remember very little about the procedure but I know I was awake for portion of it, as time is passing I am remembering less and less. However they did not find anything to appear to look like crohn's. They did take biopsies and we will know the results in about a week of the microscopic tests. However this is so disappointing to me because I have had so many issues I just want answers at this point and it is really frustrating to finally have a diagnosis and then to say that it doesn't look like i have it, especially when the doctor said that she thinks I probably have a moderate to sever case. The test result may come back that I have it and the medication I am on is working but who knows what that test will say. Finally since they biopsied part of my colon I am in pain and they said that mild abdominal pain is normal but sever is not and I go back and forth so all in all today was very frustrating and disappointing.

I am HUNGRY

As some of you know I have been going through stomach problems and have been to bad doctors which has delayed a diagnosis of what exactly is going on. Well on Thursday I went to my new GI doctor (my insurance was switched to Kaiser on the 1st of January). This doctor actually knew what she was talking about and was willing to sit and answer all of the questions that I have had over the past 6 months (or longer). She gave me the diagnosis of Crohn's and possibly there could be more issues, but she wanted to do a colonoscopy to see how diseased my intestines are and if I am on the right medication. So when I called to make that appointment they got me in tomorrow. So as some of you know you cant eat for a day and a half. So today I have on a clear liquid diet, and tomorrow I am not allowed to have anything to drink from 6am on to probably 5pm. Needless to say I am hungry! I want breakfast! I am praying that I can get answers and see how bad my case is. The doctor thinks that I have a moderate to possibly severe case of Crohn's. Let's hope that she can get me on the right medication and that it isn't steroids.

Last Set of Cruise

Here are the pictures that my parents bought for me. My favorite it the one of the whole family. That was the night that we put all our formal wear on took the picture. Then we all changed back in to our normal clothes.

Second Group of Cruise Pictures

This is more of the places we went.

This is our ship in Zihuatanejo. These pictures are all from there

This is the store that Brian and Tyler got kicked out of because the guy was trying to make an uneven trade and they were cautious of it and the guy got pissed!

This is a big "work of art" in Manzanillo
This is one of the animals in my room.
and here is my frog

Honestly the best times were really just spending time with my family and not having to rush around to get presents and catching up with everyone. It was just nice to really get to know everyone more and creating deeper bonds with everyone

Finally some cruise pictures

Here are some cruise pictures.

This is Emily shaking she is so mad that the pool was freezing. Poor Jennifer couldn't do anything to make it better so our experiment failed after less than 5 minutes. This is Emily playing in my parent's room

This is Jennifer trying to getting Emily play that the remote was a phone again. It was the cutest thing to hear her saying "allo" She loved playing with the cards that we were given that were paired with your room. Which is what she is playing with for most of the above pictures.
Double Fisting it.

The view from my parent's balcony.
This is how a lot of our days were spent. It was awesome!
Emily follows in some of the family traits....she hates bird! What a good niece I have.

Quick Note

I was on a cruise last week and I will put up some pictures and update everyone on what is going on. But I wanted to post on a funny thing Cory told me while the family was all in Mexico. To be nice Cory borrowed his aunt's mini-van and drove my brother, sister-in-law, niece and myself down to San Diego. Because my niece is so young she obviously had to be in a car seat. We left the car seat in the van thinking that he would just put it in the back of the van until he picked us back up. Apparently he actually put it on his seat in his truck with a bottle of alcohol he was holding for my brother. I could have only hoped he would have taken a picture of that. He said it was the worst when he went to a drive through. I hope that you laughed like I did when you imagine this in his Ford Ranger.