Monday, May 31, 2010

Worked in the garden plowing up weeds with the little mantis tiller. Beats a hoe any day. Going to go see my new nephew later today. That is after I wash clothes, dishes, my son and myself. Oh and go to the grocery store. So much for chilling! Maybe later this week.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Yesterday I took Julie to the doctors office for her second round of interferon. She has a rare condition called Lymphangiomatosis and there are cases where this medicine has stabilized and even regressed the problem. But it is mostly a shot in the dark still because there are very few cases in the world. We will just have to try things out and see. If something like this doesn't work we may have to resort to surgeries which will only fix a few of the problems associated with the condition and not the underlying problem. Her condition causes the lymph vessels to grow out of control and, in her case, causes fluid to build up in various places in the body. Her left arm, leg and foot are always swollen. Her heart and lungs both have fluid around them and it could be drained but it will just come back. that is unless she has the surgeries a lot of doctors recommended like taking out the lining of her heart and lungs. But then the fluid would find somewhere else to build up. The hope is that the interferon will stop the fluid building up anywhere. And in at least one case it even allowed the body to process all that extra fluid naturally so no draining was necessary.

Ok so that is one thing on my mind today. Another thing is that my brother just had his second son today! More precisely about one o'clock this morning. Aidyn Monty Cargile, welcome to the outside world! I'll be seeing you later today.

Now on to enjoy the day. No school for Harley and no doc visits till next friday so I am going to chill!

Friday, May 7, 2010

First Post/dream/what ive done

Today I woke up from a rather weird dream. I dreamed I was at my brothers house in the morning and I was yelling at him to wake up and take his daughter to school. (He actually has a son) I was standing at his kitchen sink and noticed I had a loose tooth. I started wiggling it and it started falling out. So I pull on it and it is still connected by some sort of stringy stuff. I keep pulling and pulling but the stringy stuff never comes all the way out. I start yelling and pulling but never get it out. I then wake up to my alarm going off. Bleh, I hate dreams like that.
After shaking off the dream I get up and get ready to wake up my son for school. (No I didn't start wiggling my tooth.) I find that Julie, my wife, is already up. This has been a common thing lately, her getting up very early because she doesn't sleep good anymore. I walk in and get ready to tell her my dream like I always do when I have weird dreams, when she starts telling me about her night. She said she woke up and went to the bathroom and came back to bed and realised that her oxygen tube had come disconnected. She has to be on oxygen 24/7 due to a health condition. She started looking for the tube so she could plug it back into her cannula. Where was it? Well, it was stuck between my toes! I guess I shuffled around in my sleep and stuck the tube between my little piggies and pulled it out. Ugh, I feel so bad when her tubes come out in her sleep. Well now my dream doesn't seem like such a big deal so when I tell it to her I'm just putting the enthusiasm in it that I originally wanted to. (yes i was going to try and gross her out.) But oh well I'm sure Ill have plenty of opportunities to gross her out in the future.

What I've done today
Took Harley ,my son, to school.
Worked on my grandfathers bush hog. Got it running woot!
Came home and talked to Julie. Alicia, my brothers significant other, came over and chatted for awhile.
Got inspired by the weeds in the front yard and went to take some photos. Thats it so far today.