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I have not title for this post. I just want to vent and let off steam so if you don't want to read this post I will totally understand! OK here goes, I have been getting alot of grief from Trish because I keep going out and shoveling our driveway so that it doesn't turn in to a giant ice patch. The problem is that I haven't let my back totally heal yet so it keeps getting worse with every time I go shovel. T.. keeps saying that I need to stop and let her do it, but she is so busy just trying to keep everything around the house nice, and taking care of me and the boys that she doesn't have time to do it!! So since I still like doing the snow removal, (even though my doctors keep getting after me and telling me not to shovel the snow if I want a long life left!), I keep doing it anyway. Sometimes when I get out to do it I find that someone has already done it! We have great neighbors that really try to help us out!! Anyway just so you know what the rambling is all about, I am just trying to say that I am tired of getting in trouble!! Oh Well, I will more than likely ignore her and keep shoveling when she isn't looking!! Now onto the next subject!! If any of my out of town brothers are reading this, what is up with getting into town and not letting anyone in the family know that you are here???? We REALLY want to hang out with you if you can make the time for us!!! So if you see this before I see you, you will know that I am just venting, and if you see this after we get to hang out, Oh WELL I am just venting so THERE!!! There I am DONE I think. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE OUT THERE!! We love all of you!!!!

Lets try this again

O.K. I am falling into the habit that I was going to try and avoid, that is not blogging very often. I told Trish that I wasn't going to have this blogging thing turn into another one of my projects, (or hobbies) that I never followed through with! So here I am at 12:30 at night deciding to blog instead of trying to sleep, which doesn't come easy! My back is starting to feel much better as long as I don't push to hard and do things that I am not supposed to do anyway, such as shoveling the snow of the driveway. I always get into trouble with Trish and the neighbors when they catch me doing things like that, and my wonderful neighbors whom we love dearly, always tell on me if I do it when Trish isn't home so I can't even try to sneak in a shoveling or two!! I have been very tempted though, I still like to be outdoors even though my body does not like the heat, or the cold! I had my three month checkup today with my P.H. doctor and things haven't gotten any worse, no better of course, but I can definitely settle for no worse. I told the P.H. Pharmacist that works at the office that I was here to get my oil changed and the tires kicked to make sure I was still working, he got a pretty good laugh at that. Thing are so stable at the moment that they are considering letting me go 6 months between checkups instead of the normal 3 months that I have been doing for almost 5 years now!! I can't believe that it has been almost 5 years, especially since they only gave me 3-5 years too live when they diagnosed me, I think that I am going to be here for awhile yet. (knock on wood)! Now if I can get this sleeping thing taken care of and keep my diabetes in check than I will actually feel almost normal, imagine that! Well enough about me, I want to wish everyone a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS, notice I used Christ instead of an X, just a little reminder to everyone to not forget what Christmas is really about even with the rush and worry of gift giving and getting!!! Bye and Happy Holidays!!!

Pain

That's it in one word, PAINFULL. My back is still bothering me, it is SLOWLY, getting better, but it seems to be taking it's sweet time! My cough is almost gone though and that is a good thing. I am still having problems sleeping, especially right now because I can't take my sleeping pills and my muscle relaxers together. Oh well, hopefully it will be better before the "out-of-towner's" get in town so we can all get together and have some FUN!!!!!! Sorry that this is so short but sitting here in front of the computer hurts my back.
HAPPY HOLIDAY'S to anyone who still reads this blog!!!

If not for bad luck, it would be no luck at all!

Seriously though, I was just standing in my kitchen on Sunday morning taking some of my daily medications and I started coughing pretty hard. Next thing I know I felt a painful POP in my back! I thought it was just muscles, but by 4 that afternoon I was in so much pain I couldn't see straight. So I took myself over to the instacare and they told me that they didn't think that it was a disk problem(thank goodness), but that I probably damaged the tendons in my back. So they sent me home after giving me a shot in the hip of painkillers, and a prescription for muscle relaxers. Well needless to say, so far that is not working to well, and they told me that if it isn't better in a 4-5 days to go to a back doctor and get an M.R.I. I really hope that it is better in a few days, I REALLY don't need another doctor in my life right now!! The good new is that T... is now working from HOME!!!!! That has been a great help especially with my messed up back! That's it, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!