Free

I am out of the hospital and starting to get back to normal. I went in to the doctor and my blood pressure was 220/93. Yeah not good. So they sent me straight over to the hospital where my lovely room was waiting for me. I told the lady at admissions desk I didn't need to check in they already had a room for me and she said "everyone has to check in here first." I said nope I have a frequent stay card that gets me expedited services and I kept walking. I don't think she was very impressed. I had a very nice nurse to start with but I could tell she was still pretty new. It took 3 nurses each trying 3 times before they finally called the flight nurse to start my iv. I had angioplasty on Friday afternoon and it was the worst I can ever remember. My doctor said I had some really bad scar tissue on the arteries to my kidneys and they were really narrowed. My kidneys hurt so bad until saturday morning. I still have a little pain but it's no where near as crappy as I was feeling. I also had an iv iron transfusion while I was there. I am so anemic and it makes a huge difference in how I feel when I can have that done. My doctor said he is going to get insurance to pay for it 4 times a year (the most it can be done). I'm looking forward to not being tired all the time. By the time I was released from the hospital my blood pressure was back down to 116/60 so a ton better! Now I just can't lift anything heavy and have to take it easy this week and hopefully by next week I will feel like a whole new person!

One Guess

I will give you one guess where this gentleman in my story spends ALOT of his "spare" time.

I was at Target today. (I HEART Target, great retail therapy) I went to check out to see if there were any great Halloween clearance items and also to check on a shirt for Gray for our pictures tomorrow. Well I found her a shirt but the Halloween stuff still has not been marked down (weird). Well I go and check out and pay for my things and the guy turns and says "Thank you your honor, have a nice day." Well since I was not dressed up as a judge today (I know weird!) and the fact that we were not in a court room I can only guess what he's stressing about.

Never have to say

A 29 year old should never have to turn to her husband in bed and say I think it's time for another angioplasty. But for whatever reason this is my life. I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon with my cardiologist. I'll either be admitted to the hospital right then or I will be scheduled to come back the next day. I know how this works unfortunately. It was even worse at 17 years old. You would think I would be used to it by now.
I don't talk a lot about my disease. It's not because it doesn't effect me or my life because it does each and every day but it's mostly because if I don't think/talk about it it's easier to pretend it doesn't exist. I look fine from the outside so I try to force myself to put on the happy face. The way I feel about being sick is really hard for me to express. I hate it. I don't talk about it with anybody. I have a secret blog that I have posted on that is just me venting about this whole mess. For my peace of mind, to educate others and for my journal's sake I plan on trying to talk more about it here. I promise to not make this a totally depressing blog and have this consume my life but I do plan on sharing more about me and my thoughts. So here is to more enchanted tales, thanks for reading!

Off

I just sat down to come up with a great post since I've been a slacker recently and I just got asked out on a lunch date by this handsome boy so the post will have to wait.

Now taking Applications

Since my good friend Heather and her hubby have decided to go on a wonderful adventure they are trying to sell their home. I love their house! So as sad as I am to see them go I'm excited (and jealous) of their new adventure but I thought I would help them get the word out about their home for sale. If you know anyone looking pass on the link. They have to fill out an application with me first :) (j/k) but I want good neighbors!