Dang Cpomputers

So I wrote a nice long post last night about how much pain I was in and how I couldn't sleep and it was still 2 hours and 40 minutes until my next pills and the whole thing didn't publish. Oh well, who want to read a post about my woes.

So this morning I woke up at 5 a.m. and got Joe to help me go to the bathroom and take my pills and then when I was all settled in bed again and he had gone back to sleep I realized I was too much awake to go back to sleep again. I didn't have the heart to wake him up again so I just laid there in the dark for an hour and still couldn't sleep so finally I woke him up at 6 a.m. and am now writing this post. This is going to get really old for him to have to help me get in and out of bed all the time but I don't know what else to do. I am really grateful that I have children who are ready to spell him.

I'm also grateful for those of you who cooked and cleaned up the dinner yesterday. It was a great Thanksgiving Day thanks to all your work.

We (used in the generic way - meaning not me but several of my children) will be putting up the Christmas tree today which is always one of the highlights of my year! I have way too many ornaments to put on one tree so I will only use part of them and may give the rest away.

Well, my hip is hurting from sitting in one position.

So Happy Holidays, Lub lubs and all that,

Mither

Yikes This is Worse Than ever

Post by Commitee

We're sitting here at the Care Center with Mom (Corilee) Jenn S. Steve, Chelle, Jenni S. and Joe-joe. (I realize now that both Jenn's have S. for their last name, so to distinguish between the two, Jenn is Aunt Jenn, and Jenni is Niece Jenni.)

Mom says "Each of you need to say some cute thing."

Steve says "some cute thing."

Mom says "Hmph Geez steve!"

Jenn says "I can't think of anything cute, except for Jenni and Joe-joe."

Jenni says "we should say 'I love you'."

Chelle reads what everyone has said aloud so everyone knows what the post says.

So here's an update about the surgery- (Corilee/mom talking)

The first three days after surgery I was totally out of it because of the anesthetic. Jenn asks "How did you feel at the hospital. Mom says- I felt pain in my hip but it wasn't too bad. It wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. I enjoyed eating the food they made, mainly because I didn't have to cook it. Steve says he's enjoyed not having to do the dishes. Jenn said on Saturday after many long strugglings, and wandering in the wilderness, they finally moved mom to the care center. Mom says in the care center, she's noticed a noticeable lack in the quality of food, but its not too bad. I still don't have to cook it.

They keep forgetting to bring me salt and pepper, so one day when I specifically asked if they would please remember to bring me salt and pepper one of the aides brought me my own salt and pepper shaker, which we keep in the top drawer of the night stand (in case you're visiting and you want some- Steve says.) We had to bring our own TV so mom didn't DIE of boredom.

Thankfully the therapy is going very well. Its very strenuous, which is good. The pain pills knock me out. After they give me pain pills they zonk me out for the next 4 hours. So I'm going to ask for less strong pain pills, which may mean more strong pain, but we'll see. They've also given me all kinds of attachments to get my clothes on with. It's called a hip kit. I can get dressed by myself now. It's very difficult, but they say once I get over the learning curve I'll want them always by my side. Other than that everything is going great (Steve says "all is well in Zion") I highly recommend hip replacement surgery for those who are having hip pain.

So, they will probably be sending mom home on Tuesday, but we will get to bring her home for a couple of hours on Thanksgiving. If you want to visit her she's at the Heritage Care Center in American Fork. She'd love visitors!!
Here's the address:

Heritage Care Center
350 E 300 N
American Fork

For security reasons I'm not going to put the room # here. Just ask for mom when you get there.

Finally!!!

Well today's the day. I slept soundly last night. I didn't wake up once. Ahhhh sleep I love ye.
So now all I have to do is fast until I go in for surgery. I am supposed to be at the hospital at 11:00 a.m. They probably won't get to the surgery until 12:30 or 1:00. I'm taking a good book - The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck.

Well, see you all in four days when I get home and can blog again.

Smiles,

Mither

Full, FULL, Day

Everything is coming all at once today. My tooth still aches so the root canal is definitely on at sometime today. My home teacher (who is also my optometrist) visited us yesterday and offered to do an eye exam today at 9:00 a.m. so that I could get my glasses fixed before surgery, so that is on. And Emilee called last night and offered to come over and help me get my Christmas tree put up. She and Janice are going to help me do it this afternoon. I wanted to put it up early so I could help and join in the fun because, obviously, I won't be doing anything else this holiday season due to my surgery. So we will be having a Christmas tree at our Thanksgiving dinner. Hope you all don't mind me rushing the season this year. Putting up the tree is one of my very favorite things to do during the holidays so I'm really, really, grateful to Ems and Jan.

Doing all that today will help me pass the time while I wait for this day to pass to get to tomorrow. It will also get my mind off the nervousness I might feel about the surgery. I should be worn out by the end of the day and should sleep well tonight.

I may still be able to go back to bed and get a few more hours of shut eye this morning but if not there are things around the house I want to get done before tomorrow so if I don't sleep it will be good as well.

I could use all the prayers you can give for tomorrow. I could also use a little help over the next couple of weeks (after I get home from the hospital) with light housework. They also suggested that someone be with me everyday during the first week to help me until I am somewhat healed and can get around better. I didn't find this out until yesterday when I read the notes about the surgery. If you girls could work out some sort of schedule so someone could come I would really appreciate it. I'm sure Michelle could be here some days but I don't know what her work schedule is. I will try to make some calls today, at some point, to arrange what I can, but if someone could take it over for me if I don't get it done, it would be a big help.

Thanks, and Much Love,

Mither

Oh Frabjous day, caloo calay (from The Jabberwoky)

Great news!!! The dentist said I probably needed a root canal and he would do it on Monday so I won't have to reschedule my surgery. I will be celebrating all weekend in spite of the bad tooth ache. Never would have thought I would be glad to have a root canal.... just goes to show you that it's all in how you look at it. How's that for optimism, Michelle?

I can't believe this is happening!!!

Well here it is 3:27 a.m. and I am awake. Like I said on Stace's blog, sometimes you get to sleep as much as you want and then you can't no matter what.

So, get all your chocolate ready. I may need it all and then some to kill myself by chocolate. A severe tooth ache showed up yesterday in a tooth that I had a crown put on just three weeks ago. (Oops! now I can't get the italics to go off.... Oh well, just chalk it up to my lack of computer skills. So what else is new?)

So, anyway, if my tooth is getting infected that will mean they will cancel the surgery. AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. I have an appointment with the dentist today at 10:00 A.M. Then I have my pre-op at 2:00 p.m. If in that four hours the dentist can't resolve the tooth ache, I'm dead. It may not even take the chocolate. I may just up and die from frustration and pain in my hip. So here is a tearful farewell to the cruel world, *sniff... sob* :-( just in case I die this afternoon without further notice.

Lub-lubs, *sniff sniff, sob sob*

Mither

Correction

The title on my last post should have read "One less day until surgery." I still haven't yet learned how to edit my posts once they are posted so when I saw that it said O less day... I just had to let it go. Sorry for all the confusion.

Next time I'll make brownies for all of you, but you have to come and visit me if I do. (that includes those who already live here... you have to come up or down, however it applies to you, and talk to me to get the brownies.)

btw, I'm surprised you girls didn't smell the chicken frying at 6:30 a.m. But then maybe you were asleep then.

Luvs,
Mither

O less day to go until my surgery

So here it is early in the morning and, again, I can't sleep. I've been awake for an hour now and decided to get up and fix dinner for Karla and Seth. That way I could still go to the MTC and not have to make two trips.

Thought for the day:

"We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there."
--Charles Franklin Kettering,
from Seed for Thought [1949]

I can't think of anymore to say today but be sure to read and comment on the post I did before this one.

Have a nice day,
Hugs and all that,

Mither

Shoot Myself?

I'm counting down the days until my surgery, again. 7 days left. I am still feeling frustrated that it got re rescheduled from the 13th to the 18th and a little anxious that somehow I will get sick again and have to put it off for 2 months. I'd have to shoot myself if that happened and then you'd all have to come to my funeral and you'd have to find babysitters for your kids and the babysitters would be mean to them and they'd be scarred for life and you'd have to pay thousand of $ for therapy as they grew up and when they did grow up they'd be wack-o parents and your grandchildren would have major issues which would make you hate me for shooting myself, so pray that they don't have to reschedule for 2 months from now. :)

Anniversaries

Today I have been married for 41 years. Geez, that creeps me out. It sounds so loooooong. It only seems like about 15 years or so. I guess that sounds long to most of you, too.

Mostly I have been happy for all those years even though there were times when I felt like kicking his butt to the curb. Fortunate that wasn't very often. He's been a very good husband and I'm blessed to have him. I can hardly imagine being married to anyone else. We have become so close that our lives run smoothly and without problems now. It's nice to be at a stage when we have so much free time to ourselves. I wish Joe could retire though. Then we could go on a mission or travel, etc. But it looks like he'll have to keep working indefinitely if we don't want to go on government welfare for our medical expenses and drugs. Maybe he could at least cut back his hours to where he just barely covered enough days to keep his insurance. We'll have to see.

Anyway, YAY for married life. YAY for good husbands. YAY for anniversaries.

YAY today!

Hugs,
Mither

Up Early, again,,,,

Sorry about that. I don' know what I'm doing that makes me post before I'm ready. I'm up early again and am not in such a negative mood. I know all those scriptures Ems, but there are also Scriptures that talk of the terrible things that are to come up on us, which say we will hardly escape, That there will be vacancies in the quorum of the 12, That in that day Jacob will be among us as a young lion and will tear in pieces, sparing none. etc.

That's why I get scared. I do need to gain more faith and am trying to by reading good books like "Believing Christ" and "Hearing the Voice of the Lord" I am also reading my scriptures almost daily. And occasionally I listen to conference on my Ipod. So all is not lost. When I get too scared, I read Louie L'Amour books which gets me out of being scared. I think it's better to confront my fears than to hide from them.... And I think it is important to share our thoughts to inform others and maybe have an influence on them. I will try not to be so negative though. But like I said in an earlier post, you get the good with the bad, sorry about that, Ems. But maybe you can stop reading when you think I'm getting too negative


so on to brighter things....

Does anyone know how Karla is doing?

Today is Saturday, YAY

Does anyone want to go to dinner tonight?

Have any of you read that long email I sent you?

Karla, the book is ready for you

I don't have much to say. No cute pictures to show so I guess this is all.

LUB-LUBS.
Mither

Up early

OLD AGE

It seems I am repeating myself due to the effects of an ageing brain AND my lack of computer skills. Sorry you had to read about Glenn Beck and Sen. Hatch again. This is my fourth post tonight and I should have waited until tomorrow to write. Oh well, some day I'll pass on and these posts will be left to prove that I existed if in somewhat of a diminished state these last years. :)

Have a nice day, all,
Mither

d Age

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A Song???

Is there a song that says "Its the end of the world as we know it..."? Either way, it is... but it's only the beginning of the end. Glenn Beck AND Sen. Orrin Hatch both said that the Constitution is hanging by a thread on his Tuesday(?) show. I d0n't know if we will be able to save it from Obama. The sad thing is that he really believes that what he's going to do is the right thing for America. I hope he doesn't turn in to a Stalin, Lenin, Hitler or Castro.

It's scary to read comments on some of the Des. News columns. There are a lot of Mormon haters out there. It seems we don't have the right to express our opinion politically according to those against prop 8. Only they do. I am finding it hard to love my enemies when I am so afraid of them.

(Michelle just put that song up on my playlist. How'd they know to write a song that is so appropriate?)

Let's see is there anything good that I can end with?

Well the only thing I can think of is to write the words to "How Firm A Foundation." And since its so late why don't you just sing it to yourself and we'll call it good.

Hugs and Kisses.
Mither

It's Official

So, my next surgery date is on the 13th, my pre op test is on
Tuesday and the lab work has to be done by the 6th.Here we go again. I hope I don't get sick again!! And that I get over this dang cold!

Well Obama won. Expect serious in roads in the Divinely inspired Constitution. Orrin Hatch and Glenn Beck both say the Constitution is hanging by a thread right now and if we want to persevere it we will have to step forward in a big way!!!

So, What Else Is New?

So, my last two posts were my regular confused efforts at posting a new post, and of course my computer skills obviously showed up. But the fact is I really am sick. Sick, sick, sick. Michelle gave me her cold which stopped me from having surgery. Which was a good thing since I am so sick.



I'm also sick of all the politics. So I am glad tomorrow is the election. I seriously fear for our country and the constitution if Obama wins. I'm sure he's going to make great effort to destroy our first and second amendment rights. Our first amendment rights will be destroyed by the 'Fairness Doctrine' which will be promoted in the congress to stop conservative talk show hosts. Our second amendment rights will be destroyed by confiscating every body's guns, leaving us without means to protect ourselves. And then to top it all off, he's suggesting an addition to the constitution stating what rights you have from the government, or in other words what the government should do for you, like the right to be provided with a home, a job, health care, etc. all to be paid by the government. That means the hard-working people in America who are not on welfare, who are not illegal, who believe that government doesn't owe us anything, except life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. (ownership of property)

Karla sent this cartoon around, and I thought it was a perfect depiction of what Obama will do, at the very least.

On a positive note (I can't leave this negative) tomorrow we get to vote. I'll be one day closer to getting better. We'll be one day closer to Thanksgiving and Christmas. And one day closer to surgery. Yea (;)) surgery!!

sick,

sick,