Well I FINALLY got a hold of someone at Stanford after playing phone tag! (It also helped that I had my phone fwd to my cell :P )... my reg nurse will be out of town, the Dr. too, TWICE, gone for 2 weeks then back then gone again fora couple of weeks. He was laughing at the nurse's sub, wondering why I was calling wha's wrong etc etc. Aaaaaaaaaaah!!! So I can't get in earlier... I COULD have been seen by a different neurosurgeon, but not following surgery from my original one, that just seems creepy to me not knowing exactly what they're dealing with. So, here are some not so great pics of me, I hope they turn out, if not I'll have to try again later after I re enable zoomtext so I'm not straining so much, and if this computer behaves long enough, yeah, right. (Kristen does Mike know any IT stuff?!)... anyway I have a graphic image without my brace if you want to see it just let me know, my neck is swollen and numb.... The numbness in my extremities went away temp but it's back and the sub nurse said it would prob take 6 mos to a year to completely go away. (I can't even take ibuprofen for 6 months)..... it's going to be a long haul. :( Sorry for all the glum notes, I'm just a little bummed and going crazy...

I swear Momzilla is trying to kill me...

Well I just got back from going to Walgreens with my mom because I needed shower gel. (Had I known they had green tea & cucumber I would have just sent her off for it). She really REALLY wanted us to go home the long way.. the only problem is, the side we walked on (and I reminded her of this) was not paved very well, thus, making us walk in the street (bibbadabibbadabibbada, um, uneven pavement with a walker is NOT fun) plus she was always walking severl feet in front of me and not helping me very much..... I am so FRUSTRATED with her, I wish she would have just gone ahead and kept her plans to go to Alaska, would be much safer for me anyhow. So this weekend she asked Scott to spend one night here because she & Jim are going to a wedding that they were originally declining. (The bride asked that each guest help pay for the honeymoon and had a very specific registry)... how dumb. And my mom is getting weird about how much I eat again, how often I eat, etc etc etc. But with her being "exhausted" and such, I know she's been feeling sorry for herSELF having to help me through this which doesn't help me at all... I'm going crazy, I'd much rather be wilting away at a rehab center to tell you the truth. :( Scott is coming over later with Nintendogs and Brain Age which should keep me quiet for awhile but I'm not sure about the suduko portion, I'm never good at that. I love doing the word jumbles in the newspaper. Sorry for venting but it's so frustrating to have limitations and have your own parent sitting around feeling sorry fo themselves. Yesterday I was reviewing the release notes from the hospital and I shouldn't be sitting for more than 30 min at a time... I told mom I'm not used to that, I usually sit for a lot longer.. to which she said, "Well I can't do that I have to keep moving I can't sit still"..... Yeahhhhh...... :( I just wish she would use her head sometimes... at least dvd's and games have kept me quiet for awhile. Oh, I sent an email to Thabto, hadn't heard from him for awhile, told him about my surgery, he sent me a 2 wk trial for Netflix, I might just go for it.. =)
Sorry for whining :(

Home from the Hospital

Hi all,
I'm home... went in Thursday for surgery, it's Saturday... I'm in a lot of pain, have to wear the neck brace for two months, no ibuprofen for SIX months, and I have to pretty much stay at home, am not allowed to go in the car anywhere for two months. I feel like someone kicked me in the neck... and patient care (scare) at Stanford was not the greatest so I'm grateful & happy to get home though will be uncomfortable for awhile. It's somewhat difficult to use the phone because my ears are engulfed in the brace, and my throat/voice is messed up anyway, swallowing is an unpleasant chore. So to those i owe phone calls to you will have to wait for awhile, I apologize. It's going to be a boring summer but I needed to get this done, possibly more surgery in the future...
btw, Sarah please pass this note on to everybody on Wednesdaay for me? I'd appreciate it...
Thank you everyone,
take care, being on computer isn't TOO bad but I should be keeping my neck still and i have to bend it down a little bit so maybe no computer for awhile....
take care,
Diane

Speaking of twitter

Yay, another blog, aren't you people proud of me? Kten, I went to your twitter page last night and now I can't load it, the server keeps timing out.. let me know how you like your new book player. (I think that's what it was?).. I should have commented last night. After I post this I'm going back to bed til dinner. I'd been sniffling and such for a couple days, got this really killer headache last night and viola, I'm sick again.. :( I'm gonna try to lay low so they hopefully won't have to cancel my surgery on Thursday.. not sure when I can get the Avon stuff to you K, but it's in John's truck so maybe he'll drop it off sometime.. ttyl.. oh yea, speaking of twitter, John and I were driving around the other day listening to KGO, Leo LaPort, the gadget/tech guy and he was talking about twitter among other websites and I figured it sounded familiar. When I sparked an interest, of course John just rolled his eyes. :)
ttyl

Tick tock tick tock

The clock is ticking, time is wasting away, June 12th will be here sooner than I think. I have started throwing a few things together to take with me for the hospital...pleh. I was trying to find my cooking binder so I could give you guys the rest of the recipes but I can't find it among a few other things I wanted to take to the hospital. I've been congested for a couple days, if I get sick they might have to post pone things... nooooooooo, the waiting is bad enough! I hope you guys have fun in cooking this week. :) Sorry, no links, not a whole lot to say, just misc. chatter, PS K10 please e-mail me that social networking site you were talking about? Thanks...
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Pre Op....errr, yeah.

OK it took me a couple of hours to get my pre-op done... for some reason the stupid anesthesiologist CANCELLED the DOCTORS orders for chest Xray and EKG.... his only reason was "Your heart is fine, you don't need these"... did anyone bother to tell me that instead of making me wait endlessly? As my mom said, the guy was arrogant... yeah, I don't like him, I just hope he knows what the hell he's doing... BTW my surgery's @ 8 next Thursday, I have to be there at 6... =/ anyway my mom had to point out to him "She has multiple problems." Who the $)(*!$ would let the anesthesiologist decide wether to cancel orders?!?...... I don't know if I can trust this quack or not... stay tuned... hm, I should start a medical gripe blog..
Other news... the house real estate sign went up today and there's already a tour tomorrow so who knows...

Virtual Tour of my Dad's house

My Dad's house will officially be on the market in the next day or two. :( (Well, ok it's a mixed blessing in disguise, I gotta start looking for real estate so I won't lose my 1/3 of the money due to stipulations of being on disability.) Here are just SOME of the pics just in case anyone wants to peek. The paint job on the outside is new, for the longest time, err, as long as he and Scott lived there since 86, it used to be an off whiteish creamish color with olive trim, similar to an inversion of what it is now... I liked the old one better. :P
Check it out

Higher Learning?

OK,
I'm blogging just for the sake of blogging, and knowing it's good for my health, I thought I'd blog a little nonsense, and see if I get any replies for this. :) (BTW guys I still have to catch up with reading your blogs, sorry... =/ btw when John ran the zone alarm virus scanner the other night, after 24 + hours it was still running so I finally made him quit... hahaha... I told him to uninstall a couple things I'm not using but... yeah... well... pleh
Anyway... I was just thinking about something. Once in awhile John and I talk about rainbows when they're in the sky. I was always taught that the sequence was: Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Purple. John has always told me, "No, it's ROYGBV... Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet". However in a few cases, I've seen it posted as: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet... err, now that I'm completely confused, I think John's sequence was ROYGBIV ie Indigo... is this indicative of people who learned differently think differently and are taught differently altl throughout their educational years? (starting with the Montessori preschool vs... I don't remember). I remember when I was taking an ECE class at DeAnza many moons ago it sounded like Montessouri method of teaching was more structured and snobbish...
Thoughts? Just rambling..
Check this out, didn't read the whole thing though...
Rainbow
Ciao for now. :)