Great News!!

I had my nuerology appointment today. Mom and I had been told 2 times already how great this doctor was and we were told a third time by the nurse who took us in at the office. It turns out that they were all right. She was a great doctor, very down to earth and very nice. She also said that she didn't think that it was seizure related. She said that it had none of the classic symptoms and she said that I was allowed to drive again! Woohoo! She also said that even if it was a siezure she probably would not treat it because 10 percent of americans' will have one siezure in their life and then not have another one. So, I don't have to go back and see her unless some odd weird thing happens that I feel like I have to. Thank you all for praying for me. I really appreciate it!

My name

I got this from my sister Laura's blog and thought that I would put my results on my blog.

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Her Excellency Heather the Somnolent of Under Yockenthwaite Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

Superhero

I found this on Jeremy Henry's (a JQ 99 DJ) blog and thought that it was kind of cool. Since I have not put anything on for a while I thought this would be a good thing to blog!

Your results:
You are Superman

Superman 90% Spider-Man 85% Robin 67% Supergirl 57% The Flash 50% Wonder Woman 37% Hulk 35% Green Lantern 35% Batman 25% Catwoman 20% Iron Man 15%

You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.

Click here to take the "Which Superhero are you?" quiz...

Back to Bed!

Well...I didn't go to school today. Mom was going to take me, but when we were watching the weather we thought that it looked pretty nasty out there and I said that the first day of school you never really do much. So, we went back to bed. Actually this worked out well since we have to stay up late tonight for my eeg tomorrow. I only get 4-5 hours of sleep. Mom and I are going to watch The Lake House and hopefully some of The Family Stone. I will do my best to let you know what we thought of them. Well..I guess that is it. Have a great week!

Doctor appointment

So - I am sure that most of you have already heard the update from the doctor, but just in case..

He had all the info from the e.r and didn't think that it was a seizure, but because of the family history (Thank you Grandma!) I have to have it checked out. I have an eeg next Tuesday (which as Andy knows means only 4-5 hours of sleep the night before, and I have to go with nothing done to my hair but it washed!) I also have an appointment with a seizure specialist but, being a specialist I cannot get in to see her until Feb. 8. This also means that I have to be an inconvienance to people until then because I still cannot drive! But I would rather have it checked out and confirmed one way or the other than go through life never knowing what it was and whether I was going to have another one again. Thank you for all your prayers and thoughts! I love you all!!

Me and my boring life!!

I was just complaining to mom yesterday on the way to work about how I never had anything to blog because I don't do anything (work, school and back home!) Well....I got my wish!

Mom and I were getting craft supplies for our Wednesday night class and I remember feeling a little dizzy so I ate a couple mentoes to bring my sugar up. The next thing I remember is waking up in an ambulance nto knowing how I got there! Apparently I had collapsed at Hobby Lobby (luckily mom had caught me!) I went to Saint Mary's hospital and was helped by many many nice people. They thought that maybe I had had a seizure, but I think that my sugar had just dropped too quickly. I was 130 at about 2:30 and after I collapsed mom said I was at about 75, this was probably about 4:00 or so. That is quite a drop in a little less that two hours! I am hoping to never do that again! I will never complain that I have a boring life again, you never know what will happen!

Cleo's bath

The other day Andy and I noticed that Cleo had what looked like really bad dander on her back near her but, so I told her that if she did not clean it before I got home from work I would have to do it myself. She decided to take the harder route and didn't do it on her own. I recruited Andy and we got the sink ready in the bathroom.





This is poor, innocent, unsuspecting Cleo before the bath. (This was when she still liked me!)



















As she realizes what horrible thing is about to befall her she tries to scramble to get away from the water at all costs.

"What is that water for Heather? I don't like the looks of this!"













As you can see in the mirror, she is not too happy with me. She was at this point trying to reach me so that she could use me to pull herself up to get out of the water.


"Someone help! I am being abused! Doesn't she know that cats don't like water?"










At this point I was saying, "Andy, put down the stinkin' camera and get over her and help me hold her down!!" I was having a very difficult time holding her down and getting the shampoo into my hand.



"If I could just get out of her grasp..."








This is our finished, clean Cleo. She was still mad at me here, but she got over it quickly. (She needed a place to sleep you know!) What you cannot see from this picture is how wet I got in the process. My whole front of my uniform was soaking wet. Also, holding onto a soaking wet cat, rapped up in a now soaking wet towel was not helping any!

"This is so humiliating!"





All in all it was a very exciting event at our house thursday night. Hopefully we don't have to do that too often!

Sorry!!!

I know, I am a bad blogger. I don't even have a good excuse as to my laziness!! First of all...if you have not checked out the Africam lately you should. We have seen many, many lions on it. They seemed to have killed a water buffalo and were eating it. It is really cool to be able to see that kind of thing. I can't believe that Christmas is over already! It didn't even feel like Christmas since there was no snow on the ground! Well....I don't have that much to say today. I will do my very best to be a better blogger and have something to say everyday!

Trying again

I have a new website address for the Africa camera. I am going to try this again!

http://www.wavelit.com/popup/playerAfricam.asp#

I hope this works for you all!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is tomorrow and we are getting together with my moms family. It is always a ton of fun with all of them. We end up laughing so hard that our sides hurt! I am hoping that mom will feel better - right now she is not feeling well at all and I am just praying that it is just something that she ate (like when we were at the Shack) and that by tomorrow she will be back to normal. We have so much to be thankful for and most of the time we take it for granted. I am thankful for: my family, my church, a house with a roof and warmth, clothes, technology - especially in the health care field, and most of all Jesus. I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Cool website

Hey - Andy found this website, well it actually comes up in a windows media player but anyway, and it is really cool. It is a camera focused on a water hole in Africa and you can watch animals come up to it and stuff.

http://live.wildlife.wavelit.net/4510K

I hope that this will work and that you like it!

Update III

I found out when I got home from school tonight that my co-worker Roxanne passed away this morning at her sons house in Big Rapids. I am very sad that she has died, but I am also happy for her because now she is not in pain anymore and she has hopefully gone on to a better place. Please continue to pray for her husband and her son and grandson. Thank you for all your prayers during this difficult time.

Sorry that I have not posted in a while. I have not had much going on lately. My life is kind of boring lately. Have a wonderful day!!

Update

Hey - I just wanted to give you an update on my coworker Roxanne. I heard last week Thursday, (sorry it took so long for me to update you!), that they have stopped the chemo and radiation and also the physical therapy because it was not working. They have given her two weeks to live. My boss and another coworker Ruth went to visit her and said that she knew who they were, but she is really confused. They also said that her husband needs a lot of prayers. they said that she will not let him out of the room. Please continue to pray for her and her family.

Also I wanted to let you know that I did not end up talking in my class about the exhibit because my prof. forgot. I will see if he remembers on Wednesday, but I don't think that he will. Professors have a way of doing that - they tell you something, but end up forgetting what they told you! Thanks for all the prayers though! I really appreciate it!

Alright....

I am getting a little iritated with this blog program. I have tried again tonight to post my pictures, but alas it would not work again. I don't know what the problem is.

So I went after class today to talk to my Western Civilizations professor about the from Abraham to Jesus exhibit. I wan't to know if he had been to it because all the stuff they had there was stuff that we had talked about in class at one point or another. They had coins from the Roman period, a ton of jars and pottery from many different periods including the Roman, Greek, Egyptian, and the period in history when the ancient Hebrews were nomadic. When I asked him he said that he had not been to it, and wondered how it was. I told him that it was awesome and amazing. I said that I thought that it was a great exhibit. He said that he was going to try to get tickets for a cheaper price for our class to go, but I don't know if he will since it gets done on Nov. 4! He then said that after our test on Monday he will give me a little bit of time to talk to the class about the exhibit. We all know how I feel about talking in front of a group of people, especially in a class! Please pray for me on Monday at about 2:00pm. I am praying that God will give me the words to say to the class about the exhibit and why it is important. And please also pray for the other students in the class as most of them are not Christians, or at least don't want the rest of us in the class to know that they are. Pray that God will open their minds and hearts to what he has to say through me. Thank you for all your prayers and have a wonderful day!

Pics

Alright - I tried to upload some pictures tonight, but it was not working. I will try again tomorrow night and hope that it works. Sorry for the delay!

On a different note, mom and I went to the From Abraham to Jesus exhibit at the Devos Place today. It was really cool. They had a ton of cool things from the ancient times. We really enjoyed it. Have a wonderful day!

The Shack

Alright - I know that everybody else has posted on our stay at the Shack, but I am going to as well. I had so much fun. I always enjoy getting away from everything for a little while and it is always great when you can do it with a family that you love and have a ton of fun with! We played a lot of games, saw many animals and ate a lot of food! Stay tuned tommorrow for pictures of our stay!

Dietary Week

So this past week was dietary week at work. Everyday Karla had a game planned (the first few were crossword puzzles and then the last two or three were questions about things in the kitchen that we are suppossed to know!) She also had gifts for the people on both shifts that were working. Once you finished the game you got to pick a prize. The first prize that I chose (on Tuesday afternoon) was a book of easy to do Sudoku puzzles. I love doing these, they are so much fun! Thursday I had one of the question sheets and I chose a mug with four packets of french vanilla hot chocolate in it. Friday morning was the last game, another question sheet, and I got a little cinnamon bun candle. Also, everyone had to do a word search puzzle. Karla then took everyone's name and put then into a bowl and had the head of our activities department choose a name. And guess what? She happened to choose me! I got an adorable little bear that Karla had made herself! I was so happy because I didn't think that I would win! I never win anything! It was a fun week.


Also - an update on my coworker, Roxanne. She is staying at Hackley Hospital in Muskegon. There hasn't been much change since Tuesday. She is, however, going to fight the cancer. She is currently having chemo and radiation and also having physical therapy on both arms and legs. She doesn't want any visitors, though, so all we can do is pray that God will clear her entire body of the cancer and through this bring her closer to him. I appreciate any and all prayers for her.

Prayer Request

I have a coworker (Roxanne) who was having some back pain and the doctors thought that it might be one of the disks in her neck and that it would probably have to be fused together to stop the pain. So, she had taken a bunch of time off to have this taken care of. Mom called me on tuesday and told me that she has terminal cancer in her lungs and back. She is a heavy smoker so the cancer in her lungs doesn't suprise me too much. She is ceraintly in a hospital (I am not sure which one) and is in a lot of pain. Because of this they are keeping her heavily drugged. This is one thing that she never wanted to happen to her. She always hated anything medical. The tumors are pushing on her spinal cord so she is paralyzed from the chest area down. Please pray for her. I don't know what her relationship is with God. I just pray that she is ready for this. She also always watches her grandson, so also pray for him, her husband and her son, as this has to be very hard on them as well. Thanks for all the prayers! I am sure that she and her family would really appreciate them.

I am FREEZING!!!

Alright - I am sorry that I am a slacker on my blog, but may I say...at least I have one and am trying?

Can you believe this weather we are having? I have been freezing for like two days straight! I am not ready for winter, snow or anything like that! Good thing we are going to have a heat wave Sunday - a whole 55 degrees! Woohoo! I guess that is all I have for now. Have a wonderful weekend!

Tigers and Comfort

THE TIGERS ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS! They beat the New York Yankees last night and now are officially in the playoffs. We are very happy that they were able to make it this far. Now, they just have to win!

Mom ripped a list out of a magazine that is titled "Instant Comfort". It has many great things on it. So, I decided that I would make my own list.

1. Getting your hair washed by a professional before you get it cut.
2. Cuddling up in a big comphy chair with a good book and a cup of tea, and the snow swirling outside.
3. Number 2, with Cleo sleeping on my lap.*
4. Being able to take a nice hot, long bath and soak away all your worries.
5. Little babies sleeping.
6. A full tank of gas and still having money in your wallet.
7. Getting together with family and remeniscing about memories together and laughing so hard you start crying.


Alright, now it is your turn. What brings you instant comfort?
Have a wonderful day!

*(This doesn't happen very often since Cleo feels that we are all beneath her, but in winter she likes to sleep on our laps to stay warm! We always enjoy it when she decided that we are good enough for her.)