Tired of snow and other rants.....

It has been a crazy few weeks filled with doctor appointments, travel and snow!

We drove to Cleveland to meet my parents on the 12th so my mom could be here to help out the week I had my stent removed and underwent a ureteroscopy. My mom enjoyed going to D's Valentine's day bowling party. D enjoyed having her take her to school and pick her up all week.

I had my ureteroscopy on Tuesday the 15th, more questions then answers were found. Apparently my kidney stones are not free floating in my kidney as assumed. I am not 100% sure what this means. I have to have a CT scan with contrast next week and then meet with the doctor again on the 8th.

Big Daddy's gout is still not under control, his uric acid level is still high. As soon as the attack it at bay he can begin taking medication that will prevent him from having another one (fingers crossed). He has completely changed his diet and has as a result lost weight. He is looking forward to to going back to the gym.

D and I took Grandma back to NY last weekend and spent a few days visiting friends and family. We had to shorten our visit to beat the storm, so we missed seeing everyone. Hopefully we can spend a week there this summer.

In school news: We have decided to just send D to our neighborhood school, we got a great feeling from the teachers and principal at the information night. We were disappointed that the bond did not pass on Tuesday, the school district really needed the money to update technology, buses and some other projects. It failed by a small margin with only about 7000 people voting, so it is very upsetting that people did not get out and vote. It would have cost tax payers very little, but as time goes by the amount of money the school will need is going to go up.....

Happy Valentine's Day.....and other news.

Happy Valentine's Day from the Majiros Family!

and other random thoughts....

N is suffering from another Gout attack after spending a week in Germany.

D passed level 2 swimming! (I am not sure I am ready for her to be with the big kids in level 3)

My mom is here to help out this week. I have another procedure to hopefully get to my kidney stones tomorrow.

D had a blast at her preschool bowling party for Valentine's day.

When surrounded by snow, make ice cream!

Snow (6 cups), cream (1 cup), sugar (1/2 cup), Sugar Free Pudding (1 Tbs), Vanilla (1 tsp).....mix, put back out outside for 15 minutes, then add 4 more cups of snow, stir and enjoy! (Crafting Crow website, posted by the Almost Unschoolers)

SOS

Nathan's recent battle with Gout has made us rethink some of the things we are eating. While we have tried to eliminate lots of bad stuff out of our diet, we still have work to do. After reading up on different gout friendly food lists we are thinking we need to eat more vegetarian type meals and even less meat (or no meat). If you have any good vegetarian recipes please pass them on to us! Thank you!

Delaney Dancing while we were on vacation....

A long week.....

Another week has come to an end and we are still not back to normal here in Michigan. Nathan is still suffering from a gout attack. He has been to urgent care as well as the doctors, he seems to have good days and bad. Hopefully he will get in for some more blood work this week and he can see what else he can do.

I had my lithotripsy on Thursday. Thankfully I did not get sick after as I did last time. It did, however, take 4 attempts to get my IV in, I was not too thrilled about that! The poor nurse felt awful, so I tried to make her feel better and tell her it wasn't uncommon for me. We were not able to speak to the doctor before I was discharged, I called him yesterday to get an update on how the procedure went. He said he went after the top stone (as it would block the other ones anyways), and that is was very tough to break apart. I have not passed anything as of today, so chances are this procedure was a failure (as it was last year as well). I will go back on Thursday and see what the next plan is.

My back where they shot the shock waves at me:

Poor D has a cold.....it was bound to happen with everything that has been going on. Hopefully with a weekend of rest she will be fine to go to school on Monday.

We went to our first Kindergarten information night on Tuesday. This was at our "neighborhood" school. We were very impressed with the principal and the teachers. This coming week we will visit two of the "focus" schools and see if we want to be in the lottery to have D go there. We will keep you all posted!

I also had a nice conference with D's teachers. She is doing well and prepared for kindergarten. Their only areas of concern was that she tends to take her time on projects (she does love her art projects! and tends to be a perfectionist) when the other kids have moved on, and she is sometimes too shy to participate in singing and dancing. This was a surprise to me, as she is always putting on "shows" for us. Although every once in awhile she does get embarrassed when we catch her singing a song. We will have to work on her confidence before the fall.

I had a burst of energy today and decided to organize D's play room, over time we tend to shove the art supplies up in the cabinets and it is no longer neat and tidy. I also tackled her room. Let's see how long they both stay clean and organized!

This and That

It has been a long week..... I had a kidney stent (or ureteric stent) put in on Tuesday. I thankfully was not awake during the procedure! When I came out of the dark I was overwhelmed by pain. It was an awful feeling. They tried several different pain medicines as well as some numbing gel, nothing was working. The nurse said I had all they could give me and if I was still in pain I would have to go to the hospital for pain management. I was not happy to hear this and it only made the pain worse as I laid there crying. The doctor came back in and said that my bladder was inflamed and that was probably why the pain was so intense. He suggested I go get my prescriptions and see if being home helped. It was not a fun ride home and I continued to have bladder spasms. The pain did finally get tolerable, although I have not been comfortable in days. On Thursday I will go to the hospital to undergo lithotripsy: Lithotripsy is a medical procedure that uses shock waves to break up stones in the kidney, bladder, or ureter. I have three kidney stones in my right kidney, they are .8, .9 and 1cm. I will have to have a second lithotripsy procedure in a month. I look forward to feeling better and be kidney stone free!

Big Daddy has been suffering from a gout attack for over two weeks, it got worse this week and he ended up at urgent care. He has been hobbling along for days. He got some medicine and will hopefully be back to normal soon.

And what has our sweet LaneyBug been up to? Being a good nurse of course. We are so thankful that she is such a good girl and can go with the flow of things. She has kept her self busy with crafts, movies, and her dolls.

On a normal note we have created (and adjusted) a "jobs" or "daily tasks" chart for D over the last few months. She seems to really like it. We have tried to balance some fun tasks with the less fun ones. She enjoys writing and learning to "read", so we added those to her chart as guaranteed successes for her. She also needs to pick up her toys, brush her teeth, stay in her bed (she had a habit a few months ago of ending up on our floor, thankfully this has passed), set the table, etc.