Sarah made State Honor Choir

Sarah's music teacher sent in an audition CD of Sarah singing to the Kansas Choral Directors Statewide Honor Treble Choir and she and another classmate made the choir. They were the only freshmen from our school to try out and they both made it. We are pretty excited for her!! Their concert will be in February at the end of the month. It will be in Wichita so we will have to go for that (hopefully).

Week from heck!!

I had a week from heck!! On Tuesday last week I got a flat tire on my way to work. I was three miles from work when it went flat. The bad part is that I work out in the middle of no where. I called work and asked for one of the guys to come get me. I started to change my tire to put the donut on while I waited. I had the jack out and was just getting it placed under the car when two guys from a construction company turned onto the road and they stopped and backed up and asked if I wanted some help. I said that I could change the tire but that it would be really great if they could help. So, I jacked the car up and one of the guys undid the lug nuts and took the tire off and put my donut on and then I lowered the car. Then I was on my way!! I ruined the tire so I had to buy a new tire!! After I was on my way to work I was about a mile from work and almost hit a deer that ran in front of me. On my way home that night after Mark and I cleaned out at the plant I almost hit a coyote. I really should have just stayed home that day!!

Then on Friday we took my car to Kansas City as we had to go to Hannah's school for her annual IEP review. It was an awesome review!! She is doing so good in school and living in the dorm this year and everyone had really good things to say!! Well, on the way back from KC we stopped in Topeka for dinner and to go to Goodwill (Sarah needed some things yet for her costume for the high school's musical that is this week). Well, we smelled antifreeze when we stopped at a stop light. I thought it was the truck next to us but when we stopped at Goodwill I smelled it again. Sure enough, when we came out the car was leaking antifreeze and water. We babied the car home stopping every so often to put water into the radiator. We thought it was the water pump. Well, we turned it into the shop today and it was just a hose but our mechanic had to take out the intake manifold (whatever that is) to put it on. So, it wasn't as bad as we thought, but still this is after a major ($2,000) repair on our truck in September.

On Saturday I had a craft show and it closed at 4 p.m. Mark called me on my cell phone and asked if I was getting ready to pack it up and then he asked me if I wanted some more bad news. Of course, I told him no but I was sure he was going to tell me anyway!! He said that my washing machine quit working!! Great!! So, I got to buy a new washing machine yesterday. Of course, they didn't have it in stock and had to order it so I get to go a week to 10 days without a washer!! UGH!! Calgon, take me away!!!

My MIL

My MIL will probably get to come home tomorrow from the hospital. She was able to eat food today and was doing well. We'll hope she has a good night and that she will be able to go home for sure. They tested 20+ lymph nodes and none of them came back positive for cancer. That is awesome news!! Thanks to everyone for their prayers. Please pray for continued healing.

Hannah and goal ball

Hannah has made the traveling goal ball team at her school. She was very excited today when she found out. She will go to Missouri this next weekend for their first meet.

Here is what goal ball is because I don't think that I can explain it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goalball

Good luck, Hannah!!

My Mother-in-law

My mother-in-law was diagnosed with colon cancer last week. She saw the surgeon on Monday and was told that they also found a spot on her liver and her lung. She went in for surgery on the colon yesterday. They had said that once she recovered from the colon surgery then she would have to have chemo for the spots on her liver and lung because they couldn't operate on the liver because it was too close to an artery that goes to her heart. Well, while in doing the colon surgery the doctor said that they couldn't find the spot on her liver. There was no cancer. So, she will not have to have chemo and they will deal with the spot on her lung after she has healed from the surgery. Sounds like she is doing pretty good today. They had her up and walking about. Glad she is doing well.

MRI results

Got the results back from my neck and brain MRI's. They are both normal. So, I asked the Dr. "now what?". She has scheduled me for an EMG and a nerve conduction velocity test. If you want to know what they do you can go here:

http://www.webmd.com/brain/electromyogram-emg-and-nerve-conduction-studies

It doesn't sound very pleasant but I guess we have to do what we have to do to figure out what is going on. The doctor basically said that if these 2 tests don't reveal anything then she doesn't know what to tell me. She says that she could refer me to KU Med Center in Kansas City to see if they might be able to offer some insight.


????? Not happy but glad that the MRI's came back okay ??? Don't really want to be a guinea pig either.