I Made A Decision

Well, I finally did it. I applied to nursing school. After nearly five years of "nursing" my family members in their different health issues like seizures, diabetes, cancer, and plastic surgery, I felt it was time to go to school and get some real training and go to work and get paid for it. I hope my kids and family cooperate with me the best way they know how. I am going to need lots of time to study and do homework. For the past few years my life has revolved around caring for my family and taking care of their needs. I have put my own wants and desires aside for many years now. To busy worrying about how everyone else is doing. I think it is time I did something for me, and in the long run it will be of great use to the rest of my family. The extra income will help us to live a better life and the skills I learn may turn out to save us some money in the future as well. Wish me luck everyone!

Church

Well, today we had an awesome church service. I have been dealing with so much in my life lately that my spiritual life has kinda taken a back seat to everything else. I haven't completely back slid or anything like that. I have just gotten to the place that I don't really hear the Lord any more or really feel very much spiritually. I know Jesus is still there, and I know that He still loves me even though I haven't acknowledged Him very much here lately. Well, today I had a bit of a breakthough. I felt the spirit move in me and on me today. I felt the Fathers loving arms around me today. I hate not being in His presence. I hate not feeling His touch. I hate feeling like I am not good enough. I am ready to move on and quit feeling sorry for myself. I am ready to get past what I did in the past and realize that no matter what I did wrong that Jesus still loves me and cares for me. Jesus can still use me and He wants to use me. I need to stop telling myself that I messed up too bad to be used. I made a big mistake. I messed up a lot of lives in the process. I repented and asked for forgiveness four years ago and now it is time to move on. Thank you Jesus for grace and forgiveness. Do you know Jesus today? If you don't, Please know that no matter what you have done, Jesus still loves you and wants to use you in His kingdom. Will you come to Him today and let Him wrap His arms around you? You will never regret it and if you don't like it the devil will take you back. Ask Jesus to come live in your heart today. You will never be the same again.

Cassie Got a New Hat!


















Mardi Gras Anybody?

















Look It's Farmer Jeremiah!


Well, Cassie went to diabetes camp and had a blast. Cassie was cabin leader, so she says she was. Cassie told me the funniest story about a young woman who only brought three pair of undergarments with her to camp, well come day four this girl wore nothing under her clothes and Cass found the girls dirty undergarments lying on the bathroom sink. Cass was disgusted! She called all the girls into the bathroom and gave them a lesson in how to keep dirty undergarments off the bathroom sink. Cassie said the actual cabin leaders were standing in the showers laughing at her little show of leadership. I have to say that I would have been just as disgusted. Cassie did very well at camp and had lots of fun. The nurse told me Cassie is very independant with her diabetes management which is wonderful! Cassie let another little girl use her injector for an infusion set and that little girl broke cassie's only injector. Thank God it was the day after Cassie had just changed her site and didn't need to change it again til she got home. And Cassie's best friend let her borrow a spare one to get her through until we get another one ordered. Cassie is going to North Carolina with her grandmother next week. I think Cassie has traveled more this summer than she has ever travelled. I have to share my story with everyone about ice cream and blood sugar levels. I took Cassie, Jeremiah, and Cassie's friend Katrina to Camden Park, a small amusement park in West Virginia. While there the girls wanted ice cream. I had them check sugars and their levels were high. Katrina was around 400 and Cassie was over 300. I went ahead and let tham both get ice cream and after eating the ice cream we walked around some more and rode more rides. I forgot to have the girls bolus for the ice cream and they forgot too. About an hour later we did a recheck on sugars and both girls came down to normal levels. I couldn't believe it. Katrina was around 165 and Cassie was around 145. How did those girls have high numbers, ice cream and no food bolus or correction bolus and come down to normal? I have seen that happen on more than one occasion. I just don't understand it. but I am not knocking it either. Oh yeah, and yes Jeremiah got ice cream too!

Well, she did it! Mom got her surgery done and is doing very well. She had a tremendous amount of pain the first 3 days. By day 4 she was doing much better. Her Tummy is flatter than mine and her chest looks better than mine too. The doctor also made her a new belly button. I am amazed! Mom fought a migraine headache the first 3 days after waking up from anesthesia. The headache finally went away lastnight with the help of a migraine medication. The docs kept trying to treat the migraine with plain pain meds which didn't work at all. Mom is taking purcocet and ibuprofin for her surgery pain and another medicine that I have never heard of to treat the migraine. She is up and moving around more now and has discovered the more she moves the less it hurts. It is good to hear her getting mouthy with the nurses and it is good to see her smile and ask me to call people and tell them to come see her. Those first few days were really bad for her. She thought she was going to die. I can't imagine what that must have felt like. Mom will be in the hospital until the end of the week. Her doctor wants to keep her as close to Morgantown as long as he can incase there are issues that come up unexpectedly. Thank you everyone for your prayers. they have been felt and are still being felt to this day.