The Hospital Stay

First I'd like to thank all of you for praying for/over us the past few days. I didn't get to update on here before we left, so let me explain for those who have no idea what I'm talking about.

Let's start with last week, when I did a 5 day regimen of Toradol and Reglan which were supposed to break up my daily headaches..... they didn't. On Tuesday, I called my doctor at Hershey to see what the next plan is. Wednesday, I receive a call back saying that she wants to go ahead and have me admitted to the hospital...... "Ok" I reply "So is that gonna be at Carilion New River?" "What?" she asks. "Ummm... where is this happening?" To which she replies, as if it was a stupid question to begin with "Uh, here." Here meaning Hershey, PA. "Admissions will be calling you."

Well, about 5pm, I get the call from admissions.... "We have a room for you." "Ok, well I can't make it till tomorrow, I live in VA." "Can I put you on hold for just a minute." She comes back, "Ok sir, we'll have to call you back when we get a room available for tomorrow. We can't hold rooms overnight." "Well, I guess I can try to make it tonight...." knowing that we still have to pack stuff, and it takes 4.5-5 hours to get to Steph's hometown and another 45 mins from there to Hershey.... and.... AND... it's pouring rain. "Ok sir, as long as you're here by midnight."

Long story short, mad dash to pack 2 adults, a 1 year old and a dog, fill the van with gas, head out from Radford, VA at 6pm in the pouring rain.... the whole way..... witness tractor trailer wreckage still smoldering in pouring rain... prayers....switch vehicles at Newville, PA.... make it to Hershey Medical Center at..... 11:30pm! I made it... more prayers!

I finally get hooked up to the IV around 3am Thurs. morning..... start on the meds.... still had headaches although not as bad as normal. Saturday, the doc comes in to see if I'm ready to go home.... asks me how my head is.... "Pain is about a 4 out of 10." His reply, "Hmmm... that may be the best we can do for you." Which, for me is not what I want to hear..... but is better than what I've been living with.... which is usually 7 and upwards out of 10, every day.

Woke up this morning.... another 7/8 out of 10 headache.....

So lets recap.... Mad dash to PA in pouring rain, hooked up to IV meds, only helped a little while I was on them..... current medicine doubled, try it for 2-3 weeks, call if not better, we'll try another drug. Is there a point in all of this when I just completely give up on modern medicine? Maybe I have my hopes set to high..... but I'm not asking for no headaches, I can deal with a headache every now and then.... I just want enough relief where I can get back to work and provide for my family again....

to be continued.......

Two Crackers.... That's How I Roll

An Update to the Update

So after I blogged the other day, my doctor's office at Hershey called me back and changed things up a bit. They said that increasing the Cymbalta wouldn't really have an immediate effect, so they put me on a 5 day regimen of: Toradol every 6 hours for 5 days, and Reglan every day for 5 days. Both of these drugs are normally stuff you'd take to get rid of a headache when you have one..... like, you'd take either of them, not both usually.... and you'd take it once, and it'd knock your headache out. For me however, it's done nothing for my headaches.... all it's done is make me tired...... So I guess I will call them this week sometime and see what the next plan is. I dunno if this will be when they send me for a lil stay in the hospital for the IV infusion or what.

Anyways, I just ask that you all keep my family, my doctors, and myself in your prayers..... that God will lead my doctors to the answers that we all so desperately need them to find.... that he'll continue to provide for us financially.... and that he'll just keep us all sane around here! :-)

On to a little happier note.... the other day I was showing Mia some pictures on my digital camera, when she very easily found the shutter button and gave it a press..... so below you see the first ever photograph from Mia Sigmon.... I guess she's going for the artistic side of photography!

I Heart Tomatoes

Headache Update

So I realized that I haven't updated you all about my headache situation in a while.... seems I've gotten caught up into uploading photos instead...

Anyways, 2 weeks ago I called Hershey Medical and told them that I was still having my headaches every day. They put me on a week long treatment of prednisone, and told me to call back in 2 weeks if my headaches weren't any better. So yesterday I called them back and let them know that the prednisone hadn't done anything for my headaches.... they're still the same.

Today I received a call from them and they wanted me to talk to my PCP about upping the dose on one of my meds (my Cymbalta) and if that didn't work after a week or so, then we should look into a 48 hour stay in the hospital with an IV infusion.... an infusion of what, they didn't say... I guess we'll figure that out if we make it to that.

Anyways, that's the latest.... I'll keep ya posted on anymore happenings!

See this little girl?? 29 years ago God created her just for me!

And she gets more beautiful with each passing day!

Happy Birthday Stephanie!!!

I Fought the Bee.... and the Bee Won....

The Fire's Thata Way!

another oldie.....

We're here!

And so we're officially back in Radford! Still settling in.... and there's a lot of settling to do! haha I haven't had much time to go thru my newer photos yet, so I'll hit y'all up with an older one that I found last week.... it's of my man Canaan.... cracks me up, because at 4 years old, I didn't even know how to turn a computer on! Of course back then, computers were a little different.... and about the size of a room(ok maybe not). Anyways.... look for more updates soon!

A Short Break...

Well, I normally don't post over the weekends anyways, although sometimes I do... anyways, the next couple days are gonna be craziness, so I'm doubting much if any computer time for myself.... so just dropping a post to say that... the next post you read from me will originate in RADFORD!!! The move starts Tues/Wed.

Cahas