One Step Further

Thanks Barb for the comment on my last post.

Last night, I was feeling really sickly, nauseated and in more pain/cramping/pressure.  I was scared that it might be my appendix, and not wanting to wait too long so it wouldn't burst, Mark took me in to the hospital.  We were home four hours later, no appendicitis :)  Be the time I saw the doctor, three and a half hours later, the pain, nausea and chills were quite a bit less, but he still gave me anti-inflammation (sp) medication.  The doctor at the Emerg thinks I have a cyst on my ovary.  When I got home I looked it up on the internet and it seems that I fit most of the symptoms.  

On Wednesday afternoon I go into the hospital for my ultrasound.  Please pray that I don't get too worried.  It could need surgery or go away after a couple of months on birth control.  Please also pray that my family understands that I am more tired and sick and not as able to do things - It's hard for Drew to understand Mommy being sick!

Love Andrea

Oh the Places I'd love to be . . .

I'd love to be here right now!  The beach. The Sun.  The water. The relaxation.  :)  But instead, I'm back here.  Here being sleepless nights, AGAIN!  The twins were quite sick after Christmas, as were we all, until then they were sleeping through the night, but since then we have been back to sleepless nights.  Augggghhh.  I hear someone in the background right now.  But they are not crying yet so I'll let them work on getting themselves back to sleep first.  Please pray for sleep filled nights. 

On another note, Mark and I have both not been feeling well lately.  Mark is so tired all the time and has this weird muscle pain going through his body.  We are not sure what it is yet.  Mine seems to be different, womenly and weird.  At least I'm not so nauseated right now.  But there is a weird sort of pressure on my lower right abdomen that comes and goes.  It sucks being sick and take care of your family, but worse when you have no idea what is going on in your own body.  It seems to be a little better the last couple days, so hopefully it is going away for good.  I'm trying not to think about it.

Well, It's late, so I should go to bed.  

Love Andrea

A New Address and Template

Just thought it would be fun to change things up a bit.  And hopefully get rid of junk mail!  More to come soon. . . :)

An Amazing family Story!

I have been following an amazing story of one family.  The wife, Tricia, has CF and has just undergone double lung transplants.  Just before being put on the transplant list and after trying for awhile (?) they found out they were pregnant.  The baby, Gwyneth, came 15+ weeks early, due to Tricia having Cystic Fibrosis.

Anyway for more details and an inspiring story of faith and strength, check out www.cfhusband.blogspot.com/

Andrea

You know Drew is sick when . . .

Napping on the sofa chair!  This NEVER happens!

It feels like we have all been sick for a long time.  I quess it has only been since Christmas!  It seems as soon as the twins get better, we are good for a couple days, then either Sophia or Ethan gets another cold and we start all over again.  This spell though has been the stomach flu.  Very bad!  It seems to be going around, and not only here in Abbotsford.  Mark was the first that got it.  But he was well for about two weeks before Sophia got it, so I'm not 100% sure that it was the same thing.  From Sophia to Ethan to Myself to Drew to Mark again.  This was all within 1 1/2 weeks.  It was a tiring time apart from the fact that we were all sick.  There was so much laundry to do!!  It was coming out both ends!  (Enough details)  Now we are all on the mend.  I think!  Drew was still feeling weak and tired today, but a little more perky than the last week.  One Day, when Drew and I were at our sickest, we spent almost the whole day on our Sofa bed, sleeping and watching movies!  And if you know Drew, that is not like him at all!!  I just hope that this is the end for a good long time.  If you think of us a prayer for health would be greatly appreciated!!

 

Night Visitors

Well since I wrote last things have changed in the world of fish. Yes, we still have a fish tank and yes there are still four fish, or should I say again there are four fish.  Our Siamese Fighting Fish, sadly, passed away.  Then we got a goldfish, and unfortunately that one got sucked into our filter.  We are now on to Goldfish number two, who we have successfully had for the past three weeks or so.  I think this one is a keeper :)

Onto the rest of the animal kingdom, we had some visitors last week . . .  I just had to take some photos.  I had just taken a bath and heard some weird noises outside.  I opened the bathroom window and it sounded like it was coming from my yard somewhere.  I went to the patio doors and turned on the light.  To my surprise this is what I found! 

Happy Fish Day!

Yes, this is our fish.  And so are the other three in the first picture.  Can you see them?  They are small!  We went to Petsmart this morning and I started asked the sales guys all kinds of questions.  First of all, how many fish can we have in a six liter tank?  His answer: one Goldfish or three or four White Cloud Fish and a Siamese Fighting Fish.  So we did the later.  Drew did not want only one fish.  He was concerned it would be lonely and scared at night!  No names yet, Drew thinks that the man at the Pet store already named them and so we can't.  We'll see if that changes!  But he did say that if he needs a kleenex during the night (which are currently beside the fish tank) and the fish wake up, he'll just sing them a lullaby so they can go back to sleep!  Where does he come up with this stuff!