MJ Update - Happy New Year

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Hi everyone:

Sorry for the lack of updates. 2006 is ending and a new year is ready to begin.

My last two weeks have been filled with fun and adventures, as always.

On the 19th, I saw the Dermatologist, who gave me Adaptic dressing to put on my

back that is always opening up, and it clears it up. I have to keep using it or

else it opens back up again. Oh well, it keeps it healed. Mr. Bear (check out

his story at www.caringbridge.org/visit/mrbear) arrived to spend Christmas with

the Purk family on the 21st and has had a great time. We made more and more

cookies on last of the week. We made 3 more batches of Spritz cookies. I ate

Mac and Cheese bites for the first time since I heard about them from ’s

nephews. I loved them. They have them at Sparky’s Pizza. I have been

reading my Disability in Literature and Culture Books a lot, and have read 2 of

the 4 and am ¼ done with the third one. Not too bad!!

On the 23rd, we went out looking at Christmas Lights and to see the Live

Nativity at the church. On Christmas Eve, we had a big party. We opened

presents and had a great dinner before going to Christmas Eve Services.

brought my candle holder so I could have my own. I really enjoyed it and

can’t wait to do it again next year.

Christmas morning was quiet. We slept in and enjoyed our morning. It was just

Grandma June, and I. I got a new video camera and lots of clothes. Uncle

came over as did a friend of June’s.

Christmas night was when the adventure started. My arm was itching so

looked at my arm and it was swollen and red and hot. We put ice on it and it

started to hurt some. That night, my heart rate was up and my sats were down.

Tuesday morning, my arm was really hurting, pretty bad. After a while, we went

to the local ER to have it checked out. The X-Ray showed no broken bones, but

there was a bump on my humerus that the docs wanted checked out by an orthopedic

doctor. So, Wednesday morning, called Children’s Ortho Dept. UGH was

her “nice†word of the day. The lady she talked to asked why they needed to

see me since I can’t move much and why bother treating me. yelled at

them and said that I was in pain and Motrin wasn’t doing anything!

Children’s called back and said that the appointment wasn’t an emergency so

they didn’t need to do anything but would call back to schedule an appt. They

called back a third time and really irritated . The radiologist’s

report showed that my deltoid tuberosity (see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltoid_tuberosity) was pulling away from my

humerus and taking part of the bone with it. It hasn’t completely came away

yet, but they told that it is part of “my condition†whatever that

is?!? They said that I could get into to see them sometime in February and that

my pain wasn’t their concern. GRRRRR!

Thursday morning called Dr. Proskin. Thanks for your help. I started

on Toradol and it has made a big difference. It controls the pain for most of

the 6 hrs. We got a copy of my X-Ray and we laughed and decided that “my

condition†that the ortho docs were referring to was that my bones were

“gracileâ€. Gracile means thin and delicate. LOL!!! So my new condition is

Gracile…..don’t you think I’m thin and delicate!

Friday, we hung around with my cousins and had fun and tortured my cousin, Andy

(we love you!!!). Saturday, we headed back to the apartment. I am glad to be

back and able to access the computer. I can’t believe my six week break is

over and I start back to classes on Tuesday.

I’m just chilling out until Tuesday and working on website stuff. Check out

all of our pictures at -

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=a1z30nd.4vov90al & x=0 & y=o08zgo Wishing you

and yours a happy and healthy new year!

Quote for the Week:

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them

ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's

Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

MJ

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