Whats next?

Warning: context may be graphic

I have never been to the Dr.'s so many times in my life! The last 4 weeks I have been to the Dr.'s 4 times, and not be choice. Ever since I got back from my honeymoon I have been miserable and in pain whether its just joints (elbows, hands, or knees) or my abdominal. I have had to pee in the cup more than twice and be checked for hemorrhoids (which is like the worst procedure EVER!!). I take Scott in to the Dr.'s room with me in case I forget to say something. At this point in time I am very frustrated and in pain. I have been diagnosed with 5 different things and then the test results came back negative but I get to hear "by your physical symptoms" you definitely have "this." When I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis the specialists sent me a referral to see a stomach specialist. Well I never went b/c I didn't like the Rheumatoid Arthritis Dr. and she made me feel like I was dying (I'm in denial w/everything by the way lol) Well my last two trips to Urgent Care said I had to go see him. Well I did and next week I will be having the honors of getting a colonoscopy. Now I just turned 22 and this procedure is for people 50 and over. So you can imagine when I was waiting in the Dr.'s office the average age was 70 lol. I can tolerate pain that I'm going through, but I CANNOT tolerate pain people due to me like needles, pelvic exams, hemorrhoid exams, shots, etc. SOOOOO this should be fun!! I hear the worst part is cleaning your system out, but honestly what i have experienced in a year I think I'm pro haha. Anyway WISH ME LUCK!

And the semester has ended!!

I am so glad to be over!! I have exactly one year to graduate!! Majority of people know I can NOT make up my mind at times it can be really frustrating, so I thank those who put up with me, especially Scott =) So technically I should have graduated this semester but I went from a Psychology major to a Math major, then a Liberal Studies Major, then a Double Major in Family Life Education and Child Development. So that explains why it has taken me this long. My final verdict is I am finishing up my major in Family Life Education and I have just completed my minor in Child Development along with my GE credits and Capstones. The longer I stay in college I do feel smarter. So I have a quick break before Summer School starts. With all the budget cuts I have to try and get into all the classes and take summer and winter now. However, they did raise the prices, so for me to take one summer class which is 3 units its $800!!! It will be worth it I think...haha.

So right now Scott has been working hard and we were in the process of trying to buy a house. We love our condo, but we want to try and take this advantage of the houses being low.

As for my health, I have been in so much pain that I went to urgent care the other day and they were just RUDE! They only wanted to hear one symptom and disregarded all the rest. Then all they did was like look up symptoms on the computer, kind of like a webmd thing. So they sent my urine sample in and that's it. So the result is, I am still in pain, not a happy camper!! So at this point I am diagnosing myself. The only thing I have to really work with is I have high C-Protein. It should be under .8 and mine is at 1.47. So those disease of inflammation consists of diet and exercise. So I am in the process of doing a food elimination test and also I can only have fruit, veggies, and proteins.

Disregard my previous post... =)

So I make pretty good food I must admit. My husband has not once barfed, not eaten, or ordered pizza.


Anyway, Shawn and Shannon came over for game night on Tuesday. No, its not the kind of game night where you gather around with couples, Tuesday night game nights are HALO nights. The guys all play on Xbox live together, for about 3 hours, or sometimes until they get sleepy. So anyway, Shawn and Shannon came over and I made my FAVORITE dish Poppy Seed Chicken. Then after dinner my loving husband told them what I accidentally did. I bought a turkey instead of chicken (the ones that are already cooked) so we had like Turkey/Chicken Poppy Seed. No one could tell which makes you think you are a good cook right? haha. I do have to describe my dessert because its one of my favorite, however it is fattening, but what dessert isn't..I mean c'mon the ones that taste REALLY good.





I took Buttermilk waffle crackers and spread nutella on them. Then I took ice cream and cut the box and too the ice cream out so its like a role of ice cream. Then I cut it to make ice cream sandwiches. Put it in the freezer and BAM! You have a cheap no mess ice cream sandwich that has like fudge (nutella) which makes it so YUMMY! I would dare anyone to try these. They are so simple, yummy, and great for guests!

My cure for chocolate

I do not like mangoes, and I bought these for Scott because on his Mission he ate Mango's all the time and since they were "Philippine mango's" I really had to buy them. However, I found myself eating them one day on accident lol and I now am able to eat those and not have chocolate! It's the weirdest thing! I really can't even look at chocolate and go "mmm thats good" I don't know if this is a good thing or bad thing lol.

Seeing the light!!

I had the craziest week of school ever!

Since I only go to school Tuesday and Thursday that means everything is due and tests are always Tuesday and Thursday. Well one week, which was last week, I had 3 papers due on Tuesday and on Thursday I had 2 oral presentations and 1 test. My oral presentations went well. Of course they were stressful to prepare, but I don't get nervous presenting..I know weird right? So my first presentation was on Blended Families which was SO easy since I am part of a blended family in many ways. Then my next one was on a book presentation for preschoolers. The funny thing about this one was that I totally just walked up to give my presentation not realizing that I gave my teaching my rubric as I stood up which meant I didn't have any notes to follow. However I am Christie and I pulled it off so well that no one knew that I didn't have my rubric. This is because I can talk my way into anything =) So following the two presentations was a test that I had to take. I honestly studied all my notes and the book but when it came to the short answer questions I honestly thought they were in another language. If I do not know a word I try my best to dissect it. So my questions were:
What is object permanence?
What is binocular vision?
What is vocable?
I forgot the fourth question.
Anyway, so I dissecting binocular vision…I thought about vision looking through binoculars LOL then vocable I thought vocab and vocal….hmmm haha something to do with words? Anyway these questions were 5 points each which meant a total of 20 points. I got a 84 on the test..which mean my dissecting worked or my teacher took pitty on my answers =)

Right now I am working on a feltboard presentation and 3 10 page papers =) Meanwhile Scott received his 2nd degree black belt and is working and playing video games like a champ lol.

How do you stop working?

I really try and be the best at everything I do, and its more like an addiction more than anything. I try so hard to do what I am suppose to then in some way I give myself too much to do and then become overwhelmed. As I was laying in bed on Sunday thanking Scott for doing the dishes, Laundry (2 loads), cleaning up, folding clothes, yes I can go on lol, I was telling him how I do way to much and do not have time to focus on the little things.

I have my AA already for school, I'm just working on my double major in Child Development/Family Studies and Family Life Education. I then want to get my credentials. I was thinking about getting a certificate in Gerontology, but right now I am volunteering at an Assisted Living and I am sure that is something I do not want to do =)

So my point to this is, my loving husband sat down to have a talk with me. My controlling needs of doing everything, trying to become the bread winner (I know its not possible) and be a wife is not working. He was very kind about me doing too much and not focusing on the important things. I told him that I have to bring in a pay check, he told me no. The more he told me no it was like telling a little kid they can't have candy. I cried and cried because I need to work no question about that. I can not stand to not get a pay check. I need to control my money by saving saving saving. If I do not have my own pay check I can not save and get things that I want lol. I know that sounds selfish, but working is addicting for me. Of course since we have been married for almost a year this month, the baby question came about. I asked him if would mind that we wait until he is 30 (which is only 2 years lol). He said he's not going to be thirty. So now I have to humble myself and realize that I do not have to try so hard to make money and be a bread winner with him. It might sound crazy, but it's going to be the most humbling experience for me. I think more humbling than when I was homeless.

So I need some advise to cope with being a stay at home Mom in the near future =)

Don't read of you get grossed out =)

So I bet your reading this anyway though right? Sooooooo I was having so much stomach pain on Thursday that I called my mother-in-law crying saying we need to fix me. When I was diagnosed with R.A (took almost a year to have the dr.'s tell me that) Scott's family all said I didn't. My sister-in-law Carolyn was really helpful, she would look stuff up and text me and tell me I just don't think that that's what you have, it doesn't make sense she would say. Then my father-in-law and mother-in-law were just so convinced that I didn't have it. So when I called her crying she was inspired to take me to one of her friend's who is a clinical dietitian and also tests all your meridians and so very knowledgeable (or as Carolyn would call it "voodoo"). So in desperate pain and desire Kendy and I went to go see her. Kendy said a prayer before we went up to the door and then we got down to business. I told her my story exactly how I told all 4 dr.'s It start with "When I came back from Mexico I had pain in my left finger.........blah blah blah....my husband got so sick the second to last day he was just puking his brains out....." She tested my meridians and at no surprise all my meridians were in the "RED" zone which means my whole body is majorly inflamed and swollen. So after all the diagnosing....yes this is the gross part....I have 3 different types of parasites in me which have procreated and made a nice home for all their families in my body. They are like ameba's, the single cell bacteria ones...not like the insect type. So I have stopped my R.A medicine (which was small dose of chemotherapy in a pill) and now I am on 8 vitamins which gives me a total of 27 pills I take a day, but they will help me get the gross critters out of me!

I am instructed to take 2 1/4 cups of pumpkin seeds a day. They knock them out, so if anyone thinks about traveling to another country, take pumpkin seeds or pumpkin oil. =)

Now I bet you think "Well what does your husband think." Lets just say every time I go to the bathroom he has a smart comment to make. He also tells me every time I have stomach pain he tells me "well stop ticking the parasites off" So there is a lot of love and comedy in our house hold =) lol