The girls were at the mall Friday afternoon and they were in a mood. They were a little nuts. You can talk about climbing the walls until you are actually trying to get them down from the walls. These are some pictures of their crazy mood faces, and it made for a good distraction while were trying to get clothes tried on for Sam. So if you ever wondered what really goes on in those changing rooms at the mall, now you can know. Take a look at these:
Erica passed out in church this morning. She was kneeling (nothing spiritual implied, just a good position to color using the chair as a table) by the chair and simply began to lay over on Samantha and started to slide between the seats. Dawn noticed first and whispered if Erica was OK. I looked and Erica was slumped between the seats on her way to the floor. I reached to pick her up and she felt stiff to me, like she was having a temper tantrum sometimes she will hold her arms tight and refuse to uncross them. When I turned her to see her face, she was not there. Her eyes looked very sleepy and she was not responding much if at all. I laid her back in Dawn’s arms and she began to come around quickly. I thought it best we get her out of the room. In the 2nd row we were becoming quite spectacle, although many had their eyes closed as it was prayer time when this all happened. When we got out the door, Erica began to say she wanted to throw up. We got her into the bathroom and she stood by the toilet but nothing happened. The she needed to pee, so we closed the door and she did that on her own for now there was a peanut gallery in the bathroom. She slowly perked up in the bathroom. We had Jim (an EMT/ Firefighter) and Gerri (a nurse) with us in the bathroom. We also had Sherry (a prayer warrior).
Erica and I went home from church and she slowly got back to herself. She had some saltines and I spoke with a doctor on the phone to see what I should do. It sounded to him like a fainting spell. No link to anything he could think of at this point. He reassured me it did not sound like a seizure, or blood sugar based on my description. So we decided not to have her seen in the ER today, but to follow up with an appointment tomorrow at our Doctor (at leat a partner, our doctor is still away).
So this afternoon was a normal one, other than that we all got naps. Erica seems to be doing well. She is more herself this evening and gaining energy and appetite. Dawn will take her in tomorrow and we will probably not get any further on why this happened, other than to add stress to our daily lives because apparently we are running short on our allotment.
We don’t have the Chest CT results back yet, but we hope to get those tomorrow. And tomorrow should be chapter two of our new window saga. We shall see what tomorrow brings…today isn’t over yet. One day at a time.
I have discovered there is quite learning curve to this blogging thing. I will need to get better at making the page interesting and adding good content. I am trying to understand RSS feeds and subscribing to pages, how to customize my page better so I like the look and feel of posts, and how to generate good and useful content that makes it worth showing up here. I am learning a lot quickly, but clearly a rookie and discovering I am way behind the curve on this stuff. I will catch up, I am certain.
My folks let us know this week that they may be taking a job in Gulfport, MS. Yeah, that’s MiSSiSSiPPi. Like we used to try to spell in School. That is just right of ground zero, and out two fingers away from Louisiana on the big map. Not where we thought they woul dbe going, them either. What God is thinking, is something I have mentioned here before, doesn’t always make sense to us.
We are praying they will have clear direction, open doors, peace about their decision, confidence on God’s faithfulness even as it relates to their relationships with their grandkids. This is a big decision, with far-reaching implcations perhaps. It may deeply affect all our lives for the next 10 years, or maybe not at all. We will have to wait and see. Kind of a cliff hanger. We may be here awhile. So Hang ON!
I made a deal with a good friend (I’ll protect his identity here, cause I don’t have his permission to share). He would quit smoking if I lost 30 pounds. Well it has been a long road to the 30 pounds mark, but it cracked thios morning. I have lost 31 pounds since making the deal back in January.
My friend has already begun his quitting and it is going well for him. Now we just both need to stay on the wagon, he without cigarrettes, me without fast food, chocolate and Pepsi.
It all came about when I had been bugging him about smoking and killing himself. The I thought to myself, this is a Lordship issue. He is not submitting his choices to Christ. Then…As God often does…I was convicted about all the times I escaped into some habit of my own. Mostly Fast Food, Chocolate, and pepsi. They are my comfort foods and I was addicted. I still struggle with pangs for a cola (and I allow myself a little now and then), but More and more I am able to control my food.
Lordship of Christ is huge. I, however, am not. 
Did I mention that you can check me out on facebook as well, at least if you are a member, too. That is the other reason for the switch. WordPress has an application on face book that lets you read my blog or access my blog from facebook.
Hello everyone who knew about my blogger page. This is the new and improved WordPress page. I liked the customizability of the page. And I like that I can use pictures of my cute children to enhance my image. They are very adoreable. Anyway, I hope to get a new post out soon. Perhaps something about our new windows.
How do you like the new blog format. I like wordpress because there is more customization and the ability to use video and pics right in the blog post. I am having fun setting this up.
So I am not that good at keeping up with this thing. I will do better during school when I have a more routine schedule.
Anyway, Erica is doing some better and what a difference it makes to have a doctor who explains things. Even if this new doctor (the Pulmonologist) is wrong, I am confident in her eventually being right. She has options and is not stuck on something that just doesn’t feel right to us, meaning the allergies.
It is amazing what good information can do for you. This whole ride with Erica has been a quest for information. From the first time I asked one of the partners at our family doctor why he thought she was prone to Pneumonia and Bronchitis, to the last medication we have subjected our 5 year old to, we just wanted good information. We finally got some from the pulomonologist. She believes there is a possibility of an aspirated foreign body in the lungs. Now, that is not a great thing (it would mean surgery to remove), but it is not keep your daughter in the house for the rest of her life kinds news. It would mean getting better presumably and getting off many of the 9 medicines she is taking.
The Pulomonologist walked us through her test results one at a time. Explained the normal range and how it differs by age, sex, race and even attention span. She listened to our history and didn’t jump to conclusions. What a great appointment. So now we wait again. On Wednesday we will have a chest CT for Erica. She is not concerned, but that is before she knows she will have an IV. That will be a little scary. Anyway, it should give us the information we need to proceed to make her better which is what we want to do.
Pastor Steve had a great message yesterday about God being with us. He shared from a lot of passages. I have been wrestling with something he has been saying a lot lately though. He keeps telling me, when I am having a bad day, that we cannot understand God (ala Psalm 73). On the other hand, as we have been studying together, he also tells me we have the mind of Christ and can fathom wisdom and knowledge. So I asked him after the service yesterday. Where is the line? What stuff is beyond our grasp, and what stuff can we get by having the mind of Christ?
He didn’t skip a beat (and with his heart condition lately, that’s a good thing). Deuteronomy 29:29 he opened right to it like he was prepared for it. It says that the mysteries of God belong to God, but that what has been revealed belongs to us. In other words, there are somethings about God we will not or cannot understand. But the stuff he has taken the time to share with us through his Word, and further through his presence with us on this earth, that stuff we can fully understand and we should take ownership of it.
So, I am thinking. Jesus is like a good doctor. He shares with us all that we need to know. He was willing to come out of his Heavenly research facililty and talk to us directly. He has good information that leads to life and not to captivity. He does not lord over us what we cannot understand, but reveals to us what we need. And he is always there when we need him.
Which brings up another doctor thought, where does our General Practitioner get off leaving for 5 weeks?!?! God doesn’t do that. Another good analogy falling apart.
