tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46487721626416681332024-03-13T23:19:21.415-07:00A Life UncommonHome economics as an art form with 30 years plus experience. Parenting special needs kids. A healthy marriage as a priority.Donettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530145585581721795noreply@blogger.comBlogger2551125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648772162641668133.post-84313678424380385602016-02-01T16:03:00.002-08:002016-02-01T16:03:32.972-08:00A wonderful winters day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I woke up the old board. Some of you might recall.</div>
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This is organization central. It has set idle while I was recovering these last six years.</div>
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In years past this has been a vital tool in home making economics.</div>
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This tool and the use of it has saved us thousands of dollars.</div>
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I got the gumption to do a menu today.</div>
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This is the first day in years that I have really been so active with food prep.</div>
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Years ago it was a weekly planner as it will now become again.</div>
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Most restaurants have whats called a sue chief, the one who dices, cubes and such. Readying the ingredients for the dishes. Here as my own, I diced the onion, celery for the soup. Setting aside a measure for a curry for next week and some salad fixins.</div>
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This big pot first was used to boil pasta, the pasta water was poured into the soapy sink water to soak pans. Reuse. Reduce and recycle is a motto I adored long before it was popular.</div>
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Baked potato, enchilada, roasted root veg.</div>
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We have precious few cold days here. So the oven was set to double task.</div>
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Heat the house.</div>
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To protect my back the plastic is now on a top shelf. The glass bake ware below.</div>
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I buy good butter by the pound. Dicing up a bit for the week for eggs, or misc pan frying.</div>
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By chopping up all the veggie for the soup into one large container it is all ready at the same time for the soup.</div>
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These things set to cool on a rack.</div>
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By melting butter I make gee, separate the whey and the solids. </div>
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They would burn and add a bitter taste to my soup. </div>
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There are times that the solid is best for flavor but not here.</div>
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remove the whey or the white foam</div>
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then only use the oil not the solids</div>
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This will not burn </div>
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There are turorials on this blog for the soup somewhere.</div>
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Roasted root veggies of carrot, parsnip, sweet potato.</div>
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Used butter and nutmeg on them. </div>
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They will be served with the lamb later in the week.</div>
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Here is where you can use up those butter solids and the whey.</div>
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I added water to measure.</div>
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Buying organic bananas letting them ripen well, peal and store them in a zip bag in the freezer for breakfast protein smoothies</div>
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Yesterday I climbed a mountain and I turned around.<br />
I made it about a 1/4 of the way. Steep at parts but I did it.<br />
I heard a comment from a friend that said" I am not a vessel as much as
I am trying to be in cooperation with Gods will in my life."<br />
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I started IVIG in 2010 but was ill for at least three years before deteriorating. I do not even look like myself. I look like my mother when she was still with us. Strange to see my dear body so heavy. I just keep going, just keep fighting back. It is so amazing three weeks ago I was in a wheel chair. The hike was hard only in my calves very painful. My breathing was great! The tests last week showed 110% capacity! Even with still having the low IgA that protects my lungs I could climb. No pain in my low back either! Some fatigue today not much though. It was so peaceful out in nature.<br />
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husband took me to Cleveland Oh this last weekend. The treatment was
unconventional medicine with a heaping teaspoon of faith and hope, but
mostly LOVE. Dr Nemeh used red Lazar and green Lazar along with a form
of acupuncture along the meridian lines. Used also was a type of low
frequency magnetic. This with prayer. Love seems to be the factor in
all of those healed he believes. It is the connection to the God of
love through His Son Jesus. I do not claim to understand all things. It
was not just basic mind over mater here. I have been pain free in my low
spine since our second visit. It took over two hours a visit but his
attitude and serine way was so refreshing.<br />
During the first
treatment it was like the pain was gathered into balls here and there.
Then that night the ligaments and muscles moved. The next day the
treatment went as was the day before but at this moment in time when I
was distracted with fear he changed my focus with a word spoken and at
that instant my back changed from a hard mass of bones to putty. I was
in a sitting position and he let me down flat on my back. NO pain. My
husband was so concerned I might scream out for this was not a position
I have held in years.<br />
Now I am pain free in my low spine. Other
spots hurt here and there but not my low spine. Even after a long flight
home in a sardine can of a jet plane.<br />
At that instant of change
in my spine the best way I can describe what I felt was ....the absence
of fear. The next step for me would have been spine surgery for stenosis
with nerve involvement that was effecting my ability to walk and to
have continence.<br />
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Love God Psalm 91...he has loved me</div>
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A large part of my life was spent homemaking intentionally. It was a time of great strength and vigor. Those years set aside for a time are now beginning to speak to my soul. My strength is improving now. I have IVIG every three weeks. With the exception of joint and spine issues I am keeping healthy. Recently daily meals and food prep is coming back on line for my family. I push a little harder to keep us all fed and on a budget.<br />
My spirit was crushed and broken those years after my knee replacement. The time in the nursing home really stole my light.<br />
It is my hope to fan my flame and begin to burn brighter.<br />
The teens are home for summer and with the many friends they have meals are a real challenge to keep up on. <br />
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Now the peers drive and have boyfriends</div>
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Becca is going to be 18 soon, she and her boyfriend enjoyed doing puzzles, an inexpensive date.</div>
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We love our Willy boy, he is now completely blind.</div>
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Livy our yellow lab helps Willy around the house.</div>
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Becca is going steady with Andrew.</div>
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He works full time as a Medical Assistant with hopes toward Medical school.</div>
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Dan turned 14 this spring. </div>
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He is very tall now and is loving the summer times with the sleeping late.</div>
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Livy and Willy like to tug on bones.</div>
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We made it up to the mountains this spring but just for the one day.</div>
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I showed Becca what I mean by watching the trees dance.</div>
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We had to come home because I fell ill.</div>
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That is so our limitations these last few years. However I keep plugging along. My great big news is a new car. The other one was not in the best of working order and a bit too painful to get in and out of. The windows did not work either. For the first time in 34 years of marriage we have a car payment. I tried to post an image but can not get it sized right.<br />
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My strength is limited so I am trying to be diligent to do what I am able to do.</div>
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<br /> We are home just over a week now. It was a wonderful trip. So many
adventures. I still have my young guest here so we are yet busy with <a class="treatmentlink" href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Education" title="Learn more about School">school</a> set to start for my teens in a week or so.
<br /> I made it through all my adventures and just two hours away from
home it all unraveled. We had been on flight for almost seven hours and
my health failed. I had to get <a class="treatmentlink" href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Oxygen" title="Learn more about Oxygen">oxygen</a>
in flight. The flight ended with the medivac team coming inboard to
remove me. I never inconvenienced so many people at one time. I had to
be taken my ambulance to hospital. I spent the night there. We proved
out no heart attack and blood clots. Possibly altitude illness and or
possibly my pressure bottomed out. NO one knows yet why. I have to
follow up with the cardiac doc on the 6th.
<br /> I was so mad that my goal was interrupted.
<br /> My <a class="treatmentlink" href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/IVIG" title="Learn more about Ivig">ivig</a> Saturday went well.
<br /> All in all I really did do it. I took a trip that sent me over
5000 miles from home. I was loved and favored all the way. I spent time <a class="treatmentlink" href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Helping_Others" title="Learn more about Helping Others">helping others</a> and seeing a reflection that reminded me who I am. Even getting to see that I really like who I am.
<br /> If I do fly again it has to be for shorter distance to work up to
long flights. Now I have a mess of a house to work on. Getting kids
ready for <a class="treatmentlink" href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Education" title="Learn more about School">school</a> and bills to pay.
<br /> Life is good and the grass is greener but the weeds still hide
among every lawn. :) There are however a few things that I want to
implement here.
<br /> Thank you Jaye and Lisa for the hugs.
<br /> I was hard to tell of how it all ended but I still succeeded in overcoming my fear. I am living with NOT dying of cvid. I do <a class="treatmentlink" href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Faith" title="Learn more about Hope">hope</a> that my husband can see me now as powerful.
<br /> We took the teens all up to the Grand Canyon last week. I rented a
wheel chair for the altitude still did not agree with me. We also took
them to the Meteor Crater. Little trips and resting a lot. My energy was
still good after almost five week interval.
<br /> So after four years of <a class="treatmentlink" href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/IVIG" title="Learn more about Ivig">ivig</a> I am so much more able. Still getting faced with limits but I will continue my education of <a class="treatmentlink" href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Research" title="Learn more about Learning">learning</a> to live within them. <div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.ezystat.com"><img src="http://www.ezystat.com/code/1/330.png" alt="free hit counter" border="0" /></a></div>Donettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530145585581721795noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648772162641668133.post-41009016637843919122014-06-21T04:55:00.000-07:002014-06-21T04:55:26.027-07:00Trusting the walk by Spirit not just by sight.It is really happening. In six days my daughter and I will be boarding to fly to England!<br />
This trip started out as an opportunity to build a lasting memory with my daughter. It was so exciting to think of all the teaching moments with her. It is an opportunity to try to instill all the things that time may not permit me. My time may be shorter that other mothers get. It is a thrill to have this chance to get to really know her heart too. She is amazingly kind and a delightful innocence not burned by prejudice, she delights in life. <br />
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I have my ivig on Monday. Most everything is done except a few things around here.<br />
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I told my daughter four months ago to dream and not to just dismiss her heart. We are invited to stay in a home for three weeks. Wow her heart heard and her faith in hope built.<br />
My health is strong and I resting and preparing.<br />
Listen to your heart. All around me the rules and fears and doubts almost lost my joy over the trip. <br />
My sweet daughter does high school on line at home. She met and befriended a medically bed bound teen who also did school at home. The group of friends shared hopes and after a few months my daughter became closer to this dear young man. We skyped his parents and grandmother. It is his grandmother who is so dearly grateful to my daughter for bringing her grandson back to health. Their friendship gave the kids a future mindset. They both finished the grade yr and the young man was even able to do his testing.<br />
My daughters heart healed another and gave a hope for a future.<br />
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It is the kindness of her heart, not the fears of evil that is to be witnessed here. Yet those who are so afraid of error made me second guess my own heart to a state of torment. I was and have been so afraid that I was a horrible mother to take her to England. That I was putting her in danger or harms way. That is the farthest thing from my heart. I have a release seeing that I as mother to this amazing young woman am due some credit for following the spirit above the seeming rules of fear.<br />
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We are blessed to go to England and stay for three weeks as guest. I trust in my heart that this is an adventure of faith and beauty. Opening ones life to the wonders of opportunity God sets before us.<br />
Whether for a moment a reason or a lifetime these two teens will meet in person. My daughter will be celebrated for the wonderful friendship and kindness that gained another back his strength to hope again.<br />
Both of the young adults are looking to the future, to education and employment one day. Someday perhaps to become engaged to marriage. It may be a moment or it could be a lifetime. I have witnessed an amazing relationship where they build each other up. They encourage each other to follow what is right within their own hearts. He plans another four years education as does she hope to attend college.<br />
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After six months of daily skype they will meet face to face.<br />
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I am highly thought of by his people yet it seems our own doubt and fear leaving me to even doubt my own heart. They are so very excited that we are coming. There are celebrations and events that they are tending to for us.<br />
My daughter grieves that when Tom flys home with us for the three weeks that all he will encounter is suspension and assumptions that sex is involved. How hurtful and sad that that is for my daughter that she is thought so little of. These are people who deserve LOVE not petty judgements. I will do my best to example that love to them. <br />
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We are excited to take the family to the Grand Canyon and all. Toms health now is good, his family is very grateful that we will show him a little bit of America. It is Toms hope to one day have a good education and come to the US and have a good job to take care of his duties well. We have a separate bedroom for him and I will be here with them.<br />
When we look upon another life and see evil perhaps it is the evil within us that is the true enemy to be faced. That we might face it all and learn to love our own self to become better able to truly love others.<br />
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bunnies. Tomorrow folks from a rescue are going to receive all my cages
and hen house. I will be dismantling my gardens and passing on the goods
to others.
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I have accepted that gardening and hens and rabbits in the yard
are now a season that must pass. I have peace about it. I cried a bit
but the most amazing thing occurred
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The man and his son who came to get the hens and the rabbits were
wonderful folks. We all even prayed together at the end of the thing. He
prayed for my health and for our family.
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I loved my garden and now pass along all the gain of the hard work
I once put into it all. The fellow even thanked me for all the hard
work I had done.
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It was beautiful
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Tomorrow afternoon the other folks come to clear out a many good things.
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I think I will try to sell my fence panels and a few other things.
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I have peace knowing the animals are fed and watered and in no way
neglected. It has been a real burden and a bit of condemnation knowing
that they deserved better than I could do for them.
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My children even have a peace that has rid them of the anger and sorrow of letting the critters go.
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I accept that the seasons of my life have changed. I in no way
give up or give in to illness. I give over to the abilities I have and
choose not to overwhelm myself any further.
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It is really pretty cool.
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What a weight off knowing that all those tasks are no longer
weighing upon my limited energies. More of me to do other things more
restfully.<br />
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It was a terribly hard night for me last night. To tell ya true I feel a bit lost <a class="treatmentlink" href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Acceptance" title="Learn more about Letting Go">letting go</a> of my garden and hens bunnies and all. It was as if I was disappearing and I was gone sorta. Like where am I now?
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I got up in the night and my sweet husband insisted on hearing me
out so I could process. We base our sense of self in what we do or are
known for. I feel absent now. Me no longer the gardener the woman who
all the kids loved to come and feed the hens gather an egg or pet the
bunnies.
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I gave my prized gardening veggie notebook away that contained so many years <a class="treatmentlink" href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Research" title="Learn more about Research">research</a> and study at gardening at 1200 ft above sea level.
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The Bee Bliss garden is no more.
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The mornings no longer ring with hens begging fodder
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Now the bark the rabbits tore off the trees reminds me only of dieing trees
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I have said a million times to others...nature arbores a vacuum
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I spoke of a hole in my heart. A vacant place. My children spent the day with my <a class="treatmentlink" href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/IVIG" title="Learn more about Ivig">ivig</a>
nurse playing with her children. I went and had a mani pedi wore my
mask and sunglasses and cried during the pedi. Spoke very little did
not want to speak of it all
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I awoke to my nurse and telling her of the transition and she is so startled it is all gone.
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My daughter is staying the night with her, my son is home we had
to get his stitch removed. I stayed home alone. I watched a movie about a
healer and how she spent her life giving life to others.
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I remember that God once told me He has a purpose for me.
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I <a class="treatmentlink" href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Faith" title="Learn more about Hope">hope</a> that propose fills this hole. knowing Him It will.
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Just no fun <a class="treatmentlink" href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Walking" title="Learn more about Walking">walking</a> around with this gaping hole in my sense of self.
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Life within our sweet walls is good. The children are happy and healthy. They are doing very well in school.<br />
It is hard to write here, this reminds me of who and how I once lived with such vibrancy. I am working on accepting life on its terms. It is a good life even if it is so very different. Grieving the change has come closer to acceptance. My garden looks like a deserted wild west town, as does all of the flower gardens.<br />
I have two spinal procedures within the next few weeks and perhaps I will be able to toss a few seeds and tend them. We are eating together at the table so this a huge accomplishment. Dove is helping me wanting to learn. She came to me, a 16 year old now, asking me "mom can I do the dishes?I want to learn how to be a good wife." Wow am I blessed or what!<br />
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Dash is good he is choosing good character not an easy thing in this world. Steve and I are happy and doing our best to lean into being our best. We still have all ten hens, three bunnies and two dogs. Oh and a gold fish. Many lives here.<br />
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I hope the lives of you who read this thrive.<br />
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<b><a href="http://invisibleillnessweek.com/submit-article/30-things-meme/">30 THINGS ABOUT MY INVISIBLE ILLNESS YOU MAY NOT KNOW – 30 THINGS MEME</a></b><br />
<b>1. The illness I live with is: <span style="font-size: x-small;">Common Veritable Immune globbulin Deficiency with low IGa the defense in our saliva, a Primary Immune Illness, Fibromyalgia, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Joint and Spinal Degenerative Arthritis, pulmonary issues.</span></b> <br />
<b>2. I was diagnosed with it in the year: <span style="font-size: x-small;">2010 two weeks after my sister died of it. With the CVID three years ago after several miss diagnosis left me totally demined and humiliated. The Later stages of CVID untreated acted like MS., seizure and several bazaar systems</span></b><br />
<b>3. But I had symptoms since:<span style="font-size: x-small;"> All of my life, infections and strange illness plagued me.</span></b><br />
<b>4. The biggest adjustment I’ve had to make is: <span style="font-size: x-small;">Is having to mask in public, IVIG every four weeks of eight hour infusions of plasma. Slowing way down at my duties of homemaker and mother. Staying away from large gatherings of people, like church or gatherings.</span></b><br />
<b>5. Most people assume: <span style="font-size: x-small;">Once infused I am immune to getting ill for four weeks. That is not always the case stress or fatigue can make me very vulnerable to airborne illness not having natural immune defenses.</span></b> <br />
<b>6. The hardest part about mornings are: <span style="font-size: x-small;">Removing the CPAP and breathing on my own getting past the eye opening pain and standing walking stiff.</span></b> <br />
<b>7. My favorite medical TV show is: <span style="font-size: x-small;">I think I tire of medical watching it on tv is just sad.</span></b> <br />
<b>8. A gadget I couldn’t live without is: <span style="font-size: x-small;">Under the cabinet jar opener.</span></b> <br />
<b>9. The hardest part about nights are: <span style="font-size: x-small;">Pain. Laying down increases it and taking the muscle relaxer and tramadol is disliked. I wish my day would have been more productive. Keeping a good attitude for a new day is tough. Meditation nightly really helps.</span></b> <br />
<b>10. Each day I take 1 pills/vitamins. <span style="font-size: x-small;">I do not take all of them each day, I just cant. So I do the most important ones. vitamin powder b stress tabs and the ones I can stomach. When on the antibiotics and steroids they are taken and the supplements are reduced.</span></b><br />
<b>11. Regarding alternative treatments. <span style="font-size: x-small;">I study and supply myself with needed items. I am eating for my blood type and doing a cortisol connection protocol to help the effects of the PTSD. I do get very discouraged when I get sick. </span></b><br />
<b>12. If I had to choose between an invisible illness or visible I would choose:</b> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The port in my chest often reminds others that I really am sick. I helps me to remember all those donors of plasma that help keep me alive. My sister died in the indignity of invisibility. I live. The mask I must use makes me very visiable and is a hard thing to do. Some times I think that it is nice to blend in. I go with out the mask at great risk. Last time it left me sick now for almost two weeks. Physical invisibility is different from emotional invisibility it is the harder to have all these feelings all alone.</span></span><br />
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<b>13. Regarding working and career: <span style="font-size: x-small;">Dreams are less actualized but still fun to imagine.</span></b> <br />
<b>14. People would be surprised to know: <span style="font-size: x-small;">How sad I am for my caregivers.</span></b><br />
<b>15. The hardest thing to accept about my new reality has been: <span style="font-size: x-small;">Future and the end that may come me.</span></b> <br />
<b>16. Something I never thought I could do with my illness that I did was:</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Go out in public when the infusion is going on. My wonderful nurse and I go get mani pedi, or shop. People stare at me. </span><br />
<b>17. The commercials about my illness: <span style="font-size: x-small;">Except for the copd or the arthritis nothing is on. It is a rare thing. Dont see to many commercials about donating plasma.</span></b> <br />
<b>18. Something I really miss doing since I was diagnosed is: <span style="font-size: x-small;">Gardening and growing flowers. Working with my body.</span></b> <br />
<b>19. It was really hard to have to give up:</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Gatherings </span><br />
<b>20. A new hobby I have taken up since my diagnosis is: <span style="font-size: x-small;">Keeping the infusion kit organized, watching a lot of HULU and netflix.</span></b><br />
<b>21. If I could have one day of feeling normal again I would:</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">walk for miles in a cool misty rain. </span><br />
<b>22. My illness has taught me: <span style="font-size: x-small;">That to some my life is only valuable in order to finish raising my kids. To me my life is valuable to me to live it for the life that I deserve to live. </span></b> <br />
<b>23. Want to know a secret? One thing people say that gets under my skin is: <span style="font-size: x-small;">"mom do you have to ware a mask?"</span></b><br />
<b>24. But I love it when people: <span style="font-size: x-small;">Forget that I am sick.</span></b><br />
<b>25. My favorite motto, scripture, quote that gets me through tough times is: <span style="font-size: x-small;">Psalm 91 God loves me because I love Him.</span></b><br />
<b>26. When someone is diagnosed I’d like to tell them: <span style="font-size: x-small;">Study and go to the Primary Immune Difficantcy Support group. Keep trying to reach out even when it is hard.</span></b><br />
<b>27. Something that has surprised me about living with an illness is:<span style="font-size: x-small;"> My nurse is here for me every month. She stopped all other patients and part time patients but me.</span></b> <br />
<b>28. The nicest thing someone did for me when I wasn’t feeling well was: <span style="font-size: x-small;">Bring me a home cooked meal. Made my chores easier. Kissed me on the forehead, and told me He was here for me. </span></b> <br />
<b>29. I’m involved with Invisible Illness Week because:<span style="font-size: x-small;"> I am trying my best to get out of this dark lonely cave I have been held up in. </span></b><br />
<b>30. The fact that you read this list makes me feel:<span style="font-size: x-small;"> scared </span></b><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.ezystat.com"><img src="http://www.ezystat.com/code/1/330.png" alt="free hit counter" border="0" /></a></div>Donettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530145585581721795noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648772162641668133.post-17625692501913623732013-09-06T23:56:00.000-07:002013-09-06T23:56:19.553-07:00LADEE Heads for the Moon<a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/space/2013/09/ladee-heads-moon?rss=1">LADEE </a><br />
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Ya! A three year project that My Mister has been working with hundreds of other good folk has successfully launched! We had the kids watch. It was so good to show them science in action. My husbands company along with NASA has set new laser that might one day communicate inter planetary. Fascinating stuff well it is on its way to the moon.<br />
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Good Job all of you on a successful mission. In a few days time the orbit will come so close to the surface of the moon that it could be like looking up at a plane in the sky.<br />
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My health a challenge as well. Bursitis hit my hip helped by an injection, with the MRI and such my low back showed some need for attention. Injections into some muscles in my mid back have helped with some muscles that were not willing to soften. The low back will be tested with injections into five nerves to see what one the stinosis is effecting. This in hopes to gain more mobility.<br />
With my dear friend giving me power of attorney for a few days the task proved too much responsibility to be accomplished without a fair amount of stress and strain. Then I was exposed to a sinus infection through my son the day before infusion. I have been ill a week now. Monday found me at the ER with a pulmonary issue. Thank God no pneumonia so a stronger steroid and heavy antibiotics has me slowed this week.<br />
I am however finding strength in dressing how I want to feel. I went to a thrift store and found a few nice things. Making jewelry for each outfit is a pleasing addition.<br />
My loving husband sat with me during the ER stay and it could not have gone much better. We arrived to only one person in waiting room. They had been slammed all night, but we had decided to try to go to sleep. I awoke not being able to breath and arrived by five a.m.. It was so awesome we went to a new to us hospital where my friend had had surgery just the week before. We had a team familiar with power ports due to a cancer center next door. Great doctor and wonderful nurses and respiratory tech. I did not have to go in patient. Thanking God we arrived home to the children only being awake an hour or so.<br />
I rested today and did some laundry, beading and an easy supper of baked potato.<br />
The back pain has me up, but my mind is so full of creative ideas. I am at peace. <br />
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Last evening I shared my heart with my husband. I told him how it is to have such seeming unfairness. This week after finally overcoming having both arms reattached at the shoulder labium now another issue is resurfacing. I have been successfully addressing the PTSD cortisol syndrome. I have been able to get back into life and be active at home. Pain again accosts me. After not wanting to face another doctor office for a few weeks, I was forced to, or that is at least how it felt. I am now with bursitis in my right hip, lumbar sprain, stinosis is worse and the disc is degenerated between #4 and #3 vertibre. I will get an injection in hip next week and after the MRI an injection at the least in the back. There may be a bone spur. The sciatic nerve is being pressed as well as my spinal column. More PAIN! ARG! I had an injection of anti inflammatory medication and patches for it as well. I am unable to take the pills they make me sick. The patches are so expensive but are working pretty well. Insurance is such a blessing. I never knew that the patches for inflammation even existed.<br />
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I stopped blogging in part because of the tendency to resend into a cave when I am hurting.<br />
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My dear husband sent me this today. Click on the link. It really set my mind in a better state of courage to face the next thing.<br />
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Before we went to California on vacation at the end of June, Steve and I got together and trimmed the tree. We took a few hours each night for a week. He did all the climbing. We cut it up into small pieces and disposed of it over two week. He worked so hard. We saved the $400 and used it to buy the puppy.<br />
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Just as the alarm went off the clap of thunder greeted us awake.<br />
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Welcome home, come sit a spell it has been a long time.<br />
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You would be rushed at the door by the labs. This is Olivia, Livy for short. She is our new addition. Busy Little girl. Our dear Willy has Valley Fever so he is is a bit under the weather. He is also going blind. Livy we hope will become a seeing eye dog for the dog.<br />
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Dove and her best friend, these two are very good friends. We took her to Disneyland with us last month for Doves 16th birthday gift.<br />
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Grandma had her work cut out for her trying to get these two goof balls to pose.<br />
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Daddy's little girl. </div>
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In love after all these years.</div>
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The folks came over to gift Dove her $$$gift. She is setting it to savings in hope of getting a truck one day. She wants an old 1970's or 1980's truck lifted. She will be working of her drivers permit soon.<br />
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Livy sat at Grandpa's feet with her bone. </div>
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Dove loves Arial. She got a dinglehopper brush from her brother. </div>
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We picked it up at Disneyland when we were there.</div>
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She loved her new dress Steve and I got for her.</div>
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So grown up. </div>
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The pretty flower for her hair was from her friend. </div>
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I made her a bracelet of wire worked sea glass and charms of the sea.</div>
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The girls both want to become Marine Biologist. </div>
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"sixteen candles"</div>
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Livy is so proud to sit now.<br />
This is while awaiting breakfast this morning. They both sit so pretty.<br />
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The rainy morning was the perfect start to my new day.</div>
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"I know how to sit"</div>
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"look at me, sitting"</div>
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We lost one of the apple trees. A bunny enjoyed the bark and killed it.</div>
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Livy was distressed by the rain. She went and told Willy about it and he took her out to the yard. He is such a good dog.<br />
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That is our big success achievement. A New Train Air Conditioner paid for in cash. We saved up and made the goal. The bill is lowered almost a fifth.<br />
My place really missed me this year. Everywhere it is neglected. Three major surgeries on three different limbs, in a year and a half, will do it.<br />
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All the critters are getting along well. They tend to hang in the chicken run. Livy runs after them a bit.<br />
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I have been working here the last two weeks or so making things to give and to sell.<br />
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I have also been doing a lot of couponing to makes ends meet better in the budget. Food bills are 35-75% covered in coupons and lead in adds for us. It is a part time job that pays very well.<br />
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Today will be the final visit on my shoulders. The left was reattached in Aug '12 and the right arm in Feb. '13. The long haul of it gave me better results than the surgeon expected. God restores everything the locus eats. Even if the restoration is not easy. The sewing center is long neglected. I can just now sew some.<br />
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I made a dress last month. Still have the hem to do. </div>
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I decided to get off the pain and muscle medications for the fibro and study how to help myself holistically. After a good bit of knowledge this is now my morning start and the days end. I am doing better. Lost three pounds this week. The cortisol connection is huge for me with having P.T.S.D.. I wrote about it in the recovery blog.<br />
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Life is good here. My health is slowly improving. I felt well and energized enough to actually do a post today. This is an encouraging sign. Everyone is still asleep. We have an extra child almost every night. <br />
School starts soon. Both children are registered. Dove in 9th grade will be doing online studies. Dash is in 7th grade he will be going to the local public Jr. High. They are both healthy.<br />
Steve is wonderful. We are in the parenting trenches but very little war time. We are having Steve do cataract surgery soon. He really needs to have some relief but he is healthy and happy.<br />
I am showing my work at a nail salon and keeping my nails done with acrylics so as to stop biting them. It is a good option for me. Keeps me healthy. My IVIG numbers are doing well and staying in the good range so well as to labs only need to be drawn every 3 months now. <br />
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I hope love comes in and overpowers you with kindness and peace.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.ezystat.com"><img src="http://www.ezystat.com/code/1/330.png" alt="free hit counter" border="0" /></a></div>Donettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530145585581721795noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648772162641668133.post-9036343590142614822013-06-17T14:25:00.001-07:002013-06-17T14:28:05.033-07:00Ants in the desertIt is the heat of summer here. In the heat the water and food supply for those tiny critters dwindles. Like any intelligent creature they are in search of it. Yesterday a few were found in the kitchen, today it was my studio.<br />
As I sat and studied them I was able to see the entry was along an exterior wall along the foundation. In search of food they had a trail across the studio floor toward the kitchen stopping near the dog food bowl and then on to under the refrigerator at the other side of the room.<br />
My son saw me watching them and asked what I was doing.<br />
"studying them I told him."<br />
he asked why?<br />
"to understand what they are after and where they are coming in. Listening to them between the words."<br />
I then explained to him that the ants will tell me what they need and why they are here. They are meeting the need they have. We spoke of the scent trail they make so others can follow. Dash said he should use his finger to interrupt the trail and then the next to follow would not be able to find it. I then explained it would need a much grater interruption.<br />
By mopping with ammonia water the trail was gone and so are the ants. They are entering out by the garden. No longer do they find food or water over there. One day the garden will grow again. For now the ants are desperate. The days are hot. They told me so as I sat and studied them.<br />
Learning to wait and to listen between the lines. That is where the critters speak, that is where God can be heard. There waiting listening between the words. <div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.ezystat.com"><img src="http://www.ezystat.com/code/1/330.png" alt="free hit counter" border="0" /></a></div>Donettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530145585581721795noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648772162641668133.post-35075423796730609602013-06-16T01:46:00.002-07:002013-06-16T23:15:47.236-07:00Dear Old Dusty BlogLife is GOOD<br />
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Days are so full of a good life. After four months I have finished the physical therapy on this right shoulder of mine. Now both shoulders are finished. They each had the labium torn from arm pit to tip of shoulder to the front. The bone was abraded and then screws set and the labium sewn to the screws. Amazingly to all involved I now have a good 95% function in booth arms. Not yet able to tie an apron so asking for help is a good skill I have gained.<br />
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Both of my sweet kids finished the school year on honor roll. Dash got the Presidential Academic Excellency award for all A's all year long. Dove got all A's but the one B. So they are set for summer.<br />
Summer is full of time here at home together. We have sleep overs almost every night. Mostly here. So days have extra children who's parents are at work.<br />
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We have set to some wonderful new nightly rituals. My Darlin' Daddy Man and I meditate and still our minds in the evening. It is for me a time to stop and tell my loving God how much I love him. We are also learning to use the time to still our minds. It can be more challenging than you might think. It is a wonderful thing to share as man and wife.<br />
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Our Lab has had Valley Fever this last month and was VERY ill for a while. He is improving to a good show this week. The coughing and gagging has stopped. You have heard nothing until you hear a 95pound dog cough it is just gut wrenching. It was all day all night for a few weeks. I think he is making a complete recovery.<br />
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The IVIG is doing VERY well. My numbers are staying right at target. Labs for gamma counts can now only have to be done every three months. I have stayed consistently well. Antibiotics only twice in the last few months. Except for the surgery on my shoulder. No infections with the surgery either. Lifting my arm is still hard until I move it a while. I am told that if I keep up my home program it will still gain use and range of motion.<br />
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I became pretty overwhelmed there for a while. Three major surgeries in a 22 month time was just a bit too much. I guess God had confidence in me. It felt pretty close to the line of too much. It was just 12 months before the knee surgery that I began the ivig. With the monthly infusions becoming more common place that helps. Most IVIG sessions are 6-8 hours now. We have fun almost every month. We go to get our hands and feet done often.<br />
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At the salon we go to get our feet done I am now showing my jewelry. If I sell I will use it to cover the cost of pedicure. Pedicure is for me a medical necessity to keep cracked heals from becoming infected heals. I have learned to take better care of my feet and how very important it is. So selling jewelry there is a hope of cost deferred.<br />
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This last few months the education of becoming a life coach has captured my interest. Right now though is a time of rest and healing coming to a completion.<br />
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Be creative and make the life you long for. It might take a lot to patience and hard work. It is so worth it. My hopes to be able to garden this fall are a little bit of a seed of hope. My strength is low perhaps to return. It may not as much as I hope for the CVID is a critter stealing strength. Got to respect that critter too. Fatigue is a constant for a woman who was once a hamster on a wheel. Some days getting on the wheel is a challenge. I keep trying and never to give up.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Life is greatly improved and infusions are so much easier. I had no<span style="font-size: small;"> idea how long it would take to be normal again. Life is sweet and I am <span style="font-size: small;">grateful. I also had no idea how many souls are out there with the same issue just floating in a <span style="font-size: small;">no mans land<span style="font-size: small;">. Many have fou<span style="font-size: small;">nd <span style="font-size: small;">solace</span> here. Please forgi<span style="font-size: small;">ve my lasting absence. It took a while to accept through<span style="font-size: small;"> things <span style="font-size: small;">grieving</span> process. <span style="font-size: small;">Also within the last 18 months I had a total knee replacement and <span style="font-size: small;">labial</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">repairs</span> on both <span style="font-size: small;">shoulders</span>. Life does continue and it is full of promise. It is a joy to me to he<span style="font-size: small;">ar f<span style="font-size: small;">rom so many of you who walk dazed in the CVID <span style="font-size: small;">diagnosis</span>. I will be coming home here to <span style="font-size: small;">the blog. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </h2>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-size: small;">The test have returned and this is the diagnosis faced in my life now. The most difficult thing is the sadness regarding the nieces and a nephew who are suffering in the dark as to why their bodies are self destruction. They have no medical intervention. This greatly effects life expectancy. I must inform my siblings, the generation of those there after and so on to be tested and to seek intervention. To do this while guarding the hearts of those who have no comforter.</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-size: small;">The general fatigue and lethargy is so progressive. This has gone un-diagnosed for some time now and many years of repeated resistant lung infections of bronchitis and pneumonia. You know I see the sweet mercy. I asked why? Why do i get all this freaky illness that have left me feeling humiliated, demised,demeaned and folks including medical and family acting as if this has all been in my head. YEARS OF THIS! IT LEFT ME DOUBTING MY OWN CHARACTER AND SANITY AT TIMES. SOMEONE i THINK IT WAS Marsha SENT ME A LITTLE BOOK ON MINISTERING TO THOSE WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS. well at THE HOSPITAL DURING THE INFUSIONS FOR MYSELF THERE i WILL BE...WITH A CHOICE OF THINKING AND BEING THERE FOR ME AND CONSUMED WITH "me" OR EXITING THIS VORTEX INTO THE COMPASSION NOT ONLY FOR MYSELF BUT FOR THOSE AROUND ME. </span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-size: small;">May this walk given me to undertake be done in such a way that i remain unfettered by fear, bitterness and the potential effects of treatment. </span></span></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">Treatment usually consists of immunoglobulin therapy, which is an injection of human antibodies harvested from blood donations:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1363481944" title="Intravenous immunoglobulin">intravenous immunoglobulin</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1363481944"> (IVIG, most common treatment in the US)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pmid16604243_8-0">[9]</sup></a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1363481944">subcutaneous immunoglobulin G (SCIG, relatively new treatment in the US and UK)</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1363481944">intramuscular immunglobulin (IMIG, less effective, painful)</a></span></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1363481944">This is not a cure, but it strengthens </a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1363481944" title="Immunity (medical)">immunity</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1363481944"> by ensuring that the patient has "normal" levels of antibodies, which helps to prevent recurrent upper respiratory infections.</a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1363481944">IG therapy can't be used if the patient has anti-IgA antibodies but in this case, products low in IgA can be used; subcutaneous delivery also is a means of permitting such patients to have adequate antibody replacement.</a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">IVIG treatment can be received by patients with a complete IgA deficiency if the IgA is completely removed from the treatment.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>Hypogammaglobulinemia - Overview</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">Hypogammaglobulinemia essentially means antibody deficiency, and includes numerous primary immune deficiency diseases such as Common Variable Immune Deficiency (CVID). Unlike AIDS or chemotherapy-induced immune deficiency, primary immune deficiencies are considered inherent, perhaps genetic. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">One of the rarest forms of hypogammaglobulinemia, Severe Combined Immune Deficiency, is nicknamed the "boy-in-the-bubble" disease - a somewhat popular example known to movie viewers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">Both Common Variable Immune Deficiency (CVID) and IgA deficiency, whereas antibodies are decreased but not absent, are much more common. The approximate rate for CVID is 1:50,000 persons and the rate for IgA deficiency is as frequent as 1:750 individuals. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">As the immune system is quite complex, CVID often involves additional defects in the immune system. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">Common Variable Immune Deficiency (CVID) is mild to life-threatening: dependent on resistance to infection, treatment success, and if complications occur. Significant risk of developing certain cancers and autoimmune illness also exists for patients. </span></span></div>
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Inherited Immunodeficiencies: Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)</span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">Alternate Names: <span class="diseaseAltNames">CVID</span></span></span></div>
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Definition</span></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"> <b>Common variable immunodeficiency</b> (<b>CVID</b>) is an <b>immune system disorder</b> which typically affects males and females in the third or fourth decade of life. However, it may also be seen in children. It is characterized by low levels of antibodies (another name for immunoglobulins) in the blood stream and an increased susceptibility to infections.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">The diagnosis of <b>common variable immunodeficiency</b> is suspected when the patient has low levels of antibodies in the blood stream, a poor immune response to vaccines, and a history of recurrent infections. Patients with <b>CVID</b> develop recurrent infections of the sinuses, ears, nose and lungs. They may also develop enlarged lymph nodes (palpable glands in the neck and groin) or an enlarged spleen. Infections of the gastrointestinal tract may also occur. Individuals with <b>CVID</b> have an increased incidence of malignant lymphomas and autoimmune disorders such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and autoimmune hemolytic anemia.</span></span><br />
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Influencing Factors</span></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>Pattern of Inheritance<br />
</b>Genetic factors do play a part in the development of <b>common variable immunodeficiency</b>. However, there is no single gene mutation (mistake) that can be identified. Environmental factors may also influence the development of <b>CVID</b>.</span></span><br />
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Treatment Strategies</span></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">Treatment for <b>common variable immunodeficiency</b> includes monthly infusions of gammaglobulin (IVIG) and oral antibiotics to prevent infections. Prognosis is variable and may depend on the severity of lung disease prior to diagnosis and the occurrence of <b>autoimmune disease</b> or malignancy. Patients are encouraged to lead a healthy lifestyle, which includes good nutrition and regular exercise.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">More detailed information can be found <a href="http://here./">here.</a><a href="http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1051103-overview">http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1051103-overview</a></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.ezystat.com"><img src="http://www.ezystat.com/code/1/330.png" alt="free hit counter" border="0" /></a></div>Donettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530145585581721795noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648772162641668133.post-49747735435413312072013-03-31T13:41:00.002-07:002013-03-31T13:41:11.012-07:00Happy EasterLove is my Easter Basket<br />
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Handle in hand it swings in steady movement as I walk it sways<br />
Sweetness as candy a child's dream<br />
Nibble its' goodness<br />
Joy for every day<br />
As a bunny prolific life it stays<br />
for love of a Easter Basket<br />
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Donetta<br />
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I will soon be able to post again. Typing is getting easier. In the last 6 months I have had both of my shoulders repaired. The labium was torn off of both. They drilled holes and set screws into the bone. Then they stitched the labium to the screws. It has been a very long road of healing.<br />
The childhood tares tore up to the top of the shoulder and stopped at the ligament. The recovery of the total knee replacement tore then the rest of the way. From arm pit to tip of each shoulder. I am now seven weeks out from the second surgery.<br />
I have love in my basket for all things become new. Newness is often a painful journey. Love sees us through.<br />
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Know that you are loved simply for who you are. <div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.ezystat.com"><img src="http://www.ezystat.com/code/1/330.png" alt="free hit counter" border="0" /></a></div>Donettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530145585581721795noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648772162641668133.post-66255076064200006422013-03-31T13:40:00.003-07:002013-03-31T13:40:17.159-07:00<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.ezystat.com"><img src="http://www.ezystat.com/code/1/330.png" alt="free hit counter" border="0" /></a></div>Donettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530145585581721795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648772162641668133.post-88039741903933768722012-10-21T22:58:00.001-07:002012-10-22T00:34:23.450-07:00Patricia left a comment <br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"> Yes dear Lady it can be very lonely. I think it hard when folks see me the week after ivig. I look so normal it is like nothing is really warranting the isolation. They can not see the risk to our lives. It took a long time to teach those around me why I insist they wash their hands. I have two kids in school yet. Each day I risk exposure. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">There is a gift to loneliness and that is to reach out as you have. I am here. Only one woman but with a heart of compassion. I have been recovering from surgery of a torn cartilage in my shoulder. Now having to go to P.T. I risk. Yet I ask if he has washed his hands and he is careful of it for. Last Friday I masked, it is so awkward to do so. Saturday was infusion day. I am stronger.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">I too worked with kids, never gave birth yet adopted two. Almost dieing after both trips to Russia from becoming terribly ill.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Patricia Commiseration is good for the soul.</span></span><br />
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Patricia has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://jewelryatalifeuncommon.blogspot.com/2010/06/inherited-common-variable.html" moz-do-not-send="true">Inherited Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID)</a>":
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I'm a 58 year old woman diagnosed with CVID ten years ago. I am so
interested to read the reports from my fellow CVIDers--well named, "an
uncommon life." <br />
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I was an elementary special ed teacher who suffered for 18 years with
undiagnosed allergies and asthma literally since my first year of
college after getting pneumonia my senior year of high school. Got
sicker and sicker, than finally was diagnosed with asthma and drugged
appropriately and started allergy shots, which helped a lot. However,
that didn't stop the near-constant sinus infections, colds turning into
bronchitis, etc. that I would pick up at school from my students. I
would take loads of prednisone to get breathing again and get back to
work--and of course, prednisone impairs the immune system... <br />
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Finally, 12 years after my asthma diagnosis, in December of 2001, I got
sick (which I did roughly every month to six weeks), but this time I did
not get better. I couldn't pull out of the asthma attack and
sinus/lung infection regardless of the amount of antibiotics and massive
doses of prednisone and other meds I was taking. After trying to go
back to work by going one day a week, then two days a week, and so on, I
got to one week of working four days, and that was all--in March 2002 I
relapsed and was sicker than I had been the previous December. That
was my last week of work, ever. I had had my blood levels checked in
the mid-90's to find them low normal. This time, my doctor checked my
levels, and they confirmed the CVID. <br />
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I remember thinking, when I was first told about the IVIG, that that was
the cure--just a few IV treatments, and I would be good to go. It was
quite a punch in the gut when I realized that this condition is
incurable.<br />
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For five years, I did the IVIG once a month, then got on a trial for
subQ, which I've done now for five years, and I love it. I feel much,
much better--but I am also extremely isolated. I do not go out much,
don't travel at all. (Fifty miles to an acupuncture doctor is the
farthest I've gone in 30 years--and she is unhappy with me because I
have to cancel so often because of asthma flare-ups). I use a heavy
face mask from fall to spring during rare trips out in public during flu
season. I only eat in restaurants from spring to fall during off-times
(dinner at 4:30, anyone?) when no one else is in the restaurant. When
mosquitos are active, I must be very, very careful, as West Nile is in
my area. It would take a house fire or me or my family being carried
out in an ambulance to get me outside between dusk and dawn from May
through October!!! <br />
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I only have regular face-to-face contact with my husband and mother, (no
children--I was always too sick to even consider it) and they know
enough to stay clear if they feel ill at all. I lead a very, very
lonely life--but the tradeoff is that I am reasonably well (considering I
take 14 meds, not counting the subQ, on a regular basis for other
conditions). I have asthma flare ups often because of weather or pollen
(even staying indoors...), but I've not had a serious asthma attack in
six years, and have only had to use prednisone for a week or two a few
times in the last few years to get me through a bad flare up. <br />
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I've done this self-imposed exile from the world willingly after being
so sick for so long--but it is a very strange (uncommon?) life, very
isolated. I know that some people could not afford to do this--go on
disability and become a hermit. But it has been my salvation. An odd
life, an uncommon life, but finally, literally, since I was 18 years
old, a relatively healthy life. I'll take it. It's my only option!
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Do you ever purchase just to have the latest and greatest of gadgets? Consider the humble $20 coffee pot. We had our four cup pot for a whopping 30 years! Monthly cleaned with vinegar and a good triple flushing it served us very well. My darling and I only share a pot on the weekend, otherwise i may have a cup or two every other day or so during the week. A four cup pot is a self regulating measure as to not be over caffeinated. If we needed more for company we just brewed two pots.<br />
After my sweet man tore it apart and determined it was a goner we opt for a new one.<br />
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We like things to be compact and so we opted for a new $16 pot to replace it. No fancy bells or whistles to break down. Living with simplicity is a frugal option to think about. We do the same thing in many of our purchases.<br />
A coffee pot with good maintenance lasting 30 years is really not that surprising if the design is simple. Money well invested even in the small purchases will take your dollar far.<br />
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In the refer freezer was kept all the pre-made or ready made meals. The fast foods the family used during my recent down time from the shoulder surgery. The old refer is still running just fine. It is used for sodas and over flow storage. <br />
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In the spring we decided to retire our 25 year old refrigerator to the garage and get a new one. We waited on that purchase and did a study to discover all the pros and cons. We saved a long time and bought a large capacity french door with freezer on the bottom. This has really been a back saver!<br />
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Being frugal is to save up for the best you can afford to budget for, research and learn about your item on line. Utube and other sites offer user reviews. Avoid extra features when your able, it is most often the mother board computer parts that gives out. They are $$$ to replace. Fewer extras also mean no need to concern yourself with extended warrentees.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.ezystat.com"><img src="http://www.ezystat.com/code/1/330.png" alt="free hit counter" border="0" /></a></div>Donettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530145585581721795noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648772162641668133.post-28148040136123843962012-09-22T23:59:00.001-07:002012-09-22T23:59:55.796-07:00CVID infusion tipWow what a difference dilution has made. Friday I had my monthly IVIG. We changed it up from 40/400 to 40plazma/800water that is full dilution. The day was wonderful. I have the best nurse/friend. She took me to treat me to a pedicure and manicure during infusion. I have a fanny pack that holds the iv bag and the pump. Having the port is wonderful, we used a folded wash cloth in my shirt so the sling did not rub on it.<br />
Even still being in a sling we were able to have a really nice day. We discovered that the water dilution is so much easier for my organs to absorb. NO side effect at all!<br />
So if you notice the thickness of infusion ask your doc about diluting it. Really made it like nothing occurred. Even today I was full energy. <div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.ezystat.com"><img src="http://www.ezystat.com/code/1/330.png" alt="free hit counter" border="0" /></a></div>Donettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530145585581721795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648772162641668133.post-16593925515048396202012-09-18T09:22:00.001-07:002012-09-18T09:22:18.445-07:00Pet Rabbits <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We used Dog runs 6x6 fence panels to enclose the hens. </div>
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That is the lemon tree in the upper image.</div>
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The apple trees are doing very well.</div>
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Sable is very watchful of Ginger. They are sisters of a sort. </div>
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You will always find them close to each other, </div>
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Even though they are very different from each other. </div>
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