It's almost Friday....

I am so ready for this 3 day weekend, even though Christon has to work on Monday. We don't have much planned. On Saturday we are taken his dad's new car to the car show in Greenville, Bubby is coming over to help move some things at the house on Sunday and Monday I think lil mac is going to spend the day with me.

I'm not feeling to well this morning. I have had a few rounds with my nose the past 2 - 3 days and I think it has caught up with me. This weather is to blame though. Other than that my stomach has been upset also, I hope to go home early from work and take a nap.

Well they called me the other day from Dr. Garrison's (OB doc) office to tell me they got me an appointment with their pulmonologist. The only thing is it is exactly a week after my other appointments. I'm not to happy about it but there isn't anything I can do about it. They had to pull some strings to get me in then to start with.

Last night we went over to Bubby's for a lil while. Becca was working on homework when we got there. Bubby and lil mac were watching TV. I played with lil mac so Becca could get her homework and studying done. I really don't see how she does it, she works full time, has a 10 mon. old and going to school full time. I am really proud of her though. Becca got done with her studying we got lil mac ready for bed. While Becca was folding and putting up clothes lil mac was playing with her swing. She would push the buttons so hard that she was shaking, it was so funny. I was going to put her to sleep but Becca said she probably would go. So we went back into the living room and watched TV with Bubby and Zeek. While sitting there lil mac fell asleep, then she would sit straight up. At one point when she sat straight up she fell a sleep while sitting there we just all died laughing. I took her and put in her bed. When I got back to the living room Bubby and Zeek both were asleep. So I woke him up and we went home.

Hope everyone has a great 3 day weekend.

Not much to tell.....

Hope everyone had a great weekend. We didn't do much, but I am still worn out.



Friday night Christon and Bubby worked on Bubby's truck all night. They mostly took things apart to see what parts they would need to go after in the morning. I went up about 9pm to see how much longer they were going to be. Craig was up there with them, and not long after I got there Eddie and Richie showed up. We all caught up with each other for a bit and then headed home.



Saturday Bubby was at the house early to get Christon. They headed to the shop and I headed to the couch. I didn't feel like doing much. After finding nothing on TV to watch I fixed me some pan cakes. Then Christon called and said they were going to Owensboro to get parts. I ask if I could go along for the ride. He told me he would be there in about 5 min for me to be ready.....yeah right, like I could get ready in 5 min. I ran and through my clothes in the dryer and ran a flat iron through my hair. I was proud of myself, I was ready in about 15 min and I even put on a lil make-up....lol. After we go back from Owensboro they dropped me off at the house and went back to shop. I started another load of laundry and fixed me something to eat. About 2:30 Christon calls to tell me we have to be at his mom and dad's at 3 to meet Craig to go to Bardstown to watch the Lucas Oil Late Models. I was like I don't think that is going to happen. You aren't even at home yet and you need a shower. So I ran and took a quick bath and finished getting ready. I really wanted to wear my Bloomer shirt but it was still in the wash soaking wet. So I put Christon's new Fransic shirt on and it didn't fit. I was not happy. I finally found a t-shirt and we were out the door. We had fun at the races, other than it was sooo hot and I started hurting some. I had to get up and walk around and I felt better. I think it was from sitting so long on those hard bleachers. After the races we went and ate at Steak'n Shake. It was about 1am by the time we both got a shower and into bed. Christon was hard to get up the next morning.

Sunday I went to mom and dad's after church. Emily, me and lil mac watched tv, well me and Emily did while chasing lil mac around the house. Mom was trying to cook so we put stools up were lil mac couldn't get into the kitchen. It wasn't 10 min and I look up and she is gone and mom is yelling at someone to come and get her....the lil shit found a crack in our barriers and went through....lol. Bubby and Justin came in and said they were going to wash there trucks. Dad told them to do it here b/c his grass needed water. So while they washed there trucks me and lil mac went outside and watched. Dad made Emily was mom hoopy(that is what we call her Expedition). While we were sitting there I put lil mac on the ground and she didn't like the grass at all. She tried to get away from it and the next thing I know she is standing up by herself (she didn't pull up she stood up), but after she realized what she was doing she fell. We had to go in b/c the bugs were biting us both. Mom had supper ready so I fixed me and lil mac a plate. You would think she hadn't eatin' for days the way she was acting. I couldn't get food in her mouth fast enough. She at 3 big spoon fulls of mom's squash and some mash potatoes. She wouldn't let me eat, I had to feed her first. It was funny though b/c she would get mad if I didn't get it to her when she wanted. After we all ate me and Emily gave lil mac a bath, which she hated. She was so sleepy that I got her diaper on her and went to brush her hair and she was asleep on my chest. Becca came in after she got off work. We discussed when we wanted to have my baby shower. Becca has to work every weekend so she said it didn't matter b/c she could take a vacation day. We decided to to it sometime in October. I told Becca to pic a day and just let me know. Lil mac woke up while we were getting her stuff together to go home. I helped Becca get lil mac loaded up and we headed out. I stopped at Bubby's house to get a charger for Christon's phone. Before I left there lil mac was back asleep. I got home about 8:45 and Christon was already alseep. So I just laid in bed and read my book.


Sorry I haven't updated in so long. Things have been a lil crazy here at work.

Hope everyone has great day. Tara I am thinking of you today.

Best Wedding Dance......EVER!!!

This was emailed to me this morning. I just had to share....

Quick update....

I know, I know it isn't even Sept. yet and I have up a fall back ground. I am just ready for it I guess, plus it is my favorite season.



So Dr. Garrison's office just called to tell me they made my appointment with Dr. Stein (my hematologist) for this Friday. I was like look woman I was just down there Monday and I can't afford to make 2 trips down there the same week. SOOOO I call everyone back and was able to get all 3 appointments I had in Sept. in two days. That means we will be stay over night again but with the discounts I get with hotels being a patient at Vandy is cheaper than the gas. The only thing is they can't get me into there pulmonologist until Oct. which isn't good. I need to be seen before that. Everything else has worked out so far, I know that this will too.

Hello everyone....

Happy Hump day. Hope everyone had a great weekend. Nothing really exciting happened just really busy with lil mac.

Saturday I sat around the house and watched tv all day. Garrett and Becca brought lil mac over about 4:30. I got cleaned up and we went to the grocery to get a few things. On the way home she fell asleep which was great. I just laid her down and I could unload everything. I fixed Doritos salad for supper, we fixed our bowls and I just sit down to eat and she woke up. Needless to say I didn't get to eat until Christon got done eating so he could hold her. We played and watched tv. I finally got her to sleep about 10:30.

Sunday she woke up at 8:30 took a bottle, changed her bottom and we went back to sleep. We got up about 11:30 and went to Wal-Mart. I stopped at Wendy's and got me a cheese and bacon potato and a Cesar salad. We stopped at Christon's mom and dad's so I could feed her and I could eat too. After I got her fed I was getting my salad ready to eat and after putting my dressing on I noticed they give me ranch dressing for a Cesar salad. I was mad so I just ate the chicken out of it and tossed it in the garbage. We visited with them for a lil while and went on home. Lil mac was out of it before we even got out of the drive way. We got home and I put her in her pack'n play while I unloaded my wal-mart stuff. She was still asleep when I got done so I ran and took a fast shower. I got out and she was awake and mad. I didn't get out of the shower fast enough to satisfy her. After I got done drying my hair we watched Mickey Mouse Playhouse and played in the floor. She was bored with the tv and wanted to go outside. So we go outside to play for a lil while on the back porch. Christon got in from work and when she saw him pull into the drive she was all excited. She was happy to see someone else other than me...lol, and she loves her Uncle Zeek. We all went inside so Christon could take a shower and play with her. We rented WWE Summer Slam on PPV and Garrett and Becca didn't come in long after that came on. They left about 10pm.

Monday I had to go to Nashville for my OB check up. Christon had to work so Jill went with me. We made great timing. Traffic wasn't bad at all on the way down. I am so glad Jill went, if I didn't have a question she did. They answered all of them that we asked too. Also she was my ears, I can't remember crap anymore. So if I don't remember it I am sure she will. Everything went fine. I measured right at 24 wks and the baby's heart rate was 145 bpm. My biggest concern is going into labor at home. So I asked when I would have the baby. She told me probably at 39 weeks. She wants my cervix to be "ready" meaning some percentage efaced. So I asked her what will happen if I go in to labor. She said if I get to Bowling Green and I am stable they will transport me to Vandy. If I can't be transported then Vandy will come to me. I thought that was great and it made me feel alot better. After all that we discussed what needed to be done about my lung doctor. Dr. Thompson in Bowling Green has been seeing me but is not really sure on what he needs to do. After ask for instructions for Dr. Thompson, Dr. Garrison (my OB) asked if I was willing to see there pulmonary doctor there. I was like why not I go to everyone else down there what is one more...lol. So they are to set that up for me. I am scheduled to return to Dr. Garrison in 4 wks.
After leaving there we went to Red Lobster. I know we went all the way to Nashville and ate at Red Lobster. You have to understand I never get to eat there. Christon hates it and he says it to expensive. Well it does cost too much but that is what I wanted. So after eating a great lunch we headed to Opry Mills. Jill had a coupon for Charter's. We walked the whole entire mall. We just took our time, stopped at the apple barn store and ate an apple turnover (which wasn't that good) and a Cinnamon doughnut (that was good). Jill was to be shopping for her and not Samuel but I think she ended up buying more for him than she did herself. We got to Charter's and they had the cutes Halloween outfit, it had a ghost on it and it said " I am so cute it's scary". I wanted it so bad BUT mine won't be here until Christmas. I got me a purse and a matching wallet, I absolutely love. Here is a pic of it:

So after shopping we headed home. We made it a good piece down the road and traffic came to a stop right at the Goodletsville exit. So we just got off and took 31w home. Jill needed to stop at Kroger to get diapers for Sameul, I need gas and got Mancino's for supper. We got home about 6:30. I came in and hit the couch. I was worn out. On top of being pregnant with the heat we had and driving over 200 miles I just wanted to go to bed. But I knew if I went to bed that early I would be up at 4am. Well I took my shower and got ready for bed and I made it to 9:30 before I fell asleep.

Small update, my chest x-ray I had done last Thur. came back fine, no AVMs. Also I know that I really haven't went into detail about what AVMs are. I know what they are but not sure of what they can do to me or the baby but I really don't want to scare myself until I have to. That may sound stupid to some but I have enough to worry about at the moment. But if you really want to know Jill did some research on it and has put a link on one of her blog entries if you want to know more about it.

Well hope everyone has a great rest of the week and stay cool.

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Last Vandy Visit....

Good morning everyone. Today is going to be an easy but long day. We don't have patients until 1pm today. Brad and his wife Kim are at the Doc office as I type finding out the sex of there lil one on the way. They already have a lil girl, Taylor. Me and Jenel told him that me and her would have the boys and he would have another girl. He sort of agreed with us but didn't really want to.



With Brad being out last week and the coverage we had just half done everything we are all playing catch up. Everything I had planned to do this morning while I was here alone Brad had to take home with him last night to finish. So needless to say I have nothing to do this morning.

Well since I have the time I will fill everyone in about my last visit to Vandy.

We get there, I make my routine bathroom stop and we find a seat and a magazine to help pass the time. After waiting for what seemed to be for ever they call us back. We get in the room, she take my vitals and hands me a cup. She wants a urine sample, I just look at her and laugh, she was like you just went didn't you. She said it was fine and left the cup just in case I could go. I just laughed at her. One doc (Dr. Brown) came in and asked how I was doing, she asked me a few questions about what test I had had done since my last visit. I told her that I had my liver ultrasound and been to see the pulmonologist. We talked a lil more and she said that the other doc would be in just in a few min. Not much longer she came in. It wasn't Dr. Linzey (the one I had seen before) it was her partner. She asked me almost the same questions Dr. Brown did. Then she asked if I had any questions for her. I asked about the results of my liver ultrasound. She was like Dr. Beverly didn't go over these with you? I told her no. She said that I do have a small AVM in the lower part of my liver but nothing to worry about and that we would just keep an eye on it. I also asked her about were I would deliver at. She came back with the same question as the last question. Dr. Beverly didn't send you a letter on that? I told her no, that I had an appointment with him the next week and that was it. She pulled up the letter in my cart and read it to me.
-Dear Dr. Linzey,

In reference to patient Brandy L. Howard I am releasing all care to you and your staff.

There was more than that in letter but after I heard that I didn't hear anything else b/c I was so mad. I wasn't mad that I had to move all my care to Nashville, that was fine. I was mad b/c Dr. Beverly's office had never informed me of this. I felt that I should have had a letter before or the same time Vandy did. I just felt like I should of found out about this from his office. Also the main reason I wanted to know was b/c there was no since in me paying Dr. Beverly money for my care and Vanderbilt also. When knowing in the back of my mind that when it really came down to it Dr. Beverly was probably going to back out at the last minute after he had my money. After she had told me about this she knew I was mad. I told her why and she understood completely and also was upset that Dr. Beverly had not told me about this either. After all that we discussed what we needed to do next. She told me to keep my appointment with the pulmonologist, and that I needed to see Dr. Stein again, my hematologist at Vandy. She ordered some blood work and sent me to the lab. After getting my labs done we went and grabbed a small bite to eat there in the hospital. We had to be back up there at 1pm for our ultrasound. Everything look fine with ultrasound. After that we were done with docs for the day.

We went and found us a hotel room for the night and went to IHOP to eat. We ran by wal-mart to get something for Christon's headache and went back to the room. I was worn completely out so I took a nap. We got up about 9pm to go eat and went back to the room and went to bed. We had to be at the Children's Hospital at 8am for the baby's heart echo. Everything looked great with the baby's heart. I have to go back to see them in a few weeks.

After all the doctor visits were done we went shopping. Well we didn't buy anything we just looked. It was great to look at things knowing to look at boy stuff. They have huge babies r us there. I wanted everything. We did pick a few things out that we wanted and got some paper work on the beds that I liked.

I am to go back to Vandy on Monday the 18th and go to the Pediatric Cardio doc the next week. This week I go to my Pulmonologist on Thur.

Well hope I didn't bore everyone with this one. Everyone have a great rest of the day.

Man its Monday already.....

Hope everyone had a great weekend. The weather was great.

Well I did it. I cut all my hair off. It is hits just about at my chin. Not sure if I like it yet or not. I haven't really played with it enough to see what all I can do with it. This weekend I just ran a flat iron through it and went. That part I like, it doesn't take long to fix. I haven't tried it curly yet, may do that tonight.

I didn't get into much this weekend. Christon had to work so I went to Mom and Dad's. Bubby and Becca both had to work so he took lil mac over to Emily to watch on Sat. I go up about 10am and took a shower and went on over there. We played outside and watched TV. I went home about 7pm. Me and Christon watched some TV and were in bed early.

Sunday I got up and watched some TV. Bubby called about 10am and wanted me to bring him some dip. So after my movie went off I got ready then headed that way. Him and dad were helping Wally put in steps into the river and Becca had to work again, so lil mac was at mom's with Emily. Lil mac had just woke up from her nap when I got there and was hungry. So I fed her some apple sauce. We watched CMT and danced, lil mac LOVES to dance. Later that evening I took her outside and we just sit on the front porch. When I got outside I noticed the wasp nest over the door. It only had one wasp on it so I was like if we don't mess with it we will be fine. While lil mac was watching mom's wind chimes I notices more on the corner of the house. I think I counted about 16 on one nest. So we went in. Not long after mom yelled from the kitchen supper was done. We had pork roast, squash, scallop potatoes, mac and cheese, broccoli casserole, dressing, green beans, brown beans and corn bread. I ate enough to make my self sick. After eating we went outside and put lil mac's swing up, she had a blast. We hadn't been out there long and some of Emily's friends rode up on horses. Lil mac loved them, I was afraid she would be scared of them b/c they are so big. They put her on one and she LOVED it. Emily rode her around the yard for a lil bit. When Emily stopped she got mad, she wanted to keep going. After they left we went in b/c the bugs were getting bad and lil mac had gotten eaten up the day before. I gave lil mac a bath so Becca wouldn't have to and we sat back down at the table with Bubby. I fixed me a small plate and lil mac and I shared it. Not long after Becca came in. I fixed a plate to take home to Christon. I left there a lil before 9pm. I went straight home b/c Army Wives was coming on. I missed the first 15min of it but I will watch that today at lunch. After that went off I took shower and went to bed.

Everyone have a great day.

Crazy week....

This week at work has been so stressful and crazy. We only seen patients 2 days this week. Brad (the therapist) has been on vacation and we had Joe (the owner) here to cover. He didn't type out notes just hand wrote them so I had to type all of them plus the 10 evals we did this week. I have Tue. notes done and almost done with Thur. and I haven't even started on the evals....lol.

I am so excited it is finally Fri. I am going to get my hair done today at Melissa's. I am wanting something new but not sure what yet. I need something easy to fix that I can wear curly or straight. With this pregnancy and my anemia it takes all my energy just to blow dry it then I have to straighten it or style it when it is curly and I just don't have the energy to do all that any more. So hopefully Melissa will have something in mind for me.

I don't have any real plans for this weekend. Christon has to work so I will probably go over to Jason and Tiff's and visit. Tiff called me the other night to check on me and Hannah had to tell me about her pool party they had for t-ball. She said that she had jumped off the high dive 5 or 6 times and loved it. She said she can't wait to do it again. That kid isn't scared of anything. Poor Emma is sick again. After getting over the hand, mouth, and foot virus she has a sinus infection now. Tiff said she took her to the doc and the put her on an antibiotic but she didn't think it was helping.

Well as I said before I have tons of work to get done and I need to go get me something for lunch. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Sorry Sorry Sorry....

Sorry it has been so long since I have updated. With missing 2 days last week things at work have been crazy. Then when I get home it is straight to the couch.

This past weekend I didn't even leave the house but it was quite eventful. Garrett and Becca brought Mackenzie over on Saturday afternoon to stay with me all weekend. Garrett had a company thing on Sat night and Sun they went to BG to watch wrestling. Christon had to work all weekend so it was great to have her for company. We played and watched Mickey Mouse Play house all day. The lil booger is getting really brave now. She use to only want to go in the kitchen and living room but now it doesn't matter. I was in the kitchen washing her bottle and I here her in the living room playing and then I don't. I look and she has made a bee line down the hall to the back bed room. I go to get her and she thinks it is funny. While we are playing in the living room she wonders into the kitchen (no big deal I can still see her) then she takes off. As I am going to get her she crawls as fast as she can over to the corner of the stove and cabinet. She thinks I can't see her or something when she goes there. She just thinks it is the funniest thing when I get her and bring her back to the living room. Becca said she did the same thing to her the other day. She was washing dishes while Kenzie played in the living room. Then she heard something in the back. She goes back to see what it was and finds a lil girl with the trash dumped on the floor. Lil booger is getting into everything, just wait until the Christmas trees go up...lol
Garrett and Becca came and got her about 7pm Sunday night. I cooked supper and I was in bed by 10pm. She had worn me out. Christon asked me what I was goin to do when ours got that big and into things like that. I told him I won't be 5 months pregnant then....lol.

Well I better get back to work. Please remember Tara McMillin's family in your prayers. Her uncle lost his battle with cancer yesterday. Also remember all the sick, we have had quite a few patients cancel because of this bug that is goin around.