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Feeling so good

I am feeling so good that I feel like dancing. I have been so busy lately with school and taking care of things around the house. Ang and I have also been having friends over to play cards and watch the football game. I also started working out again. Woo hoo. It is amazing at the amount of eneregy I have now. My friend Amy is having a benefit to give back to Dr. Burt and the hospital that changed our lives. Check her out on my site. Come on give a dollar, we spend more than that on junk. Your helping to change lives!
I go on Oct 24th to a hand specialist to have my wrist checked out. I am having a lot of pain with it and the first Dr told me he thought I broke the tip off my ulna at some point and injured the sling...he was not able to fix it himself, so he is sending me to another Dr. Lot's of fun.
I hope this finds everyone healthy and happy. Take care and God Bless.
Love,
Devona

URRRGGG

Ok, so I decided that while I am recovering that I would do something productive. I signed up for school! I have been stressed out thinking about having to find a desk job since i am not able to go back into the manual labor field that I was doing before. And let me say that I loved that type of work. It was mentally and physically challenging and kept me in shape. It also showed the men in this world (bc I was the only woman) that woman can work just as hard if not harder than them.
Ok, so I decided to get an education in medical coding. I should know enough at this point about the medical field to know that this is what I want to do. Let me just say that medical terminology and anatomy suck. I am getting through it and made a 96 on my first test, but it is hard. At least it gives me something to do!!!!!
I am doind well and have no complaints. I am feeling better and better every day. I hope you all are doing well and have a safe weekend.

Devona

Hello!!!!!

Ok, so friends have been asking if I am ok bc I have not written on here in a while. It is nice to know that people really want to read about what is going on. Thanks, it really means a lot.
What I have been up too...more like what have I not been up to. Two weeks ago I kept my niece for a week and we had a blast. I took her to the kid water park here in Waco and she loved it. She is 3 going on 23. I took her to the bathroom bc she said she had to poop and while she was in the stall all you could hear was her singing "buy you a drink" by T Pain. She knows all the words and people were looking at me like what are you teaching that child. It was funny. I love spending time with her.
Ang and I have been working so hard around the house. Mind you we just bought this house in April, so we are busy with fixing minor things. We have been putting new flooring in Dom's room, cutting down trees and bushes, and trying to pull up all the bricks that someone laid all around the back yard. Not quite sure what they were thinking! We have had fun doing all these projects and I am really amazed at not only how well we work together, but all that we are able to accomplish together.
I am doing really well with the exception of getting a lung infection called plurasee...and let me tell you that shit hurts. I felt like I was having a heart attack. We had to spend 5 hrs in the er bc my regular dr wanted to make sure I did not have a blood clot in my lung. Other than that I am doing well. I am eating great and I have a lot of energy. I feel better than I have felt in a very long time. I was going to take a job at a local 401k provider, but Ang thought it was too soon and I am taking a medical coding class and it would have been too much to do both. It will be nice to have a career to start over with.
So other than the monor set backs I am doing great and I hope you all are healthy and happy as well. Take care and thanks for the thoughts and prayers.
Love,
Devona

set back

I had a small set back last week. We took dom to the airport in Dallas and on the way back home we stopped to see my dad. When we left we stopped to get a soda and potty and I somehow managed to find a piece of tile sticking up and stumbled a bit. It really was more like I kicked it while walking, but did not fall. Well that night I could not sleep bc the top of my foot hurt so bad. The next morning I could not put any weight on it and so we went to the dr and he said I had a stress fracture and gave me a pretty little shoe to wear. Sexy!!!! So I go back tomorrow to see how it is healing. This is Gods way of slowing me down.
Other than that all is good. Ang is cooking some good food to get me fat again and I am a happy girl. Please pray that food will start tasting good for my friend Amy who had her transplant right before me. She is a bad girl and is still not eating well. keep her in your thoughts and prayers. Anyone have any unique vegetarian food ideas let me know....she is a vegetarian and maybe I can send her a new idea that will trigger her lil taste buds.
Hope your all well. Mom and Joe are coming down tomorrow. I have not seen her since we got home.

Love,
Devona

pics

Here are a few more pics. One is of my friend Nancy and I, the other is the last time Ang came to see me before I came home, and then my favorite guy in the world....Dr. Burt. Let me just say that Dr. Burt really is amazing. The care I received at Nw Memorial Hospital was awesome. The nurses were just dolls...although I did make one cry. Look people my machine beeped all night and she was doing nothing to fix it, so I was a little cranky. Yes, I apologized.
So, Ang came to see me when I went back in the hospital and she would pull her chair over to bed and sit near me and watch tv. On this day that the pic was taken, Nancy, Amy and her mom Ellyn had come to visit and they had left the room for a while to go to lunch with mom. I was not feeling so great that day, so I guess Ang and I decided to nap. We obviously fell asleep holding hands and mom took a pic when they came back.
I had a funny nurse that kept me on my toes...funny story she caught me picking my nose (oh don't act like you never do it) and was giving me hell....well later on she was in to change my iv back and she farted. Yes, outloud. She said oops I just farted. Mom and I just rolled. I would have blamed it on my shoe or something. So anyway, I asked her if Ang and I could cuddle on the little sofa (when I was in before I could not be touched, hugged, kissed bc of cooties) and she said hell yeah she can lay in the bed with you for all I care just no french kissing or having sex. I guess I find all this funny bc when you are stuck in a bed for 4 weeks little things become really funny. So Ang crawled in my bed and we watched tv. It was nice to lie next to her. One lady that checks vitals came in and had a weird look on her face and I am quite sure it was not bc someone was in the bed...more bc she did not know we were together. Pretty funny. Anyway, I am rambling. I am still feeling really good and eating too good. Can't wait for my family to make it down.

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what a time

I am hope now as of this past saturday. Coming home made a big difference in not only my attitude, but my appetite as well. I was so ome sick. There was a time I cried all day and the nurse called in someone to talk to me. It is hard to sit in a hospital bed for 4 wks away from your family. Mom was great and took good care of me and I thank God that she had it in her to stay at my side the entire time. Ang came up twice and I know it was hard on her traveling after working, trying to get all the painting done at home before I came back, and all the other duties from taking care of Dom and all the animals. Thank you Ang for always finding the energy to get on a late night plane to come see me for a couple of days. I know the rest of you would have been there if you could have been.
So to let you know a little about what happened.
1. I learned I am allergic to platelets that are not washed first.
2. Any tape they use is not friendly to my skin. Because of this the picc line they put in so that they do not have to stick you all the time got infected and they had to pull it out.
3. I got pneumonia in my left lung after my transplant and was released early despite this...which mom had to turn around and take me back the next day and I got admitted again.
4. So more sticks bc I do not have a picc line.
5. All the antibiotics they are giving me has now given me an intestinal infection called c-diff. C-diff causes the worst shits and vomitting. Fun on top of everything else.
6. So now they tell me another week in the hospital and I should have almost been on my way home to Texas...I am not happy.
7. Stay in and crap 20 times a day and oh yeah had to get another picc line. For those that don't know a picc line is like a big iv that they out in on the inside of your arm up by your bicept that runs from your arm to right above your heart.
8. Ang came to see me the weekend I got discharged. Poor thing left late that night and was not suppose to get in to Dallas till midnight and(thank you sista) and then Ang got her first ever ticket on the way home. Feel so bad for her.

Ok, so I am home and I love it, but it is hard bc I cannot do anything to help out around here. They will not let me clean for 2-3 months at least. I hate watching Ang do everything. I love and have a lot of respect for her and hanging in there when she did not have to.
Nancy and Amy are awesome as ever. Thank you Nancy for talking to mom, taking her out for a drive, and for just being you. I have made two awesome friends that will be dear to me forever. Amy I thank you and your mom for the visits and sorry I was not better comapny at times. I know how hard it is to get the energy to do the small things, so you coming all that way to visit was great.
Thanks for all your prayers. God got me through all of this no doubt.