Explination of terms

So it has come to my attention that quite a few people don't know what vertigo is so here is a text book explination:

Benign positional vertigo (BPV)-or simply vertigo-is a disorder of the inner ear. You feel a sudden sensation of movement or spinning when you move your head or hold it in a certain position.
The inner ear is located within your skull and consists of the cochlea, a chamber shaped like a snail shell, where sound is transformed to nerve signals for the brain, and 3 semi-circular canals that function like a gyroscope, relaying information about head position and movement to the brain.
The semicircular canals contain fluid and special sensors that, when disturbed, inform the brain of a change in head position. It is thought that when you have BPV small particles become dislodged within the inner ear and then bounce around when your head moves, triggering faulty signals that your head is still moving even after it stops. This sensation of movement or imbalance when you are not moving is called vertigo, the primary symptom of benign positional vertigo.

So in laymans terms it means it feels like I'm sitting on the deck of a ship when i'm sitting, laying down, or walking around. It's been interesting. I get to take a pill to try to stabalize it, but will take time for it to heal. Fun Fun!! LOL. Well I'm out.Tiffany

So um yeah... so I thought the dizzyness of this weekend was from the pain meds, apparently not. I apparently have benign positional vertigo. That was my gift from the surgery. Better than merca or something like that though! So I feel like I'm on a rocking boat... put me on medicine to help it, but if it doesn't go away, i get to go to physical therapy. Gotta love it.

Oh and from my last post of Serena climbing on the couch, gess what she did??!! She climbed on it yesterday, stood up, bounced off the back off it and walked, yes walked, right off the couch and then realized what gravity is as she landed flat on her back (not sure how that happened but it did!). She's having to learn the hard way to stop walking off of things. She was just fine, just scared the crap out of herself. *shakes head* My kids seem to have to learn the hard way, remind you of anyone?? LOL Well staring at the computer screen is not helping me much, but I do have new pictures posted at my website for picasa. I also have some posted for the pics we did as a family at Reid park the address is as follows(this one has over 200): http://picasaweb.google.com/tiffanyfennimore/ReidPark#

There is one that has about 55 in it and that is as follows: http://picasaweb.google.com/tiffanyfennimore/ParkIMOrdering#

Check em out, they're pretty cool!

Love, peace, and chicken grease all, I'm going to bed.

Post Operation update

Hey all,

Sorry that I havn't updated since the Surgery, but been a little out of it hehehehe. Drugs were my friend. I'm still on some pain killers, but it's better than it was even yesterday. Hopefully won't need any more by tomorrow morning so I can take care of chillins. But I digress. So I spoke with my OBGYN Dr. today (the one that did the surgery), and he explained to me what is going on. All I can say is thank god that I started my period two days before the surgery or they wouldn't have found this. So I don't have endometriosis, nor are things fused together. The reason I am having the pain is as follows (if your squemish you might not want to read it): I am bleeding heavy enough now that it is backing up in my uterus, and rather than exiting through the cervix and vagina like it is supposed to, it is causing it to go also out my fillopean tubes and the blood is collecting in the rectouterine pouch (it's the sac, or free space, between the rectum and the uterus that is formed by a folding of the peritoneum). That is what is causing me the major pain and discomfort during my menstrual cycle. He's putting me on yaz to try and decrease my amount of flow, and to regulate it off of the 5 week cycle it's been on. We're thinking that has something to do with how heavy my period has been since it has never been as heavy as it is now.
Gotta love it, each of my children has given me a gift from their birth.... Serena's gets to be this.... shesh. But not going to go into that. I'm just happy that today I am doing a lot better than I was yesterday. Unfortunantly Chris was unable to return to work today to take care of me and the kids, well mostly the kids. Tomorrow I should be up to going back to my daily activies, alibit slowly. So here's to hoping right! Well gotta go catch the baby again, she's climbing the couch again *sigh*. Yeah babies!

My Love to all and ttyas

Tiffany

Survived another first birthday

So, Serena is 1... we had her first birthday party today. Thank god it was not as nuts as last months party. I don't think I would've been able to handle that! So Serena had fun, she slept in for her nap, and she had a really good party. Didn't melt down or anything. I think thats the first time I've seen a one year old's birthday party without a melt down! Here is a pic to show you how much fun she had. Hopefully I get to upload the rest tomorrow.

Included in this post will be embeded us singing happy birthday to her, and her starting into her cake. it is a 3 minute long video, but worth it, it's cute!!

I'm tired, and heading to bed now after waiting for everything to upload and such. Hope you enjoy it!



Taking tastes of the cake....

What it looked like after she got ahold of it!

Ok... if you're reading this and there is no video, you've caught me before I've uploaded it. Ment to Saturday night, but it's a quarter to 11 and it's only about 1/3 of the way uploaded to you tube, and I'm way tired and need to go to bed. I'll get it up in the am!

Here is the video now!

Sean's First day of school

Isn't Sean so handsome? This is his first day of Kindergarden. My little boy is growing up so fast!! Seems like not that long ago that he was just a small bundle in my arms. But he had a good first day of school he said he had fun, and thats the important thing right? LOL well all, hope you enjoyed the pictures!