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
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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.
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.
Monday, August 24, 2009
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
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
Saturday, August 15, 2009
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....
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!
Monday, August 10, 2009
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!Friday, July 31, 2009
Dr. Updates
So I went and did my ENG test at the ENT office yesterday. It was to test my inner ear and make sure that it is working correctly. Let me tell you, that is one trippy test. Your sitting still one minute, and the next you feel like you've just spun in circles and all they've done is put water in your ear! It was not something that I would say was enjoyable. But apparently mine is working "in what appears to be normal paramaters." What ever that means. As for my allergies, I did the first part of the testing, and I am never seeing their allergy nurse again in that office. She was a rude you know what! So I am being refered out to a allergy doctor to get the rest of my testing done. So I got a copy of my records, and the allergy test I did on monday was not in there, so I called this morning, and medical records is going to flag her to find out why they're not in there. She's going to call me back and let me know. She suggested that I call her and I told her I am never speaking to that lady again. Such as life. But I have that doctors appt on Monday at 3 pm. Have my ultra sound this afternoon at 1. Hopefully that shows ok. Should know next week on it. Will keep everyone posted as I go through, have a great friday!!
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
It's been awhile
Hello to the world out there! Sorry it's been so long since I've updated my blog.
Skylynn has now turned 3... and is she loving it! We had a birthday party for her and Emma on the 12th when my inlaws were in town. We were even lucky enough for my brother and sister inlaw to be in town with their son Keaton. Family is a good thing!So I sent out all the invitations that I normally do with the kids parties, and this time, not only did almost everyone RSVP, but they also showed up! There was, counting kids and all, like over 50 people in my house I swear to god! It was nuts. But the girls made out like bandits and they had a blast! Here is their cake picture.
Aren't they cute? I'm going to post their birthday party pictures up on my picasa website as soon as I get the chance.
While my inlaws were in town, we did pictures at Reid Park on Monday, and it was... interesting. But we got them done, and I think we got some cute pictures done! Here is the link to see it.
http://picasaweb.google.com/tiffanyfennimore/ReidPark#
If you check it in the next hour or so, they may not all be in there, because I'm working on uploading them after I finish this posting. Then we did pictures at Penny's for the kids birthdays and such. We got some cute ones there also of the kids in groups and individually. When they come in at the end of the month, I'll scan them in for everyone to see.
Serena is now walking everywhere. She had started to walk at the very begining of July, and now she's damn near running! She's so cute about it too, she walks up to you with both hands up at smiling and then grabs your leg and gives a big old hug. It's amazing how quickly once she started, that she was walking everywhere, was like at the most, 2 weeks from start to competent. Skylynn is doing well, she seems to not be getting sick currently, she's been doing well on her medicine, not having to much stomache upset from it. She's growing again right now I'm fairly certain, or just finished growing. Sean is getting excited about school. We just got his room and teacher assignment today in the mail! He keeps asking how much longer til school starts and how long is he going to be there. We get to get his school supplies now, and I'm having him go with me. His grandmother in tx is getting his new school clothes and lunch box for him, which I deeply appreciate mind you!, and he's already got a backpack, and some of the supplies, so we only have to get a few things.
Update on my health issues... I'm still having the equilebrium issues, and the ear pain. The ENT thinks maybe escellation of allergies, so doing alergy testing in two sessions, and doing a inner ear test on Thursday. Hopefully this'll give us some answers. I have also been having some pain issues of a womanly sort only during that time of the month. The pain has been pretty diabilitating and only happens when I have to go to the bathroom at that point in time. It's been pretty strange. Only started happening after I had Serena. I thought maybe was my womanly parts having to get back in the habit of my period, but with each consequential period, the pain has been getting worse during the evacuation point in my day. I mean it's rediculous, even passing a small amount of gas was a paramount experiance. So I finally made an appt as Chris noticed as I started crying this last time and was gasping in pain while going to the bathroom. So you know when your husband has noticed this very personal experiance, that it's a lot worse than you thought it was. So I went to the OBGYN yesterday. He's fairly certain that I have endometriosis, which apparently you can get at anypoint in time as a woman. Its either that or I have scar tissue attatching my uterus to my colon which is a slim chance. So I have pretty much two choices as it seems to be getting worse. I can do shots for six months that make me basically a menopausal woman for that point in time, with no gaurantee that it'll clear it up, or I can do laproscopic surgery, where they can look around, and fix the problem in one step with a few days recovery time. I've told my Dr. that I'd rather do the surgery thank you very much! Is messing with my body for a much shorter amount of time and problems than messing with the hormones, cause we all know how well I react to medicine.... LOL. I also get to go for an ultra sound on Friday to make sure it's not Cysts, though he's fairly certain they're not, but have to double check anyway, and to make sure things are where they belong so to speak, inside of my pelvic region. As soon as I know when they surgery will be, I'll update everyone.
The very exciting thing that I have right now, is that I'm at day 3 of not smoking at all... YEAH!!! I'm glad about this, but do occasionally miss the moments of just getting away for five minutes, but I'm doing that in my room now with a book instead. I've begun getting a routine down here in the house, get up, shower, dress, get kids dressed, collect clothes, strip sean's bed if necessary, start laundry, vacume, empty dishwasher, load with breakfast dishes, run errands if need be, get baby down for nap 10:30, then sky down at about 11, move the laundry to the dryer, then they sleep til like 1 or later. Right now I have Sean for that time, but in a few weeks he'll be in school. I'm able to do my sewing projects or my scrap booking at this point in time. It's been nice, I've been able to keep the house clean, do some projects that have needed doing like cleaning my room, and had time with the kids. But other than that been staying at home it's been nice.
With this,I've been at it long enough, i'm going to head off now! Have a good one!
Skylynn has now turned 3... and is she loving it! We had a birthday party for her and Emma on the 12th when my inlaws were in town. We were even lucky enough for my brother and sister inlaw to be in town with their son Keaton. Family is a good thing!So I sent out all the invitations that I normally do with the kids parties, and this time, not only did almost everyone RSVP, but they also showed up! There was, counting kids and all, like over 50 people in my house I swear to god! It was nuts. But the girls made out like bandits and they had a blast! Here is their cake picture.
Aren't they cute? I'm going to post their birthday party pictures up on my picasa website as soon as I get the chance.
While my inlaws were in town, we did pictures at Reid Park on Monday, and it was... interesting. But we got them done, and I think we got some cute pictures done! Here is the link to see it.
http://picasaweb.google.com/tiffanyfennimore/ReidPark#
If you check it in the next hour or so, they may not all be in there, because I'm working on uploading them after I finish this posting. Then we did pictures at Penny's for the kids birthdays and such. We got some cute ones there also of the kids in groups and individually. When they come in at the end of the month, I'll scan them in for everyone to see.
Serena is now walking everywhere. She had started to walk at the very begining of July, and now she's damn near running! She's so cute about it too, she walks up to you with both hands up at smiling and then grabs your leg and gives a big old hug. It's amazing how quickly once she started, that she was walking everywhere, was like at the most, 2 weeks from start to competent. Skylynn is doing well, she seems to not be getting sick currently, she's been doing well on her medicine, not having to much stomache upset from it. She's growing again right now I'm fairly certain, or just finished growing. Sean is getting excited about school. We just got his room and teacher assignment today in the mail! He keeps asking how much longer til school starts and how long is he going to be there. We get to get his school supplies now, and I'm having him go with me. His grandmother in tx is getting his new school clothes and lunch box for him, which I deeply appreciate mind you!, and he's already got a backpack, and some of the supplies, so we only have to get a few things.
Update on my health issues... I'm still having the equilebrium issues, and the ear pain. The ENT thinks maybe escellation of allergies, so doing alergy testing in two sessions, and doing a inner ear test on Thursday. Hopefully this'll give us some answers. I have also been having some pain issues of a womanly sort only during that time of the month. The pain has been pretty diabilitating and only happens when I have to go to the bathroom at that point in time. It's been pretty strange. Only started happening after I had Serena. I thought maybe was my womanly parts having to get back in the habit of my period, but with each consequential period, the pain has been getting worse during the evacuation point in my day. I mean it's rediculous, even passing a small amount of gas was a paramount experiance. So I finally made an appt as Chris noticed as I started crying this last time and was gasping in pain while going to the bathroom. So you know when your husband has noticed this very personal experiance, that it's a lot worse than you thought it was. So I went to the OBGYN yesterday. He's fairly certain that I have endometriosis, which apparently you can get at anypoint in time as a woman. Its either that or I have scar tissue attatching my uterus to my colon which is a slim chance. So I have pretty much two choices as it seems to be getting worse. I can do shots for six months that make me basically a menopausal woman for that point in time, with no gaurantee that it'll clear it up, or I can do laproscopic surgery, where they can look around, and fix the problem in one step with a few days recovery time. I've told my Dr. that I'd rather do the surgery thank you very much! Is messing with my body for a much shorter amount of time and problems than messing with the hormones, cause we all know how well I react to medicine.... LOL. I also get to go for an ultra sound on Friday to make sure it's not Cysts, though he's fairly certain they're not, but have to double check anyway, and to make sure things are where they belong so to speak, inside of my pelvic region. As soon as I know when they surgery will be, I'll update everyone.
The very exciting thing that I have right now, is that I'm at day 3 of not smoking at all... YEAH!!! I'm glad about this, but do occasionally miss the moments of just getting away for five minutes, but I'm doing that in my room now with a book instead. I've begun getting a routine down here in the house, get up, shower, dress, get kids dressed, collect clothes, strip sean's bed if necessary, start laundry, vacume, empty dishwasher, load with breakfast dishes, run errands if need be, get baby down for nap 10:30, then sky down at about 11, move the laundry to the dryer, then they sleep til like 1 or later. Right now I have Sean for that time, but in a few weeks he'll be in school. I'm able to do my sewing projects or my scrap booking at this point in time. It's been nice, I've been able to keep the house clean, do some projects that have needed doing like cleaning my room, and had time with the kids. But other than that been staying at home it's been nice.
With this,I've been at it long enough, i'm going to head off now! Have a good one!
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