An MRI story

Remove your clothes and change into this paper gown and pants, put your belongings into this locker. Keep the key, it's brass, safe to take in with you. I had to sit in one of two waiting chairs, both facing a large 4' wide door with metal edging and bolts taht had a large "warning" sign. The door opens, "Come in."
Inside awaits a gigantic machine, nothing else, and within the machine, a pinhole in which I am to be inserted.
I lay on the device's table where a helmet is insert onto my head, an open helmet thats purpose is something to do with the cameras. Within the helmet is a mirror which allows me to see out of the pinhole.
I am rolled in and the radiologist runs out into another room, comforting.
I have a panic button in my hand, in case it's too much for me, they will take me out so I could reschedule...NO THanks! The helmet also has a speaker in it so I can hear the radiologist if she speaks to me.

I hear a vert loud motor, very loud despite the squishy things in my ears. No music as I was told there would be by friends.

i do start to get overwelmingly nervous. I look into the mirror and what I see is the window of the radiologists booth, which is reflecting the image of my feet, and nothing behind them, only a large dome, NOT comforting.

I close my eyes instead and try to daydream. I am succesful, the loud hum is constant so I am able to vlock it out. I even start to feel as if I'm floating in a boat, or like what I am lying on moves up and down like the seat on Gravitron ride. Suddenly the pitch of the loud hum cahnges startling me making me jump, realizing how confined I am, wonderful. I start to feel tear drip down my cheeks, despite me not being sad. I must of been mildly, silently freaking out.
Finally it's over, I'm rolled out, I sit up and I feel dizzy and nauseous. I get into my car and I start to bawl, for no real reason only that I feel overcome by many emotions at once, plus the headache, dizzyness and nausea.
Later that night the headache is worst. The next morning the headsche persits into that night. two days later, finally it is al over with.
I'm told that if there is any potential for a brain anurism, they could detect it now, weather it would happen now or years from now, so I'm less likely to ever need an MRI again, Thank goodness! Now I'm waiting for the doctors results.

Picture comparison

Above is a picture of my daughter in July of 2004, to the right is a picture of my son, July of 2007. They look related?

We have chicklets!!!

Remember the gum, chicklets, the little white squares? That's what I call infant teeth, just about to break through the gum.

My son is 4 months old, has been drooling and chowing on his fist, erractically sleeping for over a month now, and here they come, his first teeth, yay!!!

My daughter's first teeth broke throuh around 5 or 6 months, but started drooling at 2 months!

Strange animals in NJ

About a month ago, hubby discovered that we had a mouse in our basement. We put peanut butter on the existing glu baords we had for cathing spiders and crickets in the basement. Next nothing, except for peanut butter beign missing from one of the boards. Hmm...stickyness gone?
Hubby deals with pest control at his job and asked the guy for advice, he set my hubby up with poison cubes, pellets and srping traps.
I somebody out ther is mad that we are using mean ways to get rid of this mouse, but eww, i don't want it in my kitchen where the food is!!!

The next day, a mouse was caught. I disposed of the body, done. Next morning the remaining poison cubes were missing?!?! A mouse could not lug those big cubes! Also peanut butter was missing from one snap trap, arhg! So pest control guy told us that it had to be a baby to be light enough to not set off the trap, but something else had to be big enough to carry the poison cubes!

At this tiem we realized that the poison thing may of been bad, in case it dies in the walls or such. So we search for the cubes, I found one, on other side of the basement wher it originally was, obvioulsy nibbles on, but the 2nd could not be found. Dh silicones the entire basement sill plate!

A morning later I found a slightly larger mouse on the gluboard, got em! But he wasn't that big!
Well, I hadn't the time to dispose of him yet so I had waited till that evening. That eveing i grab a trashbag, grab the back end of the glueboard with the bag (like picking up dog doo), and the mouse moves his head!!!! I jumped, not expecting it to still be alive, and the glue board lands on a lampbase being stored down there, and my flipflops land on other gluebaords, I made a big mess! It was hysterical (notice hubby is not involved in any removal or set up processs!). I manage to remove my shoes and get the mouse right side up, but I leave him, not wanting for him to loosen somehow and bite me. 2 hours later I check him and he's stiff, must of been a heart attack brought on by me, LOL!

Done, no more actin since then. He had tossed remaining poison pellets and cubes under our bushes along side the house, all gone the next morning. In addition the pest guy gave us somethign called a "catch-all box" its the size of a shoe box with ppison cubes set up inside. Idea is, pest are supposed to come in, nibble, leave and die somewhere else. But with this box, cats and dogs can't get into the poison, just pest sized rodents. Well, just last night Hubby informed me that the entire box is missing!!!! All I can picture is a racoon carrying this box over his head on two legs down the street, LOL!!!! Where would he take it too?

What aniamls do we really have around us??? Supermice?!?! We had Fox living next to us a short time ago, but this recent surge in rodents tells me that nieghbors complianed and had this nice fox removed by animal control, thanks :(

Hopefully that next time I'm up doing an early morning feeding with my son, that I don't look out the window to find a bear, LOL!!!

how cute

just trying to add a pic as my blogging freinds do. Just testing it out. This pic is of my two darling children :)

Craziness is over!

Whew!
All last Week my daughter had her first school like experience at Vacation Bible School. Her 12 year old cousin was her "counsler" so it was a good experience to leave her in a school setting for the first time. 4 hours each day. Of course she didn't want me to leave her, but i stood on the side while they danced and sang and snuck out. When it was all over each day, she said she missed me and my 12 year old neice siad she did fine each day and intently listened and watched. One day she even dozed off a little during a samll group activity. Taht my daughter, only taking naps as she needs them, anywhere she's at, LOL!
ON the last day of the VBS (Vacation Bible School) she puked in her carseat, the weekend and to this day has been filled with coughing and runny noses, she even passed it onto her 4 month old brother, his first cold :(

Also we had an adventure with mice in our house last week, that's a story for another post!

Prior to that was my son's christening and prior to that was a crazy week of running around and cleaning house.

I feel a littel of my daughter & son's cold now, yuck. But, I'm packing up and we are heading to the shore till Monday, YAY!!!

My husband has a very big interview, all day Tuesday with his "dream company"
please pray that he gets the job. We all need this weekend to relax before his big interview.