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My 2007 Christmas Gratitude List

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I stole this idea from a forum I read at a lot.

I am grateful for the following things…in no particular order.

  • My wonderful husband
  • My fabulous parents and all of the help they’ve given us this year
  • My family
  • My In-Laws and their generosity
  • To be living in our new house, a long time dream of mine
  • That topaz has been seizure free for almost a month now
  • My job, which provides us with most of our finances as well as health insurance!
  • My zoo – they bring laughter and joy in my life on a daily basis
  • My friends
  • That my husband has not had a huge episode in a while
  • My own health
  • The ability to be able to talk to and see (via webcam) our SIL, BIL, Nephew and Niece who are in Australia

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Ahh…the wonders of APS!!!

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I haven’t written much about the disease my husband has. It’s called APS and it’s a blood clotting disorder. It’s also autoimmune and a son of a bitch of a disease. I won’t get into the details of the disease, but you can go to www.apsfa.org to learn more about it.

My husband has memory issues and ooooh it’s SO frustrating sometimes!! Here’s a typical conversation we had tonight…and the aftermath:

Let me set it up…I was Christmas shopping all day, went to my parents house and then went to get my hair done so I hadn’t seen the hubs since like 1:00 when I brought him lunch at the shelter. So my hair was done and I thought I’d call him to see what was up and was he home. I thought we could go out to dinner somewhere like we commonly do on payday.

6:32
Me: What are you doing?

Hubs: Picking up cats from the vet.

Me: Oh, ok, I’m going home are you staying at the shelter later.

Hubs: Yeah, I don’t know who’s coming.

Me: Ok, I’ll talk to you later.

Normal conversation…ok. Next call…remember I still think we’re going OUT to dinner. Oh, and he’s usually home from the shelter around 8:00, 8:30 on Thursday nights too

8:46
Me: Hey, when are you coming home, anytime soon? I want to go get dinner.

Hubs: Yeah, I’ll be home in a little bit. I have to go to the bathroom when I get home.

Me: Ok, when you’re done then we can go do dinner.

Hubs: Ok yeah, sounds good.

Sounds normal right? LOL read on.

9:16 – I called…no answer

9:20 – He calls me back.
Me: Where are you? When are you coming home? (by this time I have been hungry for 2 hours waiting for him)

Hubs: I’m at the pharmacy trying to get these meds. (dog meds…then he goes on about the price and we talked about that for a little bit)

Me: Ok, so are you on your way home?

Hubs: Yeah I’ll be there in a few minutes.

Me: Do you still have to go to the bathroom? When you’re done can we still go to dinner, I don’t know what’s open because it’s getting late.

Hubs: I don’t want to go anywhere, I just want to go get Mcdonalds.

Me: Huh? (and I probably yelled and got frustrated and hung up)

Ok…so he gets home…and he tells me I said something about going to get food, and that he TOLD me he was going to the pharmacy…huh? was that in any of the above conversation??

These little frustrating conversation/situations happen ALL THE TIME!!! I get SOOOO frustrated!! I can feel the frustration in my whole body at times.

I have to keep telling myself that he doesn’t remember…he forgets. BUT he needs to realize that he does, because he’s sitting there telling me he TOLD me something. Um, no…he didn’t.

If there was anything I’d want to fix it would be his memory. I feel bad for him, he struggles with it so much…but it’s SO frustrating.

/vent.

Thx for listening…..H

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Just some random thoughts tonight…

We bought tiny stockings at Michael’s today and I put the animals names on them with green glitter glue. Then we hung them “with care” above the window on the same wall that our stockings are hung on. They look really cute. We used their nicknames, which is kind of funny. The husband’s idea…

I cannot believe that Christmas is a week from tomorrow. We have not started shopping. I really don’t even know what I’m getting anyone. We usually shop late, so that’s not a big deal…but I just don’t even have a clue what to buy anyone this year.

Christmas seems weird this year. I don’t have a clue what my parents are getting me, and I usually have some sort of idea…but this year, I just don’t know. Which is ok…it’s happened before.

I sometimes wish I had an anonymous blog out there in blogville where I could blog about things that I don’t want certain people to read. Nothing specific, but I’d love to just put some things out there and let them go sometimes. It makes me feel better to just get it down. Maybe I’ll hide a personal, private blog on here and post to that. I don’t know.

The puppa has not had a seizure in 18 days and he’s eating his raw food now like a champ. He’s still a bit hesitant and I do have to talk to him and tell him it’s ok to eat it, and we have to mix the nasty tripe with everything, but once he gets going, he’s fine with it all. He’s laying in his cage sleeping right now. His cage is in my “office” and we put the radio on and shut the door to this room when we go to bed. He’s just sleeping in there peacefully and of course I am very nervous that he could have a seizure tonight. He was acting kind of weird earlier. Any weirdness makes me nervous. Hopefully tonight will be a quiet one.

Well I Love New York 2 is over…and she picked Tailor Made…wasn’t seeing that one!! Oh well, can’t wait till the reunion.

Night…H

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