stories of a real life wonder woman

I had my blog almost finished and then everything somehow got deleted. I had written how cranky I have been and that just made me that much more cranky. See I haven't been feeling good and I have either been at the doctors office or been on the phone with the doctors office everyday this week. I am sick of it. I don't feel good and that is making me cranky. I've had a lot of abdominal cramps which have been making the rest of my body hurt. Along with that I have been nauseous 90% of the time. The other day my mouth tasted like throw up all day too so that was fun. So you can understand why I am cranky, irritable, frustrated, and hiding out from the world more than a Hermit Crab does. A lot of time has been spent in my sweat pants in bed because I am still so upset about the news of my stomach. So there's that. Added to my stomach problems this week is that I might be put on birth control. I went and saw my gynecologist for a check up and mentioned some problems I ha...

Today a nurse from my GI doctor's office called to let me know the result of the biopsies. You should know that stomach polyps can be cancerous but they have never thought mine would be. It is still something I try to keep in mind though. Anyway when she called she said they weren't cancerous. They did however have a lot of iron in them. Which is another part of the reason why my blood counts are still on the low end. I take an iron pill twice a day which it would appear my polyps have decided to latch onto. She also said that the Myfortic, which is an anti rejection med, is causing a lot of irritation to the polyps and my stomach in general. So that's fun. As I was telling Sheila at the office today it seems like my body reacts to every anti rejection medication. I am on two currently which is normal. I have always been on two. I have been on Prograf the longest. I was off it for a while and on a med called Rapamune. That set off the beginning of my crazy weight lose...

There is this character from a book I love who is named Hazel. Now admittedly I love a lot of characters from books. But I especially love characters from John Green books. If you love nerdy things or books that are real read John Green. And then check out his and his brother's youtube channel vlogbrothers. Also their nerdfighter community is pretty great. Now I bring John Green up because he wrote the character Hazel who is coming to the big screen soon in "The Fault in our Stars." Both my mom and my sister have commented on how the book portrays a life we know well. Sure I don't have cancer, but we understand the emergency hospital visits and the routines you get into when you are ill. Now the trailer for the movie contains one of my favorite lines from the book. In it she calls herself a grenade. And I get that. I tend to refer to myself as a ticking time bomb. See I have these seemingly constant ticks that remind me and others how sick I am and often renew the...

It's a good thing we bought a lot of cookies on our outing today. I'm gonna get right to the point. During my EGD today my doctor found three polyps in my stomach and a few more at the start of my intestines. He says that much like the one before they will continue to grow and cause problems like before. Which will make digesting food hard and means I am losing blood through all that again. Which means I will have to get them removed. He said that he thinks they are from my medicines. Which means I will keep getting them. Which means I will have to keep going back to the hospital to get polyps removed. Like once a year maybe. I am going to talk to my kidney doctor to see what he has to say about the situation. But for tonight I am frustrated that this is a new thing I have to deal with as a result of my kidney failure and transplants and meds and all that jazz. Luckily since I forget the first half an hour or so after a procedure I didn't remember what had hap...

 I am not really sure what to talk about today. But before I talk about anything else I want to ask you all to pray for someone I know. You have been so faithful in praying for and supporting my family and me. I would love if you would pass that on. There is this kid named J.J. Newcomer who is a few years younger than me. Our families know each other mostly through all the health issues that he and I have had. He recently had to have a change in his feeding tube and has been in the hospital. I can most likely imagine what he is feeling right now. And so I would ask that you pray for strength and perseverance. Pray that he would rest in the arms of his savior and hope in the promises that God has given him. This week I have an EGD (scope) to look at my stomach again to see how the ulcer I had has healed. To see if there are any more problems or if everything is great. Since I haven't really had any problems I would say that I am doing good stomach wise. I have still been stres...

First I want to post the references to Wednesday's post since I forgot to do that. Jesus' genealogy is in Matthew 1. Tamar's story is found in Genesis 38. We are introduced to Rahab in Joshua 2 and then she comes back in Joshua 6:25. Ruth has her own book in the Bible to tell her story. Mary's story is told the most in depth in Luke 1. I don't like that I forgot to post that on the last blog so I thought I would make sure it was on this one. On to a few updates and other little things. Work is picking up more and instead of feeling overwhelmed, which I am sure will come, I am currently feeling really comfortable. I know more about how to do my job than I thought I did. It makes me a little less nervous about what will happen when my coworkers get busy. So that feels pretty good. I watched this video on Relevant magazine's website the other day of this band called the Red Hot Chili Pipers and I absolutely love them. I spent over half an hour the other day o...