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Here's another one of the Prom Queen. I did a little more tweaking and a little more sparkling. I wanted her to have a really great rememberance of that night. Do you think she'll like it?

Health Update again, again

Well, we finally got our test results back from the spinal fluid. The good news is I don't have MS or any other neurological disease. The bad news is, we still don't know what's wrong with me.

So, I give up. I surrender. This is ridiculous and I can't deal with this any more. The pain and dizziness and so forth are getting worse and the doctor who should be most aggressively doing something about it is basically ignoring me. And thanks to the wonderful HMO we're in, there's really nothing I can do about it.

So I think tequila should be my new hobby.....

Cross posting this one

I wrote this up and thought it was worth sharing with everyone. It's long, so I'm not going to post it all here, but I needed to vent my frustration.

Response to ABC Nightline Debate - "Cameron vs. Atheists"

Health Update again

So here's the latest. The picture above shows what I have to wear to bed. The thing on my nose is supposed to help me get more oxygen to my brain (by stopping snoring and sleep-apnea, which is episodes where I supposedly stop breathing.) I've been using it for about two weeks and haven't really noticed a difference. I'm still having constant headaches that turn into really bad headaches and periods where I black out and wander away.

My neurologist has finally decided that our final option is to do a spinal tap and run every test available. This will either confirm or rule out MS or Lupus or other related things. After that, we either start treatment or, well... I really don't know what if they don't find something.

I'm still not able to work, I'm still not able to do much of anything except take lots of tylenol and rub my head and pray that Mrs. and the kids won't let me wander out the door the next time I black out.

So, basically, no change, more tests, and we probably won't find out anything for another couple of weeks.

A few pictures I thought were worth sharing

Thought I'd pass these along since it's been a while since I've posted any.

Nothing like waiting until the last minute to do T's senior pictures.

This isn't one of them, we actually haven't done them yet, but we shot this one in one of the trees in our yard so we had SOMETHING to send with her announcements. Turned out pretty good though, huh?

This one is just hilarious. Chubby Bubby weighs almost 40 lbs. now and will eat anything thats not nailed down - and will try to eat the things that are. (Seriously, there are teeth marks in the coffee table.)

Here's one of T on the way to the prom. I did some serious tweaking on this one. The original was taken in our icky living room. I used Gimp to create the backgound and make the sparkles more sparkly. I used Picasa to soften the focus and Paint to airbrush a few spots. Wish I had a Mac, but I couldn't sleep last night anyway.

Too long

It's been way too long since I've posted. Sorry. There have been many times I thought, "I should blog something about that", but honestly it's just been too much. Way too much, to sort through and find something that made sense in my head to put in writing.

In light of shootings and war and natural disasters, my meaningless ramblings seemed trivial. I know that I set this up for family to hear about the kids and so on, but every day it seemed like something else in the world that made what I have to say and share seem stupid and idiotic.

But, like everyone, I guess it's time to put things behind me. Everyone else seems to have moved on. Oh, there's still a news story now and then, but for the most part they're back to talking about Brittney in rehab and Paris in jail. So all is right(?) with the world again.

So why am I still angry? Why do I want to find the NBC execs who decided to air that "manifesto" so soon after the shootings at VT and punch them in the face? Why do I want to go to Capitol Hill and collectively bash Congress' and the Presidents heads together and tell them to get along and fix this war thing already? Why does the fact that our Governer is running for President just turn my stomach and make me want to vomit right in his stupid cowboy hat?

There, I vented it. I still don't feel any better, but at least maybe someone out there can sympathize with what I'm saying. You want to do something, you at least want to say something, but anything "normal" people like us say or do doesn't make a lick of difference, so all we can do is go back to our life and hobbies and personal issues and pray for those who can make a difference.