So this past week I got my hair cut for the first time in 3 years and I have to say that for the first time in my entire life I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE my hair!!!!! I got it cut at Cost Cutters in Tucson (near the target on harrison if any of you wanna go there oh and the girl who did it is Dulce she ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) And then I got 3 colors put in it. I got dark brown over most of it with blonde & red highlights. I love it! It's exactly what I wanted and the best part is that it was cheap!!!!
Well today is Mother's day so here's my shout out to all the Mom's out there! Hope it was a beautiful day for all of you. Here's a lil update on my update..... found out what was wrong with my wrist it is very torn and I have to have surgery. I have an appointment for the 21st set with the surgeon. I just hope Im all recovered from it BEFORE we go to Alpine or we can't go this year!!!! :(
Hello all, sorry for such a SHORT blog last time but I was sick with the worst flu that I've ever ever had in my life... I didn't squeal like a pig though so I don't think it was Swine Flu! HA HA! Anyway I'm back to feeling better, still cough a little but not bad. Anyway here's an update on us....
Danny (8) is definitely ready for school to be over. He went on a fishing field trip to my Uncle Eldon's pond and caught the biggest fish of the class! He was so proud of the fish, and was sad that he had to throw it back. I tease my parents all of the time saying they have "corrupted" my child because he eats things I have never wanted to. He even eats the dreaded ONIONS! yuck! Of course my nephew Jake likes to teach him to make disgusting stuff like mixing different sodas together or having a peanut butter, jelly & Tuna sandwich. GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That concerns me on a number of levels (lol a line from "Bolt"). He's excited for Fall because he will get to play soccer again! He loves to play. This year he has had my cousin Polly Edington for his 2nd grade teacher and she's been good for him. He's way excited for the summer because he gets to go camping with grandma & grandpa Welker (my parents) and then in July we will be going up to Alpine for a week! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love alpine so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
David (10) has his moments when he's seeming to progress with the autism and sometimes he just seems like he is regressing. I am having a really hard time with him right now. Sometimes he'll get where I have little to no problems with him.... but then something will set him off. If he had a bad day at school wether the teacher was hard on him (which is normally the case because she expects WAYYYYYYYYYY too much out of him) or one of the kids at school will call him "gay" which is the it word right now. I swear people just need to take their kids and swat em and wash their mouths out with soap! Kids at school get a kick out of teasing david for everything that is wrong with him including the fact that he has an overweight mother. You should hear some of the things he tells me his "friends" are telling him at school about me. I mean wether it's true or not (the fact that he does have an overweight mom) that's not their place to tease him about it and hurt his feelings. He is an oversensitive child and when I hear things that he tells me they say I just want to march up to their parents and give them a piece of my mind about telling them to teach their children some manners!
Lori Well as far as the weight loss goes I am up to 18.5 lbs lost! I'm so excited and my doctor is too. When he saw the dramatic weight jump he had to do a double take and he said "WAIT A MINUTE YOU HAVE LOST ALMOST 20 LBS IN ONE MONTH!!" Wooo go me!! if i keep that up and don't plateau for the next 12 months i will be at my goal weight in a year!!!!!!!! but I'm sure plateau is inevitable. As far as my wrist/hand goes. Still dont know what is going on. I find out the results from the Orthopedic Specialist tomorrow what the results of my wrist MRI are. Im hoping it's not arthritis but thinking it is.
Anyway till next time
Well as most of you know my Grandma Welker has been suffering with severe Dementia for the last 6 years or so. She had an operation on her back I don't know how to spell what it was I'll just say how it's pronounced the sy-attic nerve... anyway since then her mind deteriorated and she started out just forgetting small things she'd ask the same question over and over and over again. My mom and dad took care of her day in and day out. Then it got to the point where she needed other people to come and take care of her. She'd forget where she'd put stuff and say that someone stole it from her, or the caregivers would need to drive her car and she'd say they were stealing her car, etc... Anyway, she got to where she couldn't remember being divorced from my grandpa (they got divorced in the 80's when I was like 7). She couldnt remember that my Uncle Dallas passed away and telling her over and over again took a toll on all of us. It was like telling her for the first time each time and it was bitterly painful to watch her cry about it. We would go to visit her and she wouldnt remember we were there. One time I went over and she asked where all her kids were and she didn't even recognize that I was me. It was so hard to see her like that. Anyway.... back in November my parents sent her up to an assisted living community up in Peoria where my Aunt Donna could be near her. She kept sneaking out, because she didn't know where she was and they moved her to a different level where she'd be closer monitored. Well she fell and broke her hip and had to have surgery. Since then she was moved into a nursing home and is now in Hospice. My aunt Donna told me yesterday that they had told her it's not going to be too much longer before she passes away. It's really hard but it goes along with the old saying "Sometimes it's better to let go than to hold onto something that isn't there." And it's true. She's really not "there" anymore. She's not the grandma I've known and loved for 32 years.... she's this frail, skinny old woman who doesn't remember anything. She's not there mentally anymore and she's barely there physically. It will be a huge blessing when she does pass on. We will miss her terribly.... my son David is having a really hard time with this because he is really close to Grandma. I will always remember the good times spent with my Grandma. I'll always remember having fun with my cousins out at the Welker farm in Safford, and getting in trouble with my cousins for playing in the Pomagranant trees (LOL!!!!), I'll always remember her cookies, her home-cooked meals, and all of the cats she used to have out at the farm. I'll remember Christmas' spent there getting pj's and wearing them with my brothers and cousins at the farm. I'll always remember when we helped her move from the farm house after the divorce, not an easy thing to forget because my grandma barney passed away while we were there. I'll always remember the hugs and kisses. Anyway I better stop before I start crying.
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