The last 2 weeks....in a nut shell

We had a WONDERFUL visit in California with my mom. Rylee was AMAZING on the planes both there and back. She slept the whole way back and we even had a 3 seat row to ourselves! When we landed in Palm Spring Rylee had NOT gone pee the whole 3 hour plane trip because she has an aversion to big people toilets and she doesn't like going in her diaper so, as you saw in the photos she went in her potty seat that my mom happened to have in the trunk!My grandmother and Rylee are so amazingly close, that was an awesome sight to see. My grandmother and I have been close my WHOLE life and at times when I couldn't/was too immature to go to my mom about stuff, I always confided in her. My mom is doing good. She has to gain some weight, she has lost 16 lbs since she was here in February. (I wish i had her metabolism). Her doctor wants to make sure that he has his schedule clear the week that my mom is in the hospital since she is going to be having a treatment that he has never administered and that has never been given here in the US. She has to go back on May 18 for a weight check to make sure that she has started gaining and not losing again. They won't let her have the treatment if she is over or underweight. Rylee LOVED swimming and at times it was HARD to keep her head above the water, she loves to go under and blow bubbles, kick and move her arms. I thing if we would have had another day or two she would have been swimming all by herself! We took her to The Living Desert and she loved to see the Giraffes and the petting zoo. Here are some pictures from our trip. As much fun as we had, I couldn't wait to get home! Vacation is fun but home is ALWAYS better IMO! I missed my bed!

I mentioned in my last post that the 15th was my last day as an MA student and so when I got back from vacation, I started the X-Ray program this past Monday!!! It is a short jam packed course of only 8 weeks! I have a paper due EVERY week and tests every week as well. I like my teacher so much and I think I am really getting the hang of everything that we covered to far. I got an A+ on my first paper!!!! and a 120 on my first test!!!!!!!!! I didn't miss a thing, I even got ALL the bonus correct!!! I was so stoked! Im sure next week will not be so much fun because we are going to start the physics part of the whole process, but I have confidence that I will be just fine! It doesn't hurt that George's dad is a Radiological Physicist!!!! Im sure I will be calling him frequently the next few weeks. I need to get the Medical assisting and Phlebotomy practice test books soon so that I can go ahead and test for them over then next 3 1/2 months so that when I am done with school I will be done with all my testing also.

George has been SUPER busy, he has not had a Saturday off in the last month other than the Saturday that Rylee and I were in California and it rained here.....either way, Rylee and I have not been seeing much of him. He left the house at 6:45 this morning and has been getting home between 6:30 and 7:30 every night. I am looking forward to going out with him tonight while his parents watch Rylee for us. I miss my man!!! (I know it sounds sappy but it is true!)

Have a good weekend everyone, if you want to see more pictures from our trip they are available on my facebook page. That is about it for now...........

SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHH...at last, I thought this day would never get here! I am officially on my Spring Break. Rylee and I have to be at the airport by 7am tomorrow morning because, as you all know, we are going to go see my mom. I studied, packed, and had some good times with my 2 loves last night. When it came time for me to be asleep I was wide AWAKE. I guess the nerves of wanting/remember/thinking of everything that I had packed and still needed to pack along with all the stuff I studied for my LAST medical assisting final made it a little impossible for my brain to unwind. FINALLY at around midnight or so I was in dream land BUT at 5am I was awakened my my own snore! Yes, apparently I snore (I thought George had been teasing me for all these years but I guess the rumors are true). My allergies were/are so bad that I couldn't breath through my nose. I got up so that I could take some Benadryl but we were out. Apparently I was still half asleep and unable to realize what I was about to do to my self when I came to the conclusion that I would just take Sudafed instead. BAD IDEA....I was laying in bed, wide awake until 6:30 or so and then my alarm went off at 7. I pushed snooze til 7:15 and then forced myself to get out of bed. Needless to say this was not an easy day at school for me. About an hour after we got to school the teacher handed us a NEW test review for the test that we took today. It was NOTHING like the review that she sent us home with last night to study...I was NOT expecting that. It turned out okay though, I got a 95! I ended this mod, Mod G, my LAST medical assisting mod with a 100 average! It is safe to say that I will be maintaining my 4.0 status!!! All that is left for me to do is 2 months of EKG and 2 months of X-ray and I will be DONE with school (for now anyways). I wish I would have had this kind of drive when I was 18 but I guess it is better late than never AND 27 isn't THAT old....is it?!?!

I have some last minute things that I need to get packed, toiletries, camera charger, phone charger and things along that nature and I will be DONE packing. I can't wait to see my mom! This time tomorrow Ry and I will be in California!!!!! AHHHH....I can't wait.

that is all for now.........

Excitement

As the days draw closer to getting on the plane to California to see my mom, the anxiety sets in and the reality hits me that I am going to be traveling ALONE with a child who is smack in the middle of her "terrible 2's". I am so excited to see my mom, that the anxiety quickly subsides!!! Rylee has an obcession with Little Einsteins so I have been getting her ready for the plane by telling her that we are going on a mission in a rocket ship just like her Einstein friends and that seems to make her excited!

I talked to my mom lastnight and she had a doctor appointment with her proton therepy doctor to discuss treatment options for the tumor in her lung. Her doctor came up with an interesting and exciting option for my mom! There is a doctor in Europe who has been using a drug on patients with tumors similar to my moms and has had GREAT success with it. No patient has ever tried it here in the United States and she wants my mom to be the first!!! Today we should know if she is a good candidate for the treatment. She has her pre-op with her neurosurgeon today who happens to be on the same tumor board as her proton doctor and hopefully he will be on board with this treatment.  If she has the treatment that will meen that she will not have to have surgery. The drug is not FDA approved so the hospital will take on the cost of the drug and treatment. If she gets approved for it, which the doctors seem to think she will, they could start as early as next Monday, which is when she was scheduled to have her brain surgery. I am praying that this all works out and that my mom will not have to go under the knife again but ultimately I know that God has a plan and that the outcome is in His hands. Please continue to keep her in your prayers.....

That is about it for now...........

Easter

We went to my Nana's house for Easter this year. Rylee had a great time searching for eggs! Here are some pictures....

Dancing before we went to Nana's house! 

Not happy because she wanted to take the dress off 

 

Her hair is getting so LONG!!! 

 

twirling in the dress!

checking to see if the egg was empty before she picked it up and put it in the basket

 

I was busted taking MORE pictures! 

Passed out in the car (note the dress was off because she was having another meltdown)

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