Sorry

Sorry I haven't been around much.  I have been working really hard trying to get my affiliate business going.  I won't know if I am making any money until after Nov. 15th and the 1ST CHECK WILL ONLY BE FOR 2 WEEKS AND THE  (OOPS SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS) the places I place ads for have 30 days to turn it in to the people that pay me.  Then they said something about 45 days to get the pay check,  All I know I made on the first ck was $2.01 LOL  hopefully I will have a little more than that but I was doing everything wrong at first so I may not really know until the next ck when ever that will be.  I am getting about 100 clicks per day somebody should be signing up for something, surveys, or buying things  check out all my ads at darlenesads.blogspot.com  If this doesn't work all I have lost is $40 and a lot of my spare time laying here in bed.  Sure that would be really sad because I have put my heart into trying to learn how to blog and tweet and get this thing  going.  I'm not giving up but I have to admit it is really hard to keep spending hours working when you don't know if your making ANY money.  Time will tell.  Maybe God is trying to teach me a lesson on patience.  I'm not sure why because I think I am one of the most patient people in the world.  You have to be when you have a non verbal autistic son with many other special needs and medications and side affects.  His host home mom took him off 2 of the meds he was taking and diet pop , and he is doing a lot better.  She is a nurse and looked up the side affects of Duane's meds and found out that 2 of them and the diet pop could be giving him stomach pain and headaches so she got the Drs. OK to ween him off of them.  I had been telling the Drs. for YEARS that I though either his head or stomach was hurting him.  His old Drs. said it would be impossible for him to have headaches EVERYDAY.  I guess it WOULD BE POSSIBLE if they kept giving them to him.  I'm waiting to hear about a class action law suit that says one of his meds caused his seizure disorder.
Speaking of Duane he is doing really well since his surgery.  I don't know when I am going to get to see him again,  I am still grieving over having to let him move out.  I miss him soo much.  I start crying every time I think about him.
I am still having a lot of pain in my stomach which the Drs. can't figure out what is causing it.  I had an endoscopy done about 2 weeks ago but I guess the biopsy turned out normal because they never called me with results but I am going to call them Monday if I can stay awake long enough.  They did say my stomach is still red and inflamed even though I take 20 mg of Nexium morning and night.  I was in so much pain this morning after eating a small amt of chili that it doubled me over. The chili was not spicy and I had it the last 2 days and it didn't bother me at all.  I had a bean burrito with mild gr chili and salsa and it didn't bother me at all.  Last night I had roast beef and it really hurt my stomach so I am going to try taking that stomach med again but I didn't think it worked the last time I tried it.  The Dr. told me I can take it as needed.  I can go a week and not have any trouble and them BAM out of nowhere!  This is the same pain I was having a month or so ago and spent 2 days in the hospital having all kinds of tests and nothing showed up.  This pain is not in my mind darn it!  To top everything else the wet weather yesterday made my FM flare up and I ached so bad I was going out of my mind.  I thought for sure I was going to have a panic attack but i got lucky and got the pain under control just in time.  Pain and lack of medicine causes my systems of a panic attack or withdrawl.  My FM is still giving me upper back pain today after all my meds.  I took them about 10:30 so I guess it may be wearing off.  I want to wait closer to dinner time so I don't have such horrible pains when I eat dinner about 7PM.  I am snacking on red grapes they have been sooo good the last few weeks.  I wish I had gotten more cantaloupe when it was cheaper.  
That's about all for today but that should pretty much catch you up.  Thank God for Todd he helps me so much.  He helps train all the substitute or new aids that come in to help.  He knows how to work my appliances better than I do.  He pretty much knows where all my groceries are and that helps a lot since that is the main thing my morning girls do.  They fix me a lunch, dinner to be eaten later and a sandwich on Oat nut bread to eat with my bedtime meds.  I usually only eat half the sandwich with a whole tomato.  I also snack on a another tomato between dinner and bedtime.-
 I hope this finds everyone safe and healthy and happy.
Love
 Darlene

Duane's surgery

Duane did well during the surgery but it was a lot longer than expected.  (4 hrs instead of 1-2)  There was lot of calcification since his nose had been broken so long ago.  I think he has broken it more than once.  I asked the Drs. about it before but he said it probably wouldn't do any good because we wouldn't be able to keep him from hitting it while healing, Or just breaking it again another time.  The Dr. today said  we should know in about 2 weeks (when all the swelling goes down?) if it helps him breathe right which is almost a positive, but we should also be able to see if he quits saying his left ear hurts.

I had a blessing last night and my horrible toothache got better almost instantly and I got a clam peaceful feeling about not going to be with Duane at the hospital.  I would have been in tears I would have been in so much pain being up for 6 hours or more.  I would have had Charlie Horses in my legs one after another.  I hope that goes away after my surgery, when ever that will be.Darlene in Co

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visit with Duane

Sunday I had a wonderful but short visit with Duane for about an hour.  He was slapping his ears and was talking on his computer before he came over saying that his ears were hurting.  Even though he was in pain he was so glad to see us and Todd had him laughing so much.  It was nice to see him in such a great mood.


He is scheduled to go in for surgery at 6AM about 30-40 miles from here Tuesday AM.  They have to go in and re break his nose and fix his deviated septum (SP)  anyway fix it so he can breathe out of the left side of his nose again.  He keeps breaking it hitting himself in the nose when he is is pain.  It is critical that he doesn't hit his nose again for 6 weeks so he is going to have to wear a helmet with a full plastic front on it with a cut out right at the nose but it says it will protect the nose.  I don't see how!  He can't eat with it on so he will have arm boards on to keep him from bending his elbows to hit his nose.  I don't think he is going to be happy for the next six weeks.  It just breaks my heart that he is going to have to go through this.  He loves to eat and drink a lot of water and I just can't see people taking the time to change from the helmet to the arm bands just to give him a drink. I don't think he will be getting a drink every time he wants one and that is upsetting to me because I have meds that make me have cotton mouth and the way he drinks so much I wonder if he has the same issue.  I think this is going to really mess up his Halloween.  Hopefully he will be ok  for Thanksgiving and can eat all he wants without a mask and helmet but I have a feeling that may not be quite 6 weeks at that time.  I haven't counted it out on a calendar yet.  I just found out about this a couple of days ago.  The next day I had an endoscopy and 2 biopsy's in my stomach so I haven't been quite up to par.  I've having some stomach cramping and so I've been sleeping quite a bit to escape the pain.

I'm dumbfounded or just dumb

I have no idea why that last post came through so bad.  It started it and then started it over and then finished the first one.  I only posted it once as far as I know.  Maybe my pain pills were affecting me more than I thought LOL.  Actually I hadn't even had any extra pills so I can't even blame it on that.  Oh well no one is perfect and I'm a perfect example of that! :-)  The really weird part about it is I ck the preview and read it before I hit publish.  I wish there was a way to delete my post. I have soooo much to learn. LOL

My aid visit today

Not too much going on so I am cross posting Sorry

My aid made canned chili and I told her to put it in the dig

My aid made canned chili and I told her to put it in the digital pressure cooker/crockpot she put it in there and filled the pot to the max full line with water.  I just assumed she would KNOW that it was already cooked it just needed to stay warm for my dinner tonight.  I had her dump out all the water out and add a can of tomato sauce, chili powder and cumin, if it is still too runny I will have my night time aid add a can of tomato soup and more spices and see if that helps.  I'm sure it will turn out eventually LOL  I forget that people don't know how to use all of my appliances. I am a totally addicted to kitchen appliances. One aid totally unloaded my stove which is filled to use as storage.  I have cooked everything in a toaster oven for maybe 10 yrs now at least that long.  I MAY have used my beautiful new oven (in the one house I had) 4-5 times to make cookies.  It all started when my oven went out 10 yr/s ago.  The first oven didn't really go out the electronic ignition went out and the stove was so old we couldn't find the part to fix it, it was just too hard for me to bend down to light it with a match so I quit using it. I had a microwave with a convection oven in it and that was all I needed.  I usually just cooked one pot meals on the stove or heated up casseroles in the convection oven now I just use a toaster oven, my stovetop or my digital pressure cooker.  My aids are usually only cooking for me so we usually have extra for the freezer.ital pressure cooker/crockpot she put it in there and filled the pot to the max full line with water.  I just assumed she would KNOW that it was already cooked it just needed to stay warm for my dinner tonight.  I had her dump out all the water out and add a can of tomato sauce, chili powder and cumin, if it is still too runny I will have my night time aid add a can of tomato soup and more spices and see if that helps.  I'm sure it will turn out eventually LOL  I forget that people don't know how to use all of my appliances. I am a totally addicted to kitchen appliances. One aid totally unloaded my stove which is filled to use as storage.  I have cooked everything in a toaster oven for maybe 10 yrs now at least that long.  I MAY have used my beautiful new oven (in the one house I had) 4-5 times to make cookies.  It all started when my oven went out 10 yr/s ago.  The first oven didn't really go out the electronic ignition went out and the stove was so old we couldn't find the part to fix it, it was just too hard for me to bend down to light it with a match so I quit using it. I had a microwave with a convection oven in it and that was all I needed.  I usually just cooked one pot meals on the stove or heated up casseroles in the convection oven now I just use a toaster oven, my stovetop or my digital pressure cooker.  My aids are usually only cooking for me so we usually have extra for the freezer.