Test Results are in

The test results from Tom's sleep study are back. We found out the results last week when he went to the doctors. It really didn't shock us, we knew he wasn't sleeping good, although he sleeps often, he doesn't sleep good. In fact he really doesn't sleep.

They found that he quits breathing for several seconds each minute. (really this isn't totally accurate, cause I wasn't there holding the pillow over his face which would of added to the not breathing part of the test.)

He may be having seizures during the night, the next test will include seizure hookups to see how bad the seizures are, and if they are caused by sleep deprivation and lack of oxygen.

During his pretend sleeping periods his oxygen levels drop down to the 60's, and he never enters really deep sleep. So this is probably why he feels tired, and has no energy.

At least at work he can sleep during the day when there is nothing else to do. They do laugh at him, cause they can be grinding and hammering right beside him and he will sleep through it, but if his lighter drops on the ground he wakes up.

So the next appointment is scheduled for the day after groundhog day. Again I will be stuck with poochzilla for the night. she hates it when he's gone. Hopefully they can get him in earlier and get it over with. He's ready for it to be over with and so he can sleep.

So on the next appointment he will be tested for the machine, and his seizures, and we go from there. Then I will be lost at nights..

I'm so used to him waking up and we will go out and walk during the night or go to the store, if he sleeps all night I will be bored. The dog will be lost, cause she likes him up in the middle of the nights too.

What if he don't want to take naps after getting Fixed... he will start bitching at me about taking naps during the day. Right now he naps right along with me.

And about the Term I used -- tom's getting fixed.. seems that he has a problem with that term. he would prefer that I said he was getting treatment, and not getting fixed. you know.. what ever dude, it's still the same thing. either way I'm glad he's getting it corrected.

So we at least got that taken care of. The thing that pissed me off is that he hasn't been to the doctors since we've been married, almost 29 years (OMG HAS IT BEEN THAT LONG???) .... and he had blood work, and everything came back perfect. How can someone not have medical tests, treatments for all those years and not have any problems. He has only been to the doctors when he got hurt. Well he did have a few days in the hospital once when a cut that he had got infected and lacquer thinner didn't fix it.

So since I got off work early to go to the doctor with him, i wasn't feeling real good, ran by my doctor and found out that I had pneumonia. So Friday I had to suck it up and go into work feeling like crap. But after taking the medication I'm starting to feel a little better.

I'm still on his poopie list - Seems that I got stopped again last week and got another damn speeding ticket. 2x in 2 months... They are doing road construction on the road here and I guess I figured out how they are going to pay for it. But giving out tickets. Tom put this into proper perspective for me. Told me that if I didn't start wearing my seatbelt, that in my obit he was going to add "instead of flowers, please send a seat belt so we can strap her in"..... I really think he will do that , and knowing my family - they will do that ... and for the rest of eternity, I will be in a seat belt which i despise.

So tomorrow its back to work for me. I don't know how I got talked into going back to work, but I did. I just have to suck it up I guess. After all that is what Tom would tell me to do.

Vacation Ends

Well Thursday I go back to work. I'm back at my old job. I don't consider this time off a vacation. After all its been hell for me trying to recover from these surgeries. The knee surgery I figured would of been the easiest to recover from was actually the hardest. My knee still ain't right, I still can't get on my knees and it really sucks. But it's much better than it was after the surgery.

But Tom is happy that my butt i going back to work. Since this job gives him more "me" money or should I call it "his" money - he is fine with it.

Also we can carpool again, meaning that he doesn't go out of his way - and not inconvenienced in anyway, only me- who has to be there an 1/2 hour early, and wait a 1/2 hour after work for him to pick me up.

His words of encouragement are "if you don't like waiting, start walking home, I will get you when I pass you"... now I have been married to this fool for too many years that I know he will blow the horn as he passes right by me. I'm not falling for that trick. It's bad enough that I get stuck putting gas in the blazer every Saturday morning.

But its a monday-friday job - no weekends, 8-5 so thats a plus to it.

I will miss sleeping till noon, and then taking a nap after getting up late. I got pretty used to staying up late at night being on the computer. That will soon be gone. I will be like the old man here - in bed by 8.

So while everyone else in the office may be excited about my return. ... I don't share the same feelings... But its a job.

I Lost the Bet

You know me and Tom had a bet on who could lose the most inches in a month. I thought for sure that I was gonna win, after all I have been really sick since before Christmas - Judy-coodies as Tom calls them. He gave me his cold- it lasted 4 days for him, 2 weeks for me... But I knew I was gonna win, cause I haven't been eating... I was wrong

Total Inches lost - Tom 5 - Me 4. Now I don't get my feet rubbed for a month like I wanted, and was the bet. I was smart, I didn't make a bet - I only made him bet if he lost. I should of maybe measured him before he pooped. But anyhow I am glad that we are both at least losing weight. I'm not sure about Diva Dog and her weight loss, They have to put her on a scale at Daycare. Today she is home with me she went back to bed after her morning walk. She has been pretty good about going to daycare but once in awhile she wants to stay home and snooze.


Like I said, Tom gave me his cold, finally after 2 weeks I went to the doctors cause I'm just not getting better, sometimes I think I would be better off finding someone like Granny Clampett to give me her fixes...

The doctor said that I was doing everything that I could, but gave me antiboitics anyhow just to help me along. I have no energy, and feel like I wasted money by going to him. Probably a few more days of my home medication I wouldn't of needed prescriptions. Tom got over his quicker than I did.

I have been really medicated. Monday I lost the keys (the ONLY set of keys for the truck).. I finally found them - in a logical place I think - they were in the fridge behind the orange juice. I personally think that Tom put them there, but he says it had to be me. But at least now he won't have to change the ignition in the truck. You would think that we would have more than one key for the truck. The truck hasn't been moved in a couple of weeks...there is a problem with it. When you push in the clutch, it works the breaks at the same time. Perfect for me since I only have 2 feet to work 3 pedals, but we haven't driven it for awhile till he decides to look at it. And since it's gonna get fixed on Tom's schedule, well it could be awhile..After all he's fine driving my blazer daily. I don't go anywhere during the day, if I want to go somewhere he takes me after work.

I slept through the major holidays didn't even get to go to see Baby Devin cause I was so sick. It really sucked.

Tomorrow night Tom goes for his sleep study. I requested that they take and SHOW him the video of him snoring. Since he will tell everyone that he doesn't snore. She said she would show him. She sounds so nice, I hope that he sleeps there and not stay up all night chatting.. Someone told me that they knew someone who's hubby sat up all night and chatted. That could be Tom.

He had all the blood work done and I guess the results were ok, cause they didn't call us back about them. After the sleep study he goes on the 21st of January for the followup doctor visit. So tomorrow night I will be stuck with Doggy Diva. He will be gone from 9pm-6am for this test. The hard part will be keeping him from taking his nap after dinner. You know if you feed him he will go to sleep. After dinner he sleeps till about 8:20pm - when Diva Dog gets him up to go for her ice cream snack before the store closes. She has it all figured out. And she has him well trained.


The problem is going to be, what am I gonna do at nights if he starts sleeping all night. We're so used to getting up in the middle of the night, that I will be lost if he sleeps straight through the night.


It's been cold here -




the marina is frozen, it hasn't melted in a few days, That is a horrible sound of the boat crunching the ice when you move the boat. it's probably only a 1/2 inch thick, but still an eerie sound. Soon I figure we can go ice fishing. It's not suppose to warm up the rest of this week. It's cold enough that even Tom is wearing a coat..Being cold is bad enough but some days we are given winds of 35-50mph. That is when you feel the coldness...

Sunday our water froze, I didn't leave the water drip during the night, it didn't thaw out till about 3 on sunday. At least we had back up water in the tank that we could use. While it's cold outside we are nice and toasty inside. We went and got a propane heater that keeps the place warm. while we don't pay for electric - we don't have enough power to run heaters without throwing the breakers, so we had to get the propane heater. We can go about 5 days on 20 lbs of propane.. (do you measure propane in pounds or gallons? either way it's 20something).. At least we are warm inside.


When we went to get the propane heater we got a doggy sitter - and went to Lowes, they had the heater but not the fittings to hook up the tank, that is when Tom walked out of the store without me while I was reasoning with the people there. They said that usually people hire people to hook them up so they don't carry those parts. All I did was ask "isn't this a do-it-yourself store?" and that is when Tom left me. So we went to Virginia to find a Home Depot. We didn't have much luck cause the bridges were icy up there, so Virgina Opened all the drawbridges and created a huge traffic jam. I guess it saves on Salt cause instead of salting the bridges, they just opened them.

PERFECTLY LOGICAL... sheesh.