Month: November 2007

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BlahBlahBabble

The Latest…

Surgery is scheduled for tomorrow, at 1pm. The fibroids are not visible on the ultrasound now, and the ovarian cyst is gone. However, I have a very thick and enlarged uterus, and still have very bad bleeding. My body has no iron reserves at all. The bleeding has to be stopped. Due to the very enlarged uterus, I can not have the ablation, there is a size limit for the uterus. The last option is a hysterectomy.

I won’t lie. I am really not thrilled. I know it is the right thing to do though.

I will most likely be here through Sunday or Monday, depending on how it all goes. I will ask Mike to post an update for me.

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BlahBlahBabble

Hello from the hospital!

I had an appointment still with the cardiologist yesterday, originally for surgery clearance. I did not want the Lupron without her approval. I asked Mike to drive me there because I had been getting pretty dizzy. Good thing I did that, because I basically fainted right after I got in the car.

The rest of the day went downhill from there.

We decided that the take iron and the Lupron option was not going to work. It would take at least 2 weeks to start to recover my iron stores. Obviously, I could not stay so weak that long, I would have been at risk for shock and other issues. Plus the Lupron can cause blood pressure problems. My original OB not only disagreed when we called him, he was quite rude about it.

So my doctor called on a different OB and got me in to see him right away.

That doctor saw me and immediately admitted me to the hospital for a blood trsnsfusion. We will be doing surgery on Friday most likely; the ultrasound results from late last night will tell us more. The transfusion helped a LOT and I feel much better today compared to yesterday!

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Amuse Me

24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot…

OMG. OMG. OMG. (by the way, I do actually say OMG out loud, so it has gone beyond online for me.) This is THE FUNNIEST VIDEO I have seen in awhile. Kenny was telling Mike & I about it on Saturday before Elaine & I left for wedding #2, but … WOW. It is just too funny!

You don’t have to watch 24 at all to get how hysterical this is. Amazing how things have changed in 13 years, isn’t it? I actually had to watch it twice to catch it all – I totally missed the GeoCities reference the first time. Whoo hoo! GeoCities! I was a Community Leader back in the day, and even got 10 free shares of stock when they went public, later sold for $1000 and put towards a down payment on my 1999 Civic.

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Abducted by Aliens

Postponed.

Surgery is postponed. It seems that having a Hemoglobin of 7.7, when about 12.2 is normal, is not an advised way to go into surgery. I’m officially quite anemic. Too much of a risk for a need for transfusions, and just my body is too weak in general.

However, we need to stop the bleeding – obviously – before it gets even worse. So the possible solution for that? Lupron. Chemical menopause. Once my cardiologist approves, that is. Good thing I have a pre-op appointment for tomorrow with her, although it is going from a pre-op appointment to a “what is ok to do next” appointment.

I am *so* over all of this. Sigh.

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Picture Time

How to Feel Like a Rockstar…

How to Feel like a Rockstar...

I wish this photo wasn’t blurry, but it is … and yet I think it is a PERFECT capture of exactly how we were all feeling at that very moment.

Elaine & I wrapped up shooting our Saturday (11/10/07) wedding, which started at 8am, at 3:45pm. I drove over to her house (on the way home) to back up my copy of her compact flash card. While we sat there chatting, she pointed out that we had both received a direct Twitter message asking if we wanted to shoot a reception *last tonight* for Dan, the owner of BarStool magazine. (We have done photo shoots for them in the past.)

We were puzzled, and I am normally pretty set in only one event per weekend for our sanity, but I decided to make the call.

Turns out that Dan was trying to find a photographer and was doing so to help out his best friend who had their wedding photographer NO SHOW for the wedding.

For a rather expensive wedding package. (Based on the prices on their website.) Where they took the time to collect the final payment 30 days ago, but were completely unavailable yesterday. No phone call. NOTHING. No response to a number of voice mail messages. They just were not there.

We were 40 minutes away, and the wedding was supposed to start in 15 minutes. They HELD the wedding for us, and we drove *fast* across Houston to pick up the ball.

As we walked in the door, we were greeted like heros. I love this shot, taken as I walked in the door where you can see the mom with her hands up in glee in the background, and the bride looks SO thrilled that we were there. We were cheered on the rest of the night.

I should toss in here that I had an engagement session at 9am this morning. And wedding #2 ended at midnight last night. (I begged Mike to drive me to the engagement session so I could just veg out in the car.)

I’m glad we did it though. Really, I had to do it though because a photographer not showing up for my wedding would have been my worst nightmare. I would have freaked out. I had to help her out – I couldn’t leave her stranded.

What a crazy night. But so wonderful and amazing. Man, crazy, crazy night.

Elaine, you are AWESOME and *THANK YOU* for going with me last night. I could NOT have done it without YOU.