Thursday, November 12, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
Benjamin and Krissy
Benjamin's surgeon felt that he needed to be in surgery right away this morning, and I believe Ben just got out. He had a hernia that was constricting the bowel (this is only what I've heard from Jamie, who has been at the hospital all night, so if it's not right that's why.)Benjamin hopefully is getting better and will be home soon.
Krissy needs some prayer today. Yesterday was good until last night, lots of screaming and destructive and painful (ouch) behavior, we had our police officer friend over at that time, which was a little embarrassing to have him there to help with fixing Krissy's room (she chiseled away her look and cut some wires) while Krissy was being so bad. Though it was kind of nice for him to be there, not only cuz he's like a ninja and can take Krissy down a lot easier than we could, but so that he knows that we aren't making this up. This morning was pretty bad too, I woke up at about 8:30 and she was screaming and molly was trying to calm her down, I mostly just sat at the top of the stairs until I felt I was needed, then I cam and helped control her (again, ouch) I believe by the end of this week my ears are going to just have a constant ringing in them and we will be out of Advil. Thankfully, Krissy calmed down after I let her listen to some music that she likes (Justin Bieber haha) and she is now in school. She will be home in about 35 minutes so please pray for Jamie and I as we will be taking care of her. Thanks guys.
Krissy needs some prayer today. Yesterday was good until last night, lots of screaming and destructive and painful (ouch) behavior, we had our police officer friend over at that time, which was a little embarrassing to have him there to help with fixing Krissy's room (she chiseled away her look and cut some wires) while Krissy was being so bad. Though it was kind of nice for him to be there, not only cuz he's like a ninja and can take Krissy down a lot easier than we could, but so that he knows that we aren't making this up. This morning was pretty bad too, I woke up at about 8:30 and she was screaming and molly was trying to calm her down, I mostly just sat at the top of the stairs until I felt I was needed, then I cam and helped control her (again, ouch) I believe by the end of this week my ears are going to just have a constant ringing in them and we will be out of Advil. Thankfully, Krissy calmed down after I let her listen to some music that she likes (Justin Bieber haha) and she is now in school. She will be home in about 35 minutes so please pray for Jamie and I as we will be taking care of her. Thanks guys.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Benjamin
The Dr. said that they are going to attempt to avoid surgery by fixing the problem in a non surgical way and when they take the x-rays tomorrow, it looks good, then they will continue that treatment, however, if it isn't improving they will operate on him soon.
Benjamin
My little brother had to be admitted to the hospital today. He's had a bowel obstruction and will be going into surgery soon.
On a happier note, Krissy is doing much better. I had to babysit her alone for about an hour earlier and it went fine. Of course I let her skate in the kitchen, let her eat a bowl of sugar, and gave her a doughnut, but hey, whatever keeps her happy.
Would greatly appreciate prayers. Thanks
On a happier note, Krissy is doing much better. I had to babysit her alone for about an hour earlier and it went fine. Of course I let her skate in the kitchen, let her eat a bowl of sugar, and gave her a doughnut, but hey, whatever keeps her happy.
Would greatly appreciate prayers. Thanks
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Krissy
Hey
So I don't know if you read Krissy's blog, or even if you read this one but I'll pretend like you atleast read this one so I feel like I'm not wasting time writing to no one. Anyway, please read Krissy's blog sometime, my mom write way more on there than I do on here. Krissy is being awful, the worst she has ever been, like ever. Which says a lot, I mean like way too much. I'm not really wanting to type out everything going on, but I'll mention a little bit so you can have a peak into our world right now. Basically she's bad enough that the possibilities that we've had to factor in include putting her on some sort of drug(s)(Not meaning like drugs lol, but like put-her-in-a-coma-for-a-few-days-hopefully kind of drug or an antipsychotic. Another option that we've had to consider is putting her in an institution. Like psych ward. Both of these options are pretty lame options for her. When she was on antipsychotics when she was younger they made her feel sad and cry alot and she gained alot of weight, so we have been trying to avoid those for the last few years, though we may stop avoiding it soon. And putting her in a psych ward could potentially mess her up alot more, some bad stuff can happen there I've heard, and my parents are definitely against the idea, though we need to keep her safe and my family, mostly Benjamin, safe. Yesterday at about 5:30 Jamie woke up to the sound of Krissy screaming and ripping off her walls(yes, I just said that)the walls are made of "indestructible" material and is supposed to "become one with the walls" so it will be "absolutely impossible" for her to take off. Ha ha, no. So much for a $12,000 room that the state paid for, lame for them. Anywho. That was at 5:30 am. I woke up at 10:30(which is early for me) to the sound of her *still screaming. Jamie was a trooper and was with her the whole time, as were my parents. Krissy was really um, loud. One of the most effective wake up calls I've gotten, even more so than when someone flips my mattress upside down, however, not super pleasant to say the least. I stayed in bed listening to her scream for about 20 minutes then heard her stop, I sat up, but I by then I realized that she stopped screaming so she could focus on destroying something. Which I contemplated maybe going back to bed to wake up to a better day but when I hear my mum yelling for my dad I decided that I probably should go and help like a normal sister(wait, normal? Nevermind that. Maybe just a good one). I go run downstairs and see my mum sitting, indeed sitting, on Krissy. Which actually is rather effective if you wish not to go into hand to hand combat with her (which by the way is rather painful). The day never really went too much better than that, though, Thank goodness, Anne Dunlop let me come to rehearsals though I wasn't called and Jamie and I spent the night at the Wright's. Such a wonderful thing. We stayed with them all day today and went to church with them and my parents brought us home. David said that Krissy was alot worse today than yesterday, which I doubted was possible, but hey, with Krissy all things are possible (I know, not the best way to put it. With God all things are possible, but with Krissy a whole lot more is possible than with most of us. While we were sitting in church singing it hit me that I have to go back home and I actually started crying a little. Home isn't fun when you're worried about psych wards, and attempting to keep your family safe from your little sister. I'm not trying to complain, I don't normally, honest. This is just abnormal.
If you would pray for Krissy and the rest of my family members that would be wonderful. oh, and hugs are great too. =)
So I don't know if you read Krissy's blog, or even if you read this one but I'll pretend like you atleast read this one so I feel like I'm not wasting time writing to no one. Anyway, please read Krissy's blog sometime, my mom write way more on there than I do on here. Krissy is being awful, the worst she has ever been, like ever. Which says a lot, I mean like way too much. I'm not really wanting to type out everything going on, but I'll mention a little bit so you can have a peak into our world right now. Basically she's bad enough that the possibilities that we've had to factor in include putting her on some sort of drug(s)(Not meaning like drugs lol, but like put-her-in-a-coma-for-a-few-days-hopefully kind of drug or an antipsychotic. Another option that we've had to consider is putting her in an institution. Like psych ward. Both of these options are pretty lame options for her. When she was on antipsychotics when she was younger they made her feel sad and cry alot and she gained alot of weight, so we have been trying to avoid those for the last few years, though we may stop avoiding it soon. And putting her in a psych ward could potentially mess her up alot more, some bad stuff can happen there I've heard, and my parents are definitely against the idea, though we need to keep her safe and my family, mostly Benjamin, safe. Yesterday at about 5:30 Jamie woke up to the sound of Krissy screaming and ripping off her walls(yes, I just said that)the walls are made of "indestructible" material and is supposed to "become one with the walls" so it will be "absolutely impossible" for her to take off. Ha ha, no. So much for a $12,000 room that the state paid for, lame for them. Anywho. That was at 5:30 am. I woke up at 10:30(which is early for me) to the sound of her *still screaming. Jamie was a trooper and was with her the whole time, as were my parents. Krissy was really um, loud. One of the most effective wake up calls I've gotten, even more so than when someone flips my mattress upside down, however, not super pleasant to say the least. I stayed in bed listening to her scream for about 20 minutes then heard her stop, I sat up, but I by then I realized that she stopped screaming so she could focus on destroying something. Which I contemplated maybe going back to bed to wake up to a better day but when I hear my mum yelling for my dad I decided that I probably should go and help like a normal sister(wait, normal? Nevermind that. Maybe just a good one). I go run downstairs and see my mum sitting, indeed sitting, on Krissy. Which actually is rather effective if you wish not to go into hand to hand combat with her (which by the way is rather painful). The day never really went too much better than that, though, Thank goodness, Anne Dunlop let me come to rehearsals though I wasn't called and Jamie and I spent the night at the Wright's. Such a wonderful thing. We stayed with them all day today and went to church with them and my parents brought us home. David said that Krissy was alot worse today than yesterday, which I doubted was possible, but hey, with Krissy all things are possible (I know, not the best way to put it. With God all things are possible, but with Krissy a whole lot more is possible than with most of us. While we were sitting in church singing it hit me that I have to go back home and I actually started crying a little. Home isn't fun when you're worried about psych wards, and attempting to keep your family safe from your little sister. I'm not trying to complain, I don't normally, honest. This is just abnormal.
If you would pray for Krissy and the rest of my family members that would be wonderful. oh, and hugs are great too. =)
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Happy Birthday
It is Benjamin's 10th birthday today. This is his second time being in the hospital on his b-day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HULfASEDb70
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HULfASEDb70
Monday, September 14, 2009
Benjamin
Benjamin got re-admitted to the OHSU this earlier today. My mom will be posting updates on the blog that I mentioned in my last post.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Benjamin
Hey
Ben is in the hospital and this is a copy and pasted paragraph from my mom's blog about how ben is doing.
Well, we're heading in the right direction here. Benjamin has had alot of IV fluid and his labs are cruising back into normal ranges. We found out that he doesn't have mono, one interesting idea they looked into. They seem to like the theory that he has had some virus in his mouth and throat that caused him pain and unwillingness to eat and the initial sickness. As time went on, he became so off balance with his electrolytes (his ostomy is a real wild card when it comes to these illnesses and can get him into trouble quickly) that it became a cycle where he was just unable to take in adequate fluids. It's reassuring to see him sitting up playing with toys in the crib this afternoon, though it's still going to take some coaxing to get him to drink.
Last night his white blood count was a little high and his BUM, which "normally" is about 16, was up to 59. Now it is back down to normal and seems to be getting better =)
thanks for praying =)
Ben is in the hospital and this is a copy and pasted paragraph from my mom's blog about how ben is doing.
Well, we're heading in the right direction here. Benjamin has had alot of IV fluid and his labs are cruising back into normal ranges. We found out that he doesn't have mono, one interesting idea they looked into. They seem to like the theory that he has had some virus in his mouth and throat that caused him pain and unwillingness to eat and the initial sickness. As time went on, he became so off balance with his electrolytes (his ostomy is a real wild card when it comes to these illnesses and can get him into trouble quickly) that it became a cycle where he was just unable to take in adequate fluids. It's reassuring to see him sitting up playing with toys in the crib this afternoon, though it's still going to take some coaxing to get him to drink.
Last night his white blood count was a little high and his BUM, which "normally" is about 16, was up to 59. Now it is back down to normal and seems to be getting better =)
thanks for praying =)
Monday, September 7, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Disneyland
My mom and Krissy are off to California tomorrow! I'm really excited for them, and us too actually. Two of krissy's caregivers are going with them, so hopefully the 3 to 1 ratio will work fine. Last time it was 9 to 1. lol =P They are going to be gone for 5 days and will come back on Krissy's 12th birthday. =) I'm redecorating my room while they are gone and hopefully will have it done before they come back. I'm painting, getting rid of some furniture and getting new flooring. Maybe I'll post some before and after pictures..
Friday, August 21, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
I didn't write this =)
"Remember when being high meant swinging on the playground,
When wisdom meant wearing a helmet and looking both ways,
Dads shoulders were the highest place on earth and mom was a hero,
enemies were your siblings.
Race issues were about running the fastest.
War was a fun card game.
And the only drug you knew of was cough medicine.
The worst pain you have ever felt was when you had skinned your knees,
and goodbyes only meant until tomorrow,
And yet we couldnt wait to grow up"
Why did we want that?
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Haircuts! =)
I got my hair cut today! =) For the first time...like, ever! It's not short, but I think it looks alot different....=) Jamie got her's cut too...they took SO much hair off of her's..the dresser told her that she has enough hair for 5 people =P...So now she has mor of a "normal" one person amount of hair....and it's quite a bit shorter...It looks really good on her! If I get pictures of us I'll post them.
=)
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Me and my little bro
I've realized that alot of my friends don't know who my younger siblings are...
This is my little brother Benjamin...but we just call him Ben
Monday, June 8, 2009
Wow... I haven't posted in forever on this blog!!
Well, Willy wonka is done.... It was an amazing show... I didn't realize what a good show it was until the last show.... It felt like an opening night, except it was closing... =(..... But we finished with great memories! I miss out the show alot though.
Friday, April 10, 2009
"And the moral of the story today is: Never put live goldfish in your schools toilets and see what happens when your pirinciple finds out. But if you do choose to do so, do not involve Jamie in it because she will start crying in chapel and go confess to the principle. And if you chose to tell Jamie and actually have her help, make sure that she doesn't tell the prinicple about you being the one who actually did it. If all of these suggestions fail, buy your principle a package of goldfish."
I think that this pretty much sums up my school day.
No further comment.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Snow again....? It feels like Narnia
Yes.... more snow. When I woke up this morning I realized that it was really bright... probably because the snow was reflecting the light..... and I looked outside.. and WALLA..... narnia.
As most of you know, my younger brother, Benjamin, has been in the hospital sinse Wednesday, then had surgery on Thursday. He is starting get better... for a while, he was doing pretty bad, but my mom says that he is getting better. We are thinking that he will probably be in the hospital until about Friday or so. So if you all would please continue praying for him, that would be great!
Man, I'm so excited for this weekend with all of the shows! It's gonna be insane, but I think we will all have alot of fun!!
Hopefully we will still have classes tonight.. but if now, I'll see y'all on friday!!
As most of you know, my younger brother, Benjamin, has been in the hospital sinse Wednesday, then had surgery on Thursday. He is starting get better... for a while, he was doing pretty bad, but my mom says that he is getting better. We are thinking that he will probably be in the hospital until about Friday or so. So if you all would please continue praying for him, that would be great!
Man, I'm so excited for this weekend with all of the shows! It's gonna be insane, but I think we will all have alot of fun!!
Hopefully we will still have classes tonight.. but if now, I'll see y'all on friday!!
Friday, January 16, 2009
Ahh!! run through is tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh goodness! I'm so excited to run the show and move into the theatre!!! YAY!! I'm kinda nervous though too... because we open a week from today!! It seems like we just had auditions.... It's gone by really fast... but it hasn't been that long either. Anyway, I hope we all remember the dances and stuff.... let's not have any repeats of Golden Arrow, shall we? =P
I'm super excited for this weekend!!! It will be crazy.. but so so fun! I love the Barlow theater... I love that HUGE hallway that Claire and I would slide down at intermission during Robin Hood..... running into walls is a big no no.....
I prolly should get to bed.. it's almost midnight.... lol... maybe I'll do some math though...nah..idk...aw well!
See most of you tomorrow!!....er.. today!!
"If every cloud has a silver lining, wouldn't the darkest could's silver lining shine through more brilliatnly than the rest?"
Anne Julian
I'm super excited for this weekend!!! It will be crazy.. but so so fun! I love the Barlow theater... I love that HUGE hallway that Claire and I would slide down at intermission during Robin Hood..... running into walls is a big no no.....
I prolly should get to bed.. it's almost midnight.... lol... maybe I'll do some math though...nah..idk...aw well!
See most of you tomorrow!!....er.. today!!
"If every cloud has a silver lining, wouldn't the darkest could's silver lining shine through more brilliatnly than the rest?"
Anne Julian
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
It's late... er....EARLY
I know... I know!!! I should go to bed on a school night.... But I had aton of homework to do.... so I had caffeine to keep me up.... I didn't exactly want to be up at 2:40 though..... aw well (something to do with the architecture of bridges...idk).Hopefully I won't be TOO tired tomorrow...... ugh.. never mind.. I probably will be anyway! I'll go to bed SOON though! hah
So... today (or yesterday.. whatev you want to call it)was the first day of CYT classes!!! I'm so excited about my class! I'm in improv, and our teacher is so funny.... quite a character. We won't be bored in this class! :D
Life has been pretty busy for me lately with school and stuff like that, but it's going pretty well. Krissy is doing pretty good.... she did try to run away the other night though... but I caught up to her before she got too far... so it wasn't too bad.... thankfully!
Tomorrow or today...er...Wednesday, I have school..... and I'm hoping that I won't fall asleep in science class.... people tend to.... we don't have a very..um... entertaining... science teacher... to say the least. lol!
So... today (or yesterday.. whatev you want to call it)was the first day of CYT classes!!! I'm so excited about my class! I'm in improv, and our teacher is so funny.... quite a character. We won't be bored in this class! :D
Life has been pretty busy for me lately with school and stuff like that, but it's going pretty well. Krissy is doing pretty good.... she did try to run away the other night though... but I caught up to her before she got too far... so it wasn't too bad.... thankfully!
Tomorrow or today...er...Wednesday, I have school..... and I'm hoping that I won't fall asleep in science class.... people tend to.... we don't have a very..um... entertaining... science teacher... to say the least. lol!
Sunday, January 4, 2009
SNOW!!! .......again
It's snowing again...... I'm not sure if I'm to thrilled about that or not though..... If school is cancelled... than YAY!!!! But if not..... ugh. I'm REALLY hoping that CYT classes don't get cancelled though!! That would be SO sad!
I had a prettty good weekend! Claire and Grant came over to our house!!!! It was really fun!! Grant made us laugh alot!! But he wasn't the only hyper one!! We laughed so much!..... not a good thing in church..... not that we would do that.. well.. nevermin
d.. let's just say it had something to do with somebody whispering something in the others ear.. and it was misunderstood... HAH!... and then there was the accordion... but THAT's another story!
Ethan came over and spent the night too! So that was fun! He stole my ice cream though... but that's a whole new story.... SO.. we went and played X-box.... I failed miserably to say the least. W were playing "Fusion Frenzy"... I lost every game.... except one!! .... there was another game that I was about to win.. but then David restarted it! Grr... lol. It was kinda funny.. in a annoying way... :)
This will probably be my last blog for a while..... with school and stuff... life can get SUPER busy! I will try to blog every now and then though.... Not like anyone is reading it though... hah! Well... I don't know if anyone is reading this blog... But I will see you all on Tuesday... if the snow is gone!
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I had a prettty good weekend! Claire and Grant came over to our house!!!! It was really fun!! Grant made us laugh alot!! But he wasn't the only hyper one!! We laughed so much!..... not a good thing in church..... not that we would do that.. well.. nevermin
d.. let's just say it had something to do with somebody whispering something in the others ear.. and it was misunderstood... HAH!... and then there was the accordion... but THAT's another story!Ethan came over and spent the night too! So that was fun! He stole my ice cream though... but that's a whole new story.... SO.. we went and played X-box.... I failed miserably to say the least. W were playing "Fusion Frenzy"... I lost every game.... except one!! .... there was another game that I was about to win.. but then David restarted it! Grr... lol. It was kinda funny.. in a annoying way... :)
This will probably be my last blog for a while..... with school and stuff... life can get SUPER busy! I will try to blog every now and then though.... Not like anyone is reading it though... hah! Well... I don't know if anyone is reading this blog... But I will see you all on Tuesday... if the snow is gone!
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Again.... Happy new year!!!! Whoa... I haven't blogged since last year... yikes! Or seen any of my friends!!! :( But that will soon change!!!!! YAY!
I had a pretty normal-ish(as far as normal can go around my house ..lol) day today. My Grandma is here from Washington! So that's fun! And my Aunt and Uncle from Washington are coming tomorrow to celebrate my uncle's birthday. We keep on celebrating something day after day... and people keep making or bringing more and more food! But I doubt the food will be around very long. I think David is having a growth spurt or something! He eats most of our food! Ya gotta love him though.. :) Speaking of David... he went shopping today!! Hah! We went to Kohls... I was going to help him find some clothes, but there was a realllllly big sale on juniors jeans... so while Jamie and I are shopping, Jamie asks "Um... Anne? Where's David?" And I'm like "I have NO idea! I haven't seen him in the last hour!" So we continued shopping for the next 30 min or so.... and eventually we find David... who by this time had bought aton of clothes! I'm sure he was glad not to have had me help him find anything... I tried earlier and and almost sent him into the women's dressing room accidentally!! Yikes! That would have been an interesting story..... But thankfully there isn't one. Whew! But anyway... There is my epic story of the day... It wasn't very epic though.. Which I'm thankful. I'm sure I will be posting many epic stories on this blog. :)
But anyway.. continuing on.... I have another quote. It isn't perfect... But I decided to post it anyway!
I had a pretty normal-ish(as far as normal can go around my house ..lol) day today. My Grandma is here from Washington! So that's fun! And my Aunt and Uncle from Washington are coming tomorrow to celebrate my uncle's birthday. We keep on celebrating something day after day... and people keep making or bringing more and more food! But I doubt the food will be around very long. I think David is having a growth spurt or something! He eats most of our food! Ya gotta love him though.. :) Speaking of David... he went shopping today!! Hah! We went to Kohls... I was going to help him find some clothes, but there was a realllllly big sale on juniors jeans... so while Jamie and I are shopping, Jamie asks "Um... Anne? Where's David?" And I'm like "I have NO idea! I haven't seen him in the last hour!" So we continued shopping for the next 30 min or so.... and eventually we find David... who by this time had bought aton of clothes! I'm sure he was glad not to have had me help him find anything... I tried earlier and and almost sent him into the women's dressing room accidentally!! Yikes! That would have been an interesting story..... But thankfully there isn't one. Whew! But anyway... There is my epic story of the day... It wasn't very epic though.. Which I'm thankful. I'm sure I will be posting many epic stories on this blog. :)
But anyway.. continuing on.... I have another quote. It isn't perfect... But I decided to post it anyway!
"As I stand in the rain, watching my blue skys come down,
I look for a rainbow.
The bigger the storm, the more brilliantly shining the rainbow will will come.
So I will stand in this storm watching my skys fall down,
looking for the rainbow
to remind me of God's faithfulness and mercy He shows,
Through these storms."
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