Do You Ever Find Yourself Saying...

"If I can just make it through today, everything will calm down."

?????

I think we all have!! lol

I have a very busy day today. Gotta...

~ Pick up some pics for a Mom's Day album I'm doing (yes, I know it's already Thursday and MD is this Sunday. Give the girl a little bit of slack already!)

~ Take some stuff by the church, and pick up some stuff from church about McKenna's Europe trip (which is now like only 3 weeks away!! wow!!)

~ Work this afternoon at a golf tournament here in town, making some money for the aforementioned trip (only thing left to pay is the Bham-NYC plane ticket!)

~ Arrange for someone to pick up D from school, since I will be doing the aforementioned work.

~ Get back to our side of town, to watch Delaney and McKenna's games tonight (Mom and Dad are coming into town to watch them, which I'm excited about!)

If that all gets done, then this evening should be FUN! Delaney's team, which really stunk it up royally for the first half of the season, has a chance to be in a playoff game to win the championship. They gotta win their game tonight and it will happen! (Delaney's pitching has come on strong and it has really made us the team to beat now!)

Stroke Update

Also...I wanted to give you a Gary Update, which I hadn't had a chance to do lately (mostly, because there was no news--even after going to see the assorted doctors several times). But, yesterday he met with his stroke specialist (for those of you new to my blog, or just as a reminder--G had a stroke back in February, and had had another one three years ago, and no one seemed to know what was going on with him, primarily because he's just 41 and people just don't get strokes at 41!) and, lo and behold, he actually had some news to tell him!

Apparently, Gary's MRI showed that he had a super-thin vein in his brain (in the area that he had both of his strokes) that should have been "regular" sized. He's probably had it since he was born, the doctor said.

The solution? He has to take Plavix and an aspirin everyday for the rest of his life and watch out for stressful situations. AND, during the summertime especially, he has to be careful not to get dehydrated. Apparently, dehydration causes your thin veins to shrink even more and can increase the chances of stroke. So, he's advised to drink the equivalent of 5 20-oz bottles of water a day.

I was just SO excited to finally have some sort of reason for why he's had these strokes, instead of him being the Mystery Patient that no one could figure out!

Yesterday, when we were on our way to the pharmacy to renew his blood thinner medication, Sydney asked why Pop had to take medicine. Try explaining a stroke to a three-year-old! LOL But, as I am with everything, I talked to her like she's a little adult and tried to explain it to her. But obviously all the talk of blood vessels and brains really didn't get through to her. Because, when we picked up Delaney from school, this was the conversation.

Sydney: "Delaney, I've got some bad news for you."

Delaney: "What is it?"

Sydney: "Pop's got blood in his body."

Yep, all night long she was obsessed with telling all of us that we have all have blood in our bodies. We tried to tell her that that is a good thing, but it didn't quite work!

(And on a totally different note: Yo, Adrienne!!!! What about "Lost" last night? That episode totally messed with my mind and the end had us literally crying!)

Have a super Thursday! Off to work on my to-do list!!