Well I will start with an update on mine and Nate's life...... We are still just working as hard as ever trying to survive school and still in love as ever! Some great news is I GOT A JOB! Wahooooo! I work @ Kolob Regional Center. It is a care center/rehab. We have long term residents and then short term patients that are recovering from surgery's and need to be watched for a few weeks. When I did my CNA clinicals I never wanted to return to a care center, but Kolob is very nice and clean and organized, and what can get better than the elderly people! That was the bonus of the job was getting to spend time with the elderly. I absolutely LOVE "old people" every where we go I some how always find the cutest old people. So this job is great. I have worked a week, and already it is much better than clinicals were. So I now tease Nate that I am his " Sugga Momma". :) It's the truth!! Some other great news about this last month was Taylor Swifts new CD came out!!! Nate and I are huge fans so we counted down the days for it. If you haven't gotten it WE highly recommend it! Also we are going to be a new aunt and uncle to not just 1 but 2 little boys!! Brock and Krista are expecting a little boy on March 15, and then Danny and Brittney are expecting also a boy on March 30th!!! We are so excited for both of them to arrive.
Well now some of the many fun times that we have had lately............. spike hunting, deer hunting, family time, friends, Halloween, and many more!!
Now the not so good news..... Well long story short, I was on birth control this spring and summer and during that time I would get terrible knock me out migranes. Now when I was young I would get the occasional 1-2 a year, but at nothing like this. I would have at least one a month and then it got to every 2 weeks and then toward the end of July it was getting as bad as once a week!! Every Wednesday or Thursday I could count on a migrane which would cause me not being able to see well, black in one eye, numbness, and so dizzy I could barley walk. I would just have to lay down and sleep for hours, and the day after it felt like I was hit by a bus. After so many my mom finally believed me that there was something wrong and figured it had to be the birth control. So I immediately got off birth control. This whole time my grandma Phyllis was sure I had a brain tumor, so my mom turned into doctor mode and figured out I needed an MRI and now they do an echocardiogram of the heart to make sure that the Patent Foramen Ovale(PFO) An opening in the right atrium of the heart that is open when your a fetus, but is suppose to close after birth.) They are now testing for this becuase they are linking migranes to being some how related to this opening in the heart. It sends deoxygenized blood up to the brain which they think triggers the migranes. So after many tests they came to the conclusion that I had a small PFO or Atrial septal defect in my heart. So on November 8th we had a cardiologist appoitment up north to see how bad is was and if I needed to get it fixed. Well after getting tests once again they found out it was much bigger than they thought. One of the tests like I said earlier is an echocardiogram with a bubble test study. Through an IV they send thousands of little bubbles to your heart and you are suppose to only see them in the right atrium, well nope not with me. There are just as many or double flowing into the left atrium. ( not good). My PFO is rated 5+/5 which is the worse, and the highest risk of a stroke with a PFO. 10% of the population have a PFO. So yes that means surgery!!! One of the nurses said well I have some good news and bad news. Good news is your heart looks healthy, bad news is that there is a hole in it. GREAT!! So after talking to the cardiologist he explained that the birth control was enhanching my hormones and enough estrogen that was really causing problems and triggering all these migranes, and I was throwing little blood clots up to my brain. All my migrane symptoms were serious stroke symptoms. He said If I would have gotten pregnant I would have had a 60% chance of having a stroke, even with 2 shots a day of heparin. After all of this of him saying how bad it is he asks, " So do you want the surgery or do you want to talk about it?" Ugh... well you pretty much said I will have a stroke without it so DUH YES I WANT IT! We laughed about that for hours after! So I will be having surgery December 21st, not the Christmas I planned, but no school and time to relax. It's not open heart surgery any more luckily! They will put me out and put a catheter up my femoral artery and go up to the heart, see how big it is and then they but a little device in it that looks like an umbrella to cover the hole and hopefully heal me up!!! I only have to stay in the hospital over night and then take it easy for a month so I will take that rather than a stroke!! :) So for now I am taking things easy and keeping a good attitude about this so called hole in my heart! I am just blessed they can fix it, and the technology they have now a day's. I find my self to be pretty lucky to have been on birth control and nothing too serious happened. I hope this fixes everything!! Below they show how they fix it... the device! Bottom Picture.....
