Getting ready for 2011
I’m so excited that today is New Years Eve! I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to think that 2011 is right around the corner. Though the first few months are going to be hard still, I love the IDEA that 2010 is gone.
We will still have Uncle Don’s Cancer to pray about, but from the updates I’ve been given things are looking up & it looks like they have a plan for his treatments ready to go. I did find out that the Cancer has spread throughout his neck though which requires even MORE prayer. Cancer I have discovered, is a nasty beast! My Grandmother had Breast Cancer & survived. I didn’t hear much about that. I do know from recent Doctors visits of my own that I will have to be tested for Breast Cancer when I am 35(3 years away). But going through & hearing all the stuff that Uncle Don is going through has opened my eyes wide to the fact that Cancer is something that needs a touch from God to help get rid of. I believe Satan is involved with Cancer. Again, Cancer is a Nasty, Evil Beast! Discribes Satan to a T right? Anyway, I still ask for prayers for him & his family. *Note:Uncle Don is married to my Dad’s sister. That is how we are related & I love them ALL so much it hurts sometimes!*
We are also having to deal with our house back in Lynchburg. We had rented our house to my sister & her family & they have recently moved out. It’s not a happy story & I would rather keep it to myself. But I would like to add that I love my sister & her kids with everything in me. I would obviously do anything for them. I just have to start thinking about my family too. Saying that, we will be going back & forth to Lynchburg to fix up the house. There is lots of painting to do, carpets to replace, floors to replace, & last but certainly not least, the ceilings in 2 rooms have come down because of water damage(something happened to a water pipe upstairs & the ceiling has come down-but that’s a whole different story). Lord knows I would rather give the job to someone else, but it would be cheaper for us to do it all ourselves.
On the up side, with everything we will have to do, we will be doing the things we wanted to do before we moved up here! The house is almost 100 yrs old so a lot of the walls have no insulation in them so because we have to pull down a few walls from water damage & the ceilings as well, we are just going to do the insulation now. Plus the floors can be redone with laminate floors, which will look nice. The original flooring was hard wood, but it’s looking like it’s 100 yrs old! I don’t know, maybe we can sand those down & make them look nice again. We’ll see… The water damage has even gone into the kitchen, so we may have to replace the cabinets too.
But we can’t do anything until we get up there & see the house for ourselves. After everything is done with the house we are thinking about selling it. We still have a lot to talk about though.
Other than my Uncle & the house, we are also have Tyler tested. Neurologically tested. His attitude is off the wall. Some days he is fine & loving & some days he just can’t hold it in. He has been diagnosed with ADHD, but have been wondering if it is something different. We were going to have him tested for Bi Polar, but after talking to the Phsych, she thinks that it may be something Neurological. So he goes in for testing on Jan 31st & the testing is going to take 4 hrs. He’ll miss a full day of school for this, but its worth it! He is also going in to a different Allergist this coming Tues to test him again for his allergies(Lucas too). We are going to see someone different this time. Nathan didn’t like the first one the boys were going to, so I told him he was going to be there this time to ask all HIS questions! So we may even find out if he is allergic to some kind of food that is causing all these mood swings. The Phsych Doc did say that everything we were telling her, even the sensory issues Tyler has, she said it sounded like he was in the spectrum of Autism(apparently the Autistic spectrum is huge). So it will be interesting to see what the results say. Cause if we can figure this out & get on the right track for helping him, maybe the other 2 boys will be easier to handle too. The things that the Doc said were steering her this way was the Sensory things, the fact that he is a WONDERFUL student & getting GREAT grades, & the fact that he blows up when he gets home. She said kids with ADHD don’t just be good in school & get great grades, they can’t control it. So seeing that he is doing so well & then comes home a blows shows her that its Neurological & even in the Autistic spectrum. If any of this makes sense to you, Congrats!!! You know more than I do now!!! 
With everything that we have gone through & will be doing in the next month or so, I trust that God is with me every step of the way. I still have a few things I have to get through, but I still have full Faith in God. He will help us get through everything. Faith is all I have at this point!
Now, if I could find a diet that really works, I would be all set to go!!!
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