Sorry for the boring posts about my own health, but here’s another.

Still don’t know what’s wrong with me. Both the EEG and MRI were good. My mom had me go to her doctor who thinks I might have a pinched nerve; I think there’s too much going on for it to be a pinched nerve. He ordered another MRI, this time of my lower back (lumbar spine actually), which I had done yesterday and won’t know the results until Monday. It hurt laying in there, it didn’t make me dizzy like the one of my head though.

The neurologist I saw prescribed an anti-anxiety medicine that I’ve been taking since Monday. I haven’t been taking it twice a day like he said be cause if I did I wouldn’t be able to go to school, it makes me too sleepy. He really gave it to me to help with my heart rate being so high and to help the tremor in my arm, I think it’s helped the tremor some, but not my heart rate. The tremor is only bad when my legs (and now my back and arms) are bothering me a lot, the tremor I can live with, it’s the other that needs to be taken care of.

It started with strange pains in both legs and a warm feeling as if I had applied Icy Hot all over them combined with the feeling you get after a cramp in your legs just went away. Then add to that that when I sit down everything from my hips down would start to go numb (no tingling, just some loss of sensation), then it even started happening laying or standing. Now the numbness has gone up my back with some pain as well and the past two days my legs keep feeling like they’re about to cramp but they never do. I just want to find out what’s wrong so something can be done about it.

Well, I haven’t been feeling well. It’s hard to explain but my legs hurt all the time and I have what the doctor called “tremors” in my arm. I went straight to the doctor after school Wednesday, my doctor sent me to a neurologist, the neurologist talked to my doctor and they wanted to admit me to the hospital for testing, but I said I didn’t want that. The compromise is outpatient tests, so I’ve had a lot of blood drawn, yesterday I had an EEG, and today I’m having an MRI, but I won’t know anything from them until Monday.
I don’t want to miss too much school, I’m hoping to be able to go back Monday for one class but Tuesday I have 4 classes and it’s just really hard to sit still for very long (not that standing or moving is much better).

In other news, I wasn’t expecting Romney to drop out and I’m surprised (maybe even glad) at how well Huckabee is doing now. Should I speculate on who should team up together? McCain and Romney? No, they are at each other’s throats and aside from that I still don’t think they would make a good combination. Huckabee and Romney? I could live with that; it could work. McCain and Huckabee? This is my favorite combination, I would love to see them run together. What about Giuliani? I would only be in favor of Giuliani as VP if it was with someone very conservative, like Huckabee, McCain and Giuliani would be too left of right for me.

1. My cousin, Luke gets in very serious car accident.
2. Our pastor falls down an 8-foot embankment.
3. My great-aunt has a stroke.
4. My mom’s cousin has a heart attack.

It’s everything all at once and just so overwhelming. Times like this you can’t help but wonder why; I need to read The Problem of Pain again. I know we need to just have faith an know that God is in control, but at the same time I feel so helpless.

The most serious is still Luke. Bro. Crabtree is still recovering, but God has healed his major injuries. My great-aunt is doing fine, they caught it in enough time and they think that it is related to her medicine. I don’t know much about my mom’s cousin Peanut’s (yes, Peanut) heart attack, we just found out today.

Luke has been heavily sedated, basically in a medically induced coma, for just over 3 weeks now. Can you imagine losing weeks of your life? His wounds are serious, but the doctor says he’s young and it is definitely something he can recover from he just has a rocky road to get there. He’ll be in Shand’s for at least another couple weeks. We’ve been going to see him at least once a week, I wish there was some way to comfort him and that there was something we could do to help him.

Until last week the way they had him sedated, they said he might could still hear us or know that we were there, even though he wouldn’t remember later that was still comforting. And there were also reducing ever-so-often, to check if he was responsive, which he was and that’s very good to know. But the type of sedation they’re using now, they say he’s completely unaware. He has an infection called VRE and Pneumonia, but they were anticipating both, so it’s nothing unusual for his situation. His wounds are healing so that’s good. They talked about moving him into a regular room this week. We just have to keep praying! The church in Gainesville that belongs to the same organization as the one my (more immediate) family goes to has been very nice also. The youth pastor went to visit Luke and prayed for him, and they also sent a nice care package to the part of the family that is staying there. Who knows maybe it will spark an positive interest in our church for the other side of his family.

Jesus be with him, give him strength, comfort, and healing!

I’ve been in a lot of pain the last few days and this rain isn’t helping my arthritis either.

I still haven’t found anyone that is 100% sure they will go to Cornerstone with me. I’m going anyway though. I’m tired of things in my life relying on someone else, and I’m tired of telling people I’m going to be somewhere and then canceling. If I can’t find someone to go I guess I’ll just sell my other ticket to someone else.

So I wrote my article on Mothers Day, but now my professor wants me to write on campus security instead. I would kind of like to know how my article was though, but I didn’t ask. I didn’t think it was great but I always think that about most of my writing. Actually if I do think something I did is great no one else does. It had some good ideas in it though.
Writing about campus security is okay though, but it means I have to talk to people. Actually it wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t feel like it were so last minute; rough drafts were already due Monday, and I still have all my work to do for this week too. I am glad she gave me some email addresses for people to contact, hopefully I can get some of it done that way.

So what I didn’t mention in my last post is that my dad got fired. He’s telling people he retired. He hasn’t found another job yet and he’s around more to annoy me.

My mom and I had made plans to do some Christmas shopping in Destin on Wednesday. Before leaving town we went to Grease Pro where I got my oil changed, it was due. They had coffee in the waiting room.

I was afraid to drink it, no telling how long it had been there. After the oil change and a full tank of gas we were on our way.

We ate at Hard Rock for lunch, where I attempted the Legendary 10oz. Burger.

I think I put a good dent in it.

Then we went next door to Books-a-Million and quickly spent $120. And that is where our luck ended.

We didn’t find anything even worth trying at any other stores, but that’s nothing compared to the trip home. I had told my mom a little earlier that I thought my car had been acting funny and she noticed it too…while trying to get up to 65 on the highway, my clutch gave out, we were able to roll across 3 lanes an intersection and another road and park at a gas station. There we waited an hour and a half for a tow truck and my sister to pick us up. The whole time my mom is going “At least it’s not a big deal like the transmission,” and I’m like “trust me, it’s a big deal.” And I am proved right with $1300 to pay in repairs. Merry Christmas.