I saw this title from Aunt Donna on Facebook and thought it was cool so I stole it (and because I can't think of anything original either) but it captures our Holidays pretty well.
Last year we got the wonderful news that Kristan Bond our niece was getting married on the 22 of December and made plans to attend. After that Chantel decided to change her name to Nowlen (that's pronounced KnowLan for anyone who doesn't know Brian yet, which means that pretty much all of my daughters have changed their last names to names that prove that spelling in English makes no sense at all). We told her that she needed to plan her wedding in a way that wouldn't mess up Kristan's wedding.
So here was our schedule. Karen, Linda, Brian and Chantel all left for Lake Jackson to arrive on Monday January 19th to help with Kristan's wedding. I stayed home because I didn't have enough time off to take off the whole week so I flew to Houston on Wednesday morning. The ironic thing was that I was planning to drive to work on Tuesday so that I could get home early enough to visit with my mother Tuesday night before someone drove me to the airport Wednesday morning. Monday that week work was canceled because of snow but usually the roads after a snow are terrible in Santa Fe and I didn't want to deal with the stress of driving up and I was feeling pretty cocky about silver water keeping me healthy so I took two days off sick leave which meant that I didn't go to work that week at all, but spent the first two day's at home. (What does it say in Bible about pride? Oh yeah pride goeth before the fall, but that's a story for later. I'd planned to take a day of sick leave anyway but decided to take another because of the roads.) Kiora was supposed to drive up for the wedding as well, but she and her kids were sick so she didn't come. Karen and Chantel and it seemed like everyone wasa sick.
Karen, Chantel and Brian picked me up at the Houston Airport. It was the smaller airport. I was late getting off the plane because we were parked on the tarmac for half an hour while our slot was cleared out. I was standing on the curb waiting for them to pick me up and Chantel called me to ask where I was and I said I was standing on the curb right as the van they were in drove up and Chantel and I were looking at each other about ten feet away. The wonders of technology. So I jumped in the van with Karen, Chantel and Brian and we drove about 100 miles to pick up Teda and Mark who had come and visited Mark's brother then we drove back to Lake Jackson. The next day was Kristan and Zach's sealing and it was wonderful to see a new eternal family created. Then we all went to lunch at a barbecue place and then we went back to Lake Jackson for the reception.
The next day we took off for Dallas, all 7 of us, Karen, me, Chantel, Brian, Teandra, Mark and Linda. We were supposed to have two vans at this point but since Kiora didn't come we had only one van. I was thinking that we needed to ask Donna and Greg to bring some of our stuff with them but Karen said that she could load everything. Have I ever mentioned that Karen is the greatest packer in the world? Now I think she she's a wizard like in Harry Potter with a tent that has an extra dimension. She was able to pack everything and we were able to drive 6 hours to Sherman without killing each other. This in itself is a testimony of the Gospel and that family's are forever.
We spent Christmas with Kiora's family over Christmas and it was a lot of fun. It's always nice to have Christmas fall on a Sunday. This year I thought was especially special that Pres. Monson said that we only needed to go to Sacrament Meeting. It was very nice to take the Sacrament and remember the Savior in a special way on the day we celebrate His birth.
The next day, Monday, we drove back to Rio Rancho in two vans. This time we had Kiora, Alex, Chio, Ryan, Karen, me, Brian, Chantel, Mark and Teda and the Gospel's still true. Tuesday we had the Sealing of Brian and Chantel as an Eternal Family. By this time Greg and Donna had made the trip from Lake Jackson to witness the sealing and help with the wedding (thus the stealing of the title for this blog), Shawn and Barry had come from Utah to witness the Sealing, Lisa, my sister had come from Arizona to witness the sealing.
It was a wonderful ceremony and Chantel and Brian were ecstatic. However, I came down with a cold. Remember the pride thing.
Then we had to prepare for the Friday reception. Teandra did an amazingly miraculous job decorating the cookies and the cake for the wedding. She was wonderful. And she did an amazing hulu during the wedding for Chantel and Brian. All the family gathered Friday for the decoration of the cultural hall at 9:30 AM. We were extremely grateful for all the help from our friends and family in getting everything arranged. (I'll get some pictures up. I sorta promise. This web stuff is not that hard but it can be confusing to figure it out.)
The Ring Ceremony and Reception was pretty awesome. All of Chantel's sisters were there, and their friends. Brian's brother was there and Brian's mother, friends and family. There are always a lot of family and friends at these things but at this one there were more than usual because it was Christmas. Also, Kristan and Zach showed up for the reception which was cool. I told them that they had to hurry and tell Chantel and Brian all their marriage experience because they were married twice as long as Brian and Chantel were but they would never be in that position again. It just seemed like everything aligned just right and it was a wonderful party. Brian actually had to tell everyone to go home at 8:00. It was kind of funny because I was talking to someone, who I was pretty sure was non-LDS, and I said it looked like the party wasn't dying and he said I would find out at 1:00 when I was trying to get people to go home, and I was thinking that he obviously didn't know about LDS receptions. Iwalani even said that it was her favorite reception, even better than hers. That's a pretty high recommendation.
That Sunday, Jan 1, 2012 everyone got to bless little Corry. That Sunday night we'd invited the missionaries over for dinner and it was the first Sunday of the month so it was the night that we have our family over for dinner. Brian still had his brother visiting and his mother came by and we invited her as well and we ended up having 15 people over for dinner that Sunday night. Then we played "Catch Phrase" and that was a ton of fun.
The only problem was that the cold that I'd caught on Tuesday hung on and I almost totally lost my voice on Friday, the day of the reception, then the cough started. I'd hoped that I'd dodged getting sick this year but I got sick after hanging out with sick people for a whole week. You know, sick people like my grand kids that I hold on my lap and play with (at least that's my excuse). Saturday I tried to stop talking to everyone to handle the coughing then I didn't go to anything but Sacrament Meeting on Sunday so that I wouldn't have to talk to anyone, and that didn't work really well Sunday night during all the family game fun.
The long and short of the story is that we had a Holiday filled with family, friend and lots of traveling and everyone came through it sane and happy. We went from a home filled with 15 people Sunday night to just me tonight. Sadly one of Karen Aunts died over the holidays so Karen and Linda left to Utah for the funeral. I'm home alone tonight with that crappy cold that I get every year, but I went to the doctor today and he said it hasn't gotten into my lungs yet, so it's not bronchitis but sinusitis or something like that. That's good. If I can get over the cold this week and only be sick for a couple of weeks I'm going to count this as a win for the silver water even though I did get sick.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Diet Update and more Colloidal Silver
I hate that diet sems to be the thing that I mostly seem to be writing about on here. However, eating is something that we all have to do and when you have diabetes diet becomes even more critical.
I'm striving to get my blood sugare under control. I seem to be doing pretty good but hopefully I can do better. For a while there I was getting readings below 100 pretty regularly. I then caught a cold, then, apparently have alergies and they kicked up. That was weird because I started coughing on a Friday afternoon at 2:00. I was talking to someone at work when it happened and I thought it was wierd because nothing seemed to cause it. I didn't have a runny nose or anything else, I just started coughing. By that night I could hardly talk and I wasn't able to sleep because when I layed down the coughing got worse. Karen went with me to the doctor the next week and with Karen talking to him they decided that it was probably allergies. That's OK, if that's what it is, because hopefully I'll be able to keep it from turing into an anual case of bronchitus. However, with the possible cold and hay fever making it hard to exercise my BG started getting a little higher.
When I went to the he ran another HbA1c. The first test on 1/25 was 7.6 (171 mg/dl) and this last one on 3/24 was 6.4 (137). That's a pretty good improvement but I was hoping that it was better.
Also I've lost a little wieght, but even more importantly on the scale that Goose gave me that made me fat and stupid it says that I've reduced my body fat percentage by 3%. That pretty good. I've lost about 4 pounds as well. Losing weight can also help me get my BG under control as well. I guess that I'll just have to keep trying the slow and constant method.
I've thought that the HbA1c was an average of 3 months with the last month being a little more influential. My doctor said it gives a reading for the last 2 weeks. I hope that's not right, and since I usually follow what's in the Bernstien book I guess I'll just keep following that. I'm just going to schedule the next test 3 months from now so there won't be any overlap.
I got a rash on my hand that was pretty painful. Iwanlani and Karen said that it was probably exzema. Someone or somewhere I've heard that it is caused by the chickenpox virus. (I thought Nini told me this but she says that she didn't.) I don't know if that true or not, but after a couple of weeks it got worse and was cracked and bleeding. I showed it to Karen for some sypmathy and she asked if I'd poured the silver water accross it. I said that I was going to wash it with the silver water to see if it'd get rid of it. That's wat I did, and by that afternoon it was cracked an bleeding and didn't itch anywhere near as bad. Karen was pretty impressed, and fankly so was I. So fat the silver water seemed to clear up the congestion in my lungs, kept 3 canker sores from getting painful, pretty much a little hole starts in the mought that you know is going to be a canker sore, and the silver water just keeps it there and then it goes aways. Doesn't become a hugh painful crater. Then it seems to have cleard up the rash/exzema on my hand. Not bad. I think the stuff actually works.
I'm striving to get my blood sugare under control. I seem to be doing pretty good but hopefully I can do better. For a while there I was getting readings below 100 pretty regularly. I then caught a cold, then, apparently have alergies and they kicked up. That was weird because I started coughing on a Friday afternoon at 2:00. I was talking to someone at work when it happened and I thought it was wierd because nothing seemed to cause it. I didn't have a runny nose or anything else, I just started coughing. By that night I could hardly talk and I wasn't able to sleep because when I layed down the coughing got worse. Karen went with me to the doctor the next week and with Karen talking to him they decided that it was probably allergies. That's OK, if that's what it is, because hopefully I'll be able to keep it from turing into an anual case of bronchitus. However, with the possible cold and hay fever making it hard to exercise my BG started getting a little higher.
When I went to the he ran another HbA1c. The first test on 1/25 was 7.6 (171 mg/dl) and this last one on 3/24 was 6.4 (137). That's a pretty good improvement but I was hoping that it was better.
Also I've lost a little wieght, but even more importantly on the scale that Goose gave me that made me fat and stupid it says that I've reduced my body fat percentage by 3%. That pretty good. I've lost about 4 pounds as well. Losing weight can also help me get my BG under control as well. I guess that I'll just have to keep trying the slow and constant method.
I've thought that the HbA1c was an average of 3 months with the last month being a little more influential. My doctor said it gives a reading for the last 2 weeks. I hope that's not right, and since I usually follow what's in the Bernstien book I guess I'll just keep following that. I'm just going to schedule the next test 3 months from now so there won't be any overlap.
I got a rash on my hand that was pretty painful. Iwanlani and Karen said that it was probably exzema. Someone or somewhere I've heard that it is caused by the chickenpox virus. (I thought Nini told me this but she says that she didn't.) I don't know if that true or not, but after a couple of weeks it got worse and was cracked and bleeding. I showed it to Karen for some sypmathy and she asked if I'd poured the silver water accross it. I said that I was going to wash it with the silver water to see if it'd get rid of it. That's wat I did, and by that afternoon it was cracked an bleeding and didn't itch anywhere near as bad. Karen was pretty impressed, and fankly so was I. So fat the silver water seemed to clear up the congestion in my lungs, kept 3 canker sores from getting painful, pretty much a little hole starts in the mought that you know is going to be a canker sore, and the silver water just keeps it there and then it goes aways. Doesn't become a hugh painful crater. Then it seems to have cleard up the rash/exzema on my hand. Not bad. I think the stuff actually works.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
6 am and I haven't slept very much at all.
Last week I was talking about how great I thought the silver water was. Well it was very good, but Saturday I started coughing and the cold came on strong. After doing some more reading I decided that I needed to use more of the silver water and I was getting a little low on the water that I had so I called Cathy's friends husband and asked if I could get a couple more bottles to tide me over. While I was there with him he told me that he had the older generator that made larger particles. So I got even sicker on Sunday but I kept doing the nasal wash and finishing with silver water and using it in the nebulizer and by Monday morning I was feeling well enough to start exercising and able to go to work. I took a bottle of silver water with me to work and kept doing the nasal wash and I kept getting better. I thought that I was through with it. If I can get though a cold without it turning into bronchitis that's great in my book.
However, I spoke too soon. Friday I started coughing at 2:00. It weird how I can tell when it starts. Well I was hoping that it was just the one cough. I came home early to surprise Nini when Mom took her to dinner before the going to the Legally Blond play. The coughing kept getting worse.
I was impressed enough with the silver water that Cathy's friend gave me that I decided that I'd buy a generator for us, and it arrived on Thursday so when I got home after dinner on Friday I decided to mix up a batch. Supposedly I've got a newer Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator. The smaller silver particles are supposed to better than larger particles generated by other methods. The first batch I mixed didn't work so I thought I might have the wrong kind of distilled water. The directions said that the Wal-Mart brand was best, but there is a sensor on the generator that senses if there are too many minerals in the water for it to work correctly, and the light was bright green. When it didn't work I was so tired I just went to bed. However, my cough was such that when I laid down it got worse and I wasn't able to sleep. When Mom got home I was starting to lose my voice. So since I couldn't sleep I decided to try to mix another batch so I went back to Wal-Mart at 12:00 and it turns out that I had got the right kind of water, but it wasn't a total waste because Mom asked me to get her some ice cream. When I got back I decided I would clean the mason jar really well before I put in the distilled water and it worked great. It takes 3 hours to make a quart of this stuff, so I went to bed again, but was still coughing when I laid down. So I got back up and waited for the batch to finish and started using it, and that's what I'm doing right now. I don't think I've slept very much because the cough and hacking is back. I read in the book that I got with the generator that many people will do what they call loading with silver when they first start and will drink 4 oz 3 times a day for 10 days and then go to a maintenance level of 1 oz a day. Maybe I'll try that.
The funny thing about this cough is that I was thinking that in the past I've tried to just work through a cold, and it will seem like I've done it, and then it will suddenly take a turn for the worse and the bronchitis will start up. However, I really thought that I'd beat it this time when I started coughing. I was surprised the first time it happened at 2:00 and was hoping that it just a spare cough. Hopefully this fancy new micro silver water will get this cough back under control.
One other thing this week. Last Friday night I did something that I just love. I bit my lip and caused a canker sore. These sores sometimes just go away and other times they become super painful just like all the rest. These sores are what make me think that canker sores are related to a virus or something like that. Anyway the sore this week didn't hurt. When it started hurting I would rinse with silver water. The sore didn't go away. It felt like it went through the canker sore stages it just didn't hurt.
So I have a generator and I'm hoping that I can get through this cough without it taking for ever. I hope so, but even if it keeps canker sores from being so painful that would be a really good thing.
By the way I've started a new blog called "A Mormon's Thoughts on Mormonism." This is my attempt to help portray Mormonism on the web.
However, I spoke too soon. Friday I started coughing at 2:00. It weird how I can tell when it starts. Well I was hoping that it was just the one cough. I came home early to surprise Nini when Mom took her to dinner before the going to the Legally Blond play. The coughing kept getting worse.
I was impressed enough with the silver water that Cathy's friend gave me that I decided that I'd buy a generator for us, and it arrived on Thursday so when I got home after dinner on Friday I decided to mix up a batch. Supposedly I've got a newer Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator. The smaller silver particles are supposed to better than larger particles generated by other methods. The first batch I mixed didn't work so I thought I might have the wrong kind of distilled water. The directions said that the Wal-Mart brand was best, but there is a sensor on the generator that senses if there are too many minerals in the water for it to work correctly, and the light was bright green. When it didn't work I was so tired I just went to bed. However, my cough was such that when I laid down it got worse and I wasn't able to sleep. When Mom got home I was starting to lose my voice. So since I couldn't sleep I decided to try to mix another batch so I went back to Wal-Mart at 12:00 and it turns out that I had got the right kind of water, but it wasn't a total waste because Mom asked me to get her some ice cream. When I got back I decided I would clean the mason jar really well before I put in the distilled water and it worked great. It takes 3 hours to make a quart of this stuff, so I went to bed again, but was still coughing when I laid down. So I got back up and waited for the batch to finish and started using it, and that's what I'm doing right now. I don't think I've slept very much because the cough and hacking is back. I read in the book that I got with the generator that many people will do what they call loading with silver when they first start and will drink 4 oz 3 times a day for 10 days and then go to a maintenance level of 1 oz a day. Maybe I'll try that.
The funny thing about this cough is that I was thinking that in the past I've tried to just work through a cold, and it will seem like I've done it, and then it will suddenly take a turn for the worse and the bronchitis will start up. However, I really thought that I'd beat it this time when I started coughing. I was surprised the first time it happened at 2:00 and was hoping that it just a spare cough. Hopefully this fancy new micro silver water will get this cough back under control.
One other thing this week. Last Friday night I did something that I just love. I bit my lip and caused a canker sore. These sores sometimes just go away and other times they become super painful just like all the rest. These sores are what make me think that canker sores are related to a virus or something like that. Anyway the sore this week didn't hurt. When it started hurting I would rinse with silver water. The sore didn't go away. It felt like it went through the canker sore stages it just didn't hurt.
So I have a generator and I'm hoping that I can get through this cough without it taking for ever. I hope so, but even if it keeps canker sores from being so painful that would be a really good thing.
By the way I've started a new blog called "A Mormon's Thoughts on Mormonism." This is my attempt to help portray Mormonism on the web.
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