Surgery Update

I know a lot of people have been wondering how the surgery went so I thought that I would give you all and update.

It has been nine days since I went in for the surgery for endometriosis. The recovery hasn't been too bad so far, I'm just having a hard time restraining myself from over doing it. As for the surgery, it went well the doctor was able to remove the endo and also detach my left ovary that was attached to my uterus. As for my right ovary, there was a hemorrhaging cyst that the doctor could not remove or drain because there would've been so much blood loss and he wasn't certain he could stop the bleeding. I was thinking about putting a picture up of it but I thought I would spare you the grossness of it. Anyways, he left it there in hopes that it would just go away on its own.

So everything was going great until two nights ago while I was making dinner and starting to have a little cramping. It was nothing bad at all but I could definitely feel something going on. I just ignored it and continued to cook. After we were done eating I stand up from the table and immediately felt like someone stabbed me on my right side. I almost dropped to the ground, I right away thought of that cyst and I was pretty sure that it had just burst. I tried to just play it off but Matt noticed that I was leaned over the counter and knew something wasn't right. I had some Percocet left over from the surgery so I took some right away...ya it didn't even phase me. That's how bad it was hurting! After much debate we decided not to go to the E.R. because all they were going to do was put me on Morphine and then tell me to see my doctor the next day. I am pretty tough girl so I just put on my big girl panties and dealt with it. Didn't sleep well but I made it through the night. 

I went to my doctor today and long story short......ANOTHER SURGERY IT IS!!!!!! REALLY? I MEAN COME ON?? Come to find out, I have chronic appendicitis or the endo is already back. The doctor seems very confident that its my appendix and not the endo, he said he has never heard or seen the endo coming back that quickly after a KTP Laser treatment. So we are hoping and praying that it is just the appendix and not the endo. We are going to try to find a general surgeon that can do the surgery ASAP so that I can recover sooner so that we don't give the endo time to grow back. It's just a waiting as for right now, we can only wait.

Today has been quite the rough day....

It's what I do...

So after some talking into by my brother I decided to post a few pictures of stuff that I do. You may be surprised by a few of things because I never did ANYTHING crafty in high school or my younger years, in fact I absolutely HATED it! So here are a few things that I have done that are in our house. 

This is the ottoman in our living room, it was this hideous color but I recovered in and added trim. 

Next is the chest that you see in the background of the ottoman picture. I had been wanting a big chest to put in the living room that we could put blankets and extra pillows but never could find one that was the right size for the amount of $$$$ I was wanting to spend. One day while at the in-laws I walked out onto the back-porch and saw the chest that I have been looking everywhere for. They were using it to hold pool toys for the grandkids. Of course it was a little beat up  and sun damaged but with a little bit of paint and elbow grease it turned into this...

This next project was my very first one, besides our window treatments which will have to a completely different post and those couldn't have been done without my EXTREMELY talented mother-in-law. Anyways I do not have a before picture of these chairs but they were just plain wood with a nasty, old material on them. So I had some material left over from one of the window treatments and some extra paint laying around so this is what they turned into. (I only took a picture of one but they are the same chairs.)

I love the detailing on them...

The next project was the biggest yet, so big that we almost couldn't get it into the house once it was done. When we first got married we just took my bedroom set, which was a queen bed, and had been just been using that until I got the bright idea to MAKE a KING bed. Yes I said MAKE, after some convincing on my mother-in-law she agreed to help me conquer this project. And when I say MAKE I mean we literally build the frame, foot-pegs, sideboards, and the headboard. Check it out...

Here is a closer picture of the headboard.

We love it!!

So for any of those who have been to our house know that our office has been our little storage room since we have moved in. That was until a few weeks ago I finally fixed the desk that I bought and got it decorated. Here is the desk before...

Here is the picture after it was done and in the office...

**DISCLAIMER: The top right part of it is going to re-painted and some knobs will be added. My other idea didn't work but I just to lazy to fix it right away.

Here is the detailing on the side...

Here is a chair that I recovered that is also in our office, I actually didn't repaint this one because I loved the detailing in it and it matched the fabric that I wanted to use...

And yes I was crazy enough to hammer those nail heads in one-by-one. It paid off in the end...I love it. And what you don't see is all the nail heads that had to go all the way around the seat and on the back of the chair.

Next is the only project that my husband did not think that I could make work. It just needed a little cleaning and some decorating up top....

Yeah...he ate his words.

Above this chest there is a set of 6 frames that I made. I love the way they turned out...

Here is a close up of one...

Next is an end table that we have in our office...

We have another one that is the same end table but I painted it a different color and it is in our living room, I just forgot to take a picture of it. 

These next two projects are ones that Matt and I have done together. After doing these we decided that our marriage can withstand anything now. Haha. Yes, Matt actually had to go on a drive and leave the house once while installing the console in the laundry room and I had to go on walk, but hey we laugh about it now!!

So when we got our washer and dryer they didn't come with the drawers underneath them and they would of costed us like $500. We decided that we weren't going to pay that much and I had an idea with what I wanted to do. So here it is...

(Our dirty clothes go in the different baskets which makes it nice and easy when I do laundry because it is already separated and everything.) 

Then I wanted a curtain to cover the shelves that are above the washer and dryer. I loved this material and it looked great in there...

Here is it all together (well almost the whole thing)...

The final project that I will bore you with is our built-in entertainment center. We built it one weekend and are really happy with the way it turned out. We took a few pictures of the process. Here it is...

And here it is all done...

Well that is all for now, I hope everyone is doing well. Until next time...

Matt's First Day

Today is a big day in the Bluth household, today is Matt's first day at his new company. We are very excited and feel that this company is a much better fit for 

us. So Matt will be going from this.... 

to this....

The benefits and everything is a lot better at this new company so it is very exciting. He was at Markham a few months shy of 3 years so it was kind of hard to leave but in the end it is just better for us. The best part for me is NO MORE NIGHT WORK!! That means we will actually be on the same schedule, which will be a change. Above and beyond anything we are just glad that we will actually get to spend more time together. Through him working all the crazy hours and times that he was working it showed us that it all pays off someday. He made a name for himself in this industry and people saw it and for that he has received better offers and we took one. Good job babe! I am very proud to call you my husband!!

My man!

Hello!!

     Hello everyone! I guess I shouldn't say everyone because who knows if anyone will even read this thing. Yesterday while Matt and I were driving in the car he said, "Now that we have a blog you should actually take pictures so that we have memories." How sad is that?? I know I am pretty bad at taking pictures of things that we do and what not but never really thought to much about it. To actually show you how bad I am, after he said that I realized I didn't even know where our camera is at. Terrible right?? So maybe having this blog will give me the motivation to take pictures.
     To give a little update on our lives, Matt works his life away and I basically only see him on Saturday and then church on Sunday. Not the most ideal situation but there are thousands of people out there right now that would die to have a job such as Matts'. With Matt working as much and as hard as he does it really makes me so grateful for him being my husband. I am not sure how I got so lucky but he works so hard to provide for me and our future family. He is amazing!! If you read this....I love you babe! As for me, I am currently studying to get my pharmacy technician license. I had planned on already being done and taking the test but we ran into some road blocks.
     As for the road blocks, I wont bore you guys to death with all the details of hospital and doctor visits but we found out that I have Endometriosis and possibly Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. We have been to many doctors but finally found such an amazing doctor that I am trusting him to cut me open. On October 12th I will be getting surgery done to hopefully remove all of the Endometriosis and everything else that is wrong in there. The hopes are that with this surgery, one day we will be able to have our own children. Through my whole life I just thought this is how my body was and that all girls' menstrual cycle's were as painful as mine were, it is nice to know that there is a reason for it and hopefully we will get it all functioning correctly.
     For anyone that is having problems with anything down below, I seriously have the best doctor. He is an amazing doctor and has won so many awards for what he does. His name is Dr. Craig Seal, his office is out of Tempe, if you need more information just ask me and I will give it to you. He is the only one on the west coast that does this certain procedure for Endometriosis. I can go on and on about him but I will stop.
     Well I think that is enough for now! I hope that all of you out there are having a great day! Goodbye for now!