Since I’ve started taking the Lovastatin, I have been experiencing an uncomfortable side effect. I did not know this would be a side effect of this medication. The bad thing is the Metformin I’m on can also cause the same side effect. Between that and the fact that I don’t have a gallbladder, I’m pretty [...]

It took me all day to get up the guts to turn down a job… I interviewed for the position yesterday and it looked pretty good that I got it, then the interviewer emailed me last night. The job wasn’t really the field I was looking for nor the ‘perfect job’ for me. It would [...]

For years I read blogs and visited web sites the old fashioned way. I had heard of RSS and feeds and all that but never bothered to check it out. That is till a few weeks ago when I figured I’d give the Google Reader a try. My life has been changed. Forever. I can [...]

I just wanted to report that I’ve tested my blood sugar levels 4 times this week. That may not sound like much, but considering I didn’t test for over 6 months, this is big progress. My doctor only ordered me to test once a day for some reason… and I know I can test more [...]

When Melissa was little, she had a lot of really funny and sometimes very hard to figure out mispronunciations. All kids have them, but she seemed to have more than her siblings. At one point her pediatrician had us test her hearing to be sure there wasn’t an issue. There wasn’t, she just had her [...]

For those of you who don’t know my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer in December. Click the link for my post several months ago on her diagnosis. The news of my sister’s diagnosis came on the heels of a very horrible year for my family: our mother’s horrible car accident, and the death [...]

I was updating our finances and paying bills just now and discovered we were going to be way short this month. I went over the figures again and again and totally flipped out. Not only did we not have enough to make the house payment for October, but we would be short on some of [...]