Hey, You, Get Off Of My Cloud

So here's the latest on the stone patrol...

Ever hear of a cystoscopy and ureteroscopy? No you say, then click here to learn all the exciting details. I had this done on Thursday. It does not feel real good. The doctor said that if it is bothering me then I can take it out. Yes, by myself. If you did not read about it, let me just say that it is a stent between my bladder and kidney and there is only one way out. Think about the work URETERoscopy and think where it comes out!!!!!

I have to wait until the 13th of November to have my large stone surgically removed. So I have two weeks of drowning in Viducin, Diladud, and Percocet which all provide varying degrees of "fuzzy headedness". So how am I going to work and participate in school with either pain or pain medication? I do not know!

Since I can feel the stent in my body, and have other associated pain, the thought of no pain medication is not pleasant, but the thought of being on a different cloud is not nice either.

My whole family has been incredible. Emilie is truly the best thing during all this. She knows exactly what I need, even when I don't. Noah and Levi know to be gentle with me. Maybe just Noah. I explained to Noah that there is a rock in my back and a doctor has to take it out. Then I tried to explain to him that I have a hose in my body. He asked me if we could go out and water the lawn with my special hose. I told him about all the special pills that Daddy has to take and he thinks it cool that I have an orange pill that helps me poop.

Hopefully this will all end soon, I keep you posted.

Everybody Must Get Stoned (or The Friday Song)

Can you guess what this is? No, it's not a moon rock nor is it a old tangerine that is hard. You guessed it, it's a kidney stone and if you know me at all you know that I am fond of these puppies! For the last six or seven years I have struggled with these things and finally I broke, I went to the doctor to take care of the problem.

So on Tues. morning Emilie took down to the ER (after laying in my living room grunting like a drunk cow) to begin the process of kideny stones removal. What did we learn? A couple of things, (1) we always have great nurses whenever we are in the hospital, I tend to have great conversations about theology in there (granted I am pumped full of morphine) (2) I have a big stone that needs serious attention. Next step...go see the urologist on Wednesday morning. (Only after three hours on the phone with my insurance company).

Forward to this morning, 8 am, getting x-rays and seeing the urologist. (its not my-in so it must be u-rine) He looks at my x-rays and states "wow, that's a big stone". He said that lithoscripty will not work because its too big, they will have to operate. Sweet, not only do I hate needles, I have never had surgery nor am I comfortable with the idea of someone cutting open my side, take out my kidney, cutting that open (no joke!), removing the stone, then putting everything back together again.

So I get to wait until the 13th of November to have that, but get to have a smaller "procedure" on Thursday to help elevate some of the pain, which is not helped by a constant stream of Vicodin and Diludid. To top it off, our best friends are coming into town from St. Loius as we speak.

For more information on kidney stones (or to be bored out of your freakin mind) click here. For more cool pictures of kidney stones click here. To interact with me as I sit around my house in a medicated stupor, click below where it says comments.

Go Tigers!

Cat Scratch Fever

I really never thought I would see this again! The Tigers are in the World Series!!

Bring on So Taguchi

Roam (If You Want To)

So our little Noah had his very first field trip on Friday. They travelled to Klackels Orchard in Greenville. He even was able to ride on a big yellow school bus for the first time. If you have spent any time with him, you know that this was a very special occasion in his young life. The secratary, Ms. D as Noah called her took some pictures of them and sent them to us...

How 'bout them apples!

We know call him "The Big Doughnut"

Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car!

One of the rules is that you cannot smile on field trips, can you find the rule breaker?

Some people fish, others get pumkins. It's actually quite an accomplishment to pick up a vegetable (or is it a fruit) that sits in the dirt

This is his class of fellow pre-schoolers, he's not even paying attention. That is rare for Noah when there is a camera around

In other Schelling family news we have accepted thier counter offer on the "big blue house". We are having our inspection on Wednesday morning. I will follow the inspector around with a cup of coffee in tote pretending I understand what in the world he is talking about. We might be moving as soon as a couple of weeks. If anyone is into stipping wallpaper and painting then give us a call. Oh yeah, if anyone is in the mood to help us out moving let us know because we are going to need as much help as possible. We will keep you posted.

Manic Monday

I have not been able to create a new post in a while. I have been very busy but consider this an update on current state of affairs with the Princess and her three pigs.

As far as work goes, it has been very crazy. As part of my internship, which I am doing in our outpaitent clinic, I have been perpare for our CARF accredation. In a nutshell it is a painful process where you have to meet certain standards of practice in order to recieve national accrededation thus giving your program a "good name". It is a meticulous, line by line assurance that your paperwork all says what is "proper", you facilities are clean and accesable, your staff are trainied in all "meaningful" areas, and oh yeah, paperwork. If anyone has a complaint about paperwork in any social service agency, the reason is probably CARF.

In happier news, I think that we finally found a house to buy.



I know it sound crazy to even think about buying a house while going through school and work, but so far it has been pretty stres free (for me anyways). It appears to be a pretty sound house, but we have yet to get an inspection. It needs some cosmetics, i.e. ripping down wallpaper adonred with ducks and swings, changing some flooring, but nothing that is terribly major. Eventually we will reside the house. We are hoping to get all neccesary paperwork (here we go again) in this week and make an offical offer. We would like to move in during the semester break. The boys love the house and it would offer us a tremendous amount of room, we would not have to move for along time.

That's all I can think of for now...