2009 In with a bang, or not?!?!

The last half a dozen years Lisa and I have been together our new year’s routine has been pretty mild. It typicly goes like this: We stay home and I fall asleep by 10pm she stays up till midnight long enough to wake me up for a New Year’s kiss. Then we both go to sleep. I know, I know, we’re way too young to be this boring. So last year was the first year I made an effort to stay up with Lisa till midnight. It worked out but we still stayed home and had a quite night together. This year Lisa and I wanted to pull out all the stops and go crazy for once. Our plan was to ride a train to Boston to celebrate first night with 1000’s of people parting around the city. It would have been a great time and I was hoping to blog some silly and unusual pictures. But Mother Nature has spoken loudly and we got the message… Winter Storm Warnings, Bitterly cold with temps below freezing, and I’m still getting over my chronic cough… Hmmm maybe its best if we stay home for new years one more time?

Merry Christmas

2008 has come and gone. Boy has it been and interesting year. As I was uploading all the newest Christmas pictures to our computer I couldn't help but spend some time looking over many of the pictures and videos Lisa and I have taken this year. We have folders full of images of our friends and family over this years events, Wether it was birthday parties, baby showers, camping with friends or many of the other things I couldn't help but feel lucky to have the friends and family to have shared in all these good times. I just wanted to take this chance to say thank you to everyone who has been there for us this year and we can't wait to see what 2009 has in store for us.

I hope everyone had as much fun this year as Tyler did opening his big gift!

When your struggling to breath

So I’ve had an interesting month and I apologize that I’ve neglected the blog. As my last blog entry starts to mention a couple weeks back. Lisa, Sally and I took a 5 day road trip to Pennsylvania. I had a whole blog entry describing out trip typed out and ready to post but never had a chance because I’ve been very sick the last few weeks.

You see the Friday before we left for pen I caught some kind of cold, I spent most of our trip coughing up a lung. When we returned home that Friday Lisa insisted I see a doctor but I refused because I felt I was getting better. The rest of that week I spent most of my time after work coming home downing mass quantities of cough medicine and struggling to get what I felt was precious needed sleep. Another week went by and even my co-workers started coming to me insisting I have my serious sounding cough checked out. It finally took 2 hours of chronic coughing that was so violent it scared me, I couldn’t stop coughing long enough to catch my breath.

I was in the doctor’s office the very next day, While I don’t recall quite what the doctor called my condition it was something about "sever upper respitory congestion combined with bronchial spasms” She also said it was possible that my delay in treatment could have caused a buildup of fluid in my lungs. I was prescribed several medications and sent home from work for several days, I have been medicated now for about a week. I still have a small cough but I feel much better then I did a week ago.

Regrettably when you’re struggling to breathe blogging isn’t the first thing on your mind. I’m sorry if I left people hanging and wondering if we were all still in Pennsylvania.

We are all home now and looking forward to seeing our families, loved ones, and friends over the next few holiday weeks... Merry Christmas to All!

Month One

Yesterday was another multi-doctor trip into boston for lisa and I. Our first stop was for me to be examained and questioned about my first month on the medication, It seemd to have gone well and I was asked to continue. Our other appointments were Lisas for her weightloss surgery. She had another meeting with the phyciatrist and a group session. They wouldnt let me in for the group so waited out in the lobby enjoying my ipod. Journey to the center of the earth is a great movie. Even if its on a 2.5 inch screen!

Anyways It was a very productive afternoon in boston. Once again both our doctors issued stern recomendations that we both make weightloss a priorty to acheive our personal goal. To celibrate all the good news Lisa and I went out to dinner... Hey Now! We both drank water, ordered salads and passed on our breadsticks!

Update on Doctors

Well i had my last medical doctors appointment yesterday, he gave me the OK to see the surgeon. The appointment, although seems like an entirety is on Jan 22. I finish up the rest of my appointments tomorrow. I have my last psych evaluation and my last group and on Dec 16 is my last nutritionist appointment. Once that's all done it's just a matter of of waiting for the surgeon appointment. I can't believe i started this only in September, 2009 is looking to be a start to the new chapter in my life with my hubby and furture family :)

Blog Tag Continues!

Ok so i've been slacking... I haven't had a chance to update the blog.
So here is the first in my gotta catch up posts!

As I commented here is my responce to Megans blog tag:
The rules:
1. Post the rules on your blog.
2. Tell 7 random things about yourself.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post.
4. Pass on the tag.

Parnell's 7 Random things!
1. I used to have blonde hair when I was young, It changed as i got older and now its brown
2. I'm 5'11" but I find it easier to tell people I'm 6' tall
3. My left foot is a full size larger then my right
4. I dislike peas because my older brother told me they were alien pods when I was 6
5. I hate talking on the phone because the speakers hurt my ears.
6. I used to hate my name because it was diffent, now I like my name because its diffent.
7. My dog sleeps at my side and my cat sleeps on my head.

Parnell's 7 Tagged Bloggers
1. No one said no tags backs - Megan Platenik
2. Josh Platenik
3. Leah Palifka
4. Mandy Sullivan - Ok to repond on Myspace
5. Leah Sullivan - Ok to respond on Myspace
6 thru whatever.. All my friends on Myspace!