Spring, where are you? Snow snow go away don't come back until another day (a long time from now)! I'm ready for some warm weather!! And not wind or hail or tornadoes!!!
We're on hold with Brooke...waiting to hear back from the Immunologist in Albq. He wants to see her (and the spots). He is the best person to evaluate the spots since he's an Allergist/Immunologist. The spots are crazy. Brooke has several going on right now, but one on her belly is the one we're watching the closest. It's angry looking and sore to the touch, but it's got a head on it so I think it's trying to heal. I took a picture of it this morning so I could show the doctor how it looks right now and by this evening, there were two more "new" spots around the same location. You know, when you're blood is messed up how can anything else work right? That seems to be the case since the salmonella. Different blood issues bring on different side effects. Remember when her hair was falling out last winter? Her protein count was low. Well IgM is a blood protein. The onset of more spots seems to coincide with the increase of her IgM issue, or so it seems. We're never sure what to do? Lately, we've been doing nothing for them and they eventually go away (slower than they should due to the Neutropenia), but eventually they are gone. None of the creams seem to help. Now poor Brookie has a "blemish" on her face in the exact same location as the one I'm currently sporting. How funny is that? Like mother like daughter?? Mike refers to mine as "the volcano." Not nice. Not nice at all!!! You see what I have to put up with?? Ha. (I do love my silly man...he makes me laugh.)
A team of us at work have been working on round 2 of the Broadband Stimulus project for the past two weeks and I can still say (after going through the round 1 process) - IT AIN'T MUCH FUN! I've been putting in a lot of extra hours and finally seem to be seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully it's not THE light at the end of THE tunnel. Ha. Our deadline for submittal is Friday and if we're not all dead by then...we may actually sigh a bit of relief to see it done. Or we may be too tired to care? Dealing with the Federal Government and their money is challenging, to say the least. See how nice I'm being!!! Hopefully all of the hard work will pay off. You think my stress level has been high...my boss was out two days this week with the stomach bug. Nothing like feeling like you've been hit by a concrete truck and worrying about everything you should be doing at work knowing the responsibility for this beastly project is sitting on your shoulders. Poor guy! I felt so bad for him. BTW...I was diagnosed as having high blood pressure yesterday. Can't imagine why? I'm going to try the ol Beta-blocker and see how it works. I'd like to attribute this problem to stress and leave the age thing out of it if you'll let me! Please just humor me on this one and agree that it's stress! I have some you know. Just a little. :)
Have a great evening!! Thanks for the continued prayers.
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