Happy Birthday Jeff!!!

Happy Birthday to one of my bestest friends in the whole wide world... Jeff!! Hope it is a great one! Thanks for being such an amazing friend and a rock during hard times.

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Week 4 - My Wish

Here is my Week 4 entry for Casey's challenge! My wish for 2009 is for health, happiness, and success. It has been a rough year already... but I just know that it will get better going forward!

Catching Up

Whew... it has been a rough month for me! I know it has been a long time since I posted anything but scrapbook pages, but I had a BIG health scare this month. I spent some time visiting with my sister, niece, and cousins earlier this month, and that night I ended up coming down with a stomach bug. No fun!! That stomach bug ended up turning into a big mess and I ended up in the hospital for a week. After several inconclusive tests, I was released on Friday night (2/20). Once we made it home, I ended up sick and anxious all night long and by Saturday morning, I just couldn't take it anymore.

We called my bariatric surgeon (I had the lap band surgery in October 2006) and told him that I was having a lot of problems and that I couldn't stop throwing up. He told us to meet him in the Emergency Room at Memorial Hermann - Memorial City. After examining me, we all agreed that the lap band needed to be removed. I told him that I just couldn't handle it anymore. Even though my band has been open (not restricted) for about a year, this was just an ongoing issue that I couldn't deal with anymore. They did surgery that day and removed the band. When I awoke, my blood pressure and blood sugar went down immediately and I felt better almost instantly.

I was released from the hospital on Sunday and have been recovering at my mother's house since then. I will be off work the rest of this week and should go back on March 9th. I went to see the surgeon on Friday for my follow up, and we have determined that I am allergic to the dissolving stitches they used to close me up. Bah! I am itchy and red, but feeling MUCH better than I have in a long time. It was like I had a transplant that my body has been rejecting for the last two years.

More Digital Scrapbooking

I started making a silly album to chronicle our time as Hurricane Ike Refugees a few months ago, and since I had some down time this week, I decided it would be a good time to finish the album. We were evacuated for 6 days... 11 family members in a 2,300 square foot, one-story house... things were a little tense from time to time! *This album in no way means to make light of a very serious situation which left many people, including my own uncle, homeless. It was more to laugh at ourselves. Enjoy!

Digi Scrap Challenge - Weeks 2 & 3

I missed Week 2 of the challenge due to being in the hospital (more on that soon!), but I went ahead and did it anyway this week.

Theme: About Me

And here is the Week 3 entry:

Theme: Love Is...

To see all entries, visit Casey's Blog

Weekly Digiscrap Contest Entry

So, Casey recently posted a challenge to come up with new digital scrapbook pages based on a weekly theme. As I am trying to get more into digital scrapping, I thought this would be a great way to work on some layouts and push myself more into this realm, since I am often too busy for traditional scrapbooking.

The theme for Week 1 was "My Favorite Place" and my entry for the week is below. Leave me a comment and tell me what you think!