Okiemommy's Journal **What I realized today about our journey**

[Okiemommy]

Okie, Hope your little one does ok. My DS seems to be doing somewhat better after they did ear surgery on one ear. They still have to do something to his other ear. They won't make any diagnosis until then. My son does not want to discuss a lot of this, he and his wife were in total denial forever until I just flat out made them take a long hard look. Then they sluffed me off with "it will be ok". Then a few months after that he called and wanted to discuss it. I figured out real quick what he wanted was for me to agree with him. Needless to say I did not agree. I was furious with them for waiting so long to even attempt to find out what was wrong. Angry with the Dr's for not pushing the issue. Angry with them all for allowing tubes placed in a childs ears by a Dr to be left in to create such horrible infections. All of this part of the problem could have been totally avoided. If he is autistic that would be unavoidable. But the ear thing was avoidable. Total carelessness on everyones part.

Thank you what kind of surgery did they have to do to his ear? I understand your frustration with the "holding the hands over the ears and yelling lalallalala!!" from a personal standpoint. I haven't been officially diagnosed, but I have many, many symptoms of aspergers. I had problems in school with my reading comprehension, but because my reading level was 5 or 6 grades above my fellow classmates, my mom refused that there was a problem. Finally the advisors told my mom that if I don't get help with my comprehension in the 8th grade, then I wouldn't pass. That finally did the trick and she allowed them to enroll me in a reading class. There were many other things that she refused to face, that I could have gotten help with, had she faced them.

 

[Okiemommy]

I cut my hair off today. Totally lobbed it off. About 6 inches of it; so it is just around my face. I feel much better now. I don't know what it is, but when I am pregnant I have to cut all of my hair off and I feel soooo much better!


I don't really have anything interesting to say about ss. Still waiting on the rest of my seed catalogues We went to home depot today to get an orbital sander, and they had fruit trees, and grapevines out. I was sooooo tempted to buy some. But DH said no, he would rather buy them from a nursery. Does it really make a difference? I mean on quality? I can see wanting to buy local, but he was talking in terms of quality.


We are texturing and painting our living room...along with putting up new window trim, and our one wall has been unfinished forEVER lol (Months), and it is really frustrating. We ran into to the problem of my husband not properly taping and mudding the joints on this one wall( ), and they are either cracking, or they are too raised, and you can plainly see the raised. So now we are going back and fixing it...after I textured the entire wall ....which is a really, really large wall. It's about 26 feet long or so. Anyway that's what the orbital sander is for. Once he knocks all of that down, he will re-tape and mud the joints of the drywall again, and then I will go back and re-texture it and paint it. I gotta get this done soon b/c pretty soon I'm going to be huge and pregnant and I will have a heck of a time doing it the bigger I get.

I am nesting!! I need Dumpty Dumpty to put my living room pieces back together again!

On the other hand, until we could get the orbital sander, DH put the window trim and cornice up on one set of windows!!! It's still unfinished b/c it's still got the wood putty on it, but it's progress It's on hold for now b/c DH hurt his back. Poor guy slipped on the ice last week during our ice storm and his back doesn't seem to be getting too much better. He went to the chiropractor on Thursday, and is going to go again this Monday. So I'm making him take it easy, and it's buggin the crap out of him b/c he wants to get everything done. I think he's nesting with me! ^_^

 

[PamsPride]

I hope your DH feels better soon!! That is awesome that he made some progress on the window!
I hear you on the hair!! As soon as I am allowed to go back to driving I want to go get a major hair cut!! It is so long now that it is driving me crazy! I want some layers and style to it!

 

[Okiemommy]

I hope your DH feels better soon!! That is awesome that he made some progress on the window!

Thank you! I know!!! I know!!! YaaaaaaaaaaaaaY!!! <---all of that means that I am soooo excited!!! It feels so much better to have that time consuming chunk of stuff done!!

I hear you on the hair!! As soon as I am allowed to go back to driving I want to go get a major hair cut!! It is so long now that it is driving me crazy! I want some layers and style to it!

That's what I wanted too!!! I was so desperate to cut it shorter and my friend is a hairstylist, and she didn't really want to cut it shorter b/c she loves how long I can grow my hair. lol I said, but dear it grows an inch a month! It will be okay! She was finally okay with it-she was going to do it anyway, but I could tell that she needed to be okay with it ^_^

I just don't want to mess with long bulky hair right now. It's very thick and a whoooooole bunch of it, so it's just too much to take care of right now. Maybe when the kids get older.

I say go for it and get a really pretty no fuss hair cut!!

 

[dacjohns]

I got my hair cut a week or so ago. It's now about 3/4 inch. I shaved off my goatee and 'stache.

I had to one up you.

 

[Okiemommy]

 

[Okiemommy]

Well right now we're under a tornado warning. So far the one that is "tornado-ing" is North of us. But there is a line of storms behind it. Today should be interesting. I have to go pick up the kids from school soon. I have all my stuff ready to go, should we need to go to the storm shelter.

 

[Okiemommy]

Three metro area schools are on lockdown until the tornado's pass. There was damage on the Northern part of the city. We're SE of the city. In city limits, but out in the country. So far so good. Still I didn't really feel like dealing with this yet. lol

 

[tommywalnuts]

We are under a watch to the south of you as well(Ardmore). Supposed to be interesting weather tonight.

 

[Okiemommy]

Yes it is. It will be interesting to see what happens. Did you get any of the rain that developed east of this line about the same time? Stay safe.