Long awaited Fence, we finally meet

Hymns of Thanksgiving

Anthony and I are singing in the Hymns of Thanksgiving again this year. They have such a beautiful collection of songs and music this year. We met with the orchestra last Sunday and it was so nice to hear it all together. I feel  so thankful to be a part of it. If you're in the Boise area, please feel free to come to the performance, no ticket needed. If you can't be there in person, it will be broadcast on two local channels all during the week of Thanksgiving. They will have a program by Governor Otter and his wife, and a piano performance by Del Parkinson, to name a few. We've been a part of this for a few years now, and my Dad and some of Tony's aunts for even more years and so we've either been watching the performance or participating in it for long enough that it's become a part of the season for me. It doesn't feel the same without it. So with that all said, I invite everyone to this performance :)

A nose by any other name...

Tony started out the day in pretty good spirits, but surgery takes a lot out of you

He had septoplasty surgery this morning and he's been sleeping most of today. I hope tomorrow goes better. We're hoping this will help him breath the way he should but he keeps asking me why he did this. I keep reminding him it will be worth it but he's having a rough time right now. It was nice having the buzzer throughout surgery because they would send little text messages letting me know how it was going which was nice to have the peace of mind.

While he was in recovery the doctor came out and let me know how it went: he said it took him quite a bit longer than he thought and thinks that there is a history of trauma that made it so bad and feels very positive about the results. I'm not sure if Tony knows that yet because our conversations haven't been very long between his naps. He gets to take the plugs and gauze out of his nose tomorrow. He can't wait, and I can't wait for him. In the meantime I change the dressing for him pretty regularly. They call it a mustache dressing, for obvious reasons :)

One of Tony's wonderful sisters, Debbie brought over some dinner (actually enough for a few nights!) and it was so sweet of her. And as always, very good :) Thanks again Deb! Tony loves the Ice cream Creamies.

Work pics

Tony got a little light-headed again on Thursday during a procedure, but they're getting fewer and farther between, I had to snap a pic while he was trying to get some blood back to his face. About a minute after this he was lying on floor with his feet on the chair :)

I love my job, I love just about everything about it, except for the occassional creepy guy who stares just a little too long, smiles just a little too sinister, and asks for you by name when he doesn't need anything, and who you sometimes wonder if he sabotages his own foot just for an excuse to come back. It's a part of the job, you have to deal with it, that's life.
Have you seen "Megamind" yet? It's one of our new favorites, and for a few weeks after it came out we would tell each other things in "codes". So then at work a few of the assistants started codes after Tony's experience with "Mike-the-guy-who-threw up-on you" and now its just Code:Mike and we all smile and know what to do lol. Since then, a few more codes have popped up. Code Wilson: this guys looking for drugs, Code Candice: this one's a fainter, Code Roger means, "uh, this guy is kinda creepy". It's been nice having Tony around the office because he is always so willing to look out for us and help out. But then last week we had a male patient who started hitting on Tony and now we have a Code David which means Tony would rather that one of the girls takes care of this patient :) we got a few laughs over.He does get a kick out of allthe little old ladies who flirt with him and call him "beautiful boy" :)

My New Favorite App!

So maybe you don't use apps, maybe it's no big deal, but to me it's been great! Product Reps, drug Reps, account numbers, order numbers, phone and fax numbers, I used to carry around all these cards from office to office at work so I would have them with my at any time if one of my bosses needed them. If I didn't have my book I felt lost. But about a week ago I found a great app that solved my problem :) Cam Card takes a picture of the card with my phone camera and automatically saves the info as a contact in my phone. I can flip through the cards as images if I'm looking for a specific card, I can still flip the card over to read the back if I've made any notes to myself or written down account numbers etc. I already feel lighter! And since I always have my phone with me, I don't have to worry about where I've left my black card book. Love it!

I went from this: To this:

Tony's new job..

Ever since I started back at work for my dad, I mostly shower at night. I've had people tell me this is strange, but now at least I know that Tony finally understands. Once school got out I've been taking him to work with me to help out as we've been a little short staffed. He's been a great help. He's picking things up really fast and has been pretty easy for me to train, part of it may be because I talk about work too much, but mostly because I think he's pretty smart.
He's had a few pretty good experiences and few not so good ones. Like today for example. He was assisting the doctor during a suture removal. Very routine, nothing to be concerned about, except when the patient gets light headed from watching, faints, then throws up his lunch, all over Tony! and the wall, and the door, and the floor...quite an experience. Maybe more than you wanted to know, and definitely more than he was expecting. But needless to say, he came straight home and showered, then showered again. He's been a trooper :)
He's also had a few light-headed experiences during his first few days. The first time I had him working in the back with patients I thought he'd enjoy standing in on a procedure and getting used to what we do. I was busy at the front desk most of the time but stepped back for a few minutes to make sure they were running on schedule. As I walked by the procedure room I expected to find Tony there, but instead found him lying flat on his back in the doctors office. It had never occurred to me to warn him about the sight of blood because I guess I've gotten used to it. He didn't stay down long though and jumped right back in. He had to step out a few minutes later for a breather. As it turns out, he's ok with the sight of blood but doesn't like the sound of blade on bone. He's helped out on a few more procedures since then and it is getting easier for him. My days are a lot less stressful and he's been a big help. It will probably only be short term but I'll enjoy while I can.

Someone please explain

I was flipping through the paper this morning and stumbled across this article that I haven't been able to stop thinking about all day:

"A newborn tossed down a housing project's trash chute survived the eight-story fall because he landed on a pile of garbage and the compactor was jammed, investigators said Monday.

A maintenance worker heard a baby boy's cries coming from the trash compactor in the Walt Whitman Houses on Sunday morning. The child was taken to Brooklyn Hospital where he remains in stable condition, said Jerry Schmetterer, spokesman for the Brooklyn District Attorney's office. He said the baby did not appear to have been injured in the fall.

Laquasia Wright, 18, was arrested on charges of attempted murder and endangering the welfare of a child. Police said it appeared Wright had given birth shortly before tossing the baby. She was also being treated at Brooklyn Hospital on Monday and it was unclear when her arraignment would take place."
-Associated Press May 24, 2011

My jaw had dropped while reading this article and I sat there thinking, "Here we are, wanting children, and people are literally throwing them away." Even though I know the answer, I still had to wonder, "why, where is the justice?" This is actually the second case like this in the the past month. The other baby was found in a hospital restroom in Queens.

Change gonna come

Well, I found out that my Relief Society President's Husband has just been called into the Singles Ward as the new Bishop, so they have re-organized the Relief Society Presidency after only 8 months so I have been released and have been given a new calling. Which is probably the calling that has scared me the most of getting, so I'm sure that's why the Lord saw fit to finally give it to me. Each time I've been given a new calling I would be saying in my head, "Just so long as it's not RS Teacher..." and three times now I've had my prayer answered, but this time as I was sitting in the bishops office and repeating those words once again in my head "Please, anything except RS Teacher" those are exactly the words he said. Dang! I still haven't gotten over it. The Lord must really want me to get over this fear because I will now have plenty of opportunity to. I'm still a little sad at not getting to serve with the sisters I had been working with, but there is also a little relief to it as well. Being in the presidency is not always easy. So this will be new to me. I taught a few times as a counselor, but this will be every month. I can already feel myself stretching just thinking about it. lol So keep a prayer in your heart for me because getting up in front of any kind of audience is not my favorite. Thanks :)

Just an update

I realize it's been quite a while since I even got on here, I've been pretty busy lately- but I guess I don't have any pics to post. Tony's on spring break this week, so I'm hoping to get a lot of house work/maintainence done. This week is National Spring Cleaning Week (yes I need a whole week lol) if only we got paid to use it. I'm hoping that we can get our grass in this week, but there's been some rain and I don't know if that will interfere. But Tony did hang the curtains that have been patiently waiting for him to hang and I think they're great! It would also nice to get our backyard fence put in (I think I would rather have that before the grass because the neighborhood kids walk through our yard to get to school and if we plant they might walk) so at least I have options :)