TWILIGHT CRAZINESS!

March 21, 2009

I must admit, that I was one of those crazy Twilight fans that went out at 12:01am to buy the DVD. I went with my good friend, Marianne. We thought for sure we would be the only two people there, because we went to Broulim's, our little grocery store here in Shelley. Much to our surprise there was a huge line of people just as crazy as us waiting outside the doors to get in. It was so much fun! We waited in line and talked with other people until the doors opened. Then everyone rushed inside and grabbed their copy/copies of the movie and then we all waited in the check out line. While we were standing in line they passed out chocolate chip cookies and then when we left they gave us popcorn and pop. There is no better way to watch your new movie than with popcorn and soda pop.

The Twilight party was supposed to go from 12:01 - 2:00, but I think the party was pretty much over by 12:30. After everyone bought their movie they must have all rushed home to watch it. Not us. Marianne had drank a Mountain Dew before coming and wasn't going to be able to sleep. We decided to sit in the parking lot and talk for awhile. We were the last people to leave the store. We gabbed and had a great time. Thanks Marianne for being crazy with me!

I have watched my DVD and liked it better than I remember. In November, I dragged Matt to the movie theater to see it. He hated it, go figure. He even hated it more when we watched the DVD. Oh well, I didn't buy it for him.



I look half asleep in these pictures. I think maybe I am, I never stay up that late. It was lots of fun though!

I Miss You Dad!

Today it has been two years since my dad passed away. What a long two years. Over the years I have experienced every emotion imaginable to me. I have gone through the lowest, saddest, most difficult times; yet I have somehow, someway been able to pull through. To find happiness and joy and be grateful for the time I had with him. I have remembered all the fun, happy, good times we shared. The times that you seem to look past everyday until you lose that special person. I think of him often and not a day goes by that I don't miss him with everything that is in me. What I wouldn't give to have just one more day with him, to see his smiling face, and feel his arms around me, to hear him laugh and hear him say, "I love you sis"!

I miss you dad and I will remember you always! I Love You!

Love, Shireen

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Pocatello Cardiology

Today I had my appointment with a very kind, understanding and successful doctor, Al Narraway, at Pocatello Cardiology. They have a great new facility right next to Porneuf Hospital. He said that my Mitral Valve Prolapse with regurgitation is very mild at this point. That means the amount of blood that flows back up into my heart when it's not supposed to is very minimal. Good News!!! He has decided to treat me with medication and watch me closely. I have to take a medicine called, Toprol, 3 times a day and go see him every 3 months until he gets my heart rate under control. Once he gets my heart rate where he wants it to be I only have to check in with him once a year. He doesn't see any reason for this condition to worsen as long as I take my medicine and keep my heart under control. We are so very relieved.

Thank you to friends and family for your concern and caring. I especially want to thank Marianne for watching the girls today so I could go to my appointment. They had so much fun at your house :)!!!

Dr. Narroway the Cardiologist

So we finally got the call from the cardiologist office, Dr. Narroway. I go in tomorrow at 2:00 in Pocatello. We will let you know what he says.

Mitral Valve Prolapse with Diastolic Dysfunction

Mitral Valve Prolapse with Diastolic Dysfunction (or Mitral Valve Prolapse with Regurgitation

Yes, this is what I have been diagnosed with. We are not quite sure exactly what this means or what it has in store for me yet.

Let me just tell you the story.......

On my way to work Tuesday morning I wasn't feeling very well, I actually hadn't been since the middle of the night on Saturday. I had just turned on the road to work when I passed my doctor's nurse so I decided to follow her into the clinic parking lot and ask her what she thought of what was going on.

What was going on: I woke up in the middle of the night Saturday with my heart racing and it wouldn't slow down. (I have had these episodes before because of my irregular heart beat.) I didn't sleep anymore that night. The next day it was still happening but I decided it was just because I had a fever with my cold and totally blew it off. Monday it still continued and I blew it off again. I really didn't notice it too much when I was up and about, mostly when I layed down to go to sleep. At this point I have not slept since Friday night. Monday night was bad again and layed awake all night. This brings me to Tuesday.

After talking to Jan she told me I needed to come right into the clinic and be checked out by the doctor. I followed her in and the first thing she did was take my pulse and blood pressure. My pulse was 165 and my blood pressure was 200 over ???. I can't remember exactly. I just know it was sky high. The doctor immediately hooked me up to the EKG to monitor my heart. They decided I needed some medicine to slow down my heart. At this point I had called my father-in-law to let him know what was going on and he came over to the clinic to be with me. They told me I had two choices: 1-Take the medicine orally and wait 45 minutes for it to work or 2-Take the medicine through and IV and get immediate relief. Layne said I should do the IV and I agreed, so away we went back to the EKG so they could monitor my heart while giving me the meds. The craziest, scariest thing I have ever felt in my life. No joking, not 5 seconds after injecting the meds into the IV my heart rate went from 165 to 80. Talk about scary. One second your heart is racing and the next there is nothing. Well, they got my heart rate and blood pressure under control enough they felt like I could leave with medication I have to take every day to control my heart rate. They scheduled me a test called an Echocardiogram for the next day.

Wednesday: The Echocardiogram with bubbles
I went for the echocardiogram with bubbles and learned nothing really. We watched the ultrasound of my heart, very cool. We watched them inject bubbles into my heart during the ultrasound, even cooler. But got no answers this day.

Thursday:
We were told we would have test results, but nothing.

Friday: The Answer
Today we learned I have what is called Mitral Valve Prolapse with Diastolic Dysfunction. That's really all we know. We did Google it to learn what it all means.
www.mayoclinic.com/health/mitral-valve-prolapse/DS00504 Basically on the left side of your heart you have the lower left ventricle and the upper left atrium. Between the two is the Mitral Valve. It's job is to seal the opening between the two while blood is being pumped through your heart. My Mitral Valve does not seal the opening, instead it prolapses into the upper left atrium like a parachute, thus allowing blood to flow back through the valve into the upper left atrium from the lower left ventricle and not pushing it out into the rest of my body. We found many people carry on to live a normal life and never have to be treated. Others have to be medicated the rest of their lives to control it. And some do have to have surgery to repair it. It all depends on how bad it is. I now have to meet with a Cardiologist to decide the next course of treatment. Hopefully I will be seeing him this next week.

Thank you to everyone for your concern and all your help, especially Michelle for watching the kids during my tests. We will keep everyone posted as soon as we know anymore.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

December 25, 2008
We had such a fun Christmas. The kids were so excited. Taysa especially. She could not go to sleep on Christmas Eve, she was still awake at 11:00pm. We got a lot of fun stuff this year. Santa brought us a Wii, which has been so much fun. We all like to play it. The girls all got pet shops, lip gloss, clothes, games, coloring stuff, movies, cds, etc.....We hope you all had a very merry Christmas too!

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Christmas night playing the High School Musical Sing It game on the wii. Even Matt was singing.

Matt and Brooklyn boxing. Notice the picture of Brooklyn standing victoriously as she knocked her dad out and won!!!

Taysa and Brooklyn boxing. Taysa was pretty good too, she knocked me out and won. Boxing sure does make you tired and sore.