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I'm ready for some cooler weather; weather that requires coats (that won't zip) and boots. My favorite! I've had my fall decorations up for a while, my impatience seems to get the best of me every year.  We missed our annual apple picking last year so we made up for it this year and got a bunch! Troy requested only honey crisp this time around, I won't fight him on that. Honey crisp is our favorite and we have already made a few batches of grandmas apple crisp! Yum! That stuff sure doesn't last long around here :)  Troy put in his first ten hour day this past week. It seemed to go well, like most people, he was pretty tired when he got home. He popped a squat on the couch and that's where he stayed for the majority of the night. Heck, I'm not sure I would get up either after a 10 hour day and I have a perfectly healthy brain :)  I have been picking up lots of shifts at work and funny thing, I started swelling like it was no ones business. I think my body is ...

As we creep closer to November we are busy filling out pages and pages of paper work to get medical history's from Spectrum to Mercy Health. As Troy handed me the thick packet he said; "it shouldn't be to hard, my medical history isn't much." Seriously?  It wasn't worth the argument, I figured, once I get everything together I'll show him he has quite an extensive medical history since last October. After everything I ended up getting 5 separate discs with a total of 27 MRI's, CT's and x-Rays he has had since October 11. On top of that pages of lab work, EEG results and so much more. Troy kept pulling it out of the envelope and going, "wow, there's a lot here!" No kidding! When we got home he tried reading the description/ findings on each scan done. It was pretty hysterical, every other word he would stop and try and sound it out. There are a lot of big medical words in there. He asked if I could read them to him and explain; not 6 p...

I'm a list person. I like to see what I have accomplished and I have a weird need to write everything down; old school pen and paper. If my handwriting isn't up to my standards I will rewrite the entire thing no matter how long.  Last night I decided I needed a list for the week. It's my long stretch off from work and I always feel the need to get as much accomplished as I possibly can. I must admit somedays I end up just laying on couch binge watching my latest Netflix addiction. On my list for today was to set up the Neuro Opthmologist appointment for Troy. As it goes, the wait to get in isn't until Novemeber. November still seems like a year away but I know that we're only a couple months out. Troy and his impatience will just need to figure it out. I'm quite surprised he isn't used to it by now. It happens every single time we meet with Vandenberg. Oh well, what's another few months! He has been dealing with these eye issues since the accident.  Nove...