Sick and Sicker...

These past 3 weeks have been tough here around the Young household. Both Ben and I have been soooo sick and after multiple visits to the doctor and loads of meds... here I am, still feeling like crud. I was starting to make a comeback a few days ago, but last night things took a turn in the wrong direction. After a very sleepless night, I overslept and was unable to make it to a very important meeting I was supposed to be at about 2 hours ago. I hate being sick... I hate that it makes me unable to do things I need to and promised I would do. I hate that my house is a mess and I have zero energy to clean it... and I hate that my dogs have impecable timing and manage to come down with TAPEWORM and Colitis at the same exact time, which adds to the sleepless nights because of the endless trips downstairs to let Sirius go potty, lest he have an accident... Grrr...

Got Hair?

A few months ago I wrote this post. It was the start of a new treatment for my Endometriosis. I the took Femara for about 4 months and thought nothing of it... I felt great compared to how I was feeling before my surgery and on other similar drugs that turned me into "Psycho Alex." No major side effects to speak of really, I was totally impressed! I stopped the Femara a few weeks ago in preperation for my new adventure with Lupron (more on that later.)
Ok, so what's the big deal then? Well, a few weeks ago I noticed that my hair was starting to fall out at an alarming rate. I'm not talking about your random few strands of hair in the shower drain... I'm talking fistfulls at a time and hairballs the size of oranges in the drain... every day. At first I though maybe it was stress... or maybe I wasn't eating well? This morning I got a bit more alarmed after another 2 fistfulls of hair came out in the shower, and decided to do some research... perhaps one of the many drugs I'm taking had something to do with it? First stop: Femara. Ok, now if you didn't look at the linked post above, go now and look at the picture closely... yeah, CHEMO! Duh!!! Why didn't I think of that and put 2 and 2 together? I guess I never really thought about it as "for reals" chemo... I don't have cancer, I wasn't throwing up, and it wasn't the red stuff going in through an IV every week ... it was just these little pink pills that looked so innocent! Yeah, right... innocent, whatever. I looked up Femara side effects and sure enough... HAIR LOSS. Good job, me... only took me 5 months to figure that one out.
So now this Lupron... its like Femara on steroids apparently. Originally designed as chemo treatment for Prostate cancer patients, this nifty little drug has also proved to be effective in shrinking the Endo. I'll be on it for 6 months... And yes, seeing as this is poison in a needle, hairloss is definitely on the list of side effects for this one too; moreso than Femara, actually. I'm kind of scared to think how much worse the hairloss will get with this drug. I've read it can take up to a year before your hair starts growing back normally... yikes!
Its amazing the things we have to take into our bodies sometimes... I guess you have to take the good with the bad though... So, anyone know of any really good fortifying shampoos or something?

Too funny!

For all you Princess Bride fans and Huckabee haters... ;)

Anyone need some firewood?

Remember that big ice storm a few weeks ago? Well, it resulted in a lot of downed trees/treelimbs and so everyone in OKC was told to make bundles and leave them on their front yards by the curb... the city would send crews to "clean it all up." Well, what they failed to mention was where all this lumber wood end up. A few days ago we were awoken by the sound of trucks and cranes in what seemed to be our backyard??? We looked out the window and to our horror saw crews filling up the park adjacent to the back of our townhouse with... thats right, you guessed it... TREES! Lots and lots of dead trees. Over the course of the next few days, our little park was converted into Oklahoma City's little dumpster... nice, huh?


As the temperatures have been falling rapidly, and everyone has been scrambling to the stores to buy some firewood, we can at least basque in the knowledge that while our backyard view has been severly compromised, we have all the FREE firewood we want and will probably need for the rest of this winter and probably some of next!

At long last...

As you may have noticed, my blog has been undergoing some major aesthetic changes recently. This is due to my pickyness regarding it's "look." I have been trying different things and while I was pleased temporarily, I couldn't get it to look "just right" since I'm not terribly skilled at the HTML thing. This weekend, however, I stumbled upon some cute templates (see footer) and a few clicks later... VIOLA! I'm very pleased... maybe this time I'll stick with this template for more than a month! ;)