She Always Pees on Mainstreet at Magic Kingdom! Update 2/9
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jedijill
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Kizzy being brave or stupid....
Notice that Kizzy is covering her nose with her paw!!!
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He y Dawn -
So sorry to hear that you have been in and out of the hospital twice since I talked to you last.
I am glad you are seeing a specialist - hopefully an infectious disease specialist for your recurrent UTI's.
The problem with recurrent UTIs is that the bacteria can become resistant to different antibiotics until there is almost nothing left to treat you with. cipro is usually great for E Coli UTIs, but when its the 2nd or 3rd or 4th, ect the chance of resistance goes up, up, up.
C Diff is an all too common side effect from antibiotics. It can occur up to one year from the time someone has had an abx.
I got C Diff last April and I needed two courses of Flagyl to get rid of it. I started taking probiotics and I still take them and I have not had a reoccurrence. Florastor is the best probiotic for an active Cdiff infection. It can be purchased over the counter. You are supposed to take 1 tab twice a day, but even daily is helpful because the med is about $20 for 30 pills.
Another probiotic that I recommend is Align. This can be purchased at Costco and even ordered off of Amazon. It is the only probiotic that had been shown to reduce IBS symptoms. I take this EVERYDAY (since I had CDiff) and it has changed my life. Seriously - it cuts down on gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea. It is so worth every cent. If you are having GI issues you should seriously consider it. I got samples from a GI guy and within 3 days I was feeling great.
I do hope you continue to improve. I am so sorry you have to go through this. Its terrible.
On a bright note - the kids pictures are GREAT!
So sorry to hear that you have been in and out of the hospital twice since I talked to you last.
I am glad you are seeing a specialist - hopefully an infectious disease specialist for your recurrent UTI's.
The problem with recurrent UTIs is that the bacteria can become resistant to different antibiotics until there is almost nothing left to treat you with. cipro is usually great for E Coli UTIs, but when its the 2nd or 3rd or 4th, ect the chance of resistance goes up, up, up.
C Diff is an all too common side effect from antibiotics. It can occur up to one year from the time someone has had an abx.
I got C Diff last April and I needed two courses of Flagyl to get rid of it. I started taking probiotics and I still take them and I have not had a reoccurrence. Florastor is the best probiotic for an active Cdiff infection. It can be purchased over the counter. You are supposed to take 1 tab twice a day, but even daily is helpful because the med is about $20 for 30 pills.
Another probiotic that I recommend is Align. This can be purchased at Costco and even ordered off of Amazon. It is the only probiotic that had been shown to reduce IBS symptoms. I take this EVERYDAY (since I had CDiff) and it has changed my life. Seriously - it cuts down on gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea. It is so worth every cent. If you are having GI issues you should seriously consider it. I got samples from a GI guy and within 3 days I was feeling great.
I do hope you continue to improve. I am so sorry you have to go through this. Its terrible.
On a bright note - the kids pictures are GREAT!
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Cute mini-update!! 
When I saw Treyner and Carsyn's pic, I thought it said Carsyn's 20th b-day! I was so confused! I thought how on earth can she be in high school, and be that old! I think I am going crazy!! haha
Hope you are feeling better!
When I saw Treyner and Carsyn's pic, I thought it said Carsyn's 20th b-day! I was so confused! I thought how on earth can she be in high school, and be that old! I think I am going crazy!! haha
Hope you are feeling better!
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So...your holiday dog pictures inspired me to share mine. We lost power for a couple of hours and so the temperature was starting to drop, and Apawlo is a very short-haired dog. So we figured out how to stay warm.
Hope that too helps share some smiles. Feel better soon Dawn!!!
Hope that too helps share some smiles. Feel better soon Dawn!!!
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Day 1 Continued:
We were all aboard the Jet plane, with "I am Over IT," tranquilized, in tow and I tried to get a pic of Dan looking his best but this was all I could come up with!
The plane ride itself was uneventful and I read a magazine, sipped my Bloody Mary mix which they offered as tomato juice and English biscuit cookies, just relaxed. Dan and I tried to get some sleep but were way to excited and soon enough we were in Atlanta, touching down and trying to meander through foreign land.
The airport here is unique in the fact you need to leave the terminal, walk outside, to get a monorail that will take you to the rental car locations. This involves hauling all your crud down a flight of escalators, up another and then back down once more, walking past traffic who would like you and a dragon fly, embossed on their windshield. I felt like I was doing the proverbial Heisman Trophy pose, protecting myself and my luggage, as I dodged taxi's and hotel shuttles.
Monorail riding!
Are we there yet?
We did find some entertainment in this leg of the journey though.
Dan Blart, "Renta Cop," was too chicken to actually get on the scooter of doom but he did pose nicely by it. It was parked on the way to the car lot and nobody was by it...keys in the ignition...I was tempted I have to admit!!
We also had a squeaky clean car rental guy who looked like he just had his mama lick her finger and wipe his oatmeal off his chin from breakfast. I tried my womanly swoon ways to get him to upgrade us. I offered to show him my groceries...and Dan's for that matter but a little cleavage was of no interest to Potsie, with or without hair. We were going to be stuck with an economy car and we were going to like it! He did though give us a piece of information on where to eat on our return when we had a portion of a day in Atlanta before heading home. More on that later.
So after getting horrible directions on how to find the car lot we needed and walking to Kentucky and back, we saw our lil old car. All sad because it was so puny. Kinda like Brainy Smurf and as light as Anorexic Smurfette.
Dan decided to man up and show it who was in control for this adventure. He also tried not to split his pants but I was on the side wishing he would have because it would make for a funny story!
We had made good timing overall and we were heading to the big WDW before Noon!
Now our first stop was to be a place that is nostalgic to me and includes fond memories of birthday parties and dates with hot football players. Or maybe it was hot birthdays since mine is in August and I partied with football players?
We had called ahead of time to find out when there lunch hours were open and knew we could make it if we hurried.
Life was good, car was actually not too bad for a sardine can and we were on a mission for cruddy pizza.
About an hour outside of Atlanta, I felt the urge to purge.
I assured Dan it was no joke and he better find me Billy Bob's Fill- N -Spill pronto.
I should have asked for a nicer place because we all know when you ask...you shall receive.
Literally pulled into a one pump station that sold boiled peanuts inside and looked like the last update to the decor was in the motif of, "Stand by Me." Greasy floors, dirty windows and coke machines with more dust than Hugh Hefner's baby making whirly birds.
This place was old and it had uno bathroom for men and women with the hint of tobacco spittle emanating from the floor. I thought the fake fern was a classy touch though next to the sink with a broken faucet.
I saran wrapped the biffy and proceeded to have the first of what now has become more of a staple event in my life.
Waves of pain so bad I thought I was going to give birth to an alien. No such luck but after 15 minutes of agony, I managed to crawl my way out of the bathroom, wash my hands in a work sink with Borax and buy two waters in hopes the diluting of whatever gastrointestinal issues I was having. I figured how old could water be?
Dan had gotten gas, also gone inside and bought a pop for himself and was waiting for me. If I could have slugged him I would have. I had envisioned me dying in the crapper from hades, lying on the floor with nobody to hear the sounds of my cries for mercy, as ants made their way from the drain of death, under the molding sink, to what remained of my carcass by the time 20 years passed and the next cleaning was due.
I sat in the front, told him I was going to be sick and gave him directions to drive past the one semi pump, to the back of the station. Here, next to a shady oak, I gave to the earth the rest of my measly food still in my stomach and prayed for God to let me die.
God's number was busy, so while I was on auto redial, I decided to lay in the back of the sardine can and told Dan to drive on. He asked if we should get me to a hospital and I kept saying I just wanted to wait a few more minutes. I also was telling him to stop asking me questions because it hurt so bad I could not concentrate on anything but Lamaze breathing and he was interrupting my rhythm.
This Lamaze technique, BTW, was similar to the ones I perfected with Treyner and Carsyn, when I went through labor.
It sounds a little like...
Heee...heeee...heeeeewwhhhhhh....*&$#)^%#^*&^@***$*@
Rinse & Repeat.
After about 20 minutes of driving and making arrangements on Gods voice mail
of everything I would do if he just let me stop wanting to die, the pain was gone.
Just like a hummingbirds flight, it was here and strong and then done and gone.
It scared me because I knew I had hardly eaten anything that day, nothing deep friend or greasy and could not pinpoint why it had occurred so I would know what to do not to have it happen again.
I felt totally fine, sat up in the back seat and gave Dan directions to our destination, ready to eat a small bit and have the knowledge I had seen the last Shakey's east of the Mississippi.
It was a bit farther off the interstate than the mapquest directions had led us to believe. In fact we had to call 3 times to make sure we were not lost.
When we walked in, we were greeted by the nicest guy who was finding it humorous we had come all the way from Minnesota to find this treasure.
It was an original all right. Same design inside and out including booths, game room and cheesy lamps that make you think you might be in an old time saloon back in the days of Mae West movies.
They had a buffet and we each got a small plate of food. Our man offered to make us anything we wanted but I was not trusting my gut and after tasting a memory, I realized why I do not lick scrapbooks.
You are never able to relive your past, no matter how hard you try. So I enjoyed a plate of old times and was ready to limit and really look at what I enjoy with calories for my today.
Cheap Pizza ain't one of them.
With an adieu and a handshake, we were again, WDW bound, knowing we had reservations for Ohana's at 9 p.m. and wanting to not miss some quality calories like BREAD PUDDING AND CHICKEN WINGS!!!
We were all aboard the Jet plane, with "I am Over IT," tranquilized, in tow and I tried to get a pic of Dan looking his best but this was all I could come up with!
The plane ride itself was uneventful and I read a magazine, sipped my Bloody Mary mix which they offered as tomato juice and English biscuit cookies, just relaxed. Dan and I tried to get some sleep but were way to excited and soon enough we were in Atlanta, touching down and trying to meander through foreign land.
The airport here is unique in the fact you need to leave the terminal, walk outside, to get a monorail that will take you to the rental car locations. This involves hauling all your crud down a flight of escalators, up another and then back down once more, walking past traffic who would like you and a dragon fly, embossed on their windshield. I felt like I was doing the proverbial Heisman Trophy pose, protecting myself and my luggage, as I dodged taxi's and hotel shuttles.
Monorail riding!
Are we there yet?
We did find some entertainment in this leg of the journey though.
Dan Blart, "Renta Cop," was too chicken to actually get on the scooter of doom but he did pose nicely by it. It was parked on the way to the car lot and nobody was by it...keys in the ignition...I was tempted I have to admit!!
We also had a squeaky clean car rental guy who looked like he just had his mama lick her finger and wipe his oatmeal off his chin from breakfast. I tried my womanly swoon ways to get him to upgrade us. I offered to show him my groceries...and Dan's for that matter but a little cleavage was of no interest to Potsie, with or without hair. We were going to be stuck with an economy car and we were going to like it! He did though give us a piece of information on where to eat on our return when we had a portion of a day in Atlanta before heading home. More on that later.
So after getting horrible directions on how to find the car lot we needed and walking to Kentucky and back, we saw our lil old car. All sad because it was so puny. Kinda like Brainy Smurf and as light as Anorexic Smurfette.
Dan decided to man up and show it who was in control for this adventure. He also tried not to split his pants but I was on the side wishing he would have because it would make for a funny story!
We had made good timing overall and we were heading to the big WDW before Noon!
Now our first stop was to be a place that is nostalgic to me and includes fond memories of birthday parties and dates with hot football players. Or maybe it was hot birthdays since mine is in August and I partied with football players?
We had called ahead of time to find out when there lunch hours were open and knew we could make it if we hurried.
Life was good, car was actually not too bad for a sardine can and we were on a mission for cruddy pizza.
About an hour outside of Atlanta, I felt the urge to purge.
I assured Dan it was no joke and he better find me Billy Bob's Fill- N -Spill pronto.
I should have asked for a nicer place because we all know when you ask...you shall receive.
Literally pulled into a one pump station that sold boiled peanuts inside and looked like the last update to the decor was in the motif of, "Stand by Me." Greasy floors, dirty windows and coke machines with more dust than Hugh Hefner's baby making whirly birds.
This place was old and it had uno bathroom for men and women with the hint of tobacco spittle emanating from the floor. I thought the fake fern was a classy touch though next to the sink with a broken faucet.
I saran wrapped the biffy and proceeded to have the first of what now has become more of a staple event in my life.
Waves of pain so bad I thought I was going to give birth to an alien. No such luck but after 15 minutes of agony, I managed to crawl my way out of the bathroom, wash my hands in a work sink with Borax and buy two waters in hopes the diluting of whatever gastrointestinal issues I was having. I figured how old could water be?
Dan had gotten gas, also gone inside and bought a pop for himself and was waiting for me. If I could have slugged him I would have. I had envisioned me dying in the crapper from hades, lying on the floor with nobody to hear the sounds of my cries for mercy, as ants made their way from the drain of death, under the molding sink, to what remained of my carcass by the time 20 years passed and the next cleaning was due.
I sat in the front, told him I was going to be sick and gave him directions to drive past the one semi pump, to the back of the station. Here, next to a shady oak, I gave to the earth the rest of my measly food still in my stomach and prayed for God to let me die.
God's number was busy, so while I was on auto redial, I decided to lay in the back of the sardine can and told Dan to drive on. He asked if we should get me to a hospital and I kept saying I just wanted to wait a few more minutes. I also was telling him to stop asking me questions because it hurt so bad I could not concentrate on anything but Lamaze breathing and he was interrupting my rhythm.
This Lamaze technique, BTW, was similar to the ones I perfected with Treyner and Carsyn, when I went through labor.
It sounds a little like...
Heee...heeee...heeeeewwhhhhhh....*&$#)^%#^*&^@***$*@
Rinse & Repeat.
After about 20 minutes of driving and making arrangements on Gods voice mail
of everything I would do if he just let me stop wanting to die, the pain was gone.
Just like a hummingbirds flight, it was here and strong and then done and gone.
It scared me because I knew I had hardly eaten anything that day, nothing deep friend or greasy and could not pinpoint why it had occurred so I would know what to do not to have it happen again.
I felt totally fine, sat up in the back seat and gave Dan directions to our destination, ready to eat a small bit and have the knowledge I had seen the last Shakey's east of the Mississippi.
It was a bit farther off the interstate than the mapquest directions had led us to believe. In fact we had to call 3 times to make sure we were not lost.
When we walked in, we were greeted by the nicest guy who was finding it humorous we had come all the way from Minnesota to find this treasure.
It was an original all right. Same design inside and out including booths, game room and cheesy lamps that make you think you might be in an old time saloon back in the days of Mae West movies.
They had a buffet and we each got a small plate of food. Our man offered to make us anything we wanted but I was not trusting my gut and after tasting a memory, I realized why I do not lick scrapbooks.
You are never able to relive your past, no matter how hard you try. So I enjoyed a plate of old times and was ready to limit and really look at what I enjoy with calories for my today.
Cheap Pizza ain't one of them.
With an adieu and a handshake, we were again, WDW bound, knowing we had reservations for Ohana's at 9 p.m. and wanting to not miss some quality calories like BREAD PUDDING AND CHICKEN WINGS!!!
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Oh I hope this doesn't become a theme through out your trip 
stayhomemom77
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The FUN has arrivvvvvvved!
Um, that would be ME of course!
How behind AM I anyway? Had no idea you'd even started your TR until Sheree posted on Skinny Island that you were in the hospital (sorry about that...feel better soon, okay??) and prolly not around because of that.
Then I FINALLY made my way over here last night but didn't want to post until I'd read everything.
Comments:
I am so lovin' the "over it" lady story...good value I think. The security hours were hysterical...good thing people only have emergencies during office hours.
You look so adorable in your "beginning of the trip" pic! I read about your bathroom makeup application and then had to inspect your photo after the "face God gave me" comment. Here are my results: Only the lip goo is apparent...if I squint I can tell that there's eye shadow, but that's about it. Conclusions: Great God given face to begin with...miracle makeup only exists in your mind!
the pic of Dan "lifting" the car! So manly! <Swoon>
Regarding the vomitrociousness: Maybe the plane biscuits were really puking pastilles?? Glad it passed before too long. What a trooper to hang in the back seat praying for death while Dan sallies forth ON SCHEDULE!! I had the same lamaze tactics...ineffective yet oddly satisfying!
Sure hope the oak tree ugliness doesn't affect the Ohana experience.
(Since the drugs aren't working...I thought I'd give this a try!)
I COMMAND you to feel better so you are free to work on this TR.
Um, that would be ME of course!
How behind AM I anyway? Had no idea you'd even started your TR until Sheree posted on Skinny Island that you were in the hospital (sorry about that...feel better soon, okay??) and prolly not around because of that.
Then I FINALLY made my way over here last night but didn't want to post until I'd read everything.
Comments:
I am so lovin' the "over it" lady story...good value I think. The security hours were hysterical...good thing people only have emergencies during office hours.
You look so adorable in your "beginning of the trip" pic! I read about your bathroom makeup application and then had to inspect your photo after the "face God gave me" comment. Here are my results: Only the lip goo is apparent...if I squint I can tell that there's eye shadow, but that's about it. Conclusions: Great God given face to begin with...miracle makeup only exists in your mind!
the pic of Dan "lifting" the car! So manly! <Swoon>Regarding the vomitrociousness: Maybe the plane biscuits were really puking pastilles??
Glad it passed before too long. What a trooper to hang in the back seat praying for death while Dan sallies forth ON SCHEDULE!! I had the same lamaze tactics...ineffective yet oddly satisfying!Sure hope the oak tree ugliness doesn't affect the Ohana experience.
(Since the drugs aren't working...I thought I'd give this a try!)
I COMMAND you to feel better so you are free to work on this TR.
stayhomemom77
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Rats! Forgot to subscribe.
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Man! girl, the things that happen to you could ONLY happen to you!
I remember Shakey's b-day parties too! My 8th was at one. Looks exactly the same!!
I sure hope this illness is not a recurring theme in the TR! And I hope to heaven that you are getting treated and feeling better now!
I remember Shakey's b-day parties too! My 8th was at one. Looks exactly the same!!
I sure hope this illness is not a recurring theme in the TR! And I hope to heaven that you are getting treated and feeling better now!
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Update coming manana - Throat scope thingy scheduled for the 27th and will get results then if there are any to be had - c-diff not the problem and I wish it were so it could be an easier answer.
To top off my day...helped Baylor in his room organizing his closet shelf that still has some of Treyner's clothes he did not take to college and as I am pulling the load of stuff down a freakin Football Kicking T fell down from 5 feet in the air on my right big toe. Cried so hard I had snot bubbles. I am sure I will loose the nail and the thing is swollen. I need to find a Buddha to rub.
The belly of a Buddha I mean.
I know how you all think.
Sorry if that offended any local Buddha's.
To top off my day...helped Baylor in his room organizing his closet shelf that still has some of Treyner's clothes he did not take to college and as I am pulling the load of stuff down a freakin Football Kicking T fell down from 5 feet in the air on my right big toe. Cried so hard I had snot bubbles. I am sure I will loose the nail and the thing is swollen. I need to find a Buddha to rub.
The belly of a Buddha I mean.
I know how you all think.
Sorry if that offended any local Buddha's.
Mndisneygirl
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Seriously woman! Wrap yourself in bubble wrap, put on a helmet, drink only purified water and go lay on the couch!!!stayhomemom77
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I say we all pitch in a buy her a suit of armor to wear. It won't do much for the infection but maybe all the body parts will stay intact. 
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