Tasha's *3rd Time's the Charm* Journal (Comments always welcome!)

[toystoryduo]

Tasha honey.... Prayers are being said for Scott right now. I'm also praying for you and Kylie as well. God is watching over you all.

 

[Tasha+Scott]

Thanks, Tracy! I just heard from Scott. He is on his way home. It turns out he has a hernia and is going to need surgery! He sounded like he was feeling okay and I asked if he was on painkillers or something. They gave him an IV with some type of pain medication so he isn't feeling bad right now but he will be by tonight, I'm sure! He has to make an appt. for surgery tomorrow. They said he will need about a week for recovery. It is times like these that it is good he is on salary and has vacation days left! So at least that is one less stress for us! Thanks for praying! I hate that he needs surgery but at least he will be okay!

 

[toystoryduo]

Thanks, Tracy! I just heard from Scott. He is on his way home. It turns out he has a hernia and is going to need surgery! He sounded like he was feeling okay and I asked if he was on painkillers or something. They gave him an IV with some type of pain medication so he isn't feeling bad right now but he will be by tonight, I'm sure! He has to make an appt. for surgery tomorrow. They said he will need about a week for recovery. It is times like these that it is good he is on salary and has vacation days left! So at least that is one less stress for us! Thanks for praying! I hate that he needs surgery but at least he will be okay!

Tasha,

We will keep Scott, you, and Kylie in our prayers.

 

[keenercam]

Tasha -- I am glad you all have the peace of mind of knowing what the problem is and that it can be resolved quickly. I hope you both can get some rest today and that the doctors can schedule Scott's surgery quickly.

 

[eeyore25]

Hi Tasha,

Welcome back.....glad to have you here again!!! You can do it this time...I know you can!!! You are doing a great job already!!!!

Congrats on losing the 5 pounds!!!!

Keep up the great work!!!!

Have a wonderful evening

 

[Tasha+Scott]

Well, Scott has an appt. on Thurs. to basically just check him out and decide what exactly they are going to be doing. The secretary said the dr. is only there on Thurs. and Fri. so hopefully he will be able to get the surgery done next Fri. but if not it may be the following week! They did give him a prescription for painkillers last night so he is doing well as long as he is on those. They make him really drowsy though. He went to work today and is planning to go until the surgery. He is basically just answering phones which he finds completely boring and he said he kept dozing off. The ER doc told him he would probably need a week off for recovery but that he would have to "take it easy and not lift anything heavy" for closer to 6 weeks. So dh will most likely be answering phones for a while which will drive him nuts but at least he won't risk further injury! He is trying to get workman's comp. but his boss was on vacation this week and told him he would see what he could do on Monday. I hope they don't turn it into something difficult since there is no doubt it happened on the job! Why do I have a feeling this is going to be a hassle though?

As far as how things are going with school and the daycare, I met with my instructor on Monday and was able to register for classes. I also checked out a daycare near the elementary school that Kylie will be attending when she turns 5. I loved the location and I really liked the daycare. It is smaller and not overrun with kids. The kids all seem very happy and well-cared for. I was able to take a tour and I was happy with it. The best part is my first semester I will only have 3 classes I have to attend on campus so I will only be going on Tues. and Thurs. So I was able to talk the director into letting me pay for part-time daycare (which is extremely hard to find in our area!) so I will only be paying $35 a week until January! How great is that!?! What an answer to a huge prayer! Starting in January Kylie will be going full-time though as I will have more courses and also have clinicals but we will be able to afford it by then.

I am also taking 2 online classes this semester but I don't actually need them. They are basically just so I can meet my hours to be a full-time student. I have already taken all of my academic and prerequisite courses and only lack my major courses so these online classes are basically just going to be filler courses this semester.

I received a rejection letter for financial aid the other day. No surprise or upset as I knew it was coming. It basically said to write a letter of appeal and that if I was accepted into a health program (which I was) that I should send my acceptance letter from the program as well. It also said that if I was accepted into one of the health programs that they would reevaluate their decision and only count hours that would go toward my major. If they do that then I should definitely have my financial aid reinstated since I wouldn't have taken too many hours then! I am feeling very optimistic about it now!

I did have to call my instructor and have her get me an "official" acceptance letter. Due to the circumstances on how I was accepted into the program I didn't actually receive a letter. I went and picked it up Thurs. and mailed it, along with my letter of appeal, Friday morning. I am hoping I will know something for certain by the end of next week and that it will be good news. Otherwise, I guess I will have to do a 2nd appeal and meet with a committee. I think I will have good luck though...at least I hope so! Keep your fingers crossed, pray, send good thoughts, whatever you feel like doing! I really, really want to be able to finish school and without financial aid it won't be happening this year!

We took Kylie to the daycare on Wed. to turn in her paperwork and shot records form. We brought dh with us to make sure he also approved of the daycare. He did. I did not realize how small Kylie was until then. She is the smallest kid they have there in her age group. She is on the thin side but I guess she is also one of the shorter ones too! She was above average in height at her yearly check up so either she hasn't grown much since or there is something in the daycare's water! These kids looked like giants compared to her! She is the youngest one that was there that day though but only by 2 months!

All of the kids were so "talkative" and sweet and they kept hugging Kylie and bringing her toys. Kylie was loving it! She's such a little socialite, doncha know?! Dh and I could have walked out and I don't think she would have noticed nor would she have cared! That makes me feel a little better about taking her in August...although I will probably still feel a little guilty the first day and end up taking her out for icecream afterward or something!

Anyway, things seem to be going well so far and now we are just playing the waiting game with financial aid. They are generally extremely quick at letting me know something so hopefully this will be no different. I will update when I know more.

Other good news is that Scott is supposed to be getting a really good raise in Sept. We don't know exactly how much but they are promising a pretty huge one. When the company was bought out last Oct. it was discovered that Scott's company is the lowest paid one this new company currently has and they are planning to improve that so wish us luck that it is a substantial increase as we could really use it!

On the WISH front, I am now on day 20 on the cheat-free challenge. It would have been so easy to eat about a lb of chocolate last night while I was worrying about Scott but thankfully there is nothing unhealthy in the house so I didn't sabotage my current eating success and I feel good about that! I didn't exercise last night as I was so worried and about the time I was going to Scott called saying he was on his way home so I decided to skip a night. And tonight my back felt sore (probably from carrying Kylie) so I skipped tonight too. Out of the past 15 days I have worked out 12 days though so I am doing well on the exercise front! I just hope I can keep it up. And Kylie is always running and getting into something so I do get plenty of exercise chasing her all day, lol! The girl is fast! According to my scale I have lost some weight but our scale is awful so I will not officially weigh until I can get to a better scale next week.

Have a great Saturday everyone! I will try to get to journals when things calm down some here!

 

[toystoryduo]

Wow Tasha,

You do have a lot going on right now. I am glad to hear that you have found a daycare for Kylie. I will pray for Scott and for your financial aid.
Take good care of you!

 

[Tasha+Scott]

Well, just a quick post to let all of you know that my appeal for financial aid was APPROVED!!! So that means everything is set and I will be going back to school starting Aug. 15! Thanks for all the prayers about it!

Another good thing that happened today is that Scott was told he will be receiving Workman's Comp.! So that's another huge burden lifted off of us! God is GREAT! Scott's dr.'s appt. is tomorrow and we should know more and get a surgery date then. I will update when I know more.

I am planning to weigh tomorrow but TOM is here so I hope that doesn't throw things off too much. I know that I have lost since I last weighed but I'm just not sure how much. Scott told me last night he could tell I had lost some in my stomach and in my butt. I knew I had in my stomach but had no idea about my butt, lol!

 

[Minniespal]

Excellent news Tasha

Good luck with the weigh-in ~ I'm sure you have lost

 

[keenercam]

Good luck with the WI today, Tasha! And good luck to Scott at his doctor's appt!

Congrats on the financial aid appeal. That is so awesome! DH is interviewing today with the admissions department for his MBA application. I know how stressful the whole process can be, so kudos to you, sweetie, for keeping your head about you through all of this and landing on your feet. You were faced with a huge challenge of dealing with the financial aid and child care issues and here you are!

Have a wonderful day, Tasha!

 

[Tasha+Scott]

We spent a lovely 3 hours at the dr.'s office this afternoon. Kylie was a wild child. I was chasing her everywhere. She kept running as fast as she could trying to get away and squealing in delight. She thought it was so much fun of course! At least people thought she was cute and didn't seem to mind! Ah, the joys of having a toddler!

When the dr. looked at Scott's hernia he said it was a pretty big one and will definitely require surgery. He is having it done Monday but we don't know what time yet. He has to go for pre-op tomorrow sometime and they will go into more details about what they are going to do, pain meds, etc., as well as do routine blood tests, etc. He is taking off from work for 2 weeks and then he will be doing nothing more than answering phones for probably a month after he returns. It is nice to know they can get to it as soon as Monday though as it has been painful for Scott, though he has still been doing pretty well as long as he takes his pain meds.

I also weighed this evening. I am down 4 lbs!! Of course now I would love it if TOM set me back some so that it will seem like I have lost even more next time, lol! I seem to be losing at a rate of about 2 lbs per week (this was the 1st I had weighed in nearly 2 weeks) and I think that is probably a pretty healthy rate. Since starting back on WISH I have lost 6 lbs. And I had lost about 5 lbs before that so I am doing pretty well. I just hope I keep doing this well after I start back to school. I was actually about 144 lbs (my smallest ever!) when I started school last time but between going to school full-time and working full-time I ate a lot of vending machine snacks and fast food and the weight just sort of piled on me. It didn't happen overnight of course but it seemed like it did because I remember looking in the mirror one day and realizing my face was pudgy! I was taken aback! I will only be going to school 2 days a week this semester and I won't be working so hopefully that will cut down on the unhealthy eating. Wish me luck!

 

[Tasha+Scott]

I can't believe how long it's already been since I last posted in this journal! I have finally decided to accept that it is just too hard for me to keep up with journals anymore. I can't even keep up with my own and I feel guilty when I don't read others' journals too. So this will probably be my last post in this journal.

I mainly just want to update you all in case any of you are wondering what has happened to me. Scott had his surgery on July 31. He was off for 3 weeks and now is on light duty at work. He had 1 week of vacation time left though so he is taking off next week. He's doing great! He hasn't been able to pick Kylie up though in nearly 6 weeks and that has been the hardest part for him. She only weighs 20 lbs but he can't lift over 15 according to the dr. He is allowed to lift her again on Sept. 11 and he is counting down the days!

I started back to school on Aug. 15. I really like it so far and I am doing well. It is pretty time-consuming though. I have just as much out-of-class work (maybe more!) as I do the actual in-class assignments. Kylie started daycare that day as well and so far she seems to love it so that was a huge burden lifted off of me! She already seems to have a little boyfriend according to the daycare owner. He is the daycare owner's son and is only 2 months older than Kylie. Apparently they hit it off right away. Scott wasn't amused. Speaking of Kylie, she will be 16 months on Tues. She is such a big girl now. We took the pacifier away a month ago and it was actually really easy. I can't believe how fast she's growing up!

We are probably going to be going back to WDW a couple days after my exams are over in May. I can't wait!

Well, I guess that about covers it. Sorry that I am such a bad journal poster. BUT, on the plus side, I am down about 10 lbs since I started this journal. It may be more actually but I haven't weighed in a while. I also am doing well with the exercise and eating for the most part so that is something else I am proud of these days. It has taken me forever but it seems I may finally be back on track and I feel so much better than I have in several years! Well, take care and I'll see you guys around the exercise challenge threads and other various threads!

 

[toystoryduo]

Hi Tasha,

Thanks for the updates on Scott, school, and Kylie! I was wondering how you all have been doing. I'm glad to hear that things are going well.

Have a great weekend!

 

[Princess Michelle]

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