i haven't blogged in a long long while. i was taking fifteen hours of school and today...was my very last final! i am coming away with four A's and a B! Damn that one professor. i will not name names. :)

i am feeling great and have an oncology appt. coming up that i know will have great results. shelly is still taking it day by day with her tn. she is having a few complications that we are getting checked out, but i know we will make it through anything! we have been through sickness, too many moves, and layoffs. we can certainly get through small complications!

i have been so lucky this semester. i have had such amazing people around me and i am so very thankful for their support and love.

looking forward to this summer. taking six hours and working part time. it should be fun. :) i am going to try to post more often; i know people are curious to see how the shell bell is.

oh and finn...well he is finn. not aggressive anymore, but also not a cuddly little thing. just finn. hoping he will grow out of this hyper hyper stage soon. hugs to everyone.

whoo hoo. busy busy.

so the after holiday blues did not settle in this year. too busy. i started school. fifteen hours. i never thought i would have embraced it so much. i am really enjoying this process. i didn't think i could do it, but i now have all the faith in the world.

we had a busy weekend. through a surprise birthday party for my mom. she was so excited. we did it at the bowling alley. so fun. i actually broke a hundred. michelle struck out every time. that girl can bowl!

shelly is busy. she just got home from lubbock and got to meet bobby knight(sp). she was in the presidents box for the game last week. nctc and tech are becoming a general studies program together so she got to meet some really cool people.

she is doing really well. taking care of herself and trying to stay pain free.

i hope everyone else is doing well also. peace.

cheers to 2010.

happy new year everyone. i am so looking forward to this new year. i am so grateful for everything that has happened this past year. between the good, the bad, and the ugly, i definitely became a stronger person.

as i talk to many close friends and family members, i think 2009 and was a hard year for everyone. i know it was for us.

i am not going to make any new years resolutions, however i am going to wish for a few things. i fully understand that if i am going to make most of these things happen, i am the one who has to do it. they are not going to fall from the sky.

i am wishing for these last ten pounds i have accumulated, will melt away with ease and with all of the hard work i have already started. on that note: shelly has lost five pounds in four days and i two. whats up with that???? anywho...

i want good health to prevail with my family this year and for shelly to finally be pain free for good. what a trooper. this trigeminal neuralgia really knocked us on our asses this year and really made us aware that anything can happen at anytime to change your life.

i want the relationships i have to become even stronger and to let those people know how truly amazing they are and how grateful i am for them.

i want the relationships that have become non existent to at least be given a chance. at least some of them. the important ones.

i wish everyone peace. peace in their hearts, souls, and mind. peace that tomorrow will be awesome as everyday should be.

i look forward to this next year, as i hope everyone else is. happy new year everyone.

love sherry

the sign of the times

so it has been a few weeks since i posted. our lives have mainly consisted of work, (mainly shelly :), finn, family, and shopping for christmas.

thanksgiving was so great. it definitely stood up as still my favorite holiday of the year. we played apples to apples and ate ourselves silly. i had to run three miles almost everyday when we returned to our normal schedule.

now that christmas is upon us, it has me thinking of the 2010 year. i truly feel like this year is going to be such a positive year. from all things health to family i feel UP about this next year. i am making sort of a bucket list. things i want to do before i die. i want to full fill several of those this year. i do not plan on dieing anytime soon, but why not start early right? :)

keeping everyone posted on finn and shelly:

shelly is doing good. she doesn't even want to talk surgery until after the holidays. she is keeping contact with her neurosurgeon and she is thinking around march. every time someone brings surgery up, she is like,"yeah, it IS brain surgery people". so we will wait for her surgery for a few more months if that is what she wants.

finn, not only has he regressed, he is like a teenage boy that is in his goth, i want to be bad phase. yes we still love him and always will, but i do have to say, it is like having a child. truly truly. we were watching the animal planet the other day, and some dog expert was talking about, When you want to think about getting a puppy. She was like, " you really have to be committed, THIS is the next fifteen years of your life, so choose wisely".

Shelly looked at me and said, "holy hell! seriously! fifteen years!"

I said yes very calmly, " so you better start learning to love this sweet lil man!". Those two have a love hate relationship and it is slowly becoming more about the love. haha.

I hope everyone is doing really well.

Congratulations to my cousin Kevin who had a new baby boy. Welcome to the family sweet boy.

bring on the turkey!

waiting, waiting, waiting....
we are waiting on test results. hopefully today we will find out. it seems to be the year for sickness, or am i just getting older and realizing that sometimes this happens. i have made a promise to myself this past weekend. i am going to dive into yoga again. i have been doing it, but not on the level i used to. just making it a part of my everyday.
dive into the holistic person i so once loved to be. i think i might even become vegetarian again. that is after thanksgiving. i mean, after these past few years of eating anything i want, surely i can wait till after the turkey to turn my new leaf. :)
looking forward to the holidays. shelly finally felt better yesterday after her lumbar headache, OUCH, and we actually went to look around a bit and had some lunch. Christinas is so yummy!
we made a list and trying to figure out our budget.
still temping and really kinda enjoying making up my own schedule. it has helped a tad.
as of late we are trying to train out dog. yes, it is a task. i swear this dog is so lucky he is cute. shelly keeps looking at him and saying, "three words finn: BRAND - NEW-HOME", every time he jumps on us. he is not aggressive and i know he is a puppy, but the jumping has got to stop. we are watching the dog whisperer more times than i would like to admit, and yes, i read the book. i have been implementing all of the training techniques and some are working, but most are not. i never thought i would say this, but i am looking forward to finns last puppy days. haha.
other than that, not much going on. looking forward to spending time with our families, starting school again, and getting my hair cut and i am going blonde blonde blonde again. i thought i enjoyed my natural color of dirty dishwater, but yeah, not so much. :)
i hope everyone is doing well. we again thank you for all of the support friends and family has been giving us. we are thankful for you and each other everyday.
oh, and say a little prayer for my mom. she is having some test on friday and we are hoping for some good results. some really good results. :)

be well

not too much to say. shelly and i are doing well. we are in a bit of limbo until we find out if shelly has MS. she is going for a "lumbar puncture" on monday. fancy word for spinal tap.

we should find out by the end of the week if the results are negative or positive.

i am still temping but and waiting for the spring semester to happen. actively looking again for work, after being so disheartened by my last search. it has been a little hard, because lately, i have had to cancel a few interviews due to dr visits. not that i mind! her health comes first, i am wondering if i should just wait on the job front until we know exactly what is going to happen.

my family continues to be amazing. i am trying to get myself geared up for the holidays. my favorite holiday is thanksgiving and it seems i am lacking in the spirit this year. i used to love just sitting there with family and sharing a meal. everyone cooks, cleans, naps, and then watches the cowboys.

i know i will get back into the spirit of things. i continue to be grateful for all things. i am hoping that my theory on, "everything happens for a reason", is still sound and just.

wednesday, and hopeful. our morning started at five and a little rough. five am sharp in the shower i hear, "ouch ****", and i know they have begun. making lunch another and another and so on...

by the time i checked in with her at 5:20 six down. even that is a lot for TN patients, but then again, maybe it is not. we are new to this world and this amazing group of people known as Trigeminal Neuralgians. Breathe... and they are gone as quickly as they came for her.

Her appointment was yesterday and we liked the doctor very much. Dr. Brent Morgan in Dallas. Lots of questions and concerns came from us and a lot of info and he wants her pain free talk and we feel better. he is sending her to another neurologist only one more time. he absolutely wants to make sure it is not MS. once he knows for sure, even though he is almost certain it is not, he is moving forward. he gave her lots of options, but feels she is a really good candidate for MVD surgery. he thinks she is a typical TN on the left with a vessel pressing. he really wanted to know what SHE wanted. what we wanted, and she explained that if she could help it, she does not want to live with this. he explained it is a very personal decision and that sometimes people feel they CAN live with it, but she is young, and agrees they should try to make the pain go away. sooooooo, it a nutshell we need to rule out MS again. that will be next week. i will keep everyone posted.

as for me, i am going to be the rock she needs. i am going to pick my friends brains to see what they think. all of my tn friends are living with this everyday and i trust their opinions. i am grateful for their opinions.

also my family has been great. thanks guys.

i am going to get advised today for school. bring it! haha.