What the?

Well obviously it has been awhile since my last post we have been very busy lately. I started back classes about a month ago, Ryan is going to be starting a 2 year degree program online in October to get his Bachelors in Software Engineering. Ryan's last doctors visit went smoothly nothing unusual. He was finally able to tell her that he has sever stomach pains and is sure it is an ulcer. She made and appointment with a Gastroenterologist for Sept 18 so we will finally be able to see if it is an ulcer, due to the predizone he was taking, and hopefully be able to fix it.

We have also had 10 new additions to the family actually 12. We got Haley a couple of Degu's (Molly & Jack) and well the female was pregnant and she had 9 babies. They will be ready for new homes in about 3 more weeks.

We also got a new puppy about 3 weeks ago. Her name is Chloe and she is a brown Chihuahua. She is absoultely adorable. We had no intention of getting another dog any time soon. But for some reason Ryan got this braniac idea to search the classifieds for a Chihuahua a few Sunday's ago and we began calling around just to LOOK.... Well we contacted this lady in Mississippi that had one that she had just gotten herself, but found out she was pregnant and was unsure about keeping the dog. Well let me tell you one look at her and we were in love.. she is 3 1/2 months old and as sweet as can be. She is super tiny and already spoiled rotten. We got a really good deal on this dog, the lady gave us Chloe's beds, toys, and blankets that she had already purchased.



Now we are waiting for Ryan's Doctors appointment this Thursday to see if we can fix his stomach. As far as the MMS listed in my last post Ryan was doing really well on it he got up to about 8 drops twice a day which turned out to be too much for him to handle. He began feeling very nauseous so he quite taking it for a while he has started to take it but will max out at 5drops once a day for now. He is feeling more energetic again. Also I had begun taking it and was doing about 3 drops a day, I too began feeling less tired but because it cleans out the toxins in your body I had to quite taking it since we are trying to get pregnant. They say you should never do a cleanse while pregnant or trying to become pregnant. As far as the Salt stone in place of a deorderant I highly recommend this route it is much better in terms of no stickness, no residue on your clothes, and keeping you fresh all day.

A Miracle for Sarc?

In Ryan's Quest to cure his Sarc naturally in the Sarcoidosis Cure ebook we came across a product called Miracle Mineral Supplement MMS. Which according to this website Miracle Mineral it can cure several illnesses and even save your life. It is meant to push toxins out of your body and purify it. He has been taking it for about a week and he says he has not felt as good as he does now in 2 years. It was about 2 years ago that we realized something was wrong with him.

He kept telling me I should try it so I took it this morning and I will keep you updated as to how I feel. Although I am not sick everyone has toxins in their body and we need to clean them out to be and feel healthier. Just trying to find another way to live naturally.

A New Deoderant??

Among the natural items that Ryan has switched to is a natural deodorant namely Thai Deodorant Stick 4.25 oz.

Recently I read an article that said that deodorant can cause breast cancer. So I did a search to see if that was true here is a link that suggest ingredients in deodorant can cause breast cancer.
The reason being is that your pores in your underarms are some of the biggest on your body which allow anything that you put on them to enter your body. Your body is meant to sweat and when you roll on deodorant you are Blocking your pores, which actually makes you sweat more and which in turn causes more odors. The perfumes in deodorant is supposed to mask the odors not block them. However, this website Is deodorant safe?
will try to tell you that deodorants are safe. So I urge you to decide which is best for you.

So we saw the Thai Deodorant Stick 4.25 oz at our local Health Hut on Schillengers in Mobile and Ryan wanted to try it, Thai deodorant is a pure-natural-crystal deodorant stone product. It is 100% pure and natural. The Deodorant Stone does not contain any harsh chemicals, perfumes, oils, emulsified alcohol or propellants. It is made from potassium alum mineral salts which are crystallized, then hand shaped and smoothed. It contains no aluminum chlorohydrate. The Deodorant Stone is not sticky or greasy it will not stain clothing, irritate your skin, or leak in your suitcase. It is the finest product on the market today and best of all IT WORKS! This can be used by anyone men, women, and teens.

So what do I have to say about a switch to a natural deodorant? I say it is Amazing!! When Ryan bought it I said let me know how it goes. After day one he was saying he really liked it. By day 3 He said he loved it, it was amazing. After 2 weeks of using it he said it was the best thing ever he didn't sweat or smell and best of all it doesn't leave that nasty residue on your clothes. So I was like I have to try this for myself, and I did, I went and got me a stick from the Health Hut and tried it that night after getting out of the shower, and I must say I loved it. After using it for a couple of days I noticed an immediate change, my underarms where no longer sticky in the shower due to all the, I'll say white crap, for a lack of a better word. It has made my underarms smoother, and I must say I did not sweat and we are talking about not sweating in 90+ degree temperatures in Mobile. Again it does not show on your clothes. I am talking about this product because I absolutely believe in it, further more no one encouraged me to do so. I did find that they sell it at Amazon if you can't find it at your local Health store.

Just trying to find a more natural way to live.

Pathetic!!!

I just want to tell you all what a pathetic relationship our dog Britta has with Ryan. This dog loves him so much that she is jealous if he touches any of the other 2 dogs or even me. She doesn’t seem too be jealous around Haley I guess she can sense she is just a kid. But if Ryan pets or plays with one of the other dogs she makes this woo woo sound, which is absolutely adorable, she also makes the sounds if he hugs me. He likes to tease her by touching everyone in the house, but her when we get home and she gets so jealous, she can’t stand it she woo woo’s her head off. Hilarious!!

Sarc Cure?

Ryan has been trying this new regime for a couple of weeks now. We found this website called Sarcoidosis Cure where you can download the eBook that has instructions on improving your health with herbal supplements. Since he is no longer taking Prednisone he needed something for inflammation. He is still on pain medication, but has decided to try and come off the patch because he is tired of being tired.

Some of the herbs are Turmeric which he had to temporarily stop taking because he thinks he has a stomach ulcer and they said not to take this if that was the case. He has a doctor’s appointment next month so we will see about the ulcer then. He is also taking Ashwaganda and Cats Claw for immune health. He is also doing this drink that involves drinking organic apple cider vinegar to help alkalize his pH balance. He also takes Chlorella and Spirulina for energy. Another thing he is doing is swishing compressed sunflower seed oil around his mouth to release toxins. All of this sounds like a lot, but he has seen a major improvement in his energy levels. I can tell he feels a lot better, he doesn’t look so tired, and some of the coloring has returned to his face. Of course we don’t know if this will actually cure anything, but we are trying everything. We will see how it goes.

Doctor's Visit

I know I am slow getting this posted because Ryan went to the doctor last Wednesday in Birmingham for his 3 month checkup. I have to tell you that the nurse who assists his doctor is a total idiot. She never returns his calls and trying to get a prescription from her is next to impossible. He went to his local Doctor here the week before and she wanted him to have a CT scan of the chest and abdomen because she felt enlarged lymphnodes in the abdomen. They couldn't get the scan done in time before his doctor appt in B'ham. However, Ryan called the nurse in B'ham to have her change the CT scan from just the chest to include both. But believe it or not she never called him back to confirm. His doctor down here had to make sure this was done properly how wrong is that.

Anyway that is all beside the point he had the complete CT scan and breathing test to make sure the Sarc had not entered his lungs. They also did blood work, but we have to assume there is nothing to be alarmed over since the idiot nurse has not called us. Well let's just hope it's not life threatening or anything because we may find out to late since she can't do her job. After the CT scan the Radiologist said the granulomas had enlarged, but the doctor said they had not. So who do you believe? The doctor has decided they are the same size and are no longer growing after coming off Prednisone, he has also decided not to put him on Methotrexate which is a great thing since we want to have kids. The doctor also felt he was showing signs of going into remission. He doesn't want to see him again for 6 months and at that time if they haven't enlarged anymore he will consider that remission.... Okay let me get this right remission in his case may mean that they may still be there, but not bigger? It doesn't mean that they will have disappeared? Apparently not remission for him would mean that they are not bigger and they have not moved nor multiplied. But they can remain the same size they are forever!!!! What???? So this may mean he will be in pain forever, well let's hope not. I guess we will have to wait and see in the meantime he continues to take pain medication, but nothing to reduce the size of the granulomas, which I don't think there is anything for that just yet.

Anniversary

I have decided it is time to inform you of our not so wonderful 1st year anniversary trip. Yes we have been married for one year and we had this brilliant plan to go camping, rafting, and hiking. Our Anniversary was April 28, but we couldn't make our trip until May 11 because I had to finish out the Spring semester at school. We changed our plans multiple times as to where we were going to go. First we were going to Williamsburg, VA and camp out in North Carolina on the way. But then we came to our senses and decided we didn't want to spend 16 hours driving. We thought about going on a cruise, but decided spending our precious time with so many annoying people would spoil our fun. So we decided to go to Helen, GA this little dot of a town in North Georgia, we went there on recommendations from my cousin who went there on her Honeymoon and said what a great time it was. Well I don't know what she was doing on her Honeymoon, but I definitely did not see the fun in Helen.

First of all it is a Little German town were all the buildings look like an Alpine town with a couple of German restaurants (which were outrageously expensive I might add). The town looked really run down and most of the shops were closed while we were there. I thought it would be something like Gatlinburg, TN, with all the shops and restaurants in a row, but it was totally boring. But that wasn't the worst of it when we got there we found the campground and set up our tent. Then we decided to peruse the town, not much going on it was a Sunday and kinda chilly and of course we had to pay for parking in this stupid rinky dink town even to eat. We stopped and ate at this pizza place, we ate out on the patio by the water, and I must say it was pretty good for pizza a slice was as big as my head, as much as we tried we could not finish the whole thing. Anyway all the sudden the sky gets really dark and very windy, so we are freezing our butts off trying to eat (we are in shorts). All we can keep thinking is dang I hope it doesn't storm because we are staying in a tent. Then the waitress comes over and says be careful its going to get really bad tonight, might even be tornadoes. AGGHH!! Tornadoes you say! What do we do now do we risk it or get a hotel or leave. Well guess what! That's right we stayed! In the TENT!

I must say in hind sight that was a crazy thing to do. We get back to the site and take our showers no we did not really rough it on this trip, we had hot running water and flushing toilets and yes even mirrors. So as we are showering the wind is howling like crazy, trees are blowing and cracking, because you do know we are in the middle of the woods right. After showering we get back to the tent and it is still blowing like crazy we leave the sides open so that maybe we could see if a tree was coming at us. Well then darkness came and we could no longer see out, but man could we hear it. The wind was so loud and strong it sounded like waves crashing on the ocean. Anyway we didn't sleep a wink the ceiling of the tent keep folding in on us and we just knew all those tree branch crackings were going to fall on our head. I think we fell asleep around 5am for a couple of hours obviously surviving the night and freezing cold I might add, the temp dropped dramatically it was like 50 degrees in MAY!! in GEORGIA!!

At that time we decided to go hiking and went to the trail head. We where on the trail for about 2 hours and when we came back Lo and Behold our dang car had been smashed.

And wouldn't you know it no one was around and of course the douche bags did not leave a note. So now our already sucky vacation just got worse. The back end looked like someone had backed into, it broke my spoiler and crunched the trunk. Even though I wanted to go home and get it taken care of Ryan talked me into "letting it NOT ruin our already crappy trip" ha ha fat chance. Anyway we carried on, we did more hiking and had to go back to the rinky dink town to eat so we ate at a Wendy's no less. We had planned on rafting on the Chattoga the next morning, but they weren't running any trips, so we decided to drive to Cherokee NC and raft the Nantahala. It was about an hour away, but I must say we had a really good time, the water was so freaken cold though, we had wetsuits, wet boots, and water spray jackets on but still froze our butts off.

Anyway after that we shopped around and eventually made it back to our campsite on complete BACK ROADS.......... thanks stupid GPS, well at least we got there... 2 1/2 hours later. We had to eat at the Wendy's again because the other restaurants were closed during the week or just didn't look good. So much for it being the start of their peak season. Why didn't we cook out you say? Because it was still windy and there was a fire ban. I almost forgot to tell you about the annoying campers we had next to us when we got back from dinner. We had had the first 2 nights all to ourselves then a huge RV came with like 10 kids that kept running around screaming like crazy. Anyway we decided to cut our trip a day short and went home. This of course was no suprise to my family, because it seems I always cut my trips short. What can I say I miss my dogs and my own bed. We had planned on going to Destin that weekend, but wouldn't you know it, it forecasted rain so we didn't go and rain it did. Anyway on the way home we stopped at Callaway Gardens outside of Atlanta, that was pretty nice, we will probably take Haley there sometime this summer. They also have a drive through Safari park that I want to take her to.




So I had to take my car to the body shop when we got home and explain to the insurance, that no we didn't get a police report because the Jerks didn't stick around to be reported they smacked us and left. Jerks!!! Anyway so the deductible had to come out of our pocket and the body shop had my car for 3 weeks I just got it back. And I think I have finally recovered from the vacation from Hell!! I guess in all reality it could have been worse............