Things are slowly getting back to normal =) Where we are now.

I have to say it has been a rough few years, but I must say this last year has been the most stressful. Let me start at the beginning. Matt hurt his back a couple of years ago. He was going to physical therapy, chiropractor, getting back injections of cortizone shots. Needless to say nothing was working. That's when I started getting stressed. I was about 7 or 8 months pregnant with Madisynn, and I was worried that he would be discharged and that they would totally screw him over. This is not the case though, Matt got a 5 year temporary medical discharge where he has to be evaluated every 18 months for the next 5 years. At the end of the 5 years he will meet up with the medical board again to be evaluated. I pray that it goes well.

Moving on... Madisynn is born, she was born so fast it was crazy. I'm very grateful for it. Things were going fine, until Madisynn hit about 8 months. She wasn't eating very good, she fought me constantly. I tried everything, but nothing worked. I took her in for her 8 month well baby check. At this appointment she weighed 12 lbs. The doctor made a huge deal about her not gaining weight. It was hard to handle, because you have one doctor that doesn't make a big deal who tells you that if this was a 3rd world country she would be doing great. You have nothing to worry about because our charts our based on an obese country he continues to tell me. Yeah so when I went to this checkup and this dr. made a big deal I got upset and started to cry. He sent us to a nutritionist, we had a cystic fibrosis test done,(does not have thank goodness), numerous blood tests done to see if she had a metabolism disorder, sent her to see a neurologist who ordered a sleep study to be done. She does not have sleep apnia, she just snores at night.
Let's see Matt also has battled with Acid reflux for the last 16 years. It was really hard to watch him go through it at the end there just before his surgury, he was constantly throwing everything up all the time. Pretty gross huh??? Well his surgury was supposed to be really easy. Easy yeah right. A one day stay in the hospital turned into a two week stay because they messed up on him. He could have died. I'm glad he didn't. In the midst of all of this my Dad dies, it has been very hard to handle. It's been almost 10 months since he died. I love my Dad with all my heart, and I miss him so much. I know that I will be able to see him again, I just wish it was right now. It has been hard to see my Mom without my Dad, they were quite the pair. I'm so glad they are my parents!!!
Let's see moving on... back to Madisynn well we were never able to get enough blood drawn to see if she had a metabolism disorder and we were in the middle of getting ready to move. Moving is just stressful. When we moved in with my mom I didn't think my sister and her family would move in too. We moved in on the same day because the house they were supposed to move into fell through. We had 12 people living under the same roof, not what I'm used to. I thought when we moved in that we would be there for awhile at least 6 months or longer, because my mom was going to sell her house next year. My Mom had found out that condos were going to be built just down the street from her. Well one day she got a call from the contractor saying that they were ready to start building and needed her to come put a deposit down on a unit. So she put her house up for sell that same weekend and it sold in 2 weeks. I was so sad and scared because I loved that house, I have so many good memories in it, and it was just another thing to tuck away of my dad. Anyways her house was appraised at close to $700,000 and she sold it for 600,000, because she had to sell her house to be able to get a condo unit. It was a miracle that her house sold so fast.
So all we have done in the last 2-3 months is move people. We have moved my little brother into a condo, My sister and her family moved to Cedar Fort, into a house that needed major work. It is a beautiful log cabin that had been poorly taken care of, so it needed major cleaning, and new carpet. It has potential we just need to spend time on it, it's already coming around. Then we moved My mom and ourselves to a house in stansbury park ut. Thank goodness for the Nielsen family they weren't able to sell there home and had to move to wisconsin and they took there home off the market so we could rent it from them. So we are going to rent if for 6 months and then either buy it or move. It's way out of our price range, so we most likely will be moving in 6 months. The thought of moving makes me sick, I'm so sick and tired of moving it's so exhausting, emotionally hard. This family actually finished the basement off so my Mom would be able to have somewhere to stay, so she is staying with us until her condo is finished which will be around march. I love having my Mom here, she is the best!
Madisynn fineally had her followup appointment which was supposed to happen back in July. The dr. didn't seem to worried about her. He was concerned because she had a weight drop off back when she was 7 months. He told me to put her on polycose which is just a tasteless calorie powder that you add to liquids. He told me to give it to her 3 times a day for a month and when we come back in a month if she hasn't gained any weight then he would read all of her charts and start tests again. I'm not to worried, because Madisynn gained about 4 or 5 lbs. since we moved to Utah. She weighs a whopping 20-21 lbs. Hoorah!!! I think my stress went down when we moved because I was so relieved to finally be near family again. I'm still stressed, but things are going better. Matt is working at a place called Integracore it used to be called floppy disk. He works in the warehouse in the recieving department. he loves his job, and hopefully soon he will get a raise. I just know that satin wants us to give up. he wants us to be discouraged. I hate satin, and I hate that he will do whatever he can to break up our family. He's not going to win. I just wish the trials would end for a little while, let us get a chance to breath. When it rains it pours and it's been pouring for quite awhile. I'm scared to get out there and make new friends. I miss my friends back in California. They did so much for me and my family. I really apprecaite all of them. I know that I will be able to make friends I just need to put forth the effort and step out of my comfort zone. I'm so glad to be near my family again, they are everything to me. I love you all thanks for reading.