April 27, 2010

Spring is finally here!!! I've been waiting sooo long for that. =)
Okay, going to try and update the best I can but I know it's been awhile, again!
First of all, Tim and I are STILL in korea... Tim has been working craaazy hours and I hardly EVER see him, but we make it work and try to stay positive. He is now starting a new shift schedule and working 60 hour weeks instead of 44 so now I REALLy won't see him at all. So things are pretty stressful right now, but we are going on vacation in a couple months so that should really help!
We are planning a trip to Hawaii for the summer. June 24th-July 6th. Tim's mom and sister are coming here to korea to visit from June 10th-June 24th. Then the 4 of us will fly to Honolulu and meet up with Robins mom and Vicki. It should be an awesome time, but it's always stressful planning, since I have to wait on Tim's leave packet to be approved, and we all know how slowly the army moves, and there's no guarantee they will approve it so we can't really make any hotel or airfare reservations until that is done.
The last couple months have been pretty eventful I suppose. Tim had to travel to Camp Carrol which is about 5 hours away from here, to work for about a month. So since I wasn't going to see him for so long we decided I should fly home to visit with family and friends. I was home Feb 26th-April 2nd. It was a really great time catching up with everyone and doing some things that I can't do over here. There's sooo much shopping in America! =) Even going grocery shopping is sooo much better there then it is here. We are VERY limited on what we can get here. The best part of the trip was all the baby time I got with my now 1 year old niece! Since Margaret and Jamin were living at our parents while I was back, I got to see Elena pretty much every day. She had grown SO much since the last time I saw her in July! She's starting to walk a little, and she's imitating sounds.. we taught her how to tickle people and as she does it she says "tickle, tickle", kinda. She says, "dada", "mama", and she also trys to say "thank you", "hi","achoo" after she sneezes which is more like "choo!". I can't remember any more.. but it's really cute to listen to her try and talk. Her favorite things are going through mommy's purse (and pretty much everything else) and playing with every one's cell phones. She almost always had a cellphone in her hands! I definitely got my baby fix for a little bit! =)
I did a little traveling on the road while I was back too, my cousin Alicia and I drove 8 hours to Milwaukee to stay at our Aunt Vals, and from there took a day trip to Chicago. That was such a blast! It was a very spur of the moment trip, so we were really wingin' it. We got there mid-morning and started out just walking around and found a visitor center, from there we did a little shopping and found souvenirs. Then we grabbed a bite to eat at Gino's Chicago-style pizza, which was amazing! After that, did more shopping and made our way over to Sears/Willis tower and did the skydeck tour. They have this new addition where they built a glass floor that you can walk out on to, 1500 feet in the air! crazy scary! It was so much fun though. By the time we had made it to the Sears tower it was about 7pm so this was the last thing we did. I will post some pictures later from that trip.
The last weekend I was home, my mom had invited our family over for lunch and games. Family from Lincoln, and Milwaukee came, along with our family that lives close by. It was a really good time! That same weekend I also made it over to Tim's family gathering, all of his aunts/uncle and his grandparents got together for dinner on Sunday, that was really fun as well!
Other then all that, most of the time I just caught up on some much needed shopping, and hanging out with friends.
Since I've been back not a whole lot has been going on with me because I was really sick for 2 weeks. It all started on the 10th, my throat was really sore, congestion, and I had body aches and just felt completely EXHAUSTED. So I was in bed for 3-4 days trying to get rest and taking flu/cold medicine. I had a fever of of 102 one of the nights. after the 4th day I finally started feeling better and actually managed to get out of bed for a couple days but then on the 16th it took a turn for the worse, my throat really swelled up and hurt and white spots appeared, and I got a really bad ear ache, my congestion got worse, and my stomach ached as well. So I went in to the TMC to see a doctor about it, it was a complete waste of my time though. He took one look at my throat and was just like it looks like a viral infection, I can't do anything. He didn't even test me for anything or examine my body or anything. He wouldn't prescribe me anything for my throat OR ears. He just gave me naproxen for pain and sent me home. Well obviously that didn't help and I was getting worse, my fever came back so I went into the ER on Saturday. The medic there thought I might have strep throat, so he tested me but told me he couldn't prescribe anything until the results came back. So once again went home with no meds, but he did set up an appointment for me on Monday. So went back in to the TMC on Monday and this time actually got a GREAT doctor, she actually examined me and said she wanted to do blood work to test me for mono because the strep test they did came back negative. So they drew some blood. Then they hooked me up to an IV because I was dehydrated and they wanted to give me some steroids right away to get the swelling in my throat to go down. After giving me 2 bags of fluids for my dehydration she came back in and told me they looked at my blood work and saw signs of bacterial infection so she wanted to go ahead and give me a penicillin shot for that. (Hmm if the first doctor would have actually tested me instead of diagnosing me on an assumption then he would've known it was bacterial, not viral, and I wouldn't have been in pain for so long) After that I got 1 more bag of fluids since I was still a little dehydrated, and then sent me home with some medicine!! A couple days later, the swelling went down a lot and white spots went away..it's taken about a week for the swelling to completely go down but I'm much better now, still taking my medicine until it's gone for good. Praying it doesn't come back!
Since I've gotten better I was finally able to hang out with friends this weekend, Sunday we had people over to play rockband, and yesterday Tim and I went golfing with our friend Jared. I think today we are just going to take it easy and spend time just the two of us. These are the first days Tim has gotten off in over 2 weeks so we've been taking advantage of it since starting tomorrow he will be working 60 hour weeks.
Well, I think I got everything!! haha that was really long!