Archive for April, 2010

I’m not sure if it’s something I’ve mentioned here before or not, but I have a heart condition called SVT (Supra-ventricular tachycardia). I don’t really know how to explain it, because even though I was diagnosed over 2 years ago with this condition, I am still learning about it. As my doctor explained to me, it’s similar to an electrical shortage between my brain and my heart that causes my heart to race, sometimes wildly. I’m on medication to lower blood pressure and reduce episodes of SVT.  However, lately I feel  like I have been having nearly back to back episodes, and am wondering if my dosage should be increased. I know that it can be increased several times over what it is now (I’m on the lowest dosage) but I can’t help but wonder if that’s a good thing? I realize the medication helps me, my heart, my body… but I have some serious issues going on with turning 35 this month and, call me crazy, but I have visions of myself being old a senior citizen and taking 27 pills a day just to stay alive. I don’t want to be that person! Isn’t that just absurd?

I suppose I just need to call my doctor, and ask. It could be a s simple as taking 2 pills a night instead of 1… and aside from the above mentioned visual, it’s not so bad. What scares me more than taking pills to survive, is not surviving. I have been terrified since Iwas diagnosed with this, due to the fact that my grandma died at 55 from heart problems (I don’t know specifically what, and I should, but I’m starting to think no one in my family has the correct information regarding her heart condition). I have spent my whole life scared of dying too young, and always feeling like I would… when I had N it became an even more real fear… then my doctor said “Yep, there’s something wrong with your heart…” and I thought surely, this is the part where I fall over and die of a heart attack (no pun intended)… but I didn’t. I survived the news… I just worry that I won’t survive this life, with this heart.

Clearly, I obsess too much over something that so many people live with day in and day out who have no one in their family history that has ever died of a heart condition, but I have. And everytime my heart goes into an arrhythmia and I feel lightheaded and N is around I can’t help but think, Please God, not yet… and especially, not in front of him.

Oh anyway!! Way to get emotional, when all I intended was to write about my heart condition and ask if anyone that might read this ghost town of a blog happens to have a heart condition similar, or not? Or anymore information regarding SVT?

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My son came home with an Easter egg shaped booklet that they made in school, and wrote stories in. The teacher gave them the plot, and they were to write their own story… I cracked up laughing when I was reading what N embellished the plot with… I love his imagination. Here are two of his stories, in all of their misspelling glory… (he gets straight A’s in Spelling, so I’m not sure what this is about, but it’s still pretty good for a 2nd grader)

“I woke up the day befor easter and I had turned into a Easter bunny. I hopped around and it was cool. But then things got strang. My mom came in my room. So I hid in my closet. She stepped out of my room. I stepped out of my closet. Then I jumped out my window. Then I layed eggs at the park.”

“One morning I saw peter cottontal walking down the street. A car headed for him. Then a grizly bear headed for him. They atacked him. But the light turned red.”

I know he’s only 8, but I sure do miss these days….

Everyone is pregnant around here… I’m feeling all warm and fuzzy and extremely maternal… my ovaries are alive, and screaming to procreate!!!

And, I’m sure it has something to do with the fact that I’m turning 35 29 at the end of this month…

My sister asked me to take some pictures of her and her fiance. It really made me feel good… I love taking pictures, and knowing she appreciates what I love to do makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. I know there is always room for improvement, but I’m pleased with the outcome of these… The  photo below  is on their wedding invitations He proposed to her last Easter, they are getting married this June.

My aunt and my cousin asked me to take pictures of my cousin and her children Easter Sunday…I was hoping to get better shots of them but, wow… they were all over the place and it proved to be quite difficult… I’m just glad there were a few good shots for them.

I love this pictures… she kept trying to blow the bubbles, but she wasn’t blowing hard enough for it to leave the wand so she would blow, and then stop and it wouldn’t ever go anywhere lol…