MIA

So as you can tell I have been MIA for over a year. Sorry:-(. I have had my many many Hell I call reality days/moments but I can not catch you up on all of them. So I can bring you up to speed and just continue on from there........


Hotty Toddy is now officially Saint Hotty Toddy! 12 years together 7 years married and he is still here! The last year and half has been difficult some of the hardest we have ever been through but he is still the farm boy and I the city girl and Green Acres is not been discontinued or put on reruns yet!

Doos is a 1st Grader at Last (to quote the great Junie B Jones) Who would have thought I ever would be quoting that! Not sure if this is a step in positive direction or not. She is my mini me (God help the future Hotty ........). Her latest speechless moment was the Ritz Flips cracker conversation. ( you know pretzel on one side cracker on the other). Doos: Mom you know what these remind me of? Me: No what? Doos: A Mullet! Me: A mullet??? Doos: Duh.... Business in the front Party in the back! Me: speechless! I didn't even know she knew what a mullet was. But as she pointed out "mom you always show daddy everyone one who has one and remind him how lucky he is to have you cause you made him cut his off!". Oops I really need to watch what I say in front of her, What am I kidding myself I never watch what I say and it comes back and bites me and I never learn!!!


Dudo is now 28 months old! Where does time go? I can tell you it wasn't spent sleeping! This boy definately did not get my sleep gene! He still doesn't sleep through the night!
The last two years have been rough with his health. He was diagnosed with tracheal malasia (sounds horrific) but the layman description is his trachea never full developed and it flaps back on it's self and he has a harsh barky cough all the time to keep it open. Which makes many people give you nasty looks like you are allowing him to infect the whole world with his awful germs! Then you tell him not to worry it is a birth defect of tracheal malasia and they feel like total jerks! Works for me!
He also has an IGg delay( which is the stuff your body produces in response to your immunizations) but he seems to be out growing that!!! Hurray!!! He maybe able to goto school without the bubble, pit bull and the stick (bubble for him pit bull and stick for me). He also has a selective IgA delay or deficiency. This in layman terms is: IgA is your bodies 1st line of defense against disease. If is found in your mucous membranes (nose, gut,etc) so you breath in a germ and IgA attaches itself to it and kills it. Dudo has no IgA so he has to get sick before his immune system kicks in. So at this point most people are shaking their heads going "what??". Bottom line for the last 28 months he is only health July and August when Doos isn't in school and we are outside most of the time!
I do have to give a big THANK YOU to his team of doctors and Children's hospital they have been awesome!! If you need a pediatrician (Wheatfield Peds) pediatric allergist/immunologist (Dr Heather Lehman) pediatric pulmonologist (Dr Drucy Borowitz and ENT (Dr Mark Nagy). I really can't say enough about how awesome they are and considering I have fired more doctors then most people have in their lives that is saying alot!!!

But now for the most remarkable piece of this puzzle. This past fall was Dudos worst season yet. He had 6 steroid shots to keep his lungs open and I was expecting to be admitted to variety 7 at Children's any day. His 2 year old blood work came back saying that IgG was catching up so there were no conventional medical therapies left for him. All we could do was keep treating the symptoms when he got sick. Needless to say I lost my mind!!! After endless google searches, screaming, tantrums and tears I took some advice from my very wise friend Kelly and looked into a pediatric chiropractor!!!! Dr Syracuse in Newfane has been a God sent!!!! She adjust him, he throws up all the phlegm and the infections don't go to his lungs. Who knew this would be the answer to our prayers!! Since February when he started this treatment not one round of steroids and February and March are historically the worst respiratory months. So for now every Tuesday you will see my adorable Dudo sporting a " I have a super spine" sticker!!!
I have frequently been heard saying "had he been my 1st he would have been my last!". But Dudo is an amazing little man! Through everything he still has a smile that will steal your heart and those big brown flirtatious eyes that at 2 he is already working! (ladies look out!). That saying about MaMa's little boy .... All true!!!

As for me same job though have seen some interesting characters come and go in the last two years! We still have the jerks, the whiners and the "normal" ones but over all not so bad. Collections it rough in this economy but it is guaranteed to still be around and a needed industry for years to come . So as long as I can keep talking I'll keep collecting! The old "Stroke and poke!" And knowing when to use them. Will keep me going!

Had to put my beautiful Moira Bevin to sleep last month. Very difficult she would have been 11 next month. Hotty Toddy has already informed me he is picking the next dog (we shall see)!
Well it is now 1:30am Butler lost so I lost the office contest for the trip go Vegas. (My luck, no Cinderella story for either of us!). I'm still a firehall widow (going to bed alone) because of ( well I'm not sure which excuse this time). Last time was the clock in the back bar didn't work! Hello I didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday!!!! But if that is his worst fault I'll take it any day of the week! Just don't tell him! There you have it the latest in "The Hell I call Reality!". And with the iPhone there should be no excuse as to why I don't post all the time!





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