Well that was painful.

I *think* I had a gall bladder attack. That is really painful. Constant aching in the upper right quadrant under my ribcage shooting up to my shoulder blade. 6HOURS this went on for and I cried out loud sobbing while my husband begged me to go to the hospital. I am so good at having the instinct to know when my children need to go in to be assessed at the hospital but for myself I am not so great. I stayed home and found our local medical handbook that they send out that tells you what's what and when to go to the hospital guide and it said the pain was in the area of infamation of the liver (common for me with lupus issues?) or gall bladder attack. I was so happy that I had a doctors appointment the next morning at 9:40 so I waited. He said the same thing as the book did and sent me for blood work to make sure my liver function is ok. I know it's not the greatest but I hope it's not worse. I don't even understand it. It comes back weird because of something to do with pain/inflamation in my body. Like the fact that my arms are burning right now just from typing this much. I just know that by mistake I went for the liver function blood testing before my lung CAT scan a few months ago and it wasn't even nessesary that I go because it's for people that are over 60 and under 20 that they check your liver before you have the contrast dye at the CAT scan. I was told to go by mistake and I went but it was lucky I did because they were just about to insert the IV for the contrast dye and someone yelled NOOOO. I need to have meds to protect my liver before the test is done. When I was getting changed the technicians were looking at my results and saying "poor poor girl, she is soooo young for this" I bawled uncrontollabley all the way home. Gall bladder issues do make so much sense though and maybe that will be enough for me to cut an amount of fat out of my diet that will show weight loss. I would be so happy about that. I had to laugh today because Jordan was trying to call his friend that lives one town away and it's just far enough that he has to dial 1 in front of the phone number to call long distance. So he calls and then comes running into my room. I can't remember Chris's phone number. I thought I did but a chinese person answered and I think I called China by accident. I played along and said gosh that could get expensive. So he says good thing I only talked for less than a minute and I said sorry. He's too funny. We had a bbq with my husbands family last night and it was a ton of fun. Can't believe I didn't break out the camera but I didn't. Dean made some fabulous ribs on his man size bbq from fathers day. At least he could bbq all the ribs at once LOL. I just asked him how that was for him and he was giddy. ROFLMAO Oh yeah baby I could have done all 3 packs at once. He got his BBQ for fathers day. Lucky for me I let him go into the store and pick it out himself. He would have been VERY disappointed with my choice. I never would have gone so large. Oh well. Glad he's happy and looks forward to coming home to BBQ after a long day in the hot sun. He's a construction supervisor for the civil works so he never gets out of the sun in the summer time. Where he is there is just piles of dirt and pipe with no building to duck into the shade unless it's an outhouse. Ewww. Courtney starts Twisters Gym Club day camp this week. Should be fun. Jordan we're still not too sure about what to do with. Reagan and Jordan will go to the water park tomorrow with my sister in law and I. They'll like that. I'm starting us all on vitamin B1 this week as I've researched and talked our family dr and pharmacist about it. It's water soluble and not fat soluble so it's safe to give to Reagan. Once it is in your system for 2 weeks the mosquitoes leave you alone. Sounds great to me. Costco was sold out of B1 because I guess there's lots of people that take it for that purpose the pharmacist said. I really hope it works for us. Living in the bushes in the middle of town has it's draw back but only when it comes to mosquitoes and blackberry bushes. LOL We love every single other part of it. OK the racoons that got aunty Donna's cat are not cool either. Dean came into the house the other morning to inform me that he was stealthily following a couple of Deer around the property taking pictures. At one point they were right up at the house. They are so funny. I wonder what they think of us. I'll have to track down Dean's camera and check out his pictures. Well I better go find my little Reagan. She's been quiet for the last few minutes. Could be trouble. I hope not. Laurie