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Last week while we were making dinner I noticed that the floor was a little bit dirty so I decided to clean the floor using Arm & Hammer (new & improved!) with a paper towel. Not even 30 minutes later, Tyler started complaining of numbness feeling on the bottom of his foot and it started swelling up. He took Benadryl and rested his foot on the couch for the rest of the night. We thought Benadryl would do its job overnight so we went to bed.

Tyler woke me up at 4:30AM with this horrible & scary look on his face like something bad really happened. All kinds of bad things were running through my head: house’s on fire? someone die? an intruder broke in?! and quickly enough he told me he had to go to the hospital because his lips were swollen and possibly his tongue too.

We get to the hospital and thankfully no one else was in the waiting room so we knew we didn’t have to wait long. We finally got checked in and waited for a nurse or doctor to come in. All within 5 minutes, he broke out quickly and it spread to his whole body.

I was starting to get restless because no one was seeing us yet and it was getting bad. A nurse finally comes in and as Tyler is getting checked out, I started explaining to the nurse about what happened with cleaning the kitchen floor.

He immediately interrupted me and asked, “What’s wrong with your voice?”

UM, REALLY?! No one has ever asked me that question before. I told him maybe it was because I’m deaf? and he continued to ask Tyler more questions. I wonder if he felt embarrassed for asking me that. I know that sometimes my voice is quiet because I’m afraid of speaking up and possibly being too loud. Whatever, I’m over it now.

We were released from the hospital with 3 days worth of medicine and was told to go to the doctor if he broke out again. Around 5PM that day, he broke out again…just when the doctor’s office closes for the weekend. I made sure I kept the epi-shot nearby so I could be prepared to stab it in his leg if he stopped breathing.

On Sunday we decided to get out of the house because maybe it was something in the house that he’s allergic to. We went to see Inception which happened to be open-captioned…FINALLY! The last time we saw a movie in the theaters was probably in 2008 – way too long.

Just when we thought the worst was over with Tyler’s allergy reaction, he woke me up again on Monday morning at 6AM saying he had to go to the hospital again. His face was swollen up!

Again we were fortunate that no one else was waiting in the emergency room. We felt that we were getting the proper care we needed this time rather than the first visit. A doctor came in and asked Tyler all kinds of questions and did blood work. Tyler was drugged up on steroids and fell asleep.

I tried walking around his room because I was so exhausted and cold. So I had this brilliant idea to go outside for a while because it was 90+ degrees. A while later, Tyler woke up and smiled at me and said, “I’m on steroids. Are my muscles any bigger now?” while flexing his muscles for me. I thought it was so funny and Tyler doesn’t remember saying that at all.

This picture proves how bored I was at the hospital and how crappy I look. Seriously I need to get my hair done. It’s been months since I got it colored & cut.

Anyways, finally the doctor came in and said his blood work was fine and gave him more meds for the week. He also gave us a doctor’s name and phone number to call and make an appointment to find out what he’s allergic to. We called and made an appointment for today later this afternoon (hopefully we’ll get some answers).

Off we skipped (not really) to the car together hoping that was our last hospital visit for a long time.

We were driving home on the freeway and I came up next to this school bus and I had a feeling that it was my dad. Sure enough it was him!

He looked over at us and was surprised to see us. We rolled down our windows to briefly update him on Tyler’s hospital visit since he didn’t know we went to the hospital again.

I love how seeing my dad just brings a smile to my face and makes all my worries go away. Just the kind of medicine I needed for the rest of the day and week.

Now it’s Friday & I’m ready to enjoy the last weekend of August. I hope you all will too. Also Tyler and I wanted to thank you for all your awesome thoughts & prayers this week through Facebook and Twitter. You’re all amazing!

September 2008 – taken by Jason Gervase

I’m behind with Google Reader and my TV shows. I really don’t want to know what I have been doing instead. I think it has to do with being way too addicted to Super Mario Bros. I can now say we finally finished it so I’m done with video games for a while! I don’t know how Tyler can play video games all the time and not get sick of it. I guess it’s something I’ll never understand…

Recently I have been trying to figure out what I want to do with my life right now. Tyler and I need to take advantage of it now while we are still young and do not have children. We do want to have children some day but right now we still have things we want to do for ourselves. I do not want to have children until I lose weight first anyways. When we do start a family we want to be able to say we accomplished things we wanted to before becoming full-time parents.

I recently discovered that they have a boxing club in the area. Their website and FAQ page has me convinced to join. I’m going to check it out on Monday anyways. Trust me I’m not joining to become a professional boxer…that’s not my goal. I love their insight of how you can lose weight and become fit with punching bags, exercising with kettlebells, jump roping, drills and conditioning. Both my parents are interested too but I’m not sure which one of them is going to join me. On the other hand, Tyler loves dodgeball and unfortunately they don’t have a team here at our community center. He is going to look into trying to set one up though and I hope it works out since I want to see him do something he loves.

I’m excited to see what this month and upcoming months will bring for us especially becoming more involved in our community.

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” – Harvey MacKay

We tried getting rid of Tyler’s forehead lines before taking pictures.
He swears he’s stuck with them forever.

- I cannot go to bed unless the door is closed & locked and the closet has to be closed. If it’s not closed I’m going to wake up in the middle of the night screaming thinking that there is someone in closet and force Tyler out of bed to close it. Fortunately he never remembers doing this the next day.

- The window blinds has to be faced down because I would rather have stalkers, robbers, or serial killers get on a ladder to look down through the blinds than easily look up. Sometimes I have Tyler go outside to assure me he can’t see through them.

- I cannot wake up the first time the alarm goes off. I’ll set the alarm an hour before I have to wake up and reset it every 5-10 minutes and then I’ll finally get up! This drives Tyler crazy!

- I have long hair so that means it takes longer to dry my hair. After I shower & put make up on I always crawl back in bed and sleep for 10 more minutes to air dry my hair a little bit before I blow dry it.

- My current food obsession is a fried egg sandwich! I love the yolk!

Do you have any obsessions that are random?