Potts Ponderings

November 15 - 31 2012

DAN

16-= Dan was in charge of our date so he took me to the mall and we had a 4 course meal one course at a time then sent pictures of our choices to Joseph. It was fun.

Dan took Richard out to lunch and the movies and to Joseph's dog show. Doug and Dan went to a football game tonight.
Family Dinner and Cindy made Cheesecake. Josie came over for my birthday too.

22. Thanksgiving at Tews w was wonderful (although o was in pain much of the time) we them went to the movies.

Dan went down to Cedar City and St. George with Cindy, mom and Cannon. They helped get the girls ready for their extended stay and they got to hold Link. They arrived back home the night of the 25th

Dan went to visit Richard. He is sick with the crud.

PATRICIA

I helped Joseph set up his dog show this morning. Shelisa came too. In the afternoon two girls from the ward came over to sing for me: Cassidy and Alyse. It was wonderful. We called Heidi to leave a song for her too.

MY BIRTHDAY

At church the whole Relief Society sang to me! It was their way of thanking me for my bday calls through the year. I was very touched.

Cindy made me a cheesecake and gave me a necklace and earrings, Josie dropped by with a card and a picture of musical integuments, Joseph gave me a card, Heidi gave me a beautiful grandson and we are all praying and hoping that his body will heal, She even took a picture of Link and sent it from the hospital saying "Happy Birthday Grandma," Trisha made me breakfast, waxed my eyebrows, cut my hair and gave me a round pillow, Tiff gave me a beautiful set of knives and Dan gave me a new camera case and an evening of hot tub, dinner and a visit with Mom. There were also 27 happy birthdays from Facebook and many phone calls to sing happy birthday.

The hard parts of my day were worrying about Link and loosing Blaire, a dear friend in the ward who is the husband of Bonnie (the woman I visit teach).

20.. this morning so I am thinking of things I am thankful for I am thankful that I knew blIre,, that I can take tipi tea and to take her cold off today, that Heidi is so good about keeping me up with what's going on with link, that Dan and I could visit my mom had yesterday and that also my mouth is very painful right now I can take the heat shakes or slim fast.

Trisha and I went shoppiing at Walmart but Joseph needed help pulling a document up that Dan had edited so I headed home to help. After shopping I was exhausted.

Divit got her cone off, I went to the doctors and started on anti-biotics then went home to sleep the night away.

21_ today has been a blurr.. I return to the doctors and found out that I have to hand mouth and foot disease. it is so painful.

Link numbers are down

From an email to Darla:

I am in a good deal of pain and discomfort because of the hand,mouth and foot disease I am afflicted with right now. I must have about 50 sores in my mouth, tongue, throat and ears...the doctor could only give me a special mouthwash and assured me that it would be over in 6-21 days.

This means I can't go see Link before he flies to Pennsylvania and that I can't help with the girls till I am all better. Cindy and Trisha will take over. Dan and Cindy will be picking them up on Sunday.

20-26- These were very tough days for me. Full of pain, nausea and insomnia. My mouth sores have been so difficult that I can hardly swallow and I have lost about 5 lb. I will be seeing an ENT doctor later today. I would be able to take over for Heidi with the girls since she is in Phylladelphia with the baby...but I'm too sick. Kerri came on Saturday to give me a massage. Fortunately I received a special blessing and prayer yesterday and Josie and Darla and Mike have stopped by and many have called. I am blessed and hopeful at the moment. I have also been listening to many books on tape.

28-Since I started on the steroids today and the canker medicine and with lots of prayers...I am soooo thankful that I am feeling some progress today.

I am thankful. I can eat salad now. I don't have a fever,, I can think and feel, my mouth doesn't burn all the time. I am thankful that we have better news about think today

I am getting better… really I am. My open mouth sores are gone. My energy is coming back and I even got the car lubed and oiled and enjoyed having CoLynne visit teach me and going hot tubing with Kerri, talking to my grandkids on the phone and resting.

Darla had me over to her house for a belated birthday celebration. Fun! Working on registering the girls at the school. Kezia came to our house after her stay at Trisha's place and Trisha and I went shopping for Christmas things at Costco.

CINDY

Cindy went to Cedar City and St. George with Dan. They helped with the girls and visited Link. McKinley and Ireland stayed at their house while I was sick. Mike also gave me a blessing on the 25th. Thanks to all.

HEIDI

It looks like we are on plan f with Link now. Link wasn't progressing like they had hoped. He is on 12 units of glucose still and his blood sugar went down to 30. They are now increasing his steroids for 24 hours. If that doesn't help they will try a medication designed to block the increased insulin coming from the pancreas. We continue to pray.

17 - Heidi called to say that the steroid plan isn't working so a Dr. Smart from Primary Children's hospital was consulted. It was determined that he will be given a medication that blocks the extra insulin that he is kicking out. It directly effects the pancreas. It comes with some side effects that are bothersome but if it will stabilize the situation I guess it will be worth it. They will bring this medicine in from Primary Children's Hospital and try it for 3 days. If it doesn't work it looks like surgery to remove part of the pancreas will be the next step. The hospital that specializes in this sort of thing is in Philadelphia! We all hope and pray that it doesn't come to this nevertheless, thy will be done.

Heidi and Jason flew to Phyllidelphia with Link starting at 3 AM. After they helped get the girls ready for their Salt Lake Stay They were on a very small plane. They were taken by ambulance to the hospital after landing. Kezia went to spend the week at Trisha's. Ireland and McKinley went to Cindys place because I was sick.
News from the genetic testing came back. It turned out that it came from Jason's gene pool. The good thing about that is that they should only have to take part of the pancreas. The surgery is scheduled for next http://jhhamiltonhappenings.blogspot.com/2012/11/some-answers-info.html

TIFFANY

We appreciated Tiffs hard work on gathering money to help fly Heidi and Jason back home for Christmas. Thanks Tiff

I enjoyed a talk with Tiffany today. I got to hear all about the playgroups she is in charge of and how they went to the huge mall today.

TRISHA

I loved Trishas visit today! :)
26-28- Trisha and Darrin took over with Kezia till I could get better.

JOSEPH

Joseph had a bad day today. He took Gwendolyn to a dog show and she got so excited that she smacked the windshield with her head and broke it!!
Joseph had a dog show for Gwen. He started the day early with Shelisa and I driving to Farmington and setting up the dog cages etc.
Joseph is really into snakes this month. He has a male and female boa snake along with a huge cage.

JOSIE