Yeah ... Well ... It's Me

Hi!

My name is Lori Hurst and I used to be a blogger ...

Then things got really strange, then a twee bit stressful then I got sick ...

.... and then I got sicker. And, well - now I seem to be a different person. I have lost the ability to blog. I just don't know what to blog about. This might be due to the fact that my life is incredibly boring right now - but as I recall - that never stopped me in the past?

I have decided to work on this.

I don't really think there is anyone out there just waiting for me to type some prose ... no one cares, I get that ... except my parents and since they have been sorely in the dark for a bit now - I thought that I would keep blogging for them. Y'all are welcome to visit - but I am no longer assuming that anyone is ...

It has been a while and things have happened - so I will take a few days to catch up.

One thing is my photo taking. Since life is not just one never ending trip to and from Australia, I don't have all that much to take pictures of. Lets compare last year and this years stats of number of photos taken for the last few months, shall we?


Yeah ....


.... pretty much that sums it up! But also - I am just not into photo taking like I was. I don't know why - and I am assuming this is a temporary setback, but - well - it is what it is right now, so very few visual aids.

I found some photos that I took on April 23rd of this year THAT WERE STILL ON MY CAMERA. That says a lot right there. I RELIGIOUSLY take all photos that I have taken for the day off my camera sometime in the evening and review them. Since it is now June ... well - I will work on this.

I was SO WORRIED about Jessie moving, then I got really, really, REALLY weird about it ... and all for nothing. Her new home is wonderful. Her new staff is exceptional, and she is having a blast.

Here are some photos I took of her new home:







The last two are of Jessie's room. She has her own - I am not sure if she would like that or not - being the social butterfly that she is, but I like that it is a little more 'homey'.

She was being horrible right before she went to the house - screaming when it was time to go home that she didn't want to go back. As a mother, I can think of nothing worse than listen to your daughter beg to stay home with you as you drag her back to the place she now resides .... unless she is doing it just to be a butt. But I really couldn't tell, and thought it would end when she moved.

It did not, which led me to believe that, indeed, she was just yanking my chain - making my Sunday evenings horrible - feelings of guilt, being a horrible mother and just plain being sad and worried about my daughter took up hours of my time, followed by horrible nightmares. And all because she just felt like being a bum.

And these new folks?

ANGELS!

Since we were having such a hard time getting her back to the house, they DRIVE OUT AND PICK HER UP AND TAKE HER BACK. And she is all cool about that - in fact she is very excited to see them - thus the reason I know she is being a butt and not really freaked out about leaving our home and going to hers. I believe that is going the extra mile - and I now have stress free Sunday evenings after Jessie leaves since there is no tears, begging or sobbing (on both of our parts).

It is also easy for others to come and get Jessie - a HUGE improvement from RSS. So that makes anyone wanting to go get her and take her out for a few hours pain free. These people are WONDERFUL!

A photo of my 'little pill' taken the same day I photographed her home:



Well, I will try to move on to May tomorrow, or whenever ...

I thought I would mention since my last blog mentions me being sick and all the tests ... everything has come back normal except my
T Cells which are, again, precariously low - thus I am getting sick all the time. I am just a titch above my very first blood test with this doctor and at that time she said I was just a titch above 'death' in terms of how low my T Cells were, so things are not looking great, but I am hoping to see if we can improve those stats. We have tried most everything - injections, vitamins, herbs, but haven't found that magical thing that will produce more T Cells and get my immune system to something that will keep me out of bed - but we will keep on .... keepin' on ....




Later ....