Liver Shunt

Noodle is back with me now. He is pretty depressed. He is moping about, sleeping on his bed on the floor instead of with me. He got dumped at the vet and then stuck with a needle twice. I would be sad to if it were me.

The update is that this test today was testing for a Liver Shunt, if it is positive we will do an ultrasound to evaluate the shunt. From my reading I have found the small and toy breeds tend to have extrahepatic shunts, which means the vessel that is misdirecting blood is located outside the liver. The way this is fixed is by operating...yuck!

Another option, the bile-acid test comes back negative and we leave the testing there and Roman will be diagnosed with epilepsy.

That is all she wrote.

Wild Goose Chase

Roman Noodle is at the vet, they are running a Bile-Acid Test. He has been having these weird episodes where he loses control of his muscles, he gets disoriented, suffers from ataxia, it is terrible. He had one of these on Tuesday evening, it was long and lasted 25 minutes or so.

This originally started happening back in September. He has had, maybe 6 since then. This last one was probably the scariest. I ran blood work as well as a thyroid test, and everything...I repeat everything, came back normal. I was hoping we would get an answer from the blood work, we didn't. Now we are onto step two, which is the Bile-Acid Test, it checks his liver function. If this doesn't turn out, we still have a halter test, which checks hearth function, as well as a CT or something of the short to check out his brain to see if it is seizure activity.

This is all getting so expensive, the blood work and thyroid test cost a me $200, this Bile-Acid test is $150...and I am just praying that we find out what it is today. For the sake of my wallet, and getting him on some sort of medication for his "condition."

Anyways, I am sorry this was so long, and it was basically just a rant, but I needed to get it off my chest. Everyone please keep Noody in your prayers.

The news

I went to school yesterday and submitted my nursing school application. It is in...it is out of my hands. I have done everything in my power to get into nursing school and now we just cross out fingers and pray I get in.

Here is a tenative schedule of our next few weekends:
May 10- We head to Tallynasty for Beth and Andrew's party.
May 16- Keri and Alex come to visit.
May 24- We head to Atlanta for my bday trip.
May 31- Fort Lauderdale for Keri's graduation party.
June 7- We move Phillip into his apartment.
June 13- Brooke's wedding.
June 14- Back in Fort Lauderdale for Arielle's Bat Mitzvah.

Then...I might actually be able to spend a weekend in my bed. Oh...and, I start my new job on May 19. I will be working Monday and Tuesday for 4 weeks with a new family. It will be a little bit of extra money for things, such as Roman's bile acid test, my hair cut, things of that nature.

Ah!! There is just so much going on in the next few weeks. I need to figure out what I am planning on wearing to all of these glorious affairs. I will post pics.

Photo fun

Hey there all my loyal readers...all 2 of you.

I did a photo project today where I played with water. It was a lot of fun. These are the kind of things I do when I don't have school to worry about...which is fabulous. Here are my pictures from them.

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I took down a few on my entries because Phillip doesn't like me writing about us, he says it is intrusive. I will just blog about other aspects of my life. I will write later.

Well...

Anyways, on a positive note. I went to a concert last night with Katie. We had an awesome time. It was an orchestra performance and it was wonderful! Here is a picture form the two of us there. We had a good time, it was nice catching up.

And it goes on...

So today is Sunday, I wish they listed longer. I got up this morning, took they kids out and headed back to bed. I got up, ate breakfast and went on an interview. There is a woman looking for a nanny for Mondays and Tuesday for a month and it would be a nice source of extra income for me.

Anyways, I plan on heading to Borders for a little while to study, well I think I am going to. I am not sure, I don't really want to, but I do need to get some studying in. I want to do the study guide and the quiz again. I need to also get done all those hormone note cards tomorrow. I need to memorize them all. We'll see how well that goes.

Hopefully this week will be better than last week, I highly doubt it since I have 2 anatomy exams, a micro exam, a sociology exam due, as well as a chemistry exam...someone save me. I am also hoping that Phillip and I have a better week. I desperately need us to. I have a terrible feeling that if we do not pick it up this week it will be the end of us. We nearly broke up twice this weekend. I feel like it is all me that needs to change. He thinks I have a terrible opinion of him and whenever he does something stupid I turn it into a vicious attack on me when it is just a stupid mistake. I don't know how to change it, but if I don't he is going to leave - rightfully so. I am just at a loss as to what to do. Any suggestions would help.

So long for now...

Things

This is my love. Mr. Roman Noodle, makes me so happy. I have been having a pretty crappy week, Roman had one of his "episodes" yesterday and now has an appointment at Earth Vets tomorrow, but no matter what I am upset for, I curl up with Roman at night and he makes things better. I just hope everyone is lucky enough to have a safety, like this.

School is tough, but almost done. Work is monotonous, but hopefully there is only 3 more months of it, then hopefully I will be in school for nursing. God Willing.

I applied for a part time nanny job. Someone is hiring for a nanny needed for Monday and Tuesday from 9:30am-4:00pm and only from May 19-June 10. That is only 4 weeks which is only 8 days of work. I think it would be worth it for me to do it if she offers me the position. Any extra money is greatly appreciated.

Anyways, Phillip is coming up to GVille tonight until tomorrow night. I didn't expect him to be up at all because his parents are here and they needed his help, but they don't need him this weekend so he is coming up. However, our weekend is cut short because he has to work on Sunday. No big deal though, because it is better than nothing and I have studying to do anyways.

Yesterday I was at the dog park and ran into Megan Demerich. We knew each other from home, from Middle and High school. We were never really friends more like acquaintances, but it was great seeing her. We exchanged numbers and are going to try to hang out. She wants to try the rock gym so it would be great if I had a rock gym buddy. We'll see.

I guess that is really it for now, I have a new book with me, a couple of magazines, Chem homework and A&P to study today, so I should be busy. Not to mention, Cooper stayed home with me today and we are working on potty training. Fingers crossed, he is in big boy underwear and we have the timer set for every 30 minutes to sit on the potty. If anyone has any words of encouragement or advice about things that have worked for them, I would be greatly appreciative of it.

Hump Day

So today is a work day...Jackson had a rough start to the morning but then took a great nap. Which means, I took a great nap. I picked up Cooper early from school and then picked up Robbie. Coop is napping now, Jackson is hanging with me, and Robbie is in the playroom reading. Hopefully after I feed the littlest man at 3ish he will go back to sleep.

I have made all my hormone note cards, and once he goes back to sleep I will let the big ones out back to play and I will study them. I have a study group tonight and that should be good because both Sara and Margie have A's in the class. I brought Nood with me to work so that way when I get home I can just feed the kids, and then unfortunately for Super she will be locked up again, but Nood will then only be locked up for a little while. Tomorrow morning I get to sleep in, which will be nice for the kids. I don't have to be at lecture until 11 and then I should be home no later then 2 because I need to pick up more of Nood's food.

On another note, there was a job listing on Craig's list for some barn help and a free lease on a horse for it. I emailed them and hopefully that will pan out. I think it would be nice to be outside some over the summer. We will see if they are willing to work around my current hours...we'll see.

That's all for now. :)

Tuesday

So...Tuesday is here, another day of classes have come and gone. I had a microbiology exam today, it went alright. I am ready for the semester to end and I can feel myself quickly fading. After my exam, I went to Jodi's office to go over some of the hormones that are on the up coming exam. We finished going over my hormone chart and then ran through the repro study guide. She kindly stayed late for me and we got the whole thing done. I feel great about the information. I have a study group with Margaret and Sara tomorrow night at 8pm because Margaret is taking it early because she needs to focus on her Calc exam next week.

Here is my line up for upcoming exams:

4/19- Chemistry: Exam #4
4/22- Anatomy: Repro and Endocrine
4/24- Anatomy: Lab practical
Micro: Exam #4
4/26- Chemistry: Exam #5 and Lab Final
4/28- Chemistry: Class Final
Sociology: Exam #4
5/1- Anatomy: Final
Micro: Final

Major yucko; however, that means there is 16 days left and then a summer of freedom. Woo-hoo!

Keep me in your thoughts.