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Update

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I went to the cardiologist yesterday to get an echo of my heart and some blood work. I haven’t heard anything because the echo techs aren’t supposed to say anything and my blood work wasn’t going to be read until today. I’m not sure what all she tested for with the blood work but I do know she did a BNP test, which is what they use to asses heart failure. Now I don’t think she thinks I have that, she’s probably just ruling it out or something. So when I hear something from my Dr. I’ll post something.

Fives

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Top 5 things that irritate me in no particular order:

1. Drivers who are idiots and think they own the road
2. Christmas shoppers who only care about themselves
3. People who talk LOUDLY on their cell phones
4. Smacking–gum, food, anything really
5. When I say I want to go to sleep at 9:00 and someone is still talking to me at 9:15 😉

Top 5 things I love about this time of year:

1. The smell of cold cold weather
2. The possibility of snow–even though this is TX and I know theres like a 2% chance of the white stuff
3. Spending time with family
4. People seem to be in a better mood this time of year
5. Looking at all the Christmas lights and sometimes wondering why on earth they thought the way they put them up looked good.

Issues

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Where should I start? Well for starters, I’m just going to be selfish here and ask for prayers because since Sunday my heart has been going crazy and hasn’t made me feel that well. I called my cardiologist yesterday and I still haven’t heard back from her so pray she calls back today.

Well, some people have asked me what exactly is wrong with my heart, and to be honest with you, I can’t exactly tell you. There’s no one thing that’s wrong with it. There are several things and some that aren’t figured out yet. So this is what we know is wrong. About 5 years ago I started having problems with my heart, I started passing out for no reason, I would get lightheaded and dizzy and my heart would start racing (up to 300 beats per minute). After 3 years they finally figured out I had proxismal SVT (supraventricular tachycardia). Luckily there was a cure for this–a radio-frequency ablation. 2 years ago I had an ablation on my heart and during this they burned an extra pathway on my heart that was causing the tachycardia and my heart to race. Everything was great for about 6 months then it all started again, except my heart wasn’t racing, it was skipping beats and then throwing extra beats in when ever it felt like it. These are PVC’s (premature ventricular tachycardia) and PAC’s (premature atrial tachycardia). It’s very normal for people to occasionally have these, every one does every once in a while. Except I get them about every 5 mintues all throughout the day. This makes me feel horrible and makes me extremely tired. Well that’s one thing, the other issue I have is I have MVP (mitral valve prolapse) with regurgitation. MVP is where one of the valves or your herat leaks blood. Your blood goes through the valve into another part of the heart and the purpose of the valve is to keep blood from flowing back into the part it came from. MVP with regurgitation like I have is where the blood flows back so blood with oxygen is mixed with blood without oxygen. This is essentially harmless, for a while. Over time it has worn my heart out and is now not able to pump as efficiently as it should…because of this my hands and feet are always ice cold and blue. It’s fine now and hopefully it will stay the same and not get any worse. Thirdly I have vaso-vagal syncopy…I pass out for no apparent reason and with no warning. For no reason, that we know of, my blood pressure drops drastically and I pass out. It’s happened so much that now when it happens I just get right back up and go back to what I was doing! I think I freak people out. HAHA. I was recently told I have Cardiac Syndrome X….which is just a bunch of symptoms thrown together and given a name. There isn’t much research or literature done on this syndrome and we aren’t sure if all my other issues are a part of this and caused by this or seperate from it. Syndrome X is basically saying my body thinks my arteries are clogged and makes my body think I’m having a heart attack when in actuallity i’m not. It is a problem with the little blood vessels in your heart and body. It also causes headaches and migraines. This might describe it better: Cardiac Syndrome X
Lastly my cardiologist was thinking I might have a congenital (from birth) abnormality with my coronary arteries…they might not be in the right place so when I exercise they get squeezed and decrease blood flow to the heart and it doesn’t get enough oxygen. I doubt this is the case but she hasn’t ruled it out yet. Well I think this is long enough and way too much info so that’s it.

This weekend

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Okay, 4 parties in one weekend is just WAY TOO MANY! It was a fun weekend but just too busy and exhausting. It started out Friday night when we had our small group’s Christmas party. We had a fun time eating together and having a white elephant gift exchange. We got home pretty late Friday night and slept in until around 11:30 or 12:00 on Saturday–Just in time to get ready for another party. Our friends Richard and Amber had a birthday party for their wee one, Gracelynn, who turned 1. That was fun and we love spending time with the 3 of them. After the B-Day part we went to Desoto to take some pictures for our Christmas card and then on to Dallas. We grabbed a bite to eat at Pei Wei before heading to our friends Allison and Daniel’s house for a Christmas party. We got to see some old friends and catch up, it was a lot of fun. Then on Sunday we went to church and had a few more Baptisms, and our friends James and Mary’s son, Andrew, got baptized…or as he would say Babatized. After church we went to lunch with Matt and Kathryn and then just went home for a little while and did some much needed laundry and stuff around the house. A little while later headed back out the door but this time going to Rockwall for the CWF Christmas party, after that we headed over to Jonathan’s parents house to drop some stuff off and stayed a little while chatting with them. We eventually made it back home around 10:15 and headed to bed. A very very long, exhausting weekend, now I just need another one to unwind from this one!

All Grown Up

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Jonathan starts his new job today with Dallas County Community College District. Ever since college he has been used to wearing jeans and a t-shirt to work, with the occasional polo shirt, and sometimes even a baseball hat. Well, those days are over. This morning he was wearing a nice button up shirt and tie! yes, a tie. Although I’m a litttle scared because I left the house before him and at that point he didn’t have any shoes on so I don’t know what went on his feet. Girls, you know why this scares me…men don’t have the best fashion sense. I’ve told him before that eventually he will have to grow up and not be able to wear jeans and a t-shirt to work–the time has come, and he’s all grown up now.

Weekend wrap up

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Another good weekend at casa de blundell. Friday night Jonathan and I went to dinner at Chuy’s in Dallas with my best friend Jen and her fiance, Jed. It’s always great getting to catch up and have a good time with them. After dinner we headed over to my parents house to see my neice and nephew because my parents were watcing them. We also made it over to the Medlins and visited with them for a while. And, eventually we made it to our destination, my brother’s house to pick up my beloved oversized, comfy chair that he had been storing. Now that we have a house, we have room for my overly huge chair. It’s the best! Presley is glad to have it back too. She could sleep on it all day long. We also got a Christmas tree from a friend that was a lot bigger than the one we originally had. We put up our Christmas tree a week or two ago and it was just kind of skimpy, not a big tree by any means. So we got this new tree and I had to put it up so we took down the old tree and moved it all to the new tree. That’s when all the fun with the Christmas tree started. Below you will find a picture of the old tree–Jonathan is there to put it into perspective:
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This is the new tree all decorated and after it was put back upright–more to come on that!
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So we got the tree up on Friday night but not after some hassel. The tree stand that came with it was for a real tree so it didn’t really hold the artificial tree and the tree kept wanting to fall over. After a while we got it sturdy enough that if no one were to touch the tree it would be fine. HA! Well
Well, Saturday we woke up, after sleeping in-YEAH, and went to Lowes and Target…the usual stops on the weekend as of lately. We picked up the storm door we wanted to put on our front door and a new vaccum…my vaccum decided to stop working on us. Jonathan’s parents and grandparents came over Saturday afternoon and his dad installed the storm door for us. Later that night we all went to Cracker Barrel for dinner–soooo good. I basically got a plate full of starch-delicious. Good ‘ole chicken ‘n dumplins with mashed potatos and hashbrown caserole.
Oh I forgot about the tree on Saturday–okay, we the tree had been holding up nicely over the last 12 -18 hours until now….when Jonathan’s mom wanted to take a picture of us infront of the tree…..we were standing in front of the tree and all of a sudden–Bam, here comes the tree falling towards us and the ground. So here was our nice big Christmas tree laying on the ground with all our ornaments and everything. It was pretty funny to watch. We got the tree back in the right position and nothing broke believe it or not. After dinner we drove back to lowes and got a new artificial tree stand and now it’s all good–mainly because you can’t see the book under one side of the tree stand making it not lean–it’s our ghetto Christmas tree.
Sunday we went to church–i was in the nursery so I missed the mesage. After church we went to Whataburger with some friends and then I went to a baby shower for a friend in Richardson. Jonathan is still on his weekend–Lucky! He starts his new job tomorrow so I’m sure he’ll take advantage of this nice day off.

Christmas

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Okay my peeps we need to talk! The order of holidays is as follows: Halloween, Thanksgiving and then Christmas. You have to have one holiday to move onto the next. So for all you people with Christmas trees up and lights out, you can keep them up but don’t turn the lights on until Thanksgiving is over! How can you be focused on Thanksgiving if you are worried about putting up the Christmas decorations? Okay, that’s my rant–Have a happy Turkey Day