New Year…Good or Bad?

Life has been…crazy. Not pleasant. Something like that.

I sure hope and pray that this year is much better than these last two years have been. It seems weird to think that in about 8 months, I could be living somewhere else, going to college, working…reality.

As far as I know, I plan on graduating in May of this year. I will discuss that further with my teacher this Monday when I go back to school.

I got Columbo back on Christmas day. That takes a lot more stress out not worrying about Todd all the time. Babies are exhausting! I hope I gave him a good start for Kay & Amy, our friends that I started raising him for.

I know that God has a plan for everything, but I honestly think He put Columbo in my life for a reason. For many reasons. He is always there to comfort me through the tough times, when I feel alone. He gives me a purpose. Maybe I’m crazy. Excuse the rambling

One good thing. I finally bought myself an Ipod! It’s a Classic, 120GB of memory…it’s amazing!

I’ll try to keep updating my blog. Anyone reading?

375 Days…

Until I turn 18! I know it seems silly to start counting now, but I seriously can NOT wait!

Okay, back to reality! I haven’t been blogging as much lately, no excuses, just haven’t. So, here are the pictures of Guido I said I would post.

 

 

 

 

 

Todd was feeling left out…so here’s a recent picture of him!

No news about insurance, or doctors. My heart doctor put me on a blood pressure medication, and within one week, it went from 156/127 to 120/90! Major improvement! We found that out today, when I went to donate blood at a Bloodsource van outside our church today. I have to admit, I was kind of scared, but saving two lives was totally worth it! Now the muscle in my arm is super sore, but again, worth it!

Hopefully we’ll set up our Christmas tree tonight. My mom and stepdad have been shopping all day, so I’m not sure when they’ll be back! They said something about buying a fake tree (UGH) but, fake or not, it still makes the house Christmasy!

I’m so excited for Christmas! My 17th birthday is December 16th, and December 19th we’re going to Chico, and I’m going to stay with Brandon and Angie until Christmas day!

Merry CHRISTmas!!!

Thanksgiving Rush

Whew! This is the first time I have had a chance to breathe since last Wednesday! We left early Thursday morning for the 4 hour drive to Monterey/Carmel. Had Thanksgiving with the step-family, played games, etc.

Then we got up early to go shopping in Downtown Carmel, which was extremely crowded, but fun all the same. Everything is so expensive though! Saturday morning, we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium which was amazing! I had never been there and it was a facinating experience.

After that, we went to meet Guido’s new parents! He was so excited to see me he jumped all over the place. Emmy and Hans were so nice, they were so grateful for Guido and it was great to see them and Guido so happy! Emmy said they would bring Guido to come visit me when I have my surgery at Stanford He’s a registered service dog, so he can go anywhere.

I still have to upload the pictures, so I will post them in a different post.

Comment away!

Doctors.

For some reason, I have a sick feeling in my stomache tonight. I don’t think I have any chance of getting a surgery date tomorrow. As far as I know, my primary care hasn’t even written the letter to the insurance yet, which we were supposed to take with us tomorrow.

I got a letter in the mail today saying my insurance (Healthy Families) will no longer be available to me starting February 1st. So…if I don’t have my surgery by then, who knows what will happen. It may not be for a long time after that. Which is why it is so important that the insurance does not deny it! If they do, it could take months to find a new insurance and go through the whole process over again.

I am so sick of doctors. Not to mention the road trips. There is nothing I hate worse than having to drive a long ways to do something you don’t even want to do. And, the baby Todd has to come along too, can’t leave him in his crate all day. This is going to be f.u.n.

I have to go give Todd a bath now, he decided(for some stupid reason) that peeing on his bed in his sleep sounded like a good idea. Ugh.

Hmmm

8 more days till we go to Stanford. I didn’t realize it was that soon. That means the insurance will definitely not approve the surgery by then. Which also means we’ll just be doing the routine checkup, turn around and make another appointment for next month and hope the insurance approves it by THEN. (Repeat for four months). We’ve been trying to get this approved since September, then we had to switch insurances. Good thing this isn’t urgent!

Also 9 more days until we go to Chico for our first “Thanksgiving,” and then that Thursday, we’re heading down to Carmel to have “Thanksgiving” with Doug’s parents. AND I get to meet the couple that own Guido now! We’ve been emailing for a few weeks now and I am so excited to meet them and see Guido again. For those of you who don’t know, Guido is one of the guide dog puppies I raised. He got all the way through his guidework training and then was “career changed” for a cataract. He is now with a blind man who wasn’t mobile enough to recieve a guide dog.

Why???

Well, for starters, I got a new guide dog puppy. His name is Todd, he’s a black labrador retriever. I am starting out the puppy raising for a friend in Chico.

We still haven’t heard anything about the insurance…I’m really nervous and starting to have doubts about whether this is the right thing to do or not.

I know it’s a matter of life and death, but I just don’t see how important that is right now…

I’m slowly losing my motivation for school, among other things.

My grandma had to put Cassie to sleep yesterday. She had cancer all over and there was nothing the vet could do to help her. She will be missed and never forgotten.