To Everyone Who Lives in Utah

David Cook won American Idol.

GET. OVER. IT.

Geese.

Ear Wax Update

So, I totally know everyone has been checking my blog like every two seconds to see how the how the earwax saga is progressing. I know! How dare I keep these important things from my readers! All three of you!Oh, all right. I have five readers. But, anyway, So the first installment of the earwax saga was on Monday and on Wednesday I was still hurting extremely bad. My Mom talked me into going to the doctor again. So we went. We went through the same routine as on Monday, irrigation, colace, irrigation, colace. Ever time they sprayed water in my ears, it hurt more and more. It made me dizzy and I was shaking all over. Finally the doctor had the nurse put numbing drops in my ear and Doctor Middleton went to town on my ear with the irrigation bottle. It hurt like a bitch. Dr. Middleton stopped because you know? It's just not supposed to hurt like that. He looked in my ear and said, "Oh! It's starting to move." I told him he could do it again but I was going to cry a lot. He said it was okay to cry, but I couldn't scream. Then he turned around and shut the door. I guess he didn't want me to scare all the little old ladies that were waiting for their turn to see the doctor. He sprayed the water in my ear and it hurt so bad, I cried and whined and then he said, "There it is!" Then I was crying because I was so happy! I was still shaking pretty bad but the pain was gone immediately! I was all " Thank you! Thank you!" All crying and stuff. I'll spare you the details on what the huge chunk that fell out of my ear looked like, but I will say it wasn't pretty. My Mom then said, "That was like giving birth!" and you know it was! All that pain and then the immediate joy that followed. I was even shaking like I just had a baby. Then my Mom started playing with that huge chunk wax. Gross Mom. The doctor then looked in my ear and informed me that I still had a tube in my eardrum that has been there since I was 12. Hello! That's not normal. Why am I not deaf with these stupid jacked up ears? But it was amazing that the pain just disappeared, just like that. So yeah. that is my story. It only cost my parents $300. Actually, I feel pretty bad about that. But my sister pointed out that maybe these things happen out here because I have someone here who can pay for me to get medical treatment, that heavenly father might have a hand in it. Maybe. Can't say that it hasn't crossed my mind before.

Also, today while we were hanging out at home, Three police cars and two or three ambulances pulled up to the house across the street from my sister's house. The woman in the home rushed out and hysterically started yelling at them to hurry. we waited and waited and many minutes later, they rolled a young girl out on a the stretcher. we couldn't see her face but we could see that they had a Machine on her giving her chest compressions and that her feet were purple. It became apparent to us adults that she was already dead. She had hung herself. I feel so bad for that Mother who had to find her daughter like that. You know, I don't even know her name, which is pretty said considering I lived here for over a year. I have a strong desire to help, but I don't know her, and don't know what I can do. I think the only thing I can do is to pray for this Mother. It's so unfair that she is left to deal with this. I am so, so sorry for what has happened to her.

Stool Softener in My Ear

I have a long history of getting sick about every time I visit my parents. I have had massive ear infections, kidney stones, Urinary track infections, and morning sickness. So anyway, we were swimming in the hotel swimming pool in Twin Falls, Idaho, on Saturday, when my husband got a fun idea to to put a swimming noodle up to the water vent to make a hose of sorts. The kids were spraying everyone and having a blast. We'll, my little boy shot water right down into my left ear canal. It started hurting less than twenty minutes later. (it's important to note that my ear's are extremely jacked up and are very sensitive to things like this.)We did various things to get the water out including putting apple cider vinegar in my ear. (recommended by my brother the P.A. Apparently acidic acid is the main ingredient in prescription swimmers ear drops.) It didn't help with the pain but it did seem to pull out a lot of ear wax. My Mom decided to take me to the doctor this morning. The doctor told me my ear was full of ear wax and he sent someone in to irrigate my ear. This is where Fred enters the picture. Fred works at the IHC instacare at 94th and 7th east in Sandy Utah. He came in to irrigate my ear. I asked him if it would hurt and he said "Oh yes! it's going to hurt so incredibly bad, it will shoot strait through your eardrum. It's going to be the worst pain you have ever felt!" Presumably he was kidding but seriously, what a jerk. Then he said he just got off work at McDonald's and he was on work release from the Utah Valley Hospital. Again HA, HA, Fred. Then he said he was going to look in my ear to see if he could see through to the other side. This is when I asked him, "You do realize I am 28 and not 12, right?" My Mom and Fred thought that was pretty funny, but he did knock it off after that. He irrigated my ear and a gigantic piece of wax came out of my ear. Fred looked again and saw another big hunk saddled up to my ear drum. More irrigation. No luck. "Okay, we are going to have to soak it out," said Fred. Fred leaves and comes back with a bottle of liquid. "Now, what is that?" I asked as I layed down. Fred said "Colace." Not sure if he was kidding, I gave him a funny look. He said it really was stool softener and it works for this kind of stuff. So Fred puts it in my ear and leaves for 15 min. He comes back to irrigate AGAIN, by now it was starting to really hurt. Again, no luck. Fred leaves to get the Doctor and Doctor Elwood Longnecker (Yes! That's really his name!HE must have had some good nicknames when he was a kid.)tells me that our next option is antibiotic ear drops and that we can't dig it out because it is next to my eardrum. Great, so here I am in Utah, and I seriously can only hear the air conditioner. We went to wal-mart and I could hear the beeping of the cash registers in the back of the store. Too bad I couldn't hear my Mom who was standing next to me, yelling. So now you know about my gross earwax problem. I guess this was a long time coming.

From a Three Year Old's Perspective

My three year old got a hold of my camera. he took over 40 pictures, mostly of the Winnie the Pooh movie that was playing. Here a few of them. I thought these were especially interesting because of the angle. The world looks completely different from a three year old's perspective. And I had no idea I looked like that from behind. I guess it's not that bad....

My Mother's Day Gift

This is what my little kindergartner made for me for Mother's Day at school. I thought it was great. I giggled and jumped up and down, just like she would. I do like to go to school.

My Fabulous Mother

This is my Mom when she was a sexy co-ed at BYU. She was so hot, she totally stole my Dad away from my Aunt, without even trying.

This is where I could find my Mother when I was a teenager. She had the prettiest yard in the neighborhood, and looking back, that neighborhood was half-way swanky.If you look closely, you will see my Mom is displaying her "I don't really want to smile, but I'll do it anyway" smile.

My Mom is a cool Mom because:

She totally let my Dad get a gun, just so I could have a cat. Whoa! I would never make that deal. So sorry Daughter. No Guns allowed.

She would let me drive the car to places like Skyline High School all the way from Sandy, before I had my driver's licence. Her only stipulation: DON'T TELL DAD!

When I was nineteen and I wanted to paint my room purple, my Mom totally went to bat for me and convinced my Dad and oldest brother that purple would be "okay" and that they shouldn't get their panties in a twist.

When I married my husband-not in the temple, she never let me see her cry. She new it would just kill me. She let me make my own decisions without ruining this exciting time for me.

When I was about to have my first baby, Mom came to visit and slept on our yucky couch in our yucky apartment, and she never complained. (Okay, just a little. But she saved it all for my husband.)Then when I was in active labor, she held one of my legs up for me because I was too exhausted after two hours of pushing to do it myself. Then she cooked and cleaned everything for over a week. That was awesome. Then she did it all again when I had my second kid.


My Mother is an awesome Grandma. Here she is with my nephew,(who is now like 11 or 12 or something crazy like that) swimming in the back yard. She is always taking her grand kids to fun places to play, and buying them things she would have never bought her children.

Not only is she an expert face-maker, my Mom is a total Scriptorian and expert genealogist. Yes, very talented lady. She has many talents.

Happy(late) Mother's Day, Mom. I love you.

Catch Up

So I really have quite a few things to blog about. But, you know what? I am too dang tired. I finally completed my first semester of school. I know I should be excited but I feel like curling up in a ball and crying, all the stress has drained me. It has been a long day....I'll feel better after a good night sleep.

Coming Soon:
A night with Stephenie Meyer
My Fabulous Mother
My famous friend the author
Idaho and Utah, here we come!