What is the purpose?

I don't really have a purpose to this.  When I signed up for the blog, it was going to be an outline or rough draft type thing for a book that I want to write.  After talking to my sister, I decided not to go that route.  She is right...who would want to pay for a book when you can read it for free in my blog?  So, I copied and pasted it to a Word document and decided to just to do random life things on here and see where it goes.  I really just want to know if people will find this blog and find it interesting!

As of right now, I am recovering from my third kidney stone surgery since the first of July.  All three surgeries have been with the scope and stent.  The first one was on my left side.  A stone had gotten embedded in my ureter.  During a cat scan I had for that one, a mass was found on my adrenal gland.  It was 3 cm in size.  From my understanding it isn't considered malignant until is is 4 cm or greater.  My doc is running some test to see if it is functioning.  In the mean time, I started having pain on my right side.  I went to the ER and sure enough...another kidney stone passing.  This one was 15 mm!!!  My doctor believes that it was two stuck together.  From my view is that no matter how it got that big...it HURTS!!!  Another thing not in my favor was that none of the stones were showing up on X-ray so my urologist couldn't do Lithotripsy.  So I had another surgery with the scope and a stent was left.  I went back in five days to get that stent out.  After about five days I was still having pain.  I kept hoping it would just go away, but it was just getting worse.  So, I called the doctor and had another cat scan.  Again, I had a stone in my right ureter.  So, I had surgery again yesterday with the scope and a stent was left.  I can take it out Tuesday.  Whew!!  Luckily the urologist said there was only a couple of stones left and they were the size of a BB.  

A good thing that came out of all this was that I was able to be home when the kids started school.  Cameron started fourth grade and my baby boy Austin started Pre-K.  Abby would have been in the first grade this year....  Austin is getting staggered in so he has only gone two days in the last two weeks.  He will go again Monday and then starting Wednesday he will go everyday.  He seems to really like it!!  They both ride the bus to the daycare after school.  It is still very early in the year, but so far everything is going well. 

I hope that after I get back to work full time...I have been off since July 6.  I went back last Monday and worked through Wednesday, the day I went to the doc and found out I had another stone.  I hope that I will make myself sit down and take the time to write on here.  I have had a blog before but I was posting daily meditations for a small group of online friends I had made through the message boards on Oprah.com.  The Oprah people changed a lot of the rules for the boards and it was no longer a place I felt like we could have honest discussions about things without our posts being deleted by the moderators.  So, I just started a blog where we could go chat, but it didn't last long.

If you have made it this far, thank you for taking the time to read this.  I hope that you bookmark my blog and make it a part of your blog reading!  I will do my best to keep it updated and interesting.  Until next time...