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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/1/2009 9:48:25 AM
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PrincessDonna
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Brian's SSDI money has landed. Still no letter from them even telling him he has it, but it's in the bank account. Government for ya...LOL. Of course, we have to pay some of it back to the insurance company, and I don't know how much, so I just transferred the whole deposit to savings to make sure it stays there until our lawyer tells us what to do next.
What God timing for that to come through immediately after the insurance money ran out! Why do I worry?  And I still can't believe he was approved before being denied...we've heard over and over that that never happens!
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/1/2009 9:52:00 AM
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Mrs.Wifey
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Donna, ya'll are only the SECOND people we know who have been approved on the first try. The other person is a close friend's mom who had a series of mini-strokes and now has very, very little short term memory left.
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/1/2009 11:29:32 AM
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PrincessDonna
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Yeah, even my uncle who had a broken neck was denied and had to appeal.
I think it was his back surgery that made the final decision. SS called several times wanting to know if he had had the surgery yet.
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/1/2009 12:05:32 PM
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My SSI and SSDI was approved the first time.
I was VERY sick and VERY weak at the time my application went in. I needed my husband's help for almost everything including taking a shower and washing my hair.
I had called about applying before but they told me I couldn't apply if I was working. Later, an attorney told me that was wrong. I could apply but would not be approved even though I was only working about 10 hours per week.
The system that we have seems to favor someone who suddenly becomes injured or unable to work. It penalizes those who try to survive by working a few hours a week.
After approval, you are allowed to work up to a $ limit (depending on whether it is SSI or SSDI). The limit I can earn now is far more than I was earning when I was told I couldn't apply.
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/1/2009 4:49:34 PM
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PrincessDonna
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Oh goodness...praying for Yolanda! That stinks!
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/3/2009 3:00:00 PM
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I'm home!!
What a time!!! I woke in the night on tuesday night/wednesday morning with really bad pain. I immediately suspected gallbladder...everyone in my family has had theirs out, and I know a lot about what the attacks feel like etc. Anyway, hubby's parents came up to stay with the kids and hubby took me to the ER. They did bloodwork and the initial bloodwork was suspicious for gall bladder troubles. So they wanted to keep me until morning to do an ultrasound. So hubby went home to get some sleep. The doctor came in a few hours later and said that more bloodwork came back and it looks like gall stones now. So then they decided to keep me for 24 hours. So they did the ultrasound, which came back clear, so they said it's likely that the stone just passed. So I was admitted to a room and they did more bloodwork the next morning to check that my enzymes came back to normal, and they did, so they've sent me home.
I'm pretty sure that it's inevitable that I'll be back in there to have it removed, so I kinda wish they just had've gone ahead and done it to get it over with. 
I'm feeling fine now, no pain other than the initial attack. Thanks for the prayers. I was able to pump and the nurses were great about making sure my milk got in the fridge. Actually, my nurses were all great.
Anyway, just trying to get back into the swing of things around home.. it's hectic around here!
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/3/2009 5:07:33 PM
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Goodness, Yolanda! I hope you don't have to have it out. Do some research first if they want you to have it out, I have trouble with my gall bladder, too, but I'm bent on keeping it, LOL. Many times having it removed will give you more troubles.
Anyone have big plans for the 4th? We're taking the kids to the matinee tomorrow, then out to eat, then to the church to play volleyball and watch the town fireworks display across the street. Should be fun!
((((Maggie))))) I will be praying for you all.
Donna, that is incredible! 
I can't believe it's July already! I need to start gathering school curriculum for Isaac. I'm starting him in kindergarten this year, a year early. I didn't want to hold him out another year because he was beyond ready. However, he learned to read this spring, so now I need a new curriculum plan, LOL!!
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/3/2009 7:14:54 PM
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Yay for Isaac reading already! And for starting K early! Hannah will be doing K4 this year (they're about the same age, aren't they?). She's not reading yet, but I haven't really had time to work with her this year for some reason...LOL. Wouldn't surprise me if she blasted through K4 and K5 this year though...I'll let her go at her speed.
Yolanda, so glad you're home and feeling better. How stressful! I'm with Maggie...praying for a miraculous healing and a gallbladder that never attacks you again. 
Fourth of July plans...Brian is driving the church VBS float. Noah and Hannah will be on the float. Levi, Esther, and I will watch the parade with my parents. Then we'll go to my parents for a cookout (I made Italian pasta salad, fruit salad, and deviled eggs). Later, we'll go to see the fireworks from the hospital parking lot (don't have to deal with the throngs of people where most people sit!). Pray it doesn't rain in the morning...the float is a paper mache crocodile, and rain will turn it into a decaying mush croc. 
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/3/2009 11:15:29 PM
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Many times having it removed will give you more troubles.
I'm with this crowd. I woke up in the same condition as you, Yolanda, one morning a few years ago and I went to the ER and was told I needed emergency surgery to have my gallbladder removed. According to the doc, it was full of stones. (They didn't do any kind of ultrasound or anything that I am aware of). When I said I wanted to go home and research it first (I didn't have insurance at the time and I didn't know anything about gallstones or the gallbladder for that matter lol), I was told I would have to sign a AMA (against medical advice) form first and that if anything happened to me, they would not be liable. So, against my better judgement I let them remove it.
To this day, I still get the same kind of pain I had before, and it seems like my belly hurts more than it doesn't, you know? I wish I had read more about it - there are many types of diet remedies that can ease the pain of gallstones and reduce the pain of gallbladder disease that don't involve surgery or getting rid of an organ LOL!
Fourth of July plans: we went to our town's celebration and watched the fireworks tonight - our town happens to turn 100 this year so it was grand! Tomorrow, we will cook out - yummy shishkabobs and grilled vegetables and roasted corn and then go to the State Fairgrounds to watch their fireworks show - it should be awesome. Aaron fell while running away from me tonight and skinned his little shins and his forehead. He didn't like the idea of staying on our picnic blanket so he kept running off. BOYS!
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/4/2009 8:19:01 PM
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Glad to hear you're resting at home, Yolanda. Praying for you as well.
You know, smelling your child's chocolate flavored vomit is almost enough to turn one off of chocolate... almost. We had a big family dinner for the 4th, complete with chocolate cake made by mommy. I guess it was a little rich combined with beef, corn on the cob and beans.
He's better now, and the family has settled down... just in time for all of the private fireworks to go off.
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/4/2009 9:21:19 PM
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lol I've always desperately hoped that something incredibly vile would happen to turn me off chocolate (and sugar!), but it never did. Not even vomit.
I always prayed this would happen to me, also, but *sigh* it never did. Oh well 
My two middle boys are off spending the night at a friend's house, the oldest is still in Jersey, and so the hubby and I decided to keep Aaron at home instead of dragging him out to the State Fairgrounds for their fireworks show. We figure he saw plenty of them at our town celebration last night and it's past his bedtime anyway. I'm going to church with him in the morning and I would love it if he were not obnoxious the entire time.
I'm sad. . . a lady from our church called today to ask if we wanted Aaron to remain on the roster for Sunday School. We apparently put him on but he has only attended once. That means we have only been to church once since he was born, and I am even sadder to say once while I was pregnant. Boy, I feel like such a heel. I know better than this. . . I don't know how the time slipped away like this. Every Sunday we say we're going to go, and then something comes up. So, tomorrow I've committed that I'm going no matter who else goes or stays.
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/5/2009 6:17:53 PM
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Didja make it to Sunday School? What is the purpose of having a roster? Does that mean he can't go if he's not on it or is that just how they decide how many supplies they order?
Brian's birthday is tomorrow...29! I've done something completely uncharacteristic for me and invited his whole family over for desserts. We celebrated with my family yesterday. Brian doesn't know they're coming yet, though it's not necessarily a surprise. I'm hoping it will help him out of the funk he is in lately. I'm making a fruit of the forest pie, cherry cheesecake, and hopefully making it to Walmart to buy an ice cream cake. Sounds like a lot of desserts, but there will be around 20 people... Gotta get cleaning!
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/5/2009 6:24:18 PM
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I didn't know Walmart sold ice cream cakes! I love ice cream cake.
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/5/2009 8:07:07 PM
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Our church is big and has a roster as part of their safety stuff. Kids have to be signed in and out, and the roster helps the teachers know who is supposed to be with the kids, and watch for anything out of place.
I have totally lost my steam dealing with this packing thing. I have not been feeling well and wonder if it's just extreme anxiety. Josiah needs to wall off the part of the basement we're using for storage before I can move much stuff anyway. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks we'll be able to make some trips to take stuff down to my folks house in preparation for the move. But I know it'll eventually still come down to last minute throwing everything in boxes because we're still living here for a while and I can't get rid of everything. Josiah is showing the strain too. He will look at Biruk and get all teary-eyed, which is pretty unusual for him. And he keeps coming up with things he'll miss, me, the kids, family suppers (and someone to cook for him  ), lack of theives and burglers here, showers, and proper toilets.
On the up side, Josiah decided that he definitely will come back before 1 year is up, whether or not he's finished with his RN there. We think he'll have no trouble finishing since he has most of the requirements done already, but it was a concern. Staying past one year has the potential to create an immigration nightmare, requiring re-entry visas and proof of being establishment in this country. So that's one worry of mine put aside. I did photocopy all our certificates and licences and deeds and whatever I could think of that has his name on it just in case he needs to show it to an immigration officer. He's also been offered a house to stay in on a mission compound when he goes down to deal with family business, so that's a very good thing. I'm looking forward to being done with this waiting period and just move into my folks, even though that means we'll be missing Josiah. This is all super stressful. I don't know how you military moms deal with it.
Well, tomorrow is another week. I'm hoping to pull myself together and start being manically efficient again.
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/6/2009 12:45:43 AM
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My parents came down from Minnesota yesterday and brought one of my nieces and one of my nephews with them! The kids are having a ball!
On the down side - Things are getting really bad here and I'm going to have to make some phone calls to see if we can get some assistance with some of our utilities for a little bit, til we get back on our feet. We have an electric bill, a garbage bill and a sewer bill ALL due right now and we still have to pay our mortgage. Plus our insurance has come due on the cars this month too. Yes Brian's going back to work tomorrow, but he's also taking a .10$ per hour pay cut. It's going to take a little bit to get us back up and going again. I'm looking for work too, but I have to work around the kids schedule and Brian's schedule. And to top it all off - the van is acting up again. This time we think it's a temperature sensor or something like that. And we simply don't have the money to put into it. Our savings are shot.
July is going SO fast already! This week with my family, next 2 weeks with Ty at the Zoo, and the following week with Ethan and Brian at cub camp for 3.5 days and Aryn gone for the entire week at Art camp. Then it's August. I so wish summer would slow down a little bit.
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/6/2009 9:38:48 AM
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I did photocopy all our certificates and licences and deeds and whatever I could think of that has his name on it just in case he needs to show it to an immigration officer.
The other thing you'll need are Power of Attorney's for pretty much everything under the sun, including stuff that you might not think of... We had to get one for our cell phone company because they became SUCH a humongous pain about me dealing with the account while Micah is the primary name.
And of course Living Will's and all that stuff but since Josiah is so much like Micah I'm sure he's thought of it already...
How does the RN program work there? Will he be qualified to take the NCLEX exam here after he's done? That will be such a huge blessing for your family when he's done.
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/6/2009 11:30:00 AM
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I hadn't thought of power of attorney. Everything we have (accounts, houses, utilities) is in our names together. I'm not going to be closing anything or selling anything without him, would I still need that?
If he can get his complete RN from the school in Ethiopia, and he can get the credits transferred, then he'd need to do only clinicals I think, and then take the test. As it is, for whatever reason, the credit approval company simply refuses to accept credit from his previous school and the school has been terrible with communication. All they need to do is send verifying papers but they always tell him he has to do such and such which is the opposite of the credit approval place is telling him. The new school is Africa-wide, and new, and he's had no trouble contacting them, and now he knows exactly what's required to transfer credits so he can be pre-emptive about it.
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RE: SAHM/W Encouragement thread! (6) - 7/6/2009 11:54:10 AM
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I hadn't thought of power of attorney. Everything we have (accounts, houses, utilities) is in our names together. I'm not going to be closing anything or selling anything without him, would I still need that?
I would still make sure you have them. Much easier to have one done now while he is stateside then to try and deal with it VIA email and fax. Maybe just a general one since you won't be closing or selling on anything.
Sounds like an interesting and smart way to do nursing school if he can work it out. The waiting lists for nursing school here in CO are seriously a couple of years long. It's ridiculous.
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