Last day of quarantine! Thank goodness. Ever wanna know how to make a Holly crazy? Confine her to her house for 5 days! I feel better, sooooo much so. I finally slept just about all night. Down side of things, Jason is now starting to cough. We will have to wait and see if his actually manifests into H1N1 or not. Oklahoma is getting hit pretty hard. Not real sure why. Thanks for all the positive thoughts, prayers, and energy sent my way.
@ Denise: Yes, we had looked into the implant issue and just are not matching up with the S/S necessary to make an implant Dx.
@ Fairgoldberry: Yes, sleep has a HUGE impact on me. It has always been an issue. I try to be very careful and pro-active when it somes to rest.
@Capriciouslass: Already startd acidophilous
@Rowangolightly: VERY interested in the Elimination Diet. Found some on internet, but would like to see if you have anything more substantial.
@Closertofine: I don't fit the model for fibromyalgia.
To all: I am to set up an appointment sometime in the next coupla weeks with my physician to run a health screen. There is an answer, I just have to continue to press this issue, start with intake, rest and exercise and go fromt there.
Again, thank you all so very much for the suggestions. I love my wise friends.

This is one humdinger of a flu. It has a lot laryngeal edema. This means I'm alright as long as I don't talk or lay down. If I try to have a conversation I start hacking and hacking, I turn colors, and lose the ability to breathe. So I am being very quiet today.

Okey dokey, here's a shout out to all my holistic, medical, homeopathic, diet-smart, fabulous livejournal diva friends. Kids, I need help. I have been sick, had something infected (From root canals to fingernails), in pain, continue to gain weight, get colds, and just feel like shit in general since April. I really want to say since my hysterectomy, but I hesitate to go that far back.
Simply put, I cannot seem to get well and then stay that way. Now I know that into every life a little sickness must fall, but weekly?!?!?!? Really?
If you have a suggestion, please post it here. I am doubling this post to facebook as well. Even if it sounds a little weird, I may be willing to try it. I am going to start doing some research on HRT as I feel that may have an affect as well. Please, Please feel free to post this queston to others on your all's journals. Someone, somewhere out there, that isn't crazy, may have an answer or at least a direction to start looking. FYI: Had my thyroid checked and it came back normal. Blood sugar is not an issue as long as I eat normally.
I gain weight when I should be losing. It's crazy, folks and about to kill me I suspect. My doc has no answers at this time. Today we decided on no more antibiotics as I have been on 7-8 runs of them since April. He recommended zinc, vitamin C, BRAT diet, and fluids. That's where I am gonna start.
If you can, please help. I don't know where to even start some days.
BTW, *funny* and/or *snarky* comments probably will not be well received. Trite and cute won't go over well either.

Wow, you would think I would know better than to start my morning off working the finances. With so many options at my disposal to crapify my day, what made me think to pick finances? Off to clean and try not to think about money.

There is much rejoicing in the Sturm household today. We have booked a 7 day cruise to celbrate my getting my nursing license in April. Jason never fails to suprise me. Sometimes when I am planning to wring his neck, he pulls something phenomenal out of his ass. Amazing. I must get up now and do the dance of joy. I will put a bra on first so as not to hurt myself.

Yea ME!!!! Massive, and I do mean massive, tests today. Wait for it......... 91 in Pharmacology and 96 in Theory!!! I am a happy camper. And it is foggy rainy outside and we know what that means for the Spaz....YES!! It is time for the annual Fall Purge. Most do Spring Cleaning but I prefer to purge in Fall. I slow down and hibernate during the summer as I do not like heat. But come along a cool day and I can be found manically cleaning and looking at things in my house and realizing that they are no longer needed at this time and must go to new homes or to the trash depending upon their condition/worth. Course my boy, Griff, is thrilled. He sees this as an opportunity tosquirrel stuff away for when he moves out. so, here we gooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
By the way, does this icon I tapped from Medieval Total War look familiar to anyone?

Awesome clinical. H1N1 preps are in place at the hospital I am doing my clinicals. All nurses that are willing to work during an outbreak will be paid overtime. Cool. Too bad I am not a nurse yet!

Okay, whew! Finally the infection-from-hell is starting to taper off. I had NO idea mouth pain could be so very excruciating. But, again, just like with the 'whooping cough' episode, it gives me more tools to use in my skill set when interacting with patients. A dose of empathy for your pts is always a good thing. Keeps you human.

And to the cosmos: Please let me off the mental pt list. I would really like some semblance of a sane conversation during my assessments. Seriously. I can go back to specializing in mental, but I really need the practice on normal mentating individuals. I would prefer a couple of peoples maybe that DON"T look for off the wall places to defecate (including the walls, for that matter) Thanking you in advance, Holly

Just to kinda catch all up.... The rumors of my demise are geatly exaggerated. I have been outa-sorts and outa-pocket for the last several weeks. Since I have had the extremely pleasure of having, a severe sinus infection, only known case of adult whooping cough in OK, an tooth infection, a root canal, another infection in the tooth next to the other, another root canal, and most recently an infection in the ENTIRE LEFT SIDE OF MY FACE which made me look like I had GOUT anad NOW??? NOW???? Another effing root canal. This is all happening while I am living thru the joys of Nursing School, the accelerated program. Pissed doesn;t even begin to describe my current mood. I know that there are people out there who are or will go thru worse than this, but right now, right here in the pain factory that is my head, I am being totally selfish, whining and pathetic. I eat Demerol and Promethazine like tictacs. I keep expecting my liver and kidneys to rebel at any moment. I am drinking water and eating fiber cause all I can do is tentatively swallow. The sole high point is a weight loss of twelve pounds, although not the most healthy way to do it. Thanks for all the love and support from my friends and positive thoughts and energy.
Here's to a better mid-August and onward!

Kharma. Some days she loves you, some she don't This was a sorta don't day for me. At least I found my wallet.

Dear Madame, Sirs, or Anyone Else Who May Be Responsible For This Last & Current Month,
I have, quite frankly, had enough. I'm done. No more crap-storm as I have lost my Mega-Crap Catcher's(TM) Mitt. This is about as much fun as a root-canal. Oh yeah, had one of those this month, too. We will not be having this Month of Oddities and Curiosities continue into July. I will not stand for it, you hear me?!?!?
I am thanking you in advance for your kind attention to this matter.
Respectfully and Beseechingly Yours,
Holly Ann McClure Sturm

Life is good. I am well on the road to recovery and ready to start yoga, pilates, and Yopi! Now to sell scrubs and doll clothes to recover financially. Word to the wise: If you tell your husband he can spend $2500 on a poured, painted, and stamped concrete patio, make sure he UNDERSTANDS. $4500 makes for reeeeaaallll pretty, but also makes me broke.
My part time job at the casino (Slots) only lets me re-coup around 500 a month. I'm not mad, just flustered. Silly men.

Hey, Sablessam, I've been trying to call!!! Call me! Love you!

I am not real sure how that exam went. There were a coupla questions for which I went, "Huh? I don't remember that being on the study guide." Oh well, You do the best you can and move on.
Mom's FOURTH eye surgery in 10 days went well. The Dr. assures us that he feels that he got it all corrected this time. We'll see. Meanwhile, my mom is eating percocets like skittles. Bless her heart, she is soooo miserable. Reading is one of my mother's favorite pasttimes and to lose that ability due to vision is simply horrifying for her. Again, thanks for the positive thougts and prayers!
Onward to the busy weekend.

I should do as well as Tuesday, I hope. I have studied and feel confidany about the subjects. These should not be as difficult.

Mom's 4th eye surgery in ten days went well. The Doc is fairly confident now that she will not lose her sight. Thanks for the support and positive thoughts, folks, keep it up!

On a sad note, Jason was forced to shoot a dog today. It was 1 of a pair that had bit a little boy. The boy is fine but sadly both dogs have now been destroyed due to BAD doggie parents. But then some people can't even get real parenting down pat. just what makes me think they could do any better with dogs. Jason is sad. Glad that the boy is not severely injured, but wtill bothered that he had to take a life.

Made a 100 on my A&P exam!!!!

And in other news... They have finally done it!! A movie about the most relient and brilliant people in the world. Faire performers. Here's a link: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=47071259

My class is on the third floor. We are ALL doing work on the puter and printers. I have already run down and BACK up the three effin' flight of stairs to get paper. Then I ran down to tell them the system was down. (No, we can't call) AND NOW,,, now my charming fellow students have announced out loud and I have confirmed that the printer is out of ink. Did someone volunteer to make the trip to get another cartidge??? Hell, no. They got their fat asses up and just moved to another printer till it ran out. Then they sat around and bitched about it. Not one, not ONE ran down to get another cartidge. I didn't cause I've already been up and down the cufker's twice in the last 10 minutes!!! Arrggggggg!!!!!

okay, woke up from a vivid, extremely lucid dream where LiveJournal and facebook had merged into a 'Holo-deck' type live interface space that I kept in my closet. I went on a road trip of sorts with several of you. Literally most of the people on my facebook and Live Journal account. We were riding in an old white Cadillac with the top down. It was a perfectly comfortable spring day and we talked as we 'Sunday drove' through the lush and green rollings hills ofthe Lost Pines region of SE Texas. We would laugh and smile and just be with one another. All in all, a pleasurable and gentle day. Woke up in the middle of a sentence with one of you. Not sure which because whilst dreaming this I was talking to each of you individually and yet simutaneously.

So I had my first major Nursing exam today. ACED IT!!!!!!!! Yea, go me!!!! So far I am maintaining a 99.5% average for the whole program. If some of these youngin's would just show up on time, read, do their homework and turn it in on time and study for the tests, they would do soooooo much better. 'Course this is coming from a girl who remembers SOME of the eighties, drank tequila out of a teacup and saucer (straight, no salt and/or lime), and quit college to be a ski-bum in Colorado. Age does occasionally bring about some wisdom. Perhaps it is perceived necessity, though, that is driving me this time. Hell, it could even be pride. Whatever is driving me, it is a force to be reckoned with. I have not felt this alive in a very long time. It feels so very good.
This weekend will be spent cleaning, sewing, going to the Arts Festival, and relaxing. I hope everyone's Friday is going as well as mine.