Monica's Space

Don't you just love it when you start crafting something and it just snowballs into something.  i do.  I start something and it goes into something where I can go into foever with it once I get going on it sometimes I just do not want to stop.  that is like cooking and baking also.  LOL.  Every Year I make ornaments for nieces and nephews and I love trying to get a different ornament every year for them.  It gives them something for their tree in the future and this way they can think and talk about the ornaments also. I love doing scrapbooking and posting them and showing them as I have always tried to do my best on them but sometimes my eye doesn't always let me see what i what I want. Thants ok, as long as i think i did my best.  the same for the cards I make also.i also love to show off what my nieces and nephews give me whenever they make me things also.  I always post them. 

I got my new hearing aides and other things i need to help me around the house.  even a sight cane,1 for summer and 1 for winter.  I am getting use to hearing things i never heard before.  Now just to block them out so to speak like they told me so i can get back to normal. it is hard with a few things as they just bug me soooo much as I never it like I do now.  that is my hubbys chair that squeaks.  my old hearing aides never let me hear it.  these new ones do.  makes quite a difference.  now i am using a sight cane because it is harder for me to see steps and a few other things that I could before that i cannot now.  I have to hang onto my husband and with the sight cane I can do alot of things by myself.  with the other stuff around the hound i can alot of things by myself but alot slower.  I even have a glove when i cut vegetables with a knife this way I don't cut my fingers as it is a special glove.  i hav especial gloves for handling hot stuff out of the oven also.  color coded measuring cups and spoons. and other things that help me read from the TV.  just alot of things to get use to for along while and still a few things get  use to right now. but at least I am able to take care of my husband me.

it has been a while since I posted on here and alot has happened. for one thing our computer crashed and we had to put everything back in which was no easy job.  YUCK!!  I had to have help with it by having Dell and the cable company talk me thru it and it was alot harder this time with my eyesight like the way it is.  not being to see great is not good when trying to put things back in or unplugging.  then I have been sick alot also during that time and was in the hospital during that time in May twice and finally they found out it all due to acid reflux.  now I take nexium which has helped alot there. I do not like waiting an hour after taking it but that is what you are suppose to do when taking it.  I am a breakfast eater and waiting that hour kills it for me.  lol.  But at least I can eat normally again.  I am still crafting cards and layouts.  I have some new ones if I can get them up. plus I also got my new hearing aides and boy hearing everything that I was misssing is like WOW, all I say everything is too loud which is what I was missing.  I also received some other stuff that will help me get around also. like one of those canes for the blind. it will me see the steps and the near and far.  I can read books from my TV set with  some help also.  some stronger magnifers.  well, that is all that has happened so far.

well, it seems that  am going blind and losing my hearing in both ears as ell.  for my eyes it is called a pseudotumorcerebrei.  from what i have been told the tumor is there but then it isn't.  my twin sister has the same thin but she was able to reverse it from regular check-ups.  when one does not have insurance or anything like when working it is very hard to get regular checkups and that is me when i used to work as a grill cook.  Now i am disabled and cannot do my job like I use too.  It has even been very hard doing everyday normal things at home.  with some other type of help i can keep on doing the normal everyday help for me and hbby.  even after I do lose them I will still be able to take care of ourselves as I will not let it put me down.  It is going to happen so i might as well keep going.  y hearing is terrible also.  w finally had to put the closed caption on the tv so i can watch it also.  only way i can hear it, is by reading what they say.  Now if I can oly get the migraines under control, but without money to pay for them I have been going thru some rough times. stabbing,pounding migraines that come out of no-where.  suffered like this for 2 months now,until i can get all my meds turned over to generics and that mans starting all over.

Well, I finally bought a cropadile at PatCatans.  I get there newsletter that shows what is on sale at the stores.  then while on there, they had a coupon for an internet special going on for 2 weeks.  so the coupon was fopr the cropadile at 14.97.  Now how can i pass this up??  NOT!!!          Well, I just had to take my gift certificate that I received from my borther jeff and his girl.  I saved 10.00 on it by buying it when i did. this is the lowest that I ever seen anywhere.