Firefox in the real world. A family of California grey foxes has made its home in the Zen Garden at Facebook’s Menlo Park campus. The Facebook peeps set up a special Facebook page for them as well as an Instagram.
What the what?!?!?!?!?!?!? In the last 2 1/2 hours, there has been a bridge collapse near where I have family in Washington (my dad is up there right now and actually drove over it earlier) and there was an earthquake 3 hours north of me. It’s also a full moon tonight. This is eerie.
OMG Hawaii Five-O!!!! I’m bummed that Kono will be out for at lease a chunk of next season and I’m wondering if Grace Park (the actress) is pregnant or if her contract was just not renewed. It was still an interesting episode and I’m wondering who is breaking in to kill Wo Fat.
I’m an auntie!!!!! Jon’s sister Joanna had her baby today!!!!! His name is Patrick and he was born at 1:19 p.m. by c-section. He is 19 inches long and weighs 9.5 lbs. I’m totally excited to be an auntie. We’ll probably head down in a few weeks to see them once Joanna heals and they have things a little more on schedule.
Diagnosis time. I had my endocrinology consult this Wednesday and the diagnosis is PCOS based on my bloodwork. We’re going to clean up my diet (see #7 for details on that) and discuss medication changes at my next appointment in August. If any of you are on FitDay.Com, email me (jen @ grace-filled dot net) and let me know. (My username is my incredibly long and complex last name.)
Orphans. Do you see these two precious children?
Brett (on the left) needs a mama and Kaia (on the right) has a family who needs help raising the funds to bring her home so she can start kindergarten (hopefully this autumn). If you can help out at all, click on their pictures. Please and thank you!
Prayer request. I will be having an endoscopy tomorrow (Friday) morning at 7:30 a.m. PDT (Pacific Daylight Time). Even if you don’t see this before then, I’d appreciate your prayers that the procedure goes well, that they find SOMETHING, and that anything they find is treatable. I’ve been having nausea and loss of appetite since January and it took forever to get the G-I consult (May 8th) where this procedure was scheduled. Any findings will hopefully enable me to eat again and being able to do that will help me clean up my diet. My endocrinologist suspects that I might have celiac disease and this might be what shows it.
**UPDATE** The endoscopy went well and they *did* find something — mild esophagitis and erosive gastritis in the form of 20 smallish ulcers in the lower part of my stomach. It’s all treatable and I’m just relieved that they found SOMETHING because it’s been annoying not to be able to eat without problems for the last few months.
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That’s so crazy about that bridge and that your dad was on it earlier!! 7:30 your time is about 10:30 my time and that is usually when I have to walk around at work so I’ll try and remember to pray for you while I’m walking around the lake 🙂
Patrick is sooo squishy and cute. I think you said you suspected celiac… are they doing a biopsy during the procedure to check for that? Praying!
What a beautiful baby!
Praying for you to find answers today!
I’ll pray for your endoscopy, even if it’s already happened. God is outside of time, etc.
(My husband had to have one earlier this year. He’s got weird autoimmune issues other than celiac.)
Your nephew is adorable. Glad your procedure went well and you now have a good idea of next steps for treatment. Sorry to hear you’ve been feeling so crummy for so long.
Congrats Aunt! Also so glad to hear they found out what is going on, but 20 ulcers sounds painful! Thanks for your comment on my posts about the scouts. I hope you are right! I commented on your comment at my blog.
Gorgeous baby! I hope the PCO dx leads to a better life for you. I interviewed a woman a few months ago who didn’t want to take meds, so she “cleaned up” her diet to the point that I know I couldn’t follow it! Having the dx has, though, made me much more aware of what I eat, and all for the better. Hoping for good things ahead for you!
#2: I have a friend who keeps an emergency seat belt cutter/window breaker in her glove compartment in case of the unlikely (but terrifying) possibility that a bridge will collapse and her car will end up in the water.