Whinefest

A month ago I started having horrible pain on one side of my jaw when eating, so I went to the doctor, who sent me to a Ear, Nose & Throat specialist. After three weeks of agonizing jaw and ear pain, today I was so happy to skip into the specialist's office and have them wave a magic wand and make it all go away. lol. delusional i was. so after asking me if I knew i had a deviated septum (no...but okay)

anyway, he said exactly what the first doctor said (your bite is screwed and you've injured your TMJ) and told me to "eat soft food". then he suggested that I go to a dentist for a bite evaluation, and see if they needed to take corrective measures.

I've been pouting all afternoon. Why do i even go to doctors? what is the purpose of all this expensive technology that they possess? why can't someone scan me or shoot me with a laser or something? Now I'm supposed to go to a dentist for which I have no insurance and it's not even guaranteed that they will be able to help.

On the bright side... maybe this is a blessing in disguise. if all i can eat is soup and juice for the rest of my life, I'll surely lose some weight!

Awesome Possum

My Papa with his Emmy's!
These are his first personal Emmys, although another series he works on has won a bunch. These are for KCPT's
"Bad Blood: The Border War that triggered the civil war"
Link: Bad Blood

Katrina & Patrick's Wedding

Olivia

Sophia

Jenni & Kaleb

Amy & Alec

Sam

Olivia & Lexi

Sisters

Amy & Steve

Alec

Kaleb & Alec

The Bride & Groom

St. Louis

Unfortunately, Rosie & Jeff were unable to make it to St. Louis so Cyndie went with us instead. We had a radtastic good time and took a lot of silly pictures!


"Come be refreshed" at the City Museum!

I'm at a loss on this one...

Har har! big underwear!!

Big Empty Room? check! we MUST dance!

Mark defaces the wall of ...defacement?

Cyndie impersonates an old woman with her pocketbook, going down a slide. lol.

Mark had to lift me up for this, and I almost pulled the panther down with us. we're smart!

Mark was very hungry at this point...

Gaze upon the awesomeness of walrus mosiac!

Phoebe likes shiny reflective surfaces...alot.

Turtle Pile!

The Arch

That's just soda right Cyndie?

This is what mark thinks of St.Louis's local microbrew. KC's Boulevard RULEZ!

View from our hotel room, pretty awesome!

At the Science Center!

Baby Talk

After giving nature a year to do it's thing, I finally realized that it wasn't going to happen as "naturally" as I hoped. I was really frustrated with my doctor as well, who was about as communicative as a rock.

I started the fertility drug Clomid last month, and then switched to a new doctor who is pretty awesome so far. We're basically starting from scratch I guess though, which flustered me a little considering I've gone through acupuncture, Chinese herbs, herbal supplements, 3 different ultrasounds, an endometrial biopsy, countless blood work, and months and months of taking my temp. every fracking day and charting everything my body does.

So, on to the next phase I guess. NewDoctor is on a mission. new tests, more procedures, blah blah blah. Thursday I go in for a "HSG" in which they shoot dye into my tubes and x-ray them. Thank god our insurance covers at least all the diagnostic stuff. I'm trying not to worry about the other stuff NewDoctor was wanting to do that insurance doesn't cover. I'm hoping to hold off on the more aggressive options as long as I can, but they only let you take the drugs for so long before they start in with the AI and in-vitro. NewDoctor was pretty confident that she could get it done with at least just a couple of rounds of the AI, but I guess we'll wait and see. And that's the most aggravating part, waiting to see what happens. I'm a basket case! but that's really nothing new though is it? lol. :D

We're going to try to keep busy and hopefully distract ourselves a little, going to St. Louis this weekend for our 5 year wedding anniversary and to hang out with my sister Rosebud and her husband Jeff. I'm pretty psyched!