book list

since the tag was about books.....updating the list

1) "Republic" by Plato (suggestion courtesy of will smith)
2) "The heart's Code" by Paul Pearsall
3) "At First Sight" by Nicolas sparks
4) "Japanese woman dont Get Old or Fat" by Naomi MOyarama
5) "flight from Heaven" by Jan Karon
6) "Ellis Island Interviews" by Peter Mortan Coan
7) "The parents guide to children's Congenital Heart Defect" by Kramer and Mauer
8) "Partners fo the Heart" by Vivien Thomas, autobiography
9) " 100 People who are screwing Up America (and al Franken is #37) by Bernard Goldberg
10) "Einstein Never Used Flash Cards" by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
11) "DaVinci for Dummies"
12) "Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited" by Aldous Huxley
13) "A Thomas Jefferson Education" by Oliver Van DeMile
14) "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards
15) "A Monk Swimming" by Malachy McCourt
16) "'Tis" by Frank McCourt
17) "two for the Dough" by Janet Evanovich
18)"The Kill Artist" by Daniel Silva
19) "The Faith Club" by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver and PRiscilla Warner
20) "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
21) "The Omnivore's Dilemma" By Micahel Pollan
22) "Family Tree" by Barbar Delinksy
23) "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
24) "Stega" by Andrew Vachs
25) "Escape" by Carolyln Jessop
26) "the English Assassin" by Daniel Silva
27) "better" by Atul Gawande
28) "Digging to AMerica" By Anne Tyler
29) "Heat" by Bill Buford
30) "Three to Get Deadly" by Janet Evanovich
31)"Four To Score" by Janet Evanovich
32) "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Lutttrell
33) High Five by Janet
34) Hot Six by Janet Evanovich
35) Seven Up (A Stephanie Plum Novel) by Janet Evanovich
36) Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich
37) Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich
38) To the Nines: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich
39) "Ten big Ones" by Janet Evanovich
40)"Eleven On Top" by Janet Evanovich
41) "Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich
42) Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich"
43) "The Confessor" by Daniel SIlva
44) "A Death in Vienna" by Daniel Silva
45) "Prince of Fire" by Daniel Silva

Part 2 see previous weird post

oh wait I just laughed at neurology

did I mention in my rambling that while we were at CT scan...they called to set up appt when we got home I called them back
and I laughed at them, at the date they offered?
so they sent a message to the nurse to get her in sooner.

the nurse just called said I am so n so from dr so n sos office how can I help you?
I said I am sorry I have no idea who that dr is

she told me neurology

ah ok so I tell her and she says
yes get this one...
you are sitting down right??

oh they referred you to adult neurology, you need peds, I will message that doc
I told her I am sorry but at this point, it is all pretty darn funny

1-2-3 tag from christine

Page 123

The Rules:

1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 (or more) pages.
"Prince Of Fire" by Daniel Silva

2. Open the book to page 123 and find the 5th sentence.
"Why did you keep it?" she asked.


3. Post the next 3 sentences. Todd: No we'll serve anyone--
"To remind you of her?"
"Chiara, don't be ridiculous."
SHe tossed the talisman in his direction.

If this makes no sense to you, I apologize now

This is a rambling, I am way over tired email I just sent. If this makes no sense to you I apologize....I am all "talked/emailed" out over this so, I dont know who knows what anymore....because I am sick of talking about it and retelling the story....
Christine's blog has a brief note on it
Pretty much no corrections, just as I sent it to someone earlier. Oh I removed the profanity


no sedation
no contrast
radiology over ruled that citing head injury
of course she already had the iv by that time...

no food forever (9pm ish last night....needed at least 4hrs due to contrast med I wasnt getting up at 4am to force her to eat...this is important in the next set of sentances)

got a headache while waiting to go down
they gave her tylenol, after much debate....and rebekah not happy that they didnt have pills to swallow and she had to take chewables
and in true rebekah fashion waited until IN the CT scan machine to barf
yep I said barf...she barfed up her tylenol
then barf more when back on the floor...all while still saying she had a headache
they ok'd more tyenol, she declined the chewable.....
then more in my car (good thing I had a bag)
I gave her motrin and dramimine upon return home
she barfed more
took a nap
and ate
and ate
and ate
and now seems fine

funny they had 2 ped anthesiologist
one said he spent hours last night going thru her records and reading about her heart defect trying to figure it out
still had more questions
one asked when she had a band? (uh no band no ds) no band, natural banding of the pulmonary with stenosis
one asked when was it corrected I said ah...it is congenitally corrected TGA also known as LTGA no surgery,

interesting morning
left the house at 740
got there at 820 (thank you rush hour...normall a 15min drive)
on the floor and with IV by 915
down at 1030
home at 1140

Rebekah update

Too lazy to look where I left off.....forgive me if I duplicate.

So we go to ENT also know as head and neck surgery on thursday at 1130. I realize that morning that we have been to this office before but I have no clue who we saw last time. Rebekah is a semi regular at the Head and neck surgery in Irvine with the Physician's assistant but we were told we had to see a doc this time and that office had no openings.

Last time we were at this office was also for Rebekah. Also for some freak thing. At her Developmental ped a few years ago we noticed the ball of her earing (stud) had slipped back into the hole in her ear. He sent us to Urgent care(he recommended the one next to the hospital just in case) to remedy it. Rebekah scared Urgent care and they sent us downstairs to an apparently not busy Head and neck dr for removal.



So anyhow, we get there at 1130 and are told they are 40min behind. I check my watch 40min is ok....we both brought books. We sit down to read. About 15min pass and they call us in. I think wow they caught up. Yah no.....they brought us back, took history and then put us in a room. A much colder then the waiting room, room....of course with no gowns and no sheets. The nurse says yes they are still 40min behind. I say well I might need to leave....and I tell her what time. Back to reading. Well after 2 trips to the bathroom, it is obvious that rebekah is bored and she is now fidigiting with all the instruments....I give up....its about 20min prior to my deadline but I gotta go....(this is no 1245 or so).



I go back to the nurse's station where I talk to the nurse there (our doc's nurse had gone to lunch but she did tell us and also let the other nurses know about the situation). The nurse goes to reschedule. Now I already know they are booked weeks out (because I was called three times by different people to schedule and each time I let them give me a date before I told them I already had an appt) So, I briefly tell her why we are there and how I dont really know if we should be or was this just a way to get $25 out of us. As I say that a doc walks up.....he apologoizes for the wait and explains they had not 1 but 2 new cancer diagnosis this morning....he asks what is going on....looks for a moments....says wait just a minute. He comes back with papers for the patient he was seeing....also admission procedure papers....and says to us....go to room 2....and tells the nurse what he needs the patient to know and joins us. This is NOT the doc we had the appt with.



I tell him the whole flippin story....he looks at her a bit....asks me if her nose looks different at all. I say....well I wasnt taking notes on it before she decided to fly but it does look like maybe it is a bit fat in the middle area....I show him where. He looks a bit more. I tell him that maybe we are here because she already has breathing/ear issues . He checks her ears, her forehead area, all her teeth, her cheek bones, reads the xray and says "in the case of a nose, xrays are not useful. Physical examination is.....and really unless breathing is obstructed or the nose is dislocated...neither is the case. The we generally dont do anything. Yes there is still some swelling....and should last another week or so. Avoid all ball type activiites where she could miss and hit her nose because it isnt healed and then there could be a problems. (frisbee is also out....)and tells us it is ok to use the flonase again.. To which he never seemed really sure why we were told to stop.

And we head home. We get home at 1:25. Gymnastics is at 2pm. Just enough time to get Christine and Nathan and head off.



Ironically. On Tuesday I got a phone call from member services. I called them a few weeks ago because I dont particurally care for our ped. We got him by default when our beloved Dr Yu stopped seem patients. I loved them....Dr Yu (husband) was our Pediatric Cardiologist and Dr Yu (wife) was our ped. He stopped seeing patients over a year ago...Almost 2 now. Unfortunately, when I called to change Peds, no other one out of the local office had openings so, we were placed on the wait list. They were calling to take Nathan off the wait list. I was dialing the phone before the message finished. When I got them, I mentioned I actually had 2 kids (I moved Christine to a 12 and up general practioner when I called a few weeks ago) that I wanted with Dr Cordes. She said I called 70 people, you are the first to call back. YOu can move both. WHO HOO. It was funny too because that day I had said at least 10times while telling the story that I didnt like the ped....