Good News

Well last friday the 21st, I went and got a second opinion about having lasik eye surgery and to understand the reason why I was not a candiate at Restore Vision. I went to Boise with my mother and grandma cause my grandma had an appointment with her radiation doctor at St. Luke's, so I was not far from my appointment. I got there a bit early to fill out paperwork and to tell you the truth I was nervous sitting there cause I did not know what the outcome was going to be. I was taken back into a room where the nurse had me look at an eye chart with my glasses on. I had to tell her which lines were clear to me then I had to cover each eye after that. Then she took my glasses to check the prescription and she was surprised on the strenght and yes I will admit that I do not have good eye sight. We talked about the reason why I was told that I was not a candiate for Lasik and that I was not given a reason from the center.

I then went into another room where she had me look at a red light so she could measure my cornea's and then tested my pupils to see how big they get in the dark for night vision. She did explain that my cornea's are to thin, but she will run some numbers to see what the best procdure would be for me. She came back and told me that I could still have the Lasik but I would only be guarnteed about 90% of my vision and that I would probably have to wear glasses and or contacts. The next option was to have a lens implant done and that would the best option for me. We talked more about the lens implant and that when its put into the eye it goes inbetween the pupil and the orginial lens of the eye. They do not remove the original lens, so basically its like a contact but permant but it can be removed if vision in the changes and be replaced. So after the new year I will be planning on having the surgery just don't know which month it will be. Stay tuned

Recent pictures

Jason is trying to keep me from falling off the train. Does it seem like he is trying???????

Here is another picture that we had fun doing that day.

On saturday, november 22nd we had pictures taken by a family friend. We went to the boat docks near the Burely golf course, then we went to the caboos that is next the Idaho national guard building. We even finally had one done that we included our dog Snuggles.

FINALLY!!!!

Finally here are pictures from the Halloween party at our family friends house. Here jason is being shy or course. It never changes with him. I do not know what my dad is doing in the back ground.

Jason and I, it seems like Jason has had one to many drinks that night and it also seems like we have a couple of friends in the background. Casper the friendly ghost and the skelton prisoner.

My dad being true to what his t-shirt says. the mask seemed to scare the kids that night also.

Here is me holding baby wyatt. I am waiting on Jenny to make the bottle to feed him. Most of night I helped take care of him, so I had only a couple of drinks that night and then I quit. I had to much fun taking care of him. We even fell asleep on the couch together.

Finally, here is mom praciticing being a grandma. We all had a blast that night. When we all get together it seems like all of the parties everyone is having fun drinking or not drinking. Hope you all enjoy the pictures.

Bad News

Well on November 13Th I received a phone call from Restore Vision. they told me that the surgeon said that I am not a candidate for the lasik surgery, PRK, or the wavefront. They then said that they recommend the lens implant. The girl on the phone seem rude and did not want to give another eye doctor that specializes in the laser and implants.

I was so upset that Jason had to call the other doctor to get information. Well I sat around thinking about what to do. Jason and I talked and he told me what would it hurt to make an appointment with the other doctor and have the free evaluation done and see what their opinions are. So i made that appointment for the 21st of November in Boise. Well I will see what they say and think. Good Luck.

SURPRISES

Well I did not think that I would go to the Albion Haunted Mansion but I did. I went with Jason, his mother, a friend and their son. The first two buildings were not that great, but the third building was good cause you did not know what would be coming around the corner. Then on november 1st we went to a halloween party at a family friends house and it was interseting to see what everyone was dressed up as. I just went as myself but I got to take care of a friends new born while she played cards and of course the new born and me fell asleep on the couch together.

As soon as I get the okay from the eye doctor I will hopefully will be getting the eye surgery done in january. I am scared but I am hoping that it will improve my eye sight so that I can be free of glasses and contacts. The pre-op doctor did say that I would probably have to wear some type of correction due to the astigmatisum that I have in both of my eyes but my right is worse.

It's Halloween

It is finally halloween. Time for the ghouls and goblens to come out and play tonight.

Jason and I decided that I am going to have the lasik eye surgery done after the new year. I am a little scared cause this ig going to be the first surgery that I have had ever. I have to go back the eye doctor and have two more tests done and also watch a video then I will be making two trips to Boise to see what kind of surgery will be best for me. Then hopefully then I will know how much time I am going to have to take off of work to give me time to recover or when my eyes will have time to recover.

I can not believe that we only have two more months left in the year of 2008 before the new year. It seems to me that this year had just started but then again it just went to fast.

Hoover Dam

I was on top of the dam when I took this picture. Here it will show how much of bridge that they got done and that they working on more supports that will run underneath the bridge to support the road. They said that the bridge is about 800 to 900 feet above the colorado river.

This picture I took when I was looking out through one of the vents located on the side of the dam. I got a different view of the dam, bridge and the river. Here you can tell how far the bridge is above the river.

This part of the bridge is on the nevada side. They have made a lot of progress. The road that leads to the bridge is all paved up to the bridge.

This part is on the arizona side. We are coming down the hill heading to the dam when you get a veiw of it. A lot has changed since the last time I was there and that was over 3 1/2 years ago.

Here is Tara and I sitting in our last class of the day. Here we met a guy from Delaware who said that about two years ago he came to Idaho to help with the forest fires that we had. As you can tell tara and I had been laughing when he took the picture.