Sorry for the lack of details on the deer. The kill was this morning about 8 20. Jay was the LUCkY hunter to take this big guy down. He weighed 165 lbs, was a typical perfect 10 point, and they are saying would score 165 on the point scale. He called Jennifer and I when he shot it and said he couldn't even go check it out since he was so nervous!
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Big Girls You are Beautiful!
Do a search for Big Girl (you are beautiful). It's a cute song for us fluffy girls! Mika is the artist...it's a cute fun song... A friend of mine put it on my MP3 player a while back & it is a favorite. Here is the YOu tube link to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pW1BRiuwPI
I got my starting number last night at weight watchers....and that number will never been seen again! I've drank enough water and unsweetened tea to flush myself out of Franklin County today! Tara and I will hit the road again tonight in our goal to walk at least 30 min today...
Hope all my girls have a good Weekend!! Mrs. Carolyn Laird's (Jennifer & Breann's mom) birthday is today, we are taking her to the movies and lunch at Logans tomorrow.
Then home for Cole's Birthday party. His birthday was the 27th and he turned 5 this year. Brandy's birthday was yesterday and she turned...well I ain't tellin...
I'll post birthday pictures Monday!
Do a search for Big Girl (you are beautiful). It's a cute song for us fluffy girls! Mika is the artist...it's a cute fun song... A friend of mine put it on my MP3 player a while back & it is a favorite. Here is the YOu tube link to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pW1BRiuwPI
I got my starting number last night at weight watchers....and that number will never been seen again! I've drank enough water and unsweetened tea to flush myself out of Franklin County today! Tara and I will hit the road again tonight in our goal to walk at least 30 min today...
Hope all my girls have a good Weekend!! Mrs. Carolyn Laird's (Jennifer & Breann's mom) birthday is today, we are taking her to the movies and lunch at Logans tomorrow.
Then home for Cole's Birthday party. His birthday was the 27th and he turned 5 this year. Brandy's birthday was yesterday and she turned...well I ain't tellin...I'll post birthday pictures Monday!
Monday, January 26, 2009
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.. I KNOW I CAN
I think I can do this diet thing. It's not the first time I've done one. And at one time I was successful at Weight Watchers, which means, HERE I COME AGAIN! Well, WE COME AGAIN. Tara and I have decided to join AGAIN on Thrusday.
Turning 30 was no major deal. But turning 31 and being out of shape has just like floored me. I guess my true "wake up" was last Sunday @ the hospital with Jen & Shelly. I had dropped Jen off at the ER door so she wouldn't have to walk so far, RAN back up the hill and into Graham's room. About out of breath, look at my phone that is going off and it's a text from Jen saying she needed her purse...mind you it's at the bottom of the hill in the truck...so quickly I WALK back out to the truck and attempt to run back up but decided HELL with that. Then Nana pulled up so we briskly walked up the hill. By this time I can barley catch my breath. ENOUGH is ENOUGH!
I always get this way after a "MAJOR" EMT call for some reason. Last time was July 2 years ago when i worked a wreck with 5 patients in the shade on a 99 degree day. Needless to say I said never again...and yet here I am 30 pounds heavier than I was then...
Today was a good day... had an orange for breakfast, chicken salad (very little mayo) with a few crackers, an apple and sliced bell pepper for lunch, an orange and a little bit of popcorn for my afternoon snack..and yes I have drank 2 bottles of water and only a half a diet coke.... GO ME!! Now if I can survive my evening time cravings...I'm thinking wheat rice with sauteed bell peppers and onions with some sliced chicken breast.
Everyone here at te office has been warned that in about 3 days I'll look like this chick...and I'll be mean enough to bite your head off...but I'm going to TRY to refrain from taking it out on anyone. Donna has decided to diet as well, so Tommy is now eating his fried chicken, rice and gravy, cornbread and applie pie by himself. She and I both eat before he gets his lunch. Must be lonely being the only skinny one in our office.
So, please say a prayer for me, Donna and Tara. And maybe say one for the families & others that are around us as well. I may bore you guys with the details of what I ate, but it's my way of writing it down so I won't loose it...
OH and cannot forget my best friend Wendy Z...she's lost an amazing 80 pounds last year. GO GIRL!!!
I think I can do this diet thing. It's not the first time I've done one. And at one time I was successful at Weight Watchers, which means, HERE I COME AGAIN! Well, WE COME AGAIN. Tara and I have decided to join AGAIN on Thrusday.
Turning 30 was no major deal. But turning 31 and being out of shape has just like floored me. I guess my true "wake up" was last Sunday @ the hospital with Jen & Shelly. I had dropped Jen off at the ER door so she wouldn't have to walk so far, RAN back up the hill and into Graham's room. About out of breath, look at my phone that is going off and it's a text from Jen saying she needed her purse...mind you it's at the bottom of the hill in the truck...so quickly I WALK back out to the truck and attempt to run back up but decided HELL with that. Then Nana pulled up so we briskly walked up the hill. By this time I can barley catch my breath. ENOUGH is ENOUGH!
I always get this way after a "MAJOR" EMT call for some reason. Last time was July 2 years ago when i worked a wreck with 5 patients in the shade on a 99 degree day. Needless to say I said never again...and yet here I am 30 pounds heavier than I was then...
Today was a good day... had an orange for breakfast, chicken salad (very little mayo) with a few crackers, an apple and sliced bell pepper for lunch, an orange and a little bit of popcorn for my afternoon snack..and yes I have drank 2 bottles of water and only a half a diet coke.... GO ME!! Now if I can survive my evening time cravings...I'm thinking wheat rice with sauteed bell peppers and onions with some sliced chicken breast.
Everyone here at te office has been warned that in about 3 days I'll look like this chick...and I'll be mean enough to bite your head off...but I'm going to TRY to refrain from taking it out on anyone. Donna has decided to diet as well, so Tommy is now eating his fried chicken, rice and gravy, cornbread and applie pie by himself. She and I both eat before he gets his lunch. Must be lonely being the only skinny one in our office.So, please say a prayer for me, Donna and Tara. And maybe say one for the families & others that are around us as well. I may bore you guys with the details of what I ate, but it's my way of writing it down so I won't loose it...
OH and cannot forget my best friend Wendy Z...she's lost an amazing 80 pounds last year. GO GIRL!!!
Monday, January 19, 2009
Just another quiet Sunday...NOT!!
It started out as a normal Sunday, church, dinner on the grounds, cleaned the car out, started on the house, then the cell phone rang about 4:20 or 4:30 maybe...That's where quiet left... It was Jennifer (Cowart) saying "I need you now...at my house Graham has broke his leg...Now! Chonda comeon" "ok I'm on my way" is all I could say. I yell for Daddy to get the truck while I'm grabbing my medical bag from the car and he says "the pager hasn't went off what's wrong with you?".."yea I know but it's fixin to. Graham has broke his leg comeon NOW!" I made one call to Jay Ezell who is an ex first responder and a physical therapist assistant. Jay and I have worked many calls together and I feel comfortable with him and rely on his input alot.
For what may of you may not remember since it's been so long ago, was Graham was & still is "one of my babies". He and Ryan for many years were my boys...well as well as Jennifer's also!
When we get there, Shelly has is arms wrapped around Graham and Jay Ezell has begun to cut his the leg of his pants. As soon as we got it high enough, I could tell his femur was broken. Thank GOD it was NOT broken thru the skin, for that is a whole different more complex matter. I like Jennifer did not want to cause him any more pain than necessary..what's the sense in moving him now to cut his pants, moving him then to get his boot off, moving him again to get a splint on and then moving him once again to get him to the backboard and in the ambulance?!?!? I made my right to First EMT on scene decision. NO ONE MOVES ANYTHING TILL AMBULANCE GETS HERE WITH A TRACTION SPLINT. I've worked a traction splint only once before and they are awesome things...mind you it hurts getting it on and the leg straightened out but it is relief almost instantly. After ambulance got there, the boot was cut (and graham wears REAL cowboy boots..the tall kind), and his leg was put into traction and moved to backboard and then into amublance.
After an hour and a half the police went and found the on call ortho Dr that wouldn't answer a page. I'm like Nana, we won't go into detail on that, but I saw the "Herring" come out in Jennifer and Mrs. Barbara. Which in my opinion was acceptable considering the circumstances. This is a picture of the x-ray I took over Shelly's shoulder while he was looking at it...ok so maybe not over his shoulder, but under his arm..
I know it's hard to see the break, but it is there and they were overlapped even with the traction splint still on. At about 9 pm they come to get him for surgery. Jen sent me a text about 11:15 or so to say that he was out of surgery.
For a 12 year old, Graham was an amazing patient. I've had MANY adults be all acting in pain, when I'm really wanting to say "get real you don't know pain!" But I have to restrain and can't do that. Graham on the other hand, was very calm and reacted as I would have expected him to do when we moved him. Him being calm was a blessing for me. This is one of those cases, in your mind, you know what you are suppose to do, but how you handle is it differently.
Sometimes on the scene of an accident, if I offend anyone I'm sorry. I have one task to complete and it is that of saving the life of my patient or making them as comfortable as can be under the circumstances. I can be harsh if you are in my way, I can be an all together b*tch if i need to be, I've seen the pain they are in many of times, I know that what I have to do may at the moment may further the pain, but if I do anything like that it is because I know relief will come shortly or their life is in danger. I rely on my fire dept guys when I need help. I work with an AMAZING group of guys ( I can say that since I'm the only female on the dept) I have been in circumstances where I need my fire dept guys to bring me back to earth, times in which I need them to have my back and keep me from harm, & there have been times when afterward I needed them to just "treat me like one of the guys" and let me destress from the call with them. NONE of them have ever backed away from anything I've asked of them. I am the only certified EMT in my district. I'm very glad to say hopefully by the end of March Justin Lloyd will be certified and can be my backup or I his. Once he has completed all his training I feel he will be a big help to me and the community. I have a feeeling Justin and I will butt heads on a few calls, but you'll never see us do that in public. If you aren't a supporter to your local fire department, please consider becoming one. A lot of fire departments run First Responders and EMT's as ours do, but the funding for them is very scares. No one really realizes the importance of a First Responder/EMT in the rural area until they are needed. Support your local volunteer fire deptartment as much as you can. They work off of donations and grants, without those, they couldn't exist.
I'm glad to say Graham looks like he'll be out of the hospital tomorrow. Will be on crutches for a while and within a few months should be back on his horse with his new boots Nana promised him while the other ones were getting cut off! Mrs. Barbara (Nana) also posted on this incident if you want to check out her blog as well. click on http://nananotes.typepad.com/nana_notes/2009/01/life-is-never-dull-on-cotton-branch.html and it should take you to that post.
Stay safe out there!
It started out as a normal Sunday, church, dinner on the grounds, cleaned the car out, started on the house, then the cell phone rang about 4:20 or 4:30 maybe...That's where quiet left... It was Jennifer (Cowart) saying "I need you now...at my house Graham has broke his leg...Now! Chonda comeon" "ok I'm on my way" is all I could say. I yell for Daddy to get the truck while I'm grabbing my medical bag from the car and he says "the pager hasn't went off what's wrong with you?".."yea I know but it's fixin to. Graham has broke his leg comeon NOW!" I made one call to Jay Ezell who is an ex first responder and a physical therapist assistant. Jay and I have worked many calls together and I feel comfortable with him and rely on his input alot.
For what may of you may not remember since it's been so long ago, was Graham was & still is "one of my babies". He and Ryan for many years were my boys...well as well as Jennifer's also!
When we get there, Shelly has is arms wrapped around Graham and Jay Ezell has begun to cut his the leg of his pants. As soon as we got it high enough, I could tell his femur was broken. Thank GOD it was NOT broken thru the skin, for that is a whole different more complex matter. I like Jennifer did not want to cause him any more pain than necessary..what's the sense in moving him now to cut his pants, moving him then to get his boot off, moving him again to get a splint on and then moving him once again to get him to the backboard and in the ambulance?!?!? I made my right to First EMT on scene decision. NO ONE MOVES ANYTHING TILL AMBULANCE GETS HERE WITH A TRACTION SPLINT. I've worked a traction splint only once before and they are awesome things...mind you it hurts getting it on and the leg straightened out but it is relief almost instantly. After ambulance got there, the boot was cut (and graham wears REAL cowboy boots..the tall kind), and his leg was put into traction and moved to backboard and then into amublance.
After an hour and a half the police went and found the on call ortho Dr that wouldn't answer a page. I'm like Nana, we won't go into detail on that, but I saw the "Herring" come out in Jennifer and Mrs. Barbara. Which in my opinion was acceptable considering the circumstances. This is a picture of the x-ray I took over Shelly's shoulder while he was looking at it...ok so maybe not over his shoulder, but under his arm..
I know it's hard to see the break, but it is there and they were overlapped even with the traction splint still on. At about 9 pm they come to get him for surgery. Jen sent me a text about 11:15 or so to say that he was out of surgery.For a 12 year old, Graham was an amazing patient. I've had MANY adults be all acting in pain, when I'm really wanting to say "get real you don't know pain!" But I have to restrain and can't do that. Graham on the other hand, was very calm and reacted as I would have expected him to do when we moved him. Him being calm was a blessing for me. This is one of those cases, in your mind, you know what you are suppose to do, but how you handle is it differently.
Sometimes on the scene of an accident, if I offend anyone I'm sorry. I have one task to complete and it is that of saving the life of my patient or making them as comfortable as can be under the circumstances. I can be harsh if you are in my way, I can be an all together b*tch if i need to be, I've seen the pain they are in many of times, I know that what I have to do may at the moment may further the pain, but if I do anything like that it is because I know relief will come shortly or their life is in danger. I rely on my fire dept guys when I need help. I work with an AMAZING group of guys ( I can say that since I'm the only female on the dept) I have been in circumstances where I need my fire dept guys to bring me back to earth, times in which I need them to have my back and keep me from harm, & there have been times when afterward I needed them to just "treat me like one of the guys" and let me destress from the call with them. NONE of them have ever backed away from anything I've asked of them. I am the only certified EMT in my district. I'm very glad to say hopefully by the end of March Justin Lloyd will be certified and can be my backup or I his. Once he has completed all his training I feel he will be a big help to me and the community. I have a feeeling Justin and I will butt heads on a few calls, but you'll never see us do that in public. If you aren't a supporter to your local fire department, please consider becoming one. A lot of fire departments run First Responders and EMT's as ours do, but the funding for them is very scares. No one really realizes the importance of a First Responder/EMT in the rural area until they are needed. Support your local volunteer fire deptartment as much as you can. They work off of donations and grants, without those, they couldn't exist.
I'm glad to say Graham looks like he'll be out of the hospital tomorrow. Will be on crutches for a while and within a few months should be back on his horse with his new boots Nana promised him while the other ones were getting cut off! Mrs. Barbara (Nana) also posted on this incident if you want to check out her blog as well. click on http://nananotes.typepad.com/nana_notes/2009/01/life-is-never-dull-on-cotton-branch.html and it should take you to that post.
Stay safe out there!
Monday, January 05, 2009
Not your typical Monday!
Daddy called as I was leaving home this morning and said 'your mom is driving herself to the ER' . My question was what's wrong and why didn't she call me. Hello I'm right beside the house! But she had major abdominal pain. She said it was worse than ever giving birth! So after about 4 hours at Meadville with no conclusion other than you need to talk to a surgeon with the mention if abdominal blockage she and I went via ambulance to Brookhaven. After about 4 hours there they came to the conclusion that she has a sluggish bowel along with some infection. White counts were 18000. They sent her home with 2 prescriptions. No blockages, no galbladder problems, kinda something that happens once in a blue moon well that is the excessive pain w sluggish bowel. Dr stated many people have it but never know it.
She is on the couch passed out right now. Thanks to Bro. Marvin for coming out to be with us. Jennifer for thinking of me and bringing me my Sonic Diet Coke and checking on us. Thanks to everyone that called and checked on her and us, and thanks for the prayers!
She goes back to Dr tomorrow to have her white blood cell counts checked to see if the infection is decreasing after the 'row seven' shot! Bridget will take her, Daddy and I will both be at work tomorrow.
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Daddy called as I was leaving home this morning and said 'your mom is driving herself to the ER' . My question was what's wrong and why didn't she call me. Hello I'm right beside the house! But she had major abdominal pain. She said it was worse than ever giving birth! So after about 4 hours at Meadville with no conclusion other than you need to talk to a surgeon with the mention if abdominal blockage she and I went via ambulance to Brookhaven. After about 4 hours there they came to the conclusion that she has a sluggish bowel along with some infection. White counts were 18000. They sent her home with 2 prescriptions. No blockages, no galbladder problems, kinda something that happens once in a blue moon well that is the excessive pain w sluggish bowel. Dr stated many people have it but never know it.
She is on the couch passed out right now. Thanks to Bro. Marvin for coming out to be with us. Jennifer for thinking of me and bringing me my Sonic Diet Coke and checking on us. Thanks to everyone that called and checked on her and us, and thanks for the prayers!
She goes back to Dr tomorrow to have her white blood cell counts checked to see if the infection is decreasing after the 'row seven' shot! Bridget will take her, Daddy and I will both be at work tomorrow.
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Sunday, January 04, 2009
Welcome 2009
I have not posted in a long while...Nothing major other than the holidays. I was cursed with the stomach flu the week of Christmas... I worked only 2 days really that week. And can say I shared it with my co worker. She wasn't very happy with me on Christmas Eve.
Christmas has come and gone along with New Years. Our big news for 2009 is Chris and Bridget are expecting #3.
Work is work..busy busy...especially this time of the year. Which we expect. I'm filling in tonight at the sheriff's office. They are short handed and I agreed to help tonight. I now know why I don't work here anymore.. I enjoy working with the deputies, they are always a hoot to work with, but everything else just brings a person down.
Someone asked me what my New Years Resolution was..I thought and thought... and decided not to make any resolutions...they are made just to be broken...so I have decided I will say I'm going to try to get healthier, follow thru on being a better person, and continue to try to grow spiritually. This is something that over the years I've let fall to the waist side, and I'm not proud of it. But we have a forgiving God when we fall short. I know this now and I have been trying really hard to walk the walk and talk the talk so to say. I've got to say, since I've really been trying hard this is been easier this time. I guess before, I just felt bad about something that hmight have happened, and would ask for forgiveness and go on about my business. I guess as they say when you lay all our burdens down to the Lord, he makes them disappear or they become easier to deal with. And for this I am thankful! I'm not a person who can quote Bible verses at the drop of a hat, but that's ok...Maybe my words can simply be enough.. That's me a Simiple person, Simple Christian...Simply growing...
I hope for each of you a blessed and happy 2009... Stay tuned for Great news. I have a good feeling this year!!!
I have not posted in a long while...Nothing major other than the holidays. I was cursed with the stomach flu the week of Christmas... I worked only 2 days really that week. And can say I shared it with my co worker. She wasn't very happy with me on Christmas Eve.
Christmas has come and gone along with New Years. Our big news for 2009 is Chris and Bridget are expecting #3.
Work is work..busy busy...especially this time of the year. Which we expect. I'm filling in tonight at the sheriff's office. They are short handed and I agreed to help tonight. I now know why I don't work here anymore.. I enjoy working with the deputies, they are always a hoot to work with, but everything else just brings a person down.
Someone asked me what my New Years Resolution was..I thought and thought... and decided not to make any resolutions...they are made just to be broken...so I have decided I will say I'm going to try to get healthier, follow thru on being a better person, and continue to try to grow spiritually. This is something that over the years I've let fall to the waist side, and I'm not proud of it. But we have a forgiving God when we fall short. I know this now and I have been trying really hard to walk the walk and talk the talk so to say. I've got to say, since I've really been trying hard this is been easier this time. I guess before, I just felt bad about something that hmight have happened, and would ask for forgiveness and go on about my business. I guess as they say when you lay all our burdens down to the Lord, he makes them disappear or they become easier to deal with. And for this I am thankful! I'm not a person who can quote Bible verses at the drop of a hat, but that's ok...Maybe my words can simply be enough.. That's me a Simiple person, Simple Christian...Simply growing...
I hope for each of you a blessed and happy 2009... Stay tuned for Great news. I have a good feeling this year!!!
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