25 Things about Candy

Something I did on facebook that a few of you wanted to read cause you had read about it. So here I copied it for ya. You people are funny. I had no idea I was so entertaining!!!

25 things about Candy

I have copied and pasted this. Here are the rules, as they have been passed on to me. If you are tagged in this note, you must write your own list of 25 random things about yourself (random facts, goals, habits, etc. about yourself,) (or 26, or 27 if you can't stop) then tag 25 (or less )of your friends in said list (include the person that tagged you in their note.) If I've tagged you - it means I would like to know more about you. Have fun!

1. Lets see if I can actually come up with 25 things about me that would even be remotely interesting to ANYONE

2. Down one I guess.....I'm naturally a red head. Strawberry Blonde

3. I was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida..man I miss the beach. If Lynchburg had a body of water running through it even like the St. Johns River...I would be in heaven. I miss being on the water.

4. I have an older brother Chris, love him! We use to share the same initials. Christopher Michael (ANOTHER STINKIN MICHAEL) Green and Candace Marie Green. Yes my name was Candy Green. HA HA HA I think the name Michael should be banned from ever being used for maybe at least 90 years or so

5. Though I LOVED and thrived off of the sport of cheerleading I wish I would have ran track or done swim team in addition. Which would have given me more discipline for staying in shape NOW...at this point I'm 31. Not likely to workout now days by "cheering"

6. I have two beautiful twin daughters...and their middle names rhyme...not their first names. Terra Renee and LeAnn McKay. Terra is named after my best cousin Terra, her middle name actually is cause of a old friend Renee Mangham. Never told her that. Just reconnected with her on facebook so...Renee my daughters middle name was chosen because I always loved your name!!! You were also always a great person when I cheered and even my senior year when I didn't cheer. Not many were like that! LeAnn McKay just came from a book. I liked those names.

7. Man I'm only on 7.....I got married on September 11th in 1999. It was a funny date when we got married. But not so funny anymore. The date scares me to death. Especially since I had JUST brought twin girls into the world on September 4, 2001...then 6 short days later 9/11 happened. All I could do was stare at these two girls weighing less that 5 pounds and wondering what kind of world I just brought them into.

8. What I consider my greatest accomplishment aside from my girls and marriage...the year of One Heart Beat at HHS here in Lynchburg. That year I really stretched my talents in cheerleading. Did the choreography, Music and all....ALONE The program went from being no threat to any other school, to being one of the best in town and now none existent.

9. Second would be starting the wonderful program of Cheer Xtreme All-stars here in town. I'm not apart of it anymore, but my heart is there and I consider it a success because it is still going. I could have made a bad decision and stayed and risked killing it all. I knew the night I left that with no doubt I left it in good hands. I am proud of Tim and Amber and what they have made of it.

10. I am a member of the choir at Hyland Heights Baptist church. I love being invovled. I can't wait to get better and return! I'm the choir brat!!!!

11. I had my nose broken in a National Cheer Competition in high school. Angel Crawford, whom I also recently reconnected with on facebook, was SO excited about our performance that she was jumping like a chicken and elbowed me from the left side. When I'm at my thinnest...you can really see how my nose still curves!!!

12. I LOVE to cook. Love it! I have been taught by the greatest. My granny, and my two favorite aunts, Aunt Cindy and Aunt Millie. Just ask anyone that's had one of my steak dinners!!!! Ed Parker will testify!

13. Good heavens...this is hard....I got a puppy as my wedding present. Michael got him while I was at home preparing for the wedding and seeing my granny through heart surgery. So he went ahead and named him. He called him Dusty cause of his coat color. I then added the name Alan after my high school sweet heart Dustin Alan Baine. In no way was Dusty a dog...he was a gentleman. But it just flowed. I recently reconnected with Dusty too. Facebook as been a great source of reconnecting....Dusty (the dog) died a little over a year ago. I miss him. But God gave me Scooter Winston a pie-bold dashund who is his mommy's lil man.

14. I LOVE accounting. It's money how could you not love it!!!!

15. I love to remodel homes. Like paint and garden. No IDEA where that came from. No one else in my family does this.

16. I love action, chick flicks and scary movies. When the movies are REALLY scary I will laugh at the scariest parts. No idea why. I just do.

17. Italian and Mexican are foods that I MUST have once a week!!!!

18. I am OCD MAJOR. Everything has its place and it MUST be in it. I put my dishes away in a color pattern. Same with towels, clothes...everything. All foods in cabinets must be facing forward and in like foods. I fold my underwear and even the girls underwear. Anyone that knows how small a 30 pound girls underwear are will see the silliness in this.

19. I've been committed for clinical depression 3 times so far...I had a doctor in the ER VERY surprised by that cause I'm a devoted Christian. I'm Christian but I'm NOT perfect. That's a sad one...sorry I just think its funny how people gasp when you tell them that your a Christian and are in therapy and have been committed. God is still working on me...

20. My daughters have nick names LeAnn is tid-bit, she is SO tiny...Just air. Terra is pee-wee. No idea where the names came from just, something I started calling them.

21. I love bread over something sweet!!

22. My love language is gifts

23. I truly think I married the best man! He is SO patient with my...ways. Loving, ah-maz-ing Father, lover and friend. He is my everything. He has made me a better person.

24. Two more....um, lets see...my most spiritual and heart felt moment was being in the room as my granny passed on to her eternal home. Words can not describe this experience. Normally I would stay as far away as possible. Funeral homes, even caskets just freak me out. But I had no ill feelings being there by her bed side as she passed. Being in the hospice center for 8 days you truly get the idea of just how different those who know that they are Heaven Bound and those who are not...their passings are so different. Some would scream and cry the whole time and those "at peace" layed still in God's arms till their final breath.

25. My lil dashund can beat up our blood hound/lab...which is what he is doing right this moment....

Long time no see

So ok, it's been a while. So sorry. Some of you are very diligent at making sure I don't go too long without a post. I really am appreciative of the concern you all have for our family during these difficult months here. A few weeks ago I thought I had broke the cycle and things were going to be better from here on out but then I had those two Friday's back to back with ambulance rides to the trauma center. Last Friday I managed to stay home, though too sick to have a Japanese food and movie night with the girls, but never had to go to the ER. I'm hoping this Friday will be another pass on these field trips.

I am having some good days and for these I am thankful. I still have issues with all these drugs and of course with every slip Dr. Judd changes the chemistry of the meds again and I have to go through all the adjusting. I had to have a talk with Dr. Judd after my last ER visit. I really just went to my regular physician and upon being unable to get my blood pressure and unable to do an EKG...add to this my heart rate was 144...the doctor called the ambulance to come get me. He was sure I was about to have a heart attack. The question that bothered me was they kept asking if I took street drugs. I gave this look like, your kidding right. They weren't. This ER visit was very entertaining...When I was first wheeled into the hall way there was this lady sittin on a bed that had a knife sticking out of her legs. That was freaky. Then I was in my little hole in the wall and still trying to handle the pain. The only meds the nurses are clear to give you in the ER without a doctors order is morphine...well I'm allergic to morphine. So guess what, I have to suffer till the doctor gets around to me. But as I lay in pain being as patient as possible...humming to myself and rocking back and forth.....this loud lady gets brought in to the room next to me. Actually our room connected so I could hear everything. The girls was from Charlotte, NC. Don't know why she was here, but she claimed over and over that she only had two glasses of red wine. It was only 3pm in the afternoon??? She apparently flipped her car in Bonsboro. If she said "I'm sorry" one more time I was going to pay a visit. She had a young nice looking cop at her side and apparently handcuffed to the bed. She refused to give blood.
She claimed to have no one to call but she did have an attorney she wanted to call before having any test of anything done. See that's backwards to me. I have plenty of people to call...no attorney though. She was still failing the breath test even after being there for almost 2 hours. She must have had WAY more than two glasses of wine. Anyway she kept Michael and I entertained.

The part I'm not liking about all this mental health stuff is every time I now go in and am sick...and in pain...if they can't find anything in my blood, urine, Ct scans, sonograms, xrays or whatever else they do...they tell me it's in my head. I don't think so. What do they think I enjoy these $600 rides across town every week? Seriously. My bed is much more comfortable. Not to mention I have two little girls that will brush my hair for hours on end. When they get tired, a little thing called...payment will keep them going. Anyway.

But that was the latest visit. The girls got their report cards the other days. I looked for the days missed. LeAnn missed 17 days this past nine weeks. Terra missed 11 days this past nine weeks. Mrs. Brown has been great though. I get their work done at home so...they do not get behind. I thought we would be getting better. We did the flu and pneumonia shots. Guess that didn't work. I feel so bad for these girls. I never had to worry about breathing when I was little. I could run, ride my bike do whatever I wanted and was never out of breath. We've been on preventatives since the Thanksgiving being spent in the hospital, and yet its not working. I don't know what else to do for them.

We had to get a new neb machine the other day. They have new ones out now that are shaped like animals. The girls picked this one that is a gator head!!! They picked it out all by themselves. How bought that! It's cute. They could have had a penguin, dog, bear but no they got the gator! It's cute. We also got a battery operated one. It is tiny. It can fit in my purse. This is great for us. We were in Roanoke at Build a Bear the Saturday after Christmas. The girls were doing fine and in a matter of minutes LeAnn could not breath. We used the converter in the van to plug into. But the converter burnt out. So we pulled over and I had to give one in the Target bathroom. Not the best places to be doing breathing treatments. But this battery operated will work when we're traveling or just out and about and can't find a outlet. It's just as fast as the wall unit too. We were excited about it!

Two more things that have been a blessing. My sister in Law had her baby girls Ilana Jordan Justice. I held her Sunday for 3 hours straight. I so wish I could have another baby. She is precious.

Second, my cousin Terra, whom Terra is named after, had her baby boy Tucker. He is still at the hospital. They live in Texas. She came out not breathing and purple. The doctors think her due date was off. So rather than him coming 4 weeks early, he was 9 weeks early. He has jaundice. He did have the tub come out from his throat and seems to be holding his own now. Terra and Stuart got to hold him for the first time a few days ago. He is expected to be in the NICU for another week and a half. Please pray that he will continue to improve and come home soon.

Well I don't know what else to say really. I know that many of you have been calling and I never answer the phone. I hate the phone. I really do. I'm sorry. I appreciate all the calls, cards, emails, dinner, prayers, visits and help. This has all been going on since September and you all have not missed a beat. I will try to update more. With us not getting to church due to my illness and then the girls going up and down with their health, I know it's hard for everyone to know how we are doing. I miss you all so much.

Many have been asking if I could give a specific prayer to pray. Like I said I am having some good days. Which I'm enjoying. If you all could just pray for motivation. Sometimes if I could just get past the lack of will, I might actually have more better days. Mornings are my toughest times. Generally speaking though I am up most days between 3-9pm. Not much but this is better than not getting up at all. So progress is being made.

Well I guess that's about it for me. Thanks again to everyone.