Back to school, back to normal....I guess

So, James come home a week ago Tuesday. He started school this past Tuesday. More or less it's back to normal....and that's not really a good thing. We are going next Thursday to get some ''help'' with James. I hope it works. I really want James to get his act together before he gets himself into some BIG trouble. James is a good person, he just needs to start making the right choices and stop hanging with people that are trouble makers. I know sometimes that's hard for a teenager to do, but he has to. That's all there is to it.

Been a year....

Hard to believe it was a year ago today that I went to the hospital, (the first time). I remember that Saturday evening it got to the point that I had to call 911 for the ambulance to come and get me. I couldn't believe when they told me at the hospital that I had less then 1/3 the blood in me that I should have had.

They pumped 5 units of blood into me over the next few days. They was pumping blood into one arm, and kept taking blood out of the other arm every few hrs. Nope, wasn't too fun.

Well, a few weeks later I went to UVA for an operation for the tumor. They sent me home, and in a few days my leg, (where they took the skin graft from) got infected. I couldn't even move my leg an inch because of the PAIN. Well, back to the hospital again. After being there all day, they sent me over to UVA in an ambulance. They kept me for another four days. Between my chest and leg, it was a lot of pain, to say the least.

Talking about pain, the morning they took all those staples out of my leg, (when it was infected) was unbelievable pain! They even gave me Morphine, and it didn't help any.

My leg is all better now. My chest, well, I still have pain sometimes. I have to go back to UVA in October for a check up for it. They said even after all of this, it still cold come back. Lets hope not....

And with some other things that has been going on in my life, this hasn't been the best 12 months of my life. But as people say ''look on the bright side of things''. That's not always easy....but I guess it's not meant to be.

Coming home

Well, James wants to come back home. He has been out in Iowa with his mom for a month. He called me a few days ago and said he wanted to come back home. If everything works out right, he should come home Tuesday.

I talked to him and told him if he wanted to come back he was going to have to listen a lot better....and I do mean a lot better, and also have respect for people. I hope he does! James is a good boy. I think it has a lot to do with who he hangs around with.... and he is also trying to grow up too fast.

School starts in less then two weeks, (Aug. 17th). So, if James gets back on the 10th, he will only have a week until school.