"Strange" NEWS..

Ok so the weather is acting up again. We had a beautiful 40+ degree day yesterday and it looked as if spring was on it's way... but wouldn't you know they are calling for MORE SNOW!!! This time the snow started this morning and is expected to continue until tomorrow around 7pm. In our area they are expecting up to 36 inches of snow!! It started this morning as a light snow and continued all day and was melting as it reached the roads but made walkways slippery. By the time we were home from work it has now started to get colder and now it is snowing pretty steady and starting to accumulate now. I think we have about 4 inches now that has not melted. So we will be watching for the school closings in the morning. Hopefully they will stay on top of the plowing and keep the roads clear. No matter what, Sean & I have to work. Heaven forbid someone didn't get their newspaper or packages! Why couldn't one of us be a teacher!?!?!

So on to some more news....
After taking the Chantix for a month now, Sean & I Have quit Smoking! We even had a true test this weekend since we went to a casino, gambled, had a drink or two and dealt with all the smokers around us without even having so much as one puff! We did it!! And all without really "craving" one! :) :)

But the downside is that I have been EXTREMELY tired lately. To the point where I have slept entire days only to get up to go to the bathroom~ Sean, a bit worried, mentioned to me that there should be some reason. I just kept saying the the Chantix says it may cause drowsiness. Sean says "drowsiness" not "Comotose" (sp?) I called the dr and made an appointment after realizing that I've been having very strange feelings the last few weeks. Extreme fatigue, frequent urination, achiness, headaches and just a sense of "daze". The last few days I've had a strange pelvic pain and decided it was time to get a dr opinion. I explained the pelvic pain as a sort of mild pressure like ones I would have when I had "braxton hicks contractions" during my pregnancies. When I got there the dr immediately did a urine test. One for pregnancy and one for a Urinary tract infection and guess what.... Pregancy was negative!! (ha ha, thought I would say positive didn't you??! LOL) no, all joking aside, no pregnancy and no UTI, but the test did show billirubin in my urine which is an indicator of liver function problems. Meaning that the Chantix needs to be stopped immediately. Dr said this could explain the fatigue, the achiness, pelvic pain etc. So she sent me for more blood work and will be scheduling an ultrasound also. With my history of ovarian cysts, they want to rule out anything like that also. They will also be looking for gall stones, polyps etc. But she is really thinking it is the Chantix causing some liver dysfunction and that stopping it will clear it up on it's own. I had planned on having my cholesterol re checked but she told me to hold off till this comes back first. So now I will have to go it alone without the Chantix while Sean happily takes his "magic pill". Hopefully it will have been long enough to stay smoke free and do it on my own now since cravings are all gone anyway. It really does get easier every day and pretty soon we will have no idea what we were thinking. But it does make it easier that I have done it on my own without meds before and I can do it now. But before it was different. And it was really hard not to start again when Sean was still smoking. So the trick is to keep him smoke free! Any advice to us greatly appreciated.

So, we'll see what the snow brings for us tomorrow and pray that all my aches and pains will subside soon!

We'll keep you updated!