Hey, blogettes! It's me and I just wanted you to know that my vlogs will start either this summer, or next school year, and I would like to apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused. I know some of you are super psyched about the things that I post on the blog, and are probably disappointed as you are reading this post. I have a good reason why I am not doing a vlog. I have just gotten over a four day migraine and I don't look like the sharpest pitchfork in the barn just yet, migraines kind of make my thinking go all weird so this post may sound a little weird as you are reading it, and that is also another reason why I am not doing a vlog. If I can't do a blog post that will make sense, it is more likely than not that I will end up making a fool of myself in front of my webcam filming a vlog for you.
Another reason is I injured a hamstring near my right knee during my run on Friday, and I am supposed to keep that elevated, and they said to ice it every now and then, but I am putting constant ice treatments on it so that it will get better faster because being injured just drives me insane. I do have both feet on the two pillows that I am using to keep it elevated, so the difference in elevation isn't that bad, I guess you could say. The good news is, the hamstring did not tear which means I won't need surgery, it was just stretched way past it's limits. The other good news is I am not on crutches, as I opted to tough this one out, after all it was my fault that I didn't stretch before hand. I didn't think I needed to, but obviously I was wrong, and I am stuck paying for that idiotic move now.
Ladies who run, take my advice now, and stretch before you run so that you don't pull/extend a hamstring past it's limits like I did because it is really painful. Believe me. It was even more painful than the four day migraine that I just got over and compared to a time bomb just ticking away the seconds before it exploded. I lost at least a total of 5 hours of sleep because of it. Having chronic migraines stink because they are really painful, most of them are unpredictable, and how long that they will last for remains unknown. Plus even though there is medicine out there to help these kind of things, the medicine doesn't do anything to keep them from happening, they just lessen the pain, and my medicine for these chronic migraines I take before bed because a side effect is sleepiness, and I don't want to fall asleep during the day.
Besides, I really don't have anything to talk about during the vlog as of right now, and it would be a pretty boring with just a bunch of dead air and me staring at the screen trying to figure out what to say. I guess for the first couple of shows it wouldn't hurt for me to use a cheat sheet so that I can stay on task and not bore you to death on one topic for the whole entire show. I want the vlogs to be lively and fun for you ladies, and I am all about making this blog more interactive for you as well, because it is what you deserve after you have stuck with me through all of this. The drama, the pain, me wanting to quit because of cyber bullying, but you girls believed in me, you ladies encouraged me not to give up just because someone out there was being a jerk.
I thank you for not letting me give up on the blog because it is now becoming something that I enjoy doing. I feel like I am giving back to those who have given to me. Oh, that reminds me, I would like to dedicate this post to Moore, Oklahoma, which is five miles away from where my cousins live, especially the 24 people who died when the tornado hit their town, some people died shielding others from the storm. The youngest victim was only 4 months old, and 9 children died at the school because the school really had no safe rooms. I say that our school is pretty lucky to have places where we can go besides underneath the desks in the classroom, if a tornado were to hit.
A guy in our church is also battling stage four lung cancer in both lungs really hard. We all know that he is dying, and he has even admitted to it himself, but he told us in church yesterday not to cry when he was gone because he would be up in heaven cured of this cancer, and watching over us. I cried because that man was the baby sitter who used to baby sit me's husband, and I knew him ever since I was two. I saw him when he was healthy. I saw two previous cancers be removed from his body, and I know that it is probably too late for a miracle to happen now, but I am still praying for one, because with God I believe that anything is possible and that it is never too late.
His cancer is really hitting me hard, and watching him slowly die every day is killing me inside. I guess it is hitting me hard because I have memories of all the fun times I had with him when he was healthy, and when I was little. I remember that he used to throw me up in the air and then catch me, and Linda would recall me laughing so hard that the milk that we had for a snack went out my nose. I also remember rolling around on the floor with him, and him helping me haul the Big Wheel which is a tricycle type thing with a large wheel, pedals, and handles in front, with a narrow space in the middle and a seat with what I used to call tiny wheels in the back. Linda said that I was amused by that, as well.
I'll really miss him because I have plenty of fond memories of him, and he is a big part of our church. If I could trade his lungs for my lungs, I gladly would. Sure mine aren't the best pair of lungs out there but they are cancer free, and that would keep him around here longer. He has a son in the military is actually has a Sargent title in the Marines. He is off training on a base somewhere in the United States, and was denied leave to come and see his dad, so the Red Cross had to get involved, and they got him leave in the middle of June to come home and see his dad, if his dad will make it that long. He had all he could do to make it from the back of the church to the pew where his wife and him sit for church.
There were two benefits to raise money for the family to use for whatever they needed. The first one was in 2008 when he first got diagnosed with it, and that was when 'Team Wallace' was born. We only printed t-shirts to be sold for the first benefit which my dad, and the neighbors organized. There was a silent auction, supper, raffle, games, oh, and did I mention that the parking lot was packed full of people having a good time and supporting a good cause. It was amazing to see the community come together and rally around Mike and Linda. The second one was just last month actually. There was lunch/supper because it started at noon, and went until five, minute to win it games, a kids build and create zone, silent auction, raffle, and a bake sale. The also sold t-shirts, and bracelets with the 'Team Wallace' theme like we had at the last benefit.
Mike didn't want to have another benefit for him because there was another church member who was battling cancer. Her name is Terri, and she is battling Stage Three Liver Cancer, but the tumor is shrinking and she is expected to survive. Mike said in an interview with our local paper that he didn't want to be taking what others may have needed to have, but Cody encouraged Mike to let them go ahead with that extra benefit for him because he was sure that we would be taking care of Terri in some way. I'm kind of glad that we had that extra benefit because it was said in church one day that insurance won't cover the oxygen that Mike is on, because Mike is considered to be 'too healthy'. A dying man battling stage four lung cancer considered to be too healthy, what is wrong with insurance these days. Mike is not healthy, he is healthier than some people yes, but he is not healthy. He needs that oxygen to breathe, and he can't get it if there is not any money to fund it with.
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