Not Feeling So Hot

So tonight I made ribs for dinner for Ty, Tim and Myself. Almost right after I started feeling really sick to my stomache. The guys say that they feel fine. So, not so sure why I'm feeling so gross. I figure I will just have some peppermint tea and honey and maybe have a hot bath to relax and sooth my stomache. I hate feeling crappy.

Life Changing

So, now that we have decided to go through with treatment, Ty and I are moving to Barrie and getting full time jobs. We found a beautiful place in that we really really love. We went and checked it out yesterday and think that we will for sure move in. We just need to find someone to begin renting our current place for March. We also have been looking for full time jobs. I am pretty sure I have found one but I will let you all know as soon as I do.

Thank You

Just a quick note. A friend of mine has been helping me out tremendously with blogging since I am new at it. I just wanted to say thank you to her. I would have the crappiest blog ever if it weren't for you!!!
Thanks S.G.

SO MUCH SNOW!

Orillia is the absolute worst place to live when it comes to snow. We have had, no joke, about 5 feet of snow in the last 2 weeks. I don't think I would mind as much, but because I am the one that has to shovel all the time, since Ty can't, I HATE IT!!! I dread looking outside in the morning because I know that the snow plow would have come by in the night and I will have a huge mess of heavy, icy snow to shovel up. Tyler loves to shovel so it is killing him that he can't go out and do it. How I wish Tyler was healed because I cannot stand it. It's not that I don't have the strength, its just that there is never an end to it. I will work my butt off shoveling one day and then the next day it is the same thing. SO FRUSTRATING! And do you think that our upstairs neighbors would help us, OHHHH NOOOO. They walk down our driveway to get out because they are too lazy to shovel their own (they do have their own driveway although they don't have a car) and they use the front steps. You think they would at least shovel that. And because they walk down our driveway they pack the snow down which makes it even harder to shovel. I can't wait to move, they drive me nuts.
Pictures to follow of this sky scrapping snow.

Valentines Day

My Husband is so sweet. Because he has been recovering he has not been him self and just sleeps all day. He is also in a lot of pain trying to heal. Well, did he not put all of the things that he was going through aside and surprised me with some flowers and chick flicks on valentines day. The next day, because Ty can't really do a whole lot at once, he took me to see the new movie "Defiantly, Maybe", and then today took me out for a romantic, delicious dinner. He is so so sweet, so selfless and caring. I love him so very much. We were talking the other day and I cannot believe we have been married for almost 8 months. I know it may not sound long but to us it has just flown by!

I really want to start adding pictures. I have never ever been good with taking pictures so I really want to work on that and try to take tons and add them to show you all.

Let's Get Caught Up!

Ok, so I know it has been a very long time since we wrote last. I promise that we will make it a point to write often and let everyone know what's going on in our lives.

So, the last time I wrote was new years, so I will start there.

I don't think we have met any of our new years resolutions. We read our scriptures often but I think out of all of the resolutions we made that is the only one we have kept.

School has been great. We really wanted to work hard this semester and get really good grades. Well that lasted for about a month, I will explain why a little later.

So, we have decided that Orillia is not the place for us and that it is in our best interest to move to Barrie. We are there almost everyday, all of our family lives there and Ty works in Barrie, hopefully I'll get a job there too!

So I think it would be easier to talk about everything after have explained the main event that has taken over our lives.

About 2 weeks before Christmas Tyler noticed a lump on his testicle and knew that something was wrong. We went to the doctor who then said that we needed to go and get an ultrasound. After calling a ton of ultrasound clinics to try and find an earlier date, the earliest time would have been Jan. 12, a month after the doctors appointment, we finally found a place in Bradford. After the ultrasound we were told that Ty would have to get some blood tests done. Ty is a big baby when it comes to anything medical, but he took it like a man and got blood taken. We then were told that he would have to get some x rays, another ultrasound and meet with a Urologist. All this time we were pretty much left in the dark. No one would tell us what was going on or what the lump was. Our first thought was that it was cancer so we wanted to get all of the appointments done ASAP so that we could figure it out and get it early. So about a month later we finally had our appointment with the Urologist, 2 months earlier then we were supposed to because they moved up the appointment date for us. At the appointment he just got straight to the point and said that Ty would have to have the testicle removed in order to do a biopsy and determine what the lump was and what the next steps were. All of the blood tests, x rays and ultrasounds came back negative, they couldn't detect any cancer, but the doc wanted to remove it just to be sure. So Tyler had surgery on Feb. 6 to have the testicle removed. A week later, this past Wednesday, we had another appointment with the doctor to find out the results from the biopsy and from the CT scan that Tyler had to get a day earlier. Just to talk about the CT scan for a moment, my husband is the biggest baby in the world. In order to have a CT scan done there is this stuff that you need to drink that will help the doctors see your organs and all your insides. Anyways, so Tyler refused to drink this stuff, I do believe it tasted horrible. So he downed the first bottle ok, even though he did gage a lot. The next morning before the scan he needed to drink another bottle but WOULD NOT DO IT! So I called the hospital to see if there was another way to ingest the stuff. They said for him to come in and they would give it to him another way. They gave him a cup of orange juice withe a concentrated amount of the drink...he said that it was much better lol. So anyways, back to the appointment this past Wednesday. The doctor got straight to the point and told us that it was cancer. It is called Classic Seminoma. Luckily though, Tyler caught it very VERY early. When the doctor did the surgery he was able to remove everything and the cancer had not spread!!! We now have the decision to either just leave it and live our life and go for check ups every 6 months and hope that it doesn't come back (15% chance that it would) or to begin treatment, just a small amount of Radiation, and know that it won't come back (3% chance of the 15% chance that it would come back). I think we are going to go through with radiation because I know I would be worried all of the time if we did nothing about it. The only down side to going through with radiation is that is reduces our chances of having children. Because of this we will probably be going to a sperm bank just to ensure that we could have children. Tyler's health though is more important to me then children.

So that is what has been going on in our life and because of it everything else has pretty much been put on the back burner. We are probably going to finish our semester of school this week. We won't be able to focus on school, work and be going to Toronto for 4 weeks straight all at the same time. I am still planning on taking summer classes just so I can still graduate at the same time, so I don't think it will hurt us too much by putting this semester on hold.

We are now planning on moving to Barrie so that we can both work full time in Barrie and then when it comes time to start treatment we can be a bit closer to family and be in a place that we really love.

So, I haven't worked at all since the summer. I have been looking for jobs, but just can't find anything in Orillia. Ty was working while we were in school so money wasn't really an issue, but now that OSAP has run out and it is nearing the end of the school year we are going to need some income coming in. We both have great jobs lined up for the summer but I need a job to get us to the summer. Now that we are moving to Barrie though I am really looking forward to working full time at a place I like. I still haven't found a job yet but I have been searching and finding some great job postings online in Barrie.

Well, that is just a little taste of what our life had been like. There is more to come, just need to wait for the right time.

A New Year

Well, Tyler and I have made a huge list of new years resolutions that we hope to achieve this year. I hope to achieve the usual, lose 15 lbs, eat better, go to bed earlier, go to class, do all of my assignments, but we also really hope to read our scriptures everyday and attend the temple once a month. The new year is a great time to make new goals for ourselves and get a new start at life.

So, after having lost our keys and going totally crazy ...WE FOUND THEM!!! Of all places they were under our mattress, between our mattress and box spring, how they got there, I have no idea. So after finding them and Tyler being as happy as a little school girl, he lost them AGAIN!! He is not meant to have a set of keys. I wish they had a remote control alarm or something that you can attach to your keys and then when you have misplaced them, push a button and then an alarm will go off that you can follow the sound and find you keys. So, we were at my parents place when he lost the keys for the second time, well really my Dad lost them. We were out skating with my sisters and my dad needed to move our car so he could go out. My dad took Ty's keys to move the car then said that he put them back in Ty's coat pocket. Tyler searched his jacket inside and out (or so he said). After 2 more days of Tyler being convinced that my dad lost the keys, I decided to take another look in his jacket. Low and behold they were of course in his pocket. Mind you the keys were in a pocket that Tyler didn't even know that he had, they were still there. I have now made it my mission to help my husband to not lose his keys for the next week, that might be impossible.

These last two months have been some pretty painful ones. My grandmother, we know her best as Nana, and my great grandmother have past away. With my Nana it was pretty sudden. She had been sick for a while but I never thought her life would end as fast as it did. My grandmother past away just this past weekend. She was 88 years old and we had been expecting it for a very very long time. Since her husbands passing almost 15 years ago grandma just wanted to leave this earth and return to him.

It is so different how having the gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in our lives can help us to understand and deal with death. I remember that when my grandfather past away 2 years ago I really didn't have a full understanding of life on earth and why it had to end. I now know it is all a part of God's plan. I just think of how extremly happy Nana and Grandma must be right now. They have returned to their Father in Heaven. They are surrounded by their loved ones and ancestors. Although my family may be sad right now, our time on earth is so short in an eternal perspective that we will return to them in no time. Our loved ones that pass away do remember us and love us and understand that we need to go through the grieving process but we need to remember to live our lives, in this world, in a way that will make our family and our father in heaven happy and honoured when we return to them.