I Can't Eat Oranges

To start, we had a great Christmas and I am really sad that it is over. I just took down the tree and the decorations and I wanted to cry. I am just sad the lights and everything is gone. My boys had a great time this year. It made me really happy. I didn't get a lot of pictures. We just take a video every year so that we don't miss a moment of Christmas morning. 

To explain the title of my blog...one of my many medicines I now take makes carbonated foods and drinks taste bland. So as I eat different things I never know how they are going to taste. I eat something and I wonder why in the world it tastes to weird. Well, last night I was eating and orange and it tasted like eating a water filled bag-thingy. For weeks, I have tried oranges off and on and would throw away the specific orange I would eat because it was nasty. Then I would leave the bag alone because Ben would eat it and the kids would eat it. I thought I just got a bad orange in the batch. The light bulb went on last night when I realized that it was my med that made oranges taste dull. Oh man, oranges. I love oranges. I now can't have diet dr pepper or really any soda, martinelli's, and oranges. That is so far what I have discovered tastes different. I guess we will see what else tasted weird on this journey.

I went in for another MRI last week. I had to do a more in depth look at my Chiari malformation with the contrast. and the doctor changed my one of my medicines because I was being too emotional and getting too sick on the indocin. The neurologist said that as soon as I get a little bit sick I need to throw it aside. This new med he has given me has been much better and I feel that it is controlling my headaches better now. Some days are better than others though, and I do get severe body tingling and neck pain, eye pain, and I am so tired all of the time. I I don't want to be this way for the rest of my life. I cannot imagine not functioning normally as a wife and mother. I do not like the idea of surgery but I feel that it is the only way that I can get past this trial and work towards a somewhat normal life.