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Before I tell you guys what is going on, I thought I'd give you a little background on my husband and my mom. In 2005 my 
husband was rushed to the emergency room on Easter morning and was later diagnosed with a degenerative disease called “ankylosing spondylitis”. Our life was totally about to change. Since there is no cure for this disease we have spent lots of hours in and out of the hospital, several surgeries and more meds than I can count on my fingers.The Remicade infusions that he takes are $8,000 every 6 weeks. This is just one of his many meds .Without insurance it would be a scary situation.
My mom has has Klippel-Feil Syndrome which she has had from birth. Basically she has fusion of the last 2 cervical and all of the thoracic vertebrae which causes Scoliosis. The last 3 ribs in front are also fused. She also has a splitting of the Spinal Cord in the cervical area about 1 to 2 cm.They told my mom she would never walk, but grandmother put my mom in a snow suit and stuffed towels down the back and taught her how to walk. My mom could have been on disability since birth , but my mom is a strong woman and would not let this disease get the best of her. She went to college and became a Labor & Delivery Nurse.In 2009 my mom got very sick because a patient who was selfish and checked herself into Labor & Delivery because she had Pneumonia and didn't want to wait in the ER. (The Hospital is not supposed to take those kinds of patients on that floor due to the babies) and mom had to go on disability due to her lungs.
In Jan. of 2010 we made the decision to have my mom move in with us. Because of the situation of being on disability with no insurance because it is the law that you must be on disability for 2 years to get insurance it was hard for my mom to financially stay in her house. Not only that someone tried to break into her house twice while she was at home! Many of you have wondered why I haven't been as active lately so I just wanted to give you some answers to what was going on!
We got good news today! We found a house, they accepted our offer and we got the loan! So now all we have to do is get our house ready to put on the market! I am so excited! My mom is going to be such a big help! I will no longer have to worry about Daniel being at home now that I have a registered Nurse living with us. She is a great couponer and does a ton of behind the scenes work here on CQ so I hope to be saving even more money! She will be able to also take the kids to school until Taylor starts driving. Did I mention she is also a good cook?
Here is a Pic of the house we are getting! If you are in the Oklahoma area and are looking for a house here are the details of ours!
2213 Tracys Terr.
Edmond,OK 73013
Details:
- 3 bedrooms
- 2 bathrooms
- living room
- kitchen
- breakfast nook
- Small in wall laundry area.
New Counter-tops, New Back splash, New Shower in master bath, New floors in kitchen, dining,hallway! Covered Patio,Water Softener,Carpet allowance so you can pick what you want! Listed $129,500
If you have tips for making moving easier, I'd live to hear them!
If you need a Realtor contact Steve Walters at Sooner Traditions 405-761-4400
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I am so sorry so much has happened to you and your family! You are such a wonderful person and I love your new home very envious of your kitchen granite counter tops
So glad your mother will be moving in with you and wish all of so much happiness!
The new home looks lovely. I hope you sell your current one quickly.
The new home looks lovely. I hope you sell your current one quickly.
The new home looks lovely. I hope you sell your current one quickly.
The new home looks lovely. I hope you sell your current one quickly.
Congrats on the new home! I hope the move goes well. Sounds like the perfect setup for your family. Best of luck!
Congrats on the new home! I hope the move goes well. Sounds like the perfect setup for your family. Best of luck!
Congrats on the new home! I hope the move goes well. Sounds like the perfect setup for your family. Best of luck!
Congrats on the new home! I hope the move goes well. Sounds like the perfect setup for your family. Best of luck!
Good luck with the move and selling the old house and all that stuff. How exciting for you all! Sounds like you have made a great decision as a family. It really is a shame that more families don’t do the larger extended families in one home as often here in the USA anymore.
Good luck with the move and selling the old house and all that stuff. How exciting for you all! Sounds like you have made a great decision as a family. It really is a shame that more families don’t do the larger extended families in one home as often here in the USA anymore.
Good luck with the move and selling the old house and all that stuff. How exciting for you all! Sounds like you have made a great decision as a family. It really is a shame that more families don’t do the larger extended families in one home as often here in the USA anymore.
Good luck with the move and selling the old house and all that stuff. How exciting for you all! Sounds like you have made a great decision as a family. It really is a shame that more families don’t do the larger extended families in one home as often here in the USA anymore.
I’m so glad it is all working out! Good luck with the move!
I’m so glad it is all working out! Good luck with the move!
I’m so glad it is all working out! Good luck with the move!
I’m so glad it is all working out! Good luck with the move!
Best wishes for you and your family Danielle. May you all spend many happy and healthy years together in your new home. It’s a lovely home. God Bless.
Best wishes for you and your family Danielle. May you all spend many happy and healthy years together in your new home. It’s a lovely home. God Bless.
Best wishes for you and your family Danielle. May you all spend many happy and healthy years together in your new home. It’s a lovely home. God Bless.
Best wishes for you and your family Danielle. May you all spend many happy and healthy years together in your new home. It’s a lovely home. God Bless.
OOPS! Melissa, I am so sorry! I mistakenly wrote Danielle! In any event, best wishes MELISSA! May you and your family spend many happy and healthy years together in your new home. It’s beautiful!
OOPS! Melissa, I am so sorry! I mistakenly wrote Danielle! In any event, best wishes MELISSA! May you and your family spend many happy and healthy years together in your new home. It’s beautiful!
OOPS! Melissa, I am so sorry! I mistakenly wrote Danielle! In any event, best wishes MELISSA! May you and your family spend many happy and healthy years together in your new home. It’s beautiful!
OOPS! Melissa, I am so sorry! I mistakenly wrote Danielle! In any event, best wishes MELISSA! May you and your family spend many happy and healthy years together in your new home. It’s beautiful!
Thank you so much for the information you provide on ConsumerQueen.com. I have learned so much from your website and wish you all well in your new home!
Regarding your move, one thing I’ve always recommended to friends is to pack one box with ALL of the bed linens you will need for the first night as well as one set of towels for each person. Then pack a suitcase (or box) that has at least the clothes and tolietries for the next day for each person, including soap, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, etc. These items need to travel with you in YOUR CAR! Even my mother-in-law loved the idea when she moved and said it definitely made the move less stressful the first night!
Last tip: If you plan to use newspapers for wrapping/packing, another idea is to individually pack dishes and breakables in plastic grocery bags before wrapping in newspaper. It keeps the breakables that don’t need washing free of newsprint and ready to shelve in your new home!
God Bless You and your family!
Thank you so much for the information you provide on ConsumerQueen.com. I have learned so much from your website and wish you all well in your new home!
Regarding your move, one thing I’ve always recommended to friends is to pack one box with ALL of the bed linens you will need for the first night as well as one set of towels for each person. Then pack a suitcase (or box) that has at least the clothes and tolietries for the next day for each person, including soap, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, etc. These items need to travel with you in YOUR CAR! Even my mother-in-law loved the idea when she moved and said it definitely made the move less stressful the first night!
Last tip: If you plan to use newspapers for wrapping/packing, another idea is to individually pack dishes and breakables in plastic grocery bags before wrapping in newspaper. It keeps the breakables that don’t need washing free of newsprint and ready to shelve in your new home!
God Bless You and your family!
Thank you so much for the information you provide on ConsumerQueen.com. I have learned so much from your website and wish you all well in your new home!
Regarding your move, one thing I’ve always recommended to friends is to pack one box with ALL of the bed linens you will need for the first night as well as one set of towels for each person. Then pack a suitcase (or box) that has at least the clothes and tolietries for the next day for each person, including soap, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, etc. These items need to travel with you in YOUR CAR! Even my mother-in-law loved the idea when she moved and said it definitely made the move less stressful the first night!
Last tip: If you plan to use newspapers for wrapping/packing, another idea is to individually pack dishes and breakables in plastic grocery bags before wrapping in newspaper. It keeps the breakables that don’t need washing free of newsprint and ready to shelve in your new home!
God Bless You and your family!
Thank you so much for the information you provide on ConsumerQueen.com. I have learned so much from your website and wish you all well in your new home!
Regarding your move, one thing I’ve always recommended to friends is to pack one box with ALL of the bed linens you will need for the first night as well as one set of towels for each person. Then pack a suitcase (or box) that has at least the clothes and tolietries for the next day for each person, including soap, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, etc. These items need to travel with you in YOUR CAR! Even my mother-in-law loved the idea when she moved and said it definitely made the move less stressful the first night!
Last tip: If you plan to use newspapers for wrapping/packing, another idea is to individually pack dishes and breakables in plastic grocery bags before wrapping in newspaper. It keeps the breakables that don’t need washing free of newsprint and ready to shelve in your new home!
God Bless You and your family!
Your attitude is great! I had an anuerysm which caused a stroke when I was 35.(Now I’m 41) My husband has psoratic authitis, and psoraisis,–painful enough but then his foot slipped (it was raining)when entering his Semi-truck and he has a total of ten different disks messed up in his back.
I was in a blue funk because of all the hospitalizations etc both of us were having. Feeling horribly sorry for myself and having a pity party just for Kat, thinking about how my right side doesn’t move right, I am too young to have to deal with this, why does Mike have to be in such pain etc. When I got a phone call from a friend that a 15 year old boy from my church was diagnosed with cancer. He died later that year.
Never again have I complained even to myself about all this. My children are healthy and Mike and I are alive, God is good!!!
I hope you have many wonderful years in your new home!!
Your attitude is great! I had an anuerysm which caused a stroke when I was 35.(Now I’m 41) My husband has psoratic authitis, and psoraisis,–painful enough but then his foot slipped (it was raining)when entering his Semi-truck and he has a total of ten different disks messed up in his back.
I was in a blue funk because of all the hospitalizations etc both of us were having. Feeling horribly sorry for myself and having a pity party just for Kat, thinking about how my right side doesn’t move right, I am too young to have to deal with this, why does Mike have to be in such pain etc. When I got a phone call from a friend that a 15 year old boy from my church was diagnosed with cancer. He died later that year.
Never again have I complained even to myself about all this. My children are healthy and Mike and I are alive, God is good!!!
I hope you have many wonderful years in your new home!!
Your attitude is great! I had an anuerysm which caused a stroke when I was 35.(Now I’m 41) My husband has psoratic authitis, and psoraisis,–painful enough but then his foot slipped (it was raining)when entering his Semi-truck and he has a total of ten different disks messed up in his back.
I was in a blue funk because of all the hospitalizations etc both of us were having. Feeling horribly sorry for myself and having a pity party just for Kat, thinking about how my right side doesn’t move right, I am too young to have to deal with this, why does Mike have to be in such pain etc. When I got a phone call from a friend that a 15 year old boy from my church was diagnosed with cancer. He died later that year.
Never again have I complained even to myself about all this. My children are healthy and Mike and I are alive, God is good!!!
I hope you have many wonderful years in your new home!!
Your attitude is great! I had an anuerysm which caused a stroke when I was 35.(Now I’m 41) My husband has psoratic authitis, and psoraisis,–painful enough but then his foot slipped (it was raining)when entering his Semi-truck and he has a total of ten different disks messed up in his back.
I was in a blue funk because of all the hospitalizations etc both of us were having. Feeling horribly sorry for myself and having a pity party just for Kat, thinking about how my right side doesn’t move right, I am too young to have to deal with this, why does Mike have to be in such pain etc. When I got a phone call from a friend that a 15 year old boy from my church was diagnosed with cancer. He died later that year.
Never again have I complained even to myself about all this. My children are healthy and Mike and I are alive, God is good!!!
I hope you have many wonderful years in your new home!!
My neighbor’s son (we practically raised him and he calls me mom) and in his 20s has just been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis. I know nothing about it except that he is very scared. He lives in Oregon; I live in Washington. He called me and I don’t know what to say or what to tell him.
My neighbor’s son (we practically raised him and he calls me mom) and in his 20s has just been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis. I know nothing about it except that he is very scared. He lives in Oregon; I live in Washington. He called me and I don’t know what to say or what to tell him.
My neighbor’s son (we practically raised him and he calls me mom) and in his 20s has just been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis. I know nothing about it except that he is very scared. He lives in Oregon; I live in Washington. He called me and I don’t know what to say or what to tell him.
My neighbor’s son (we practically raised him and he calls me mom) and in his 20s has just been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis. I know nothing about it except that he is very scared. He lives in Oregon; I live in Washington. He called me and I don’t know what to say or what to tell him.
Thanks Britta and at least I am not moving far!
Thanks Britta and at least I am not moving far!
Thanks Britta and at least I am not moving far!
Thanks Britta and at least I am not moving far!
Kathleen I hear! I found myself in that funk as well at one point! Sometimes yes it does get overwhelming but thankgoodness God has given me the strenth to just say Melissa Put your big girl panties on and deal with it LOL!
Kathleen I hear! I found myself in that funk as well at one point! Sometimes yes it does get overwhelming but thankgoodness God has given me the strenth to just say Melissa Put your big girl panties on and deal with it LOL!
Kathleen I hear! I found myself in that funk as well at one point! Sometimes yes it does get overwhelming but thankgoodness God has given me the strenth to just say Melissa Put your big girl panties on and deal with it LOL!
Kathleen I hear! I found myself in that funk as well at one point! Sometimes yes it does get overwhelming but thankgoodness God has given me the strenth to just say Melissa Put your big girl panties on and deal with it LOL!
Kirstein,
The best thing you can do is just encourage him. People who have this disease feel so bad that they want to spend most days in bed. You want to encourage him to get up and do something. This is the best thing you can do! It will really help them. Also help watch how much medication they are taking! Theoir body gets used to the meds and sometimes they think they need more! Check out the link I posted to read up on his disease! Encourage him to stay away from foods that have starches in them. It seems to flair up the AS. Email us if you ever neede anything!
Kirstein,
The best thing you can do is just encourage him. People who have this disease feel so bad that they want to spend most days in bed. You want to encourage him to get up and do something. This is the best thing you can do! It will really help them. Also help watch how much medication they are taking! Theoir body gets used to the meds and sometimes they think they need more! Check out the link I posted to read up on his disease! Encourage him to stay away from foods that have starches in them. It seems to flair up the AS. Email us if you ever neede anything!
Kirstein,
The best thing you can do is just encourage him. People who have this disease feel so bad that they want to spend most days in bed. You want to encourage him to get up and do something. This is the best thing you can do! It will really help them. Also help watch how much medication they are taking! Theoir body gets used to the meds and sometimes they think they need more! Check out the link I posted to read up on his disease! Encourage him to stay away from foods that have starches in them. It seems to flair up the AS. Email us if you ever neede anything!
Kirstein,
The best thing you can do is just encourage him. People who have this disease feel so bad that they want to spend most days in bed. You want to encourage him to get up and do something. This is the best thing you can do! It will really help them. Also help watch how much medication they are taking! Theoir body gets used to the meds and sometimes they think they need more! Check out the link I posted to read up on his disease! Encourage him to stay away from foods that have starches in them. It seems to flair up the AS. Email us if you ever neede anything!
Thanks Wanda! Good tips about the Newspaper, I never would have thought of that!
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