WHAT A PAIN IN THE NECK.....LITERALLY

As many of you know I have been laid up with a spamodic neck. I woke up on Turesday morning and could not move my head. Being a nurse I did all the right things, I applied icy hot (Curt asked what my new fragrance was I replied "OLD GOLFER") I used a heating pad for 3 hours (Thank god it wasn't Summer) I took Motrin and excedrin back and body, I took a hot shower and let the warm water beat it. To no avail I could not move my head without it feeling as though 2 extremely large barbed ice picks were shoved into the base of my skull. The pain was so severe it made me nauseous. I finally broke down and had Curt drive me to Urgent Care. I must have been in a lot of pain because I am a nurse I am a self diagnoser self treater and only go to the Doctor if I am dying!! Curt understood what this meant if I was asking him to take me to a Doctor. When I got in to see the doctor he said I look as though I were in a bad car accident! The exam was painful as he poked and prodded he kept asking me how I injured myself and I kept repeating that I just woke up that way. I think I went 10 rounds with mohammad ali in my dream( or atleast that is what it felt like) He did x-rays to be sure that there was no apparent damage. He told me that it was the worst Neck spasm he has ever seen. You could litterally see my neck muscles spasming sticking out about 1 1/2 inches from the base of my neck to half way up the back of my Skull. He was a great doctor and prescribed me Vicodin for pain, Zanaflex (a muscle relaxer used to treat MS), and Voltaren ( A NSAID used for severe arthritis). We picked these up from the pharmacy and I was soooo ready to be pain free. I took my pills as prescribed and drifted off into a drug induced coma I woke an hour later very groggy and still in severe pain I was in tears. My husband tucked me back in bed on the heating pad and reassured me to give it time. I continued taking my meds once again falling into a drug induced coma with every dose the pain eased up a little more however never fully going away. I would never make a good pain patient. PAIN SUCKS!!!!!!. Thursday I was due to go back to work I knew I couldn't work on my meds so I didn't take them BIG MISTAKE!! at around 2pm my neck went back into that agonizing Spasm!!!I took my meds and had some relief and called my Doctor for whatever reason The muscle relaxers worked and calm down the Spasm but as soon as I missed a dose the spasm returned. According to the Doctor I must have injured my neck to the point of it being Angry and spasming he said I needed to continue to take the muscle relaxers until the neck was "Happy" Again so I missed work all week and have been bed bound and drugged. Curt has been amazing taking good care of me managing the kids and dealing with my angry outbursts (I hate being in pain I am not a nice person when I hurt). I now get to go to physical therapy to make my neck once again happy!

Friends

4 years ago this month my husband and I decided to pack up our lives and move to Arizona! I was terrified leaving everything I know. My friends, my family, my job. I was moving to a state where I only knew a few people, and that scared me to death! My family is my life and a day didn't go by that I wasn't doing something with my sister Tina. I was prepared to live in a state of utter depression.I loved my job in the ER in Cali, loved the nurses and doctors that I worked with, we were our own little dysfunctional family and I knew that I would never have that kind of joy at work anywhere else. I WAS WRONG!
I now work at a busy level 3 high risk Labor and Delivery Unit in Mesa Arizona. I am so lucky to work with friends. The friends that I have made here are "Lifers" As you all know I am very shy, quiet, and antisocial. Oh wait I am not any of those things!! LOL. I could not imagine my life without the friends that I have made since moving here.
Amy- My drives would be soooo boring without you, you know more about me than anyone else here!
Sarah- who else understands those Querky side affects of ambien like we do!
Erin- You are a super mom and I strive to be like you!
Michelle- My Cali connection. We have our own little language.No one else can understand lol.
Jen- I can never get enough of our talks especially about how similar our daughters are.
Kris- I can't help but smile when I see you. Betty Crocker should be jealous of your skills.
Brittney- What can I say about you, you are like a sister and truly understand that sister bond!
Jami- Your laugh is infectious.
Lisa- gotta love those all important trips to the garden!
Wendy- we are all missing your beautiful face at work!
Kim- you can pass out on me anyday just as long as your heart restarts lol.
Kenny and Kris AKA the boys- I always wanted to know what it is like to have annoying brothers, and now I do!
April- we don't work together but you are truly my family. I could not imagine my life without you, Chris and the girls in it!!
I am truly BLESSED to have all these wonderful people in my life!!!

TAGGED AGAIN...............................

So, I have been tagged again. This time I have been asked to list 3 of each:my joys, my fears, my goals, current obsessions, facts about me. Here goes...

JOYS
1.My kids: Aaron, Ryan, and Lindsey. You truly don’t understand LOVE until you became a MOTHER!!!
2. My family : I am so blessed to come from such an amazing family!
3. My Friends: You make being away from my family easier.


Fears
1. Losing anyone that I love.
2. Gaining Weight
3. The unknown


Goals
1. Be a better person.
2. Be financially stable.
3. Eat and Cook Better.


CURRENT OBSESSIONS
1. Reading (EDWARD, BELLA, CLAIRE, JAMIE)
2. BLOGGING
3. Wine


FACTS ABOUT ME
1. I lost 200 lbs.
2. I have a Tatoo
3. I am a procrastinator.

ERIN, ASHLEY, Mom and Dad CONSIDER YOURSELVES TAGGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK OK OK I am finally going to post a new Blog!!! It has been a while. So goes the busy life that I live!!!! As many of you guys know football season was put to a halt abruptly thanks to a lovely broken arm!!! Aaron Broke his arm not playing football (that would have been the best story) no he broke his arm while walking to class. He has been a trooper he was in a full arm cast for 4 weeks (in Arizona in August what torture) he is now in a forearm wet cast for the next three weeks .

I had a breast cancer scare earlier this month! It really makes you reevaluate your life! I was doing a self breast exam (something I unfortunately am not good about doing on a regular basis) and found a large lump on my right breast. I showed my husband because I am also not the best at taking care of myself as many of you know. I needed him to know about it so that I wouldn't put off getting it checked. I told my doctor about it he met me in his office on his day off to do a needle aspiration ( yes it hurt) he told me that if he could aspirate some fluid it would give us a definitive answer that it was not cancer he made two attempts and could not aspirate any fluid. At this point I am scared to death!! he told me that I would need to have a diagnostic mammo and ultrasound to rule out cancer. All I could think about is that 1 in 8 women will get breast cancer, and I wondered to myself if I was that 1 in 8 Luckily the Laura Drier Breast center got me in the very next day!!. Dr,. Mourad had told me that if it was bad news they get the results quickly and if it is good news they take a little longer. So after my exam the tech told me to wait where I was that she needed the doctor to look at it (once again scared to death). I wait approximately 15 minutes and she walks in the room holding a piece of paper and says I have your results ( at this time my heart is in my foot) I look at the paper preparing myself on how I would tell my family That I am that 1 in 8 and I have breast cancer ( remember quick result : Bad ) I looked at the paper twice rereading those wonderful words CANCER FREE!!!!!!! I can now tell you that I will be doing regular monthly breast exams.

BABY GOT BACK!!!

I had to do a post on this since I was discussing this picture with friends. This is my oldest son Aaron (RIGHT) and his Cousin Sierra . Sierra is 5 months older than Aaron. We had given the kids a bath together and needless to say they were checking out their parts. Aaron was quite amused at how much bigger his booty was than Sierra's. We laughed so hard. As you can see the Williams clan has a lot more Junk in Their Trunk compared to the Hunters.(I just love having the power to embarrass my kids)

13 years and going strong

How beautiful life can be when touched by love.
Russell and Joyce Friday
and
Gary and Marie Williams
ask you to be present
at the ceremony uniting their children
Nancy M. Friday
and
Curtis W. Williams
Saturday, the nineteenth of August
Nineteen hundred and ninety-five
at three o'clock in the afternoon

Curtis and I just celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary yesterday. I can hardly believe that it has been that long. I remember my wedding day as though it was yesterday. I wanted the perfect princess wedding and that is what I got. We got married and the Ballroom at John Ascuagas Nugget in Sparks Nevada. We pretty much celebrated a wedding week! It was truly an amazing day follies and all. Because I was having a Formal Wedding I insisted that my grandfather wear a Tuxedo this was the only time in his life that he ever wore one Wow he was handsome that made the day very special! My dad wore a Tuxedo as well but being Dad he had to add his own little twist in the form of a TAZ bow tie!! What can I say he was cute. My cake top consisted of two dolphins (knowing me would you expect anything else) I also had to have a princess Veil it extended about 10 feet past the train on my dress the funny part was that it was detachable and so we didn't want to put it on until I was ready to walk down the aisle. So here I am waiting to walk down the aisle all my bridesmaids already entered and were patiently awaiting my arrival. The wedding march starts and I freak!!! We forgot to attach my veil!! There was no way I was getting married without it since I had it specially made. It was just Dad and I and there was no way he could figure out how to attach it. All of a sudden My grandfather exits the Ball room ( by this time Groom, groomsmen Bridesmaids all are waiting at the alter the wedding march is playing people are standing in NO BRIDE!!) grandpa comes to me and asks if I am having second thoughts he told me "Don't Worry Baby I will call the whole thing off and we Will just have a Party" Gotta love gramps I assured him that I wanted to get married but not without my veil. He runs back into the ballroom and fetches my mother.Veil is attached and I am ready to rock and roll. I can only imagine the thoughts that went through Curts head at that moment Friends of ours even mouthed the words to him "Maybe she left you" Besides me dropping his ring ( He bent down and picked it up at which time my crazy Uncle Verl yells "that a girl Nancy teach him early") The rest of the wedding went off without a hitch!! My Family is CRAZY they all love a Party where as Curts Fathers side is very prim and proper I am not quite sure what they thought! We danced all night long!! It was My perfect Wedding!!! Who would of thought that 13 years later we would be where we are now!! I can't wait to see what the next 13 years may bring.

I hate being on call!!!

So here I am wide awake. I laid in bed and tossed and turned for 6 hours!! Being on call really puts a damper on your sleep. I was on call last night from 10pm-6am I called at 8pm to see if they needed me and of course the answer couldn't be NO WAY WE ARE SOOOOO SLOW it was just a simple I think we will be ok right now but things change!!!! UGH so to me that means stay up until at least 2am What to do what to do?
So thank goodness the Olympics are on I got in a heavy dose of women's gymnastics and swimming. Let me just say being a former competitive swimmer it is always bitter sweet watching the Olympics especially swimming having had the dream once of standing on the podium as they play are national anthem. It brings chills down my spine and a tear in my eye. As a little girl my dream was to be there!!! I watched the 4X100 men's freestyle relay and let me tell you I was utterly blown away!!!! I have swam in thousands of races throughout my life and I freaked out watching this final!! To start out the french team was talking smack about how they were going to SMASH the USA. The french were the favorites to win. My heart was pounding as I remembered the feelings I would get before competing in a big race sitting waiting for them to call your heat, looking around at the competition trying to get fear and doubt out of your head (My trick was I would sing in my head during the race My all time fav was I'm too sexy by right said fred lol don't ask me why) anyway back to the race Michael Phelps was first off the block the commentators all kept referring to this relay being a make or break moment for him and his race to get get 8 gold medals(nothing like adding a little more weight on the poor guys shoulders!) Michael Phelps smoked the first leg of the race the next two racers were Garrett Weber-Gale and Cullen Jones We lost the lead during the third leg of the race with France ahead by 1/2 a body length and on world record pace. The anchor (or last man to swim ) Jason Lezak was an the block waiting for the touch (I too remember how it was to be anchor and how the pressure to either maintain the lead or in this case steal the lead back rests heavily on your shoulders) Not only was he having to make up time he was also swimming against the best french swimmer. The commentators basically were saying that race was over even with 50m still to race (Nothing like proving them wrong!!) Jason Lezak swam with such heart and proved why he was anchor and team captain with about 25 m still left the french were still in the lead but USA was catching up quickly I was in my room screaming as if I were a teammate on this relay ( what can I say old habits are hard to brake) Jason Lezak out touched the french for the gold and they smashed the world record by an amazing 4 seconds!!!!! For those of you who are not swimmers that is an unbelievable feat!!!!I am not sure if it was the adrenaline after watching the race or the fear of being called in I was up all night. OH WELL at least I got to watch probably the most exciting race i have ever seen or will see GO USA