The Redheaded Mommy: A Glimmer of Hope

As most know by now The Marine is being faced with a medical retirement or medical discharge (silly military not making up their minds and dragging ass) due to his lupus diagnosis. After what we learned while we were in Pensacola we knew that we would have a real grasp on what our future is after his appointment with his Nashville doctor, and that appointment was today. It went quite well actually, we got there super early and waited forever for the doctor but only because we were super early! See the weather was calling for some major rain which meant we should allow for extra time getting there. When there is no rain at all it means 40minutes early ha ha!

when there are locks on the drawers, they should really be used while I am there bored and waiting. Just saying I steal medical things from doctors offices

So we told the doctor that The Marine is in fact not taking any of the medications that he is suppoed to be taking daily and has not been taking them since mid-December. Our reasoning was because well none of the meds he had or was taking at the time seemed to be helping, in fact he only seemed to have more rash in more places than when we began this whole lupus journey. So he decided to stop one day after thinking about what his dermatologistsaid once that some people have skin reactions to the types of meds he was on. His doctor did not freak out which we were expecting! She said she could've guessed at some point he would stop just because but actually seemed pleased that he looked so well and was doing great without any meds! She agreed with us that maybe he just doesn't need meds and just needs lap work to monitor his internal organs every so often to make sure nothing bad is happening that we cannot see. As for no all his "meds" are is sunscreen and remembering to use it all the time. People with lupus skin rashes tend to react very badly to the sunlight so remembering sunscreen combats that. So The Marine has nothing right now that limits his duties as a Marine, because he is not on any meds he can be deployed again and that was one major thing the Marines look at. So according to what we were told in Pensacola because he is no longer on any meds and nothing is miniting his duties there seems to be a glimmer of hope that he will be able to stay a Marine!! and I won't have to find a new nickname for him ha ha ha They did some regular lab work on him today and should have all of his records faxed down to Pensacola by next week. Hopefully we hear something from Pensacola after that, otherwise we get to wait until we go back again for word on if his case goes to a medicial review board or gets put away!!

Look closely you can see The Marine in there!

Now there is a few things I have become torn about. First I am fallen in love with where I live, not just my awesome house but the area and the people here (most of you) I just love! I love having family close for the children, I love having playgroups, play places for the kids, great homeschooling community if we should choose, I have made some great friends here. I just really like the area a lot and if they keep The Marine in than we would have to PSC in other words move a perminate change of station and I would lose all those things. I would be sad and cry, I hate adjusting to new places. On the other hand and this hand wins out by the way we get to keep a steady job in the family with a regular decent pay check, we keep health care benefits, and in general keep the lifestyle we are used to. So those things are on my mind and I will try not to think about leaving here until I have to, if I have to.

And finally how could I not include random doctors office pictures? enjoy