Pole Position Raceway Las Vegas Helping Family In Need!

We had another amazing company help our family out.  This time it was by giving us a much needed family night!  Pole Position Raceway invited us to come and drive a few laps around their course.  The kiddos were able to do it twice!  It was so much fun!  I was able to race once, too.  It was so awesome!  It made me happy to be doing something exciting again!

I absolutely love adventures, traveling, the great outdoors, new experiences....  Most of all I love to share it with my kids.  To see their faces light up with excitement is absolute joy to my soul.  Tuesday night was just that.  As shy as my kiddos were they were very excited to get in and try it out!  Gracie is a bit too short still but thankfully she was able to play arcade games with Ashley, James's girlfriend.  She is such a sweetheart and Gracie really likes her.

The next day I was down in bed for most of the day.  It was no surprise.  Having a day with too much excitement will put me out for a while.  Having a day with excitement AND go cart driving....  Well, Let's just say I am thankful I only raced once.  I wasn't prepared for the pain I was going to be in.  I haven't taken a pain pill in a long time....  I had to.  I have gained a new level of pain tolerance....  But not that much!  Two days later it was worse.  Last night I was completely down in bed because of my neck pain.  It still hurts but at least I can sit up now.  I have been on pain pills since and can tell that it is wearing off now.  Yea me!

Well, Yesterday was tough emotionally for me.  I barely could get up to do anything and I was asked to do two things...  ALL DAY.  So as I tried to so the first thing my neck froze.  I still had to pick up the kids from school.  I called my hubby and thankfully he took over.  I can tell you I was a mess.  I don't usually have moments of weakness like that.  I am great at keeping it together and pushing through.  All the advice was great and I knew it all too well.  I just overflowed my bucket and it all came out.  My phone was completely dead...  It wouldn't charge anymore.  So I couldn't call anyone.  Grace finally found the emergency phone so I could call Bryan....  but after that I just decided to let it all go.  I wasn't depressed or sad...  I was SO MAD!!!  I was so tired of being helpless. Sometimes a girl just needs a good cry.  After I exhausted all my strength from the drama I knew I had to pick myself back up and keep going.  Well, I couldn't get up until the next day!!!  So I worked on family history until I passed out.  (I have this new app from Ancestry.com and it's great!!!)

Oh, and my good friend Ammie came over and dropped off some very yummy treats for us.  I now have a great gluten free stash for just me.  OK, I might share....  if there is any left over!!  HA HA!  It was good to talk to her again.  Besides Church and my presidency meetings I really don't socialize much.  It was SERIOUSLY great to talk to her again.  I miss my friends.

Anyhow, they shot a video of our evening...  Check it out!

Pole Position Raceway Las Vegas Helping Family In Need!

Surprise Food Drop to a Melissa & her Family

This was a complete surprise and I have to say I was thankful I was dressed decently when they arrived!!  Haha!!  I was supposed to be going to the Temple with my husband to support dear friends of ours and I couldn't go.  I didn't change out of my clothes and to fight the depression from not being able to go I went to work on my home.  I really over did it and think it may be part of why last Sunday was such a hard day for me.  I crashed for almost a day and a half after all the cleaning I did!  

Back to the food story...!  When they came to the door I had no idea what was in the boxes.  Then the second batch had food showing and a lot of non-food items as well...  Let's just say I was humbled.  Humbled at all the love and outpouring support our family received that day.  From people we had never met.

Every day we open our pantry and are reminded of the support and blessings that we have in our lives.  We are now able to save quite a bit of money to place towards treatments.  I will be placing a percentage of our "grocery" budget to my fund.  It is an awesome feeling to know that we may reach our goal soon.

I really hope in 2015 to be able to take the 8 weeks to go to Arizona and receive treatments that I very much need.  I am still working on a post about why I am fundraising.  I haven't had too many active or clear-minded days recently, so please be patient with me.  Juggling my kids, family, church calling, my health, (which is trying hard to be up and about more than 6 to 8 hours a day,) a fundraiser, and trying to help with homework...  (which is a BIG task with 3 kids and one in home preschool,) oh, and a husband who is starting to travel again....  I AM OVERWHELMED!

Needless to say I am impressed with the timing of the food delivery and the tough day I had on Saturday.  Thank you again to Ashley Chau, Calvin Tran, Christine, Lucas, and Dan Warren for their generous offerings to our family!  We also, thank the Just Perfect team for all they are doing for us!  Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!!!!

Take a look at the video and please share it with your friends!  Thanks in advance to everyone for sharing.

Local Pizza Place Helps a Family in Need

What a surprise this was to our family when we learned that Peter Soltesz at Joe's New Your Pizza had offered our family dinner and a chance to get out and forget about Lyme for just a bit.  I have to say that it is tough for me to go anywhere.  I must reserve my energy before and most of the times after I am still out for the next day or two.  This evening was perfect!!!  Well, almost.   I want so badly to forget about Lyme.  It is hard to when I am not always feeling up to it...  Watch the video and see what I mean.  I really had no idea they were filming me when this happened and to see it from outside looks scary.  Going through it is not easy and to think I used to be like this a lot.  I have been on treatments here in town but it is not enough.  Getting more extensive treatments won't cure my Lyme disease but it should give me many more years in between.  Knowing I may have to do the extensive treatments at all is tough to think of, but I have to.  I won't give up and let this slowly take my life from me.

Anyhow, enjoy the video and please share it!!

Family night out!!

Our family had a wonderful opportunity to have a night out at an amazing pizza place!  The owner was so kind to offer us a meal for the whole family!  It was delish!

I almost made it through the evening without any issues.  I was sitting at the table with my husband and kids when all of a sudden I started to go numb.  My whole body lost sensation and I started to black out.  My whole body was weak.  I felt a huge amount of pressure in my upper back and it was scary.  I don't remember to much else... just that my husband was sitting next to me holding me up.  It happened earlier today and must be a new symptom but I'm glad I had my hubby to help out.

In spite of my embarrassing moment we had SO much fun!!  The kids were very excited!   We don't get to go out at all these days.

Thanks to our new friend, James, for all his help for our family!  We have met such kind and generous people! 

Good times!

How Lyme Disease Changed One Family - The Story of Melissa

Our family is very blessed to be a part of this amazing new company.  To be their first video of many!  We recorded a lot and we had a lot of fun!  The company Just Perfect did a wonderful job putting this together. I am so thankful for their support and all they have done for our family.  Thank you a million times over!  We hope it will bring others to your site and will help many more individuals or families in need get a bit of help and hope as you have given us...  THANKS!!