Last week, we got a call early Sunday morning. Bill’s brother had a heart attack. Actually he had been having them all weekend, but it was his weekend to work at the group home, so he just kept working. Sunday morning, he gave the residents their meds & when his relief came in, he called 911. When he finally got to the hospital, they didn’t think he was going to make it. They started him on several blood thinners and every time his enzyme level went up they gave him more until they finally got him to stop having the attacks. He finally stopped having the heart attacks on Monday afternoon. They scheduled a heart cathe for early Tuesday afternoon. When they got in, they couldn’t do it, because the arteries on one side were 99% occluded and the other side they were 85% and 90% occluded. They took him off the blood thinners so they could get him ready for bypass surgery, if he made it. The doctor said he only had about a 30% chance of survival. He thought his heart was pretty much destroyed from all the heart attacks. Tuesday night he had another heart attack, so they had to start him back on the blood thinners, but this time they just used heparin. They finally got him stable enough for the surgery Thursday afternoon, so they scheduled him for surgery early Friday morning. When they got in to his heart, the heart itself was not nearly as damaged as they thought. They did a quadruple bypass. By Saturday morning he was out of CCU and in CICU. Tuesday morning he was released from the hospital and told he could go back to work in 8 weeks. He’s still in pain, but feels better than he has felt in years!

While all this was going on, Bill kept working. Thursday morning on his way to work, the timing belt broke on the car. Luckily he was only about 10 miles from work. Someone from work came and picked him up. He stayed late and rode home with my brother. A friend runs the tow truck, so he went down Thursday morning and towed the car back home. Bill had to take a vacation day for Friday and Monday so he could get the car fixed. They didn’t have the timing belt here, so Dad had to get it in Vegas and bring it up. We were without a car until it was fixed.

He had to then go in to work 2 hours early Tuesday morning so he could come home early and take me to the doctor. The doctor told me that my MRI shows that I have a demyleinating disease. I have MS. I have to get a cane. Bill wants me to get a walker, but I vetoed that real quick. He’s afraid I’m going to fall while he’s at work. The doctors are saying that I never had Fibromyalgia, that when I was diagnosed with it, almost 20 years ago, that this was what I actually had…

So needless to say, I’ve had a rough couple of weeks. I’m about ready to toss the towel in. The MS really wouldn’t bother me so much, if it weren’t for the fact that I’ve lost 2 family members to complications of it. I’m not looking forward to the cycles of steroid treatments and the hospitalizations. I will make it, though. With everything I’ve been through in my life, I will survive this too.

Is it 2009 yet????

I have found out that 90% of the ladies in this community are very wonderful people.

After my situation came to light in Pixel-Mentors, my whole situation turned around.

The following fabulous ladies came to my aid.

April of Pixeldictions gifted me with a 12 month membership .

Pockets of  The Mouse Pad traded me Lifetime with Tube membership .

Faith of Kiddzzoo donated the cutest set of Limited Edition Teddy Bear tubes, AsIs to me. She has also been a wealth of information for me.

Tracy of Sharing Pixels traded me Lifetime with Tube membership . Plus , she donated 3 adorable sets of outlines AsIs to me and a 20% discount coupon for my members.

Kitkat of KatKat Kreations traded me Lifetime with Tube memberships .

Veronica of Veronica’s Pixels gifted me with a 1 Month membership in her Sigtag Club.

Liza of Liza Pixels gifted me with a $15 gift certificate for her shop.

And last, but by no means least, Si , I mean the Good Pixel Fairy , gifted me with a 3 Month with Tubing membership to Dark Enchanments .

A couple of other people have offered to trade memberships with me, but I don’t feel that I can afford to trade anymore right now. I got in this to make it a business and I can’t make any money if I keep trading memberships. I also have more than enough goodies to keep me busy for a long while

On another note, I convinced my very good friend, Julie of Faery Charm , to go ahead and open up her member area. Its great!

In the member area, you will find a 20% discount coupon for any Sharing Pixels membership, a 25%  discount coupon for membership in the Faery Charm Member Area, and a 25% Discount coupon for Cute n Charming Graphics

I cannot begin to thank all of you ladies enough for what you have done. I have received more letters of support than I can even begin to count.

All of this was just simply beyond comprehension. Please visit these ladies’ sites and don’t forget that I would love to have you in my own member area. If you email me you might get a surprise as to the price of membership. Click HERE an email will open for you. Please put Membership Surprise in the subject.

Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Love and hugs to all who have helped me out. I will never forget this, believe me!

P.S. If I forgot anyone, please believe me it was not intentional. Please notify me and I will add you to the list.

As you all know I’m on a very limited income, so supposedly the only way I can purchase memberships or anything for my member area, is if I sell some memberships. I haven’t had much luck with that because I’m so new to the community.

In less than a month, I have lost 2 lifetime memberships, to long standing sites, that I bought when they were having huge promotional sales. One of them closed down just a few days after I bought them membership, and I have to delete all of their material that I had ready for my member area. The other one closed down just a week and a half or so after I bought lifetime membership. Both sites angered a lot of people. I totally devastated me. I have NO Money to replace those memberships, where I also had tubing license.

I wrote in Pixel-Mentors yesterday how I felt that I had been cheated royally. It is my feeling, that if you are selling a site or even just thinking about closing it down, you should not accept any new members, let alone run huge membership sales at very low prices. I did not explain why I was upset, just wrote that I was very upset over losing money that I didn’t have in this community.

A couple of people wrote me off list to find out what happened. One of them had been affected the same way, the other one only lost one. Both of those people knowing the financial situation I’m in, stepped up and offered me memberships in their sites.

One of them was my sis, Pockets, whom I was planning to ask her to trade memberships. She gave me lifetime with tubing to her site The Mouse Pad. The other angel was April. She gave me a year’s membership to her site Pixeldictions. These two angels have gone a very long way toward restoring my faith in this community. I love you both and am eternally grateful for what you have done!

Have a great weekend, everyone. I have a ton of work to do to get ready for tomorrow’s update. I’m in major pain today, though, so this week’s update may be late. I think you have several goodies to keep you busy, until I can get it finished. I can’t sit at the computer very long at a time.

Huggers,