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Go and visit JAcques site here and see all the amazing prizes, she´s giving away here because she has reached 4000 followers. She is an awesome crafter, that I´ve been following quite some time, and boy is she clever. She share some stunning projects and really awesome ideas all the time, so her site is definitely worth a visit. But go and have a look for yourself, you wount regreat that, I promisse.

Have a wonderful day and lots of fun.

Biiiig hugs Maryann

Hi there dear friends,

I just wanted to wish you all a very Happy New Year everyone, as we´re leaving here early in the morning tomorrow, and wount be back until next week, so I wount be here anymore until we comes back again. But I hope, you´ll all have a wonderful new Year and enjoy the celebration with good friends and/or family around. I really hope, that 2012 will be a wonderful year for all of you, and that it´ll get much better than this year has been to many friends here, so let´s just hope, this is the year, when all is about to change for the better for all of us right?

Have a wonderful time dear friends and just take good care of yourself, and if anybody is going away have a good and safe truip, where you´re going.

Cheers and Happy New Year everyone.

Biiiiiig warm hugs Maryann

Look at this masterpiece here, that I´ve just seen. It´s the most gorgeous and breathtaking piece of artwork. It´s a dear friend, who´s daughter is doing some awesome parchment craft, and I really think, it deserves to be seen. She has been a bit shy, and first recently made a blog to show her work, but we finally got her to do it a little while ago.  She have more pictures of it on her blog here:  http://pergamoni.blogspot.com/2011/10/hochzeitskutsche.html?showComment=1317672093489#c7558341447683830196

I hope, you´ll go and see, what she shows there, as it´s definately worth a visit, and she has more awesome creations shown there too, and they´re all really awesome creations. And show her some love, as she really deserve it, and maybe that can make her believe that she´s such a talented crafter, as I thin k, she is. I promisse you,. you wount regreat a visit there, it´s really candy for the eyes.

Have a wonderful day dear friends and lots of fun.

Biiig warm hugs Maryann

Sooo sorry I haven´t been here much all this summer, but life has just been cmpletely crazy here, and we´ve had so much going on here the last 3 months, so I just haven´t had much energy left to go online, when I could finally find a few minutes to sit down, but I promisse, it´ll get better soon, as we´re almost finished with several of our projects here at home now, and as you know, I´ve also been running to the hospital over and over again, but hopefully that´s also almost over now. I have a check in 5 weeks and then one again in the spring, but that´s also what´s left for now at least LOL, so it should give me a bit more peace and quiert here at home. I have a quite a few things inhere, I need to catch up on, and a few birthdaygifts to finish, which is overdue LOL, and I have loads of stuff, I need to do for several friends too. And finally we have loads of birthdays here in September, but then I should also be all back to normal again, if anything can ever be called normal here ha ha ha. Sometimes I really doubt that LOL.

We have been having a major renovation outside here this summer, and had one new roof and the rest of all our roofs cleaned and painted and got tiles layed down in our yard and got painted all outside too, and last week, we started to paint inhere as well, and we´ve got our kitchen/livingroom painted and redecorated, and when it was done, we had some more paint left, so we took the entryhall right away too LOL, and when that was done, I just had to clean everything completely too, before putting anything back into place again, as I hadn´t got anything done since before the surgery, so it was really needed, I can tell, and it took a lot longer, than I had thought it would. But now everything, and I mean absolutely everything is scrubbed and cleaned like never before so I think, I can have a nice break now, without feeling bad about it too ha ha ha. So it haven´t been much I´ve got done on the handywork lately except from that album and those things, I showed here the other day, I´m afraid, but hopefully I can get back to do some more here again now, that all these projects are finished of. Ofcause we also need to get out and move a lot of plants and stuff now, that we have been moving the paths in the yard, but that wount be more than a couple of days and hubby is still working on finishing the workshop for him in the outhouse, but we thought we better get finished outside first, before the weather got too bad here again. And ofcause we´ve also had all the girls here during the whole summer, while they´ve had their vacation, so time has been pretty limited, I must admit.

I thought I better make an update here for all to see, as soo many has been writing me and asking, if I was sick or okay or why I wasn´t online more, but I´m actually really fine, I think, and I feel so good about all we´ve got done here, as it has been needed for a long time, but health hasn´t been to it the last couple of years, so it´s just so cool, finally to get something done, and  I really enjoy every moment here now, it has been done.

And last here this week-end, we had our anual craftfair in the closest big city here, and ofcause I had to go there saturday, and for the first time ever, I got hubby to join me there, which was pretty good, as he spent quite an amazing birthdaypresent on me there, so I could save my money for some other things then, so I have loads of new stuff to show you as soon as I´ve finished sorting all the pictures here later today.

I have taken loads of pictures throug all of this, and I´m almost done sorting them all out here now, and I promisse, I´ll show all the pictures here over the next couple of days. Just thought I would let you all know, what I had been up to here the last months, but I can also see, I´m not the only one, who´s been quiert in here, as there hasn´t been many online at all, so guess, there´s a lot more than me, who´s been really busy this summer?

I appologize very much, if there´s anything, I have promissed, but forget about again, and if I have forgotm anything, please remind me then, as I would hate to let anyone down, and also if I have missed any birthdays or anything, I hope, you´ll forgive me,  but I hope, I have at least remembered all of those here?

I hope, that you´re all having a wonderful time dear friends and having lots of fun and please take very good care of yourself everyone okay?

Lots of love and biiiig warm hugs to all of you   Maryann

Sorry dear friends, I know, I´ve been missing in action inhere for quite a while now, but my life has been  so busy with sooo many different things, and as you know, my health hasn´t been the best either the last few years, so I´ve had to priortize a lot here this summer, as we´ve had a lot going on here at home too, which I also have wished for quite a while. But soo many has been writing me and asked if all was okay lately, so I thought, I would make an update here once for all, so I wount have to sit and repeat myself a dozen times on mails LOL.

First of all I had all these hospital visits to get throug here, and I finally had the last yesterday. I actually spent the last 2 days at the hospital, the other day I had a BNS ( Bone Density Scan), in the morning to find out, if I hadsome Osteoporosis, and then I had an appointment with the docttors in the afternoon, so I for once could get some answers right away. And yesterday I had an appointment in the morning with the hip/backspeciialists too after I´ve hade a lot of troubles with my left hip, which started about 2 months after my last backsurgery in February. This hip and thighbone I had replaced about 15 years ago, so they were first a bit afraid, it was the new implant, that had gone loose, which sometimes can happen, but after several  x-rays then, they said it wasn´t that, so they sent me on to have some scans, which I went for inMay, but didn´t get any answers back really, and then I suddenly got a letter from another specialist in July, that she wanted to see me for an appointment, but there was just a small problem, that this appointm,ent was the day before I got the letter, so I had to call them right away, and then they would send me another appointment, but 3 weeks later, I just got a letter, that since I didn´t show up to the appointment, they expected, I wasn´t interested LOL, so again on the phone there and ask them if they were shitting me somehow? LOL But I ended up getting a new appointment, which was the one I went for yesterday.  And here I also for a cham´nge got both a result and treatment right away, which is why I was sooo darned tired, when I finally got back home last night, and ofcause also because everything has been pretty stressed the last months here.

But first the result of the BNS, it showed an increased Osteoporosis. Nothing too serious yet, but anyway reason to be very careful, and they want to keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn´t get any worser, cause then they´ll need dto treat it more, but for now, I just have to take some vitamin D and some calcium, which should be enough, but if it got worser, I would need further treatment, which he didn´t say what was thoug. And then yesterday, they first sent me over to have another x-ray of my hip and back, and then back to have a cjhat with the specialist, and for the first time, I felt, this woman knew, what she was talking about, and she said right away, that it was neither the back or the hip, that was causing these horrible pains. But it was a problem, that came from the last backsurgery, but hads nothing to do with the back thoug. She told it this way, that under the very big thigmuscel we all have a big gland, that is producing moisture to the hip joint, but it had obviously stopped working some time after the surgery, which she said happened more often, than people thought, so the joint was getting too dry and that caused all these paints, when I was moving the parts there and they ran against each other. So she put me on the bench and tugged a big needle into the most painful spot there and tryed to pull some moisture out, to see if it was because of some inflamation or what, and then she afterwards injected me with some Cortícosteroid and then gave me a a shot with some local anasthetic to take the pains, as I can asure you, it wasn´t a very pleassant expirience, as she said, she had to find the miost tender part at all to do it, to make it work right. But then I got a receipt for some other painkillers, and now I need to take them for 6 weeks and then this should hopefully have worked out really well, and I´ll get another appointment then, and if it has helped, I might need to get one more treatment the same way or if it has helped really well, I might be able to wait a bit longer, but I should count on, I would have to get this done every now and then, if the gland didn´t start working by itself again, which it might or might not. Noone could tell that, but for now, I would need to get this done every now and then to keep the pains away, so nothing serious just not very nice  as you can see, so there´s absolutely nothing to worry about dear friends, everything seems to be under control now, and hopefully, I wount get too much more problems with these things LOL.

But as I said before, we also had a lot of things going on here at home. Hubby has been renovating all our outhouses here the last year or so, so it has been a very busy summer, wioth our sons and son in law here to help now and then and then ofcause also their families, besides I´ve had the girls quite a lot here all summer, as the kindergarden and the playgroup for the smaller schoolkids have begun to close all down for the schoolholiday here, but as many parents can´t get vacation that long, they need to rely on grandparents to help out with taking care of the kids, and ofcause if 2 of them can come and stay, then the other 6 also wants to come, so it´s been 2 months here with kids almost all the time, and as you all know, they´re all very productive and want to create all the time, when they´re here , which I normally loves, but 2 months in a roww every day hhas been too much I have to admit, and at the same time having people who needed to be feeded too, as they were helping hubby outside too and my sons accountings, which was also due here a couple of weeks ago. One niece who was married and who I was making stuff for too, and finally here my daughters best friend since school is getting married too in 1½ week, who I´ve been making albums for and cards and stuff ofcause. So all in all it has been a really hectic time here, and that´s why I haven´t been so much around here this summer, but now all the kids are back to school and we´re almost finished outside and has got new walls layaed in new briggs all the way back of the buildsings and got all the roofs cleaned and treated for algaes and then painted, so it all looks almost like new now, and should be really easy to maintain from now on. And we´ve got the whole yard layed with tiles, but just need to move a lot of plants now, as they ofcause is all standing totally wrong, but we ned to wait for the weather to be the right time for that thoug, and when all this is finished outside, we´re almost ready to begin to decorate my new craftroom FINALLY he he he. And then we´ve got some paint, and we´re getting to have our kitchen/livingroom and the entryhall painted inhere, then we´re finally done in this round LOL

Oh boy I almost get really stressed now, just by writing about all these things ha ha ha, I hope I haven´t scared you all away by now? But I hope, you can understand now, why I´ve been a bit absent here lately? ANd this is aalso why I´ve been soo darned tired here lately, guess this old body isn´t too happy about all this extra work, even I must admit, that it´s been hubby, who pulled the most weight in all this.

I have taken loads of pictures of all we´ve been doing, but I admit, I haven´t had time or energy to have them all edited, so I think, I´ll just wait now, and make a before and after session when we´re all done with everything, so you can all see, what has ben going on here all summer. I´ve also taken lots of pictures of all the girls has been making and what I´ve been making in between, even it hasb´t been too much this year, I have to admit. I´m not so good to get a lot done anymore, while all the girls are yelling for help too from all sides. Guess it´s Mr Alzheimer, that´s beginning to show his ugly face, as it can´t be me getting too old, can it? ha ha ha.

Well dear friends, this was my entire diary for the whole summer, and quite an essay I´m afraid, but I hope, I haven´t bored you all to sleep by now, and I sure hope, that things will begin to get back to normal here again now, so I can get back to do a bit more fun things again now.

Thanks soo much for all the support and concern from soo many of you dear friends. I hope, you´re all having a wonderful time and taking good care of your self okay and having lots of fun.

Biiiiig warm hugs Maryann

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I just want to let you all know, that we´re having lots of troubles with the powersupply here in our area these days, so it keeps closing up and down all the time, so if I don´t have answered any of your messages here or on the mail, it´s NOT because I wount answer or because anything is wrong here, so don´t worry, it´s only because the power disappear here all the time, so I never know how long I can stay online, before it all disappears again. I haven´t even been online long enough to read all my mails today, so I thought, I better leave a short mssage, now while I could, so people would know, why I hadn´t answered to some messages. I promisse I will as soon as we get some steady power again, but right now it´s hard to get anything finished, so better get this of while I still can LOL.

They´re working on it, but I don´t know, when they´ll have it all fixed, as it was wrong a couple of days ago too, and they said it was fixed, but then it all began again early this morning, but I hope, I´ll be able to stay online now, but now you know why, if I suddenly disappear again.

Have a wonderful day everyone and take good care.

Biiiiiig warm hugs Maryann

As you probably knew, it was today, I went to the hospital for the scan, and I just came back here about an hour ago, so here´s the latest update.

I came in early this morning and had some nuclear contrast stuff pumped into my venes, and then I had to sit for 2 hours and just drink and drink a lot of fluid LOL, Not the biggest problem, as it was allowed to be coffee he he he. But after these 2 hours, I was entered in the big torturemachine LOL and tied completely tight on this stealbed and I wasn´t allowed to move a muscle, while it went on, and they  took me in and out a lot of times, while they scanned all the bones in my body for a little more than ½ hour, before they finally let me out, so I could get up and move a bit, while the doctor was looking at these pictures, before they did the last scans. But then the doctor came in, as he obviously could see, that I was in pretty much pain after this round, and said, that the nurse had just told him, that I had recently had a big backsurgery, when it was and what for and things like that, and ofcauase I told him, what he asked about, and then he got really mad, and said, he would stop this now then, cause I should never had been into the scanner with this, but he hadn´t been informed from the other doctors about this, and he was sorry, I had had to go throug this. I told him, it was okay if this was what was needed to get an end to the other problems, but he was very deterined and said, no he wouldn´t allow anymore, as it could damage more, than it did good LOL, but he could tell me, that my implant in the hip was perfectly fine, so it definately wasn´t that, which gave the problems, so the hipspecialist would have to look for answers elsewhere, but he refused to do more scannings, as they had a rule, that they never ever scanned on anyone, before earliest 6 months after any surgery and he would even say 9months, when it was such a surgery as I´ve had, so now he would give the message to the the specialist, and then I would hear from him, when he was ready to see me again. So that´s where I am right now folks, just waiting again for some doctors to get ready, but not much wiser, I must admit, except from I know, that nothing is wrong with the hip implant LOL. But that´s ofcause also good news, cause then I at least don´t risk another surgery right now, and that´s great news to me for sure.

Sorry it couldn´t be a bit more interesting, but it seems, it´s my way of things, to always be waiting for something LOL.

Have a wonderful day dear friends and take good care of yourself, it´s soo darned troubled, if you don´t, believe me, I know about that ha ha ha.

Biiiiiiiig warm hugs Maryann

Hi there sweet friends!

I Just wanted to wish all of you my wonderful friends a very HAPPY MOTHER DAY. I hope, you´ll be spoiled rotten all day by all your wonderful husbonds and kids, who´ll show their apreciations for all you´re always doing for them all year around.

I Hope you´ll all have a wonderful day, and that you´ll be able to spend it with all your loved ones around you to spoil you all day. Have a great time dear friends and just enjoy every minute of the day.

Love and biig warm hugs to all of you from me.

Huuuuuuuugs Maryann

Hello there dear friends, Now I finally got a moment to sit down and write a bit about, what´s been going on here the last couple of weeks here. I know, I haven´t been much online at all, but life has just been completely crazy here, so I haven´t had much time or energy to do a lot of things, I´m afriad.

First of all, as many of you knows, I had my appointment at the hospital here friday, and it went really well and all was just fine. The x-rays showed, that I had generated almost 1cm of new bonetissue around all the broken pieces, so it was just as good as it could be, even I ofcause was told NOT to get too exstatic and overdo anything yet, as it would still be very fragile, but it just proofed, that I had been right all the way, when I said, that this new material wasn´t any good for me, and this prroofed, I was right, so I was really happy, that I kept on as long as I did, so they finally got all this out and replaced with some of the old materials, cause now I can at elast look forward to get a much stronger bavck hopefully. And besides that, I haven´t been sleeping as much as I am now, for many many years, and the pains are not near as bad anymore either, as they were before, as long as I don´t do anything stupid LOL. But sometimes, you just can´t get around that, as there do happen things, you can´t control, as there did here the last couple of weeks, so I have been a bit down some days too, I must admit.

First I was soo "lucky" to catch a really bad flu, that just kept comming and going several times. Just as you thought, that now you were on top, it just started again and you felt like crab, but finally I seems to got rid of that, but I´ve really been sooo tired, that I felt I could sleep 24/7. Then we had a couple of days last week, where they took our power, becuase they had to manintain the powernet in our area, and ofcause they made an error, so after we had got it back, it suddenly went again the next day, and that time we weren´t prepared at all, so we hadn´t saved any water or anything, which makes it pretty difficult to do anything at all, but we got over that too after a couple of days with power on and of more times, so when we finally got it back, we had a lot of laundry to do and a lot of cleaning too, so I was probably doing a bit more,, than I should. Then it was finally friday, when I was going to the check up at the hospital, and I left here early in the morning, and spent most day out there and also got around to shop a bit of groceries too and came back home, casue I had pronmissed the girls, they could come for a sleepover that night. It was the anual finale in our local X-Factorshow here, and it has kind of been a tradition the last 4 years before, that they came here that night, and we should have a cosy night with pizza and goodies all night and watch the show in our pyjamas LOL, and we did and it was really cosy and all was fine. Then saturday Tascha remembered, she was invited for a birthday with one of the girls in her class, and ofcause we rushed around to get her finished and of we went to get her there. We had else agreed with my daughter, that we came for dinner at their house that night and brought the girls then, but ofcause she should go to the birthday, and we hurried back, because my oldest son had called and asked, if I could take a ½ pig, cause hehad a colleague, who had butchered one, but those, who should have it, suddenly wouldn´t have it anyway, so he had called my son, and asked if he would buy it, but they didn´t have enough space in their freezer for the whole one, but it was sold soo cheap, that it was too good to leave this offer, and he had promissed, it was completely cut out and ready to go in the freezer, so I said okay then.

But when he brought it here at 2 PM, it was nothing like parted at all, so I suddenly had 40 kg of dead meat on my kitchentable and hubby wasn´t homw, so I just had to get on and get all this cutr to pieces and wrapped up to go into the freezer, and it was quite a bit more, than my back liked, I must say, so ofcasue it took a lot longer, than it normally would have done, as I was all alone with just Trine here, but as she´s jsut 4, she ofcause couldn´t help. But at 5PM hubby came home and could help me with the last of it and get it upstairs to the freezer, and about 6:30 it was all done and put aside, and we could finally go tttttttttttto my daughters house for the dinner, they were waiting with there, but it was a really fast visit, as I was just ready to go home and find my bed at that time, which I also did. But then yesterday I ofcause had to get cleaned here. I had just cleaned the tables and the worst of the mess and then left, the night before, so it was quite a greasy mess to get up to here yesterday morning, and even hubby was helping me, it was still quite a job to get all cleaned well again after so long, but we got it all cleaned both the cabinets and the tables and all floors and weverything, so now all is nice and clean here and I thought, that today I should finally just relax and spend time online, so I could catch up with all I was behind inhere, but no no, it wasn´t meant to be either. I started the washingmachine this morning, and  then I had a couple of friends popping inhere this morning for coffe, which was ofcause very cosy, and suddenly the washing  machine started bibbing like crazy and I went out to see, what was wrong, and it had just suddenly stoppped in the middle of the program, ofcause filled with water. SO I tryed to make it to pump the water out, but it just wouldn´t, so I had to open it and got all the water out all over the floors and everything, but I had to, else I can´t open into the filters to see, if there was something stucked inthere, and there was, so I was sure, that was the problem, and got it all cleaned out and started it all over again, and then I started to clean after all the dirty water, that had run out, and also got it all done, and was then again really tired, but at least I fixed the problem, or so I thought LOL, cause 45 minutes later, it started all over again bibbing and wouldn´t pump the water out. But this I waited til hubby came home from work, and left it to him this time, BUT  he ofcause had to open it again, so it was water all over the room once again and I admit, I was just oh no, but he is thanks god soo technical, that he could take the machine apart and get it fixed, as it was the pump, that was gone broke, so he went and got another pump and got it inthere and now I´ve finally just finished one machine of laundry in a whole day, and I can feel very certain, that the laundryroom is also very very clean now after it has been covered in hot water twice in one day LOL. SO now I´m pretty exited to see, what is going to happen tomorrow, as there has just been something every day here the last week now. But as we have to be positive, I can say I have got loads of training these past days here, and even the doctors at the hospital didn´t find it nessecary, that I came to see the fysioteraphist, as I was very welltrained already, so there was no need to run for anymore of that, so I´m saving all these trips here the next 6 weeks, and could just continue as I did now, but I´m not sure, that he meant quite as much as I´ve been doing this week-end thoug? But I cross my fingers, that we wount have anymore comming up here now, so I can get some time to do some crafting now too, and hopefully I´ll also be able to get more inhere again too and see what all the rest of you are doing as well, as I know very well, I haven´t been visiting anyone here the last time and not commented on more than a very few things.

I appologize, that I´ve been sooo absent here, but I´m sure, you´ll all understand, that thecomputer has been the last, I´ve thought about, and I´ll also appologize to all those, who has been writing me, as I haven´t got answered anybody here the last days, but I promisse, it´ll be better now, and I will also get all the thngs done, that I have promissed more people, as I haven´t forgot about it, just not had time or energyfor more, but I will do it as soon as possible now, I promisse.

Thanks you all sooooooo much for all your sweets comments all the way throug this and all your wonderful support. And thanks again for listening to all my blabbing here today as well LOL I hope, you´re not tooo bored with all this nonsens here ha ha ha.

Have a wonderful day dear friends and take good care of yourself okay? I´m very very positive now, that the future will be a lot better now and I´ll hopefully be completely back to normal very soon now.

Lots of love and big warm hugs to all of you Maryann

Hello dear friends,

Sorry I´m a bit late with this update here. I meant to do it last night, but I admit, I wasn´t really up to much at that time LOL, and when I tryed to do it here this morning, Multiply suddenly wouldn´t let me get inhere, and it kept on until late this afternoon, but now it finally works again, so here I am, better late than never, as they say ha ha.

As you know, I was fgoing to see my doctor yesterday, to have the stables removed finally and have my BP checked gain now, as it was still way too high after the surgery again, so they instructed me at the hospital to go and have it checked by my own doctor exactly a week after I came home, but it was then one day later, so I could get the stables removed the same time. So I had got an appointment yesterday at 9:30AM, and boy I was just waiting for that moment to appear, as these stables were hurting sooo bad now and it was itching, so I really thought I was loosing my mind some times ha ha ha. But I got inthere, just to be told, that I should expect some waitingtime, as the other doctor in the surgery and their nurse too, were both sich, so my doctor had to take care of all the patients this day. I wasn´t too happy about sitting there for too long on one of their wodden chairs, but what could I do about it? Nothing but wait nice and patiently, and to make it all get completely perfect, then she was suddenly called out to an emergency too, so I ended up sitting there and wait for 2½ hour, before I finally came in to see her, and boy was I sore and tired then, but I finally go these darned stables out, and what a relief it was. Just sooo wonderful, but I admit, I wasn´t exactly up to any happy dance at that moment, cause I was really sore and tired by then, but thanks god, when she then took my blood preasure, it was almost back to normal again for the first time since they found out, it was too high, so she didn´t want to do more about it, than we already do, so I should just keep on with the medicin as I had started now, and then have it checked again in another month, so that was good news, and she also told me, that my wound on the back had healed really nicely, so I diodn´t need to get the plaster on again either, even they had said on the hospital, it should stay there for another 5 days to make sure, I couldn´t get any bacterias in it at all, but it was healed sooo nice, that there wasn´t even any smal wounds after the stables anymore, so I could do with some strips to make the scar safe, if I should get along with a bad twist or something, so I didn´t risk it to go up again, that was all. And she was really impressed too, how fast things had gone this time, and just told me, that I now officially had the record here in Denmark, as the person, who had gone home fastest ever after a backsurgery. I already had that record before too, as I went home 5 days after the surgery last time LOL, but this time I went home just 2 days after, and I was out of bed again and walking around already at 3 PM in the afternoon the day I had the surgery, which was also a record, she told me. But all was just perfectly fine, so if I just kept on doing as I was told, which means absolutely no wowrk at all or any twisting in the back or any lifting anything at all the first 6 weeks, then I have to go to the hospital again for the first check up there, and they´ll tell me then, what I can be allowed to do and what not. So as you see all is fine and no reason to worry about anything, so that´s just great, and now all I can do is to sit down and wait for the bones to heal, so I can hopefully get back to a normal life again.

It has been really amazing how well it has all gone, and I owe all of you dear friends a biiig thanks for that too, cause it was all yur love and support, that made me able to keep on and get throug all of it without further problems, thank you all sooo very much for that. Ofcause I know, there´ll be bad days now and then still and ofcasue I´m still feeling very sore and get very tired pretty fast, but after the circumstances all is just so amazing and I´m just sooo glad, that it´s all over with now, and it can only go forward from here now. Thanks sooo much for that sweet friends.

I hope, you´ll all have a wonderful week-end filled with loads of fun and joy, and please take very good care of yourself everyone okay?

All my love and biig warm hugs Maryann

Sorry dear friends, I haven´t been here much today. Today has been a bit more painful than yesterday, but nothing to worry about, and it has nothing to do with doing too much or anything. It´s actually only some positive pains, cause it´s all just because I was sleeping way too well last night LOL.  I´ve been instructed in to take some certain medicin every 4 hours here and that should pretty much cover the worst painlevel from the surgery, and then I have got some strong painkillers to take after need, as we can´t expect to have the entire back opened up and put together again with about 25 cramps down the spine without a certain painlevel. But as you know, it was all going soo well here yesterday and I felt really good, and in the first night I already slept more, than I´ve done for years almost. And then last night I went to bed around midnight after I´ve had the last medicin about 11PM and been to the bathroo and so on, and then I expected to get up in the middle of the night, as I´ve been used to and take my medicin then ofcause and then go back to bed again until this morning. BUT....... I obviously slept sooo well and didn´t feel enough pain to wake up at all until 7:30 thi morning, so I had actually missed my medicin both at 3AM and also at 7Am this morning, so I could hardly get out of bed, when I finally woke this morning, and as soo it took me quite a while to get out of bed and down to the bathroom and get ddressed, so it was 8AM before I actually got the painkilling medicin, I should have had at 3 AM LOL, and as it´s some special medicin, that needs to be taken regularly, as it just gives a little all the time during these 4 hours, it also meant, that my body was completely out of medication to take the pains, and as it takes about 24 hours to get back in that reoutine again before it works all right, I haven´t had the best day today with pains, but like I said, it´s just positive, that my painlevel is soo low, that I could actually sleep from it, and as it´s a good sign, that I can sleep for so long now, it´s nothing to worry about. It just means, that to keep this steady, I´ll have to set the alarm tonight to be sure, I´ll wake up and have my medicin, at least until next friday, when I can get these cramps removed of my back again, and then I can take it with the doctors, if we can maybe change the way of the medicin, so I wount have to take it quite as often, and hopefully I´ll soon be able to get all rid of all this medicin, as I´m actually already now on less painkillers, than I was before the surgery, so that is really positive too, I think. And beside these extra pains, I also had my daughter and my prncesses visiting here for the first time after this afternoon, so I also had to sit and talk with them, as the girls ofcasue was very interested in, what this bad bad doctor had done to their gran ha ha ha, so I had to show them the wound and tell them a bit about why it was done and what it would hopefully mean for the future, so they didn´t have to worry so much either. But it helped a lot, that I told them all about it and showed them everything,then they thanks god soon forget about these things again, and that´s also how it shall be ha ha ha.

But I´m very sorry, as I have seen, that more of you have been trying to catch me online during the day, but I just haven´t had much energy to chat more here I admit, and I can´t sit here very long at a time either because of the pains, but I hope, it´ll be some better again tomorrow, when I´ve been throug these 24 hours again. But I know, I´ll get more compagny tomorrow too for lunch, so I´m not sure, how much I´ll be here then either, but then I´m also sure, I´ll soon begin to feel much much better already again and on friday I´ll have to go and have the cramps removed, and then it´ll probably begin to go really fast forward. But my sincere apologies to those, I haven´t got answered yet. I promisse, I will get to all of you soon, but please jsut be a bit patient on me here in the beginning, as I don´t want to risk anything, so I have to take things very slow, I´m afraid. I hope, you´ll all understand that.

Thank you all soooo very much for all the wonderful love and support, I´ve met from all of you, it really means the world to me in these times, that´s for sure, and Ijust feel like one of the lucliest people in the world to have so many wonderful friends everywhere.

Have a wonderful week ahaead dear friends and take very good care of yourself too.

All my love and biiig warm hugs Maryann

First of all, Rhank you all sooooooooooo very much for all the sweet messages and all the love and support from all of you. I was so overwhelmed, when I saw how many messages, there was for me inhere, and I spent most of my sitting time yesterday reading all of them. I did mean to make this update last night, but I admit, I was more tired, than I had thought I would be, and even I´m doing really good, I still need to be very carefull.

I had the surgery tuesday morningas my BP finally dropped down to an acceptable level at 6AM that morning, so it was first then, they said finally go to the urgery, so I was really reliefed, when they did, and then things started to go really fast, so I didn´t have much time to think about much more then LOL. But the susrgery went perfectly well and thanks god, it wasn´t quite as bad, as they had said before, so they "only" had to replace one more vertebra instead of 2 as they had feared before. But they replaced this one, and then they replaced all the old material for the other 5 vertebras, they had replaced the other 2 times, so I now have got the old kind of material sat in forr all 6 of them, and they have cleanaed everything down my spine and put some very special material inthere, that should make it growtogether better and faster, and help my body to create new bonetissue much faster, so wedon´t get this problem again, that my bones wount heal up. And all that went just fine and worked perfectly they said, and I was already awake again 1:30PM tuesday and already at 3 PM I was out of bed and walking around and felt just fine, so I was released from the wake up department the same day there, where we normally need to stay there until the next day, but I got out of there and back to my own room already for dinner that night. And next morning the doctor said, that if it kept on like this, I could come home friday, if there was somebody here at home to help me. But as you know, I was allowed to get home already thursday night, when I could take some injections myself for a week more, anad ofcause I can do that, if it meant, I could go home LOL. The hospital was pretty far from home, and unfortunately we got another snowstorm here tuesday, so nobody was able to come and visit, and it is pretty boring to be all alone in a hospital 150km from home, so it was jsut to get home as soon as possible ha ha ha, and as long as I´m just taking things very slow and change all the time with sitting, walking, standing and laying down all the time all is really fine. I´m not allowed to do anything at all for the first 6 weeks, so I´ll probably be good to yell after people around me. Wonder if I couldn´t get used to have a waiter on each hand all the time? ha ha ha Or maybe NOT LOL. I still feel better, if I can just go and do things, like I like, but don´t worry, I´m NOT doing anything stupid, now it seems, that things are going soo well this time. I haven´t even needed more painkillers after the susrgery, than I did before, and that itself is really positive already they say, as anybody expected, that I would need quite a lot more right after the surgery. Ofcause I have some pains, but nothing, I can´t stand, and I don´t expect to be cut all up either without having any pains, and if it´s not geting worser than this, I wount complain.

But I´ve sat here long enough now, I´m afraid, so I need dto go and lay down, but I just wanted to let you all know, that I´m back and I´m feeling really fine, so nothing to worry about dear friends, I´m very positive now, that things will work out really well this time. I´ll get back here now and then over the next days, but I can´t sit long enough yet to sitt and answer every message, so please don´t expect that, but I´m very sure, it´ll soon be much much better, and then I´ll definately be here a lot more too.

Have a wonderful week-end dear friends and take good care of yourself everyone okay?

Lots of love and biiiig warm hugs Maryann

Hello there dear friends.

I just wanted to give you the last update here now, before I´m leaving for the hospital in the morning.

Thanks god I got some medicin friday to lower my BP, and already in the afternoon, it had dropped some, so when I talked to the hospital last time, they decided, that we took the chance and sticked to the plans and hoped, it´ll drop to an acceptable level before the surgery tuesday morning, so it was a very reliefed lady here, who finally could relax here late friday afternoon, and I´m very sure, it has been a good help to get this message LOL. I feel really confident now, that all will be just fine now and everything will be as planned, so hopefully no more worries and delays here now LOL.

Thank you all sooooo sooo much for all your love and support throug these crazy days here. It really means the world to me, and I feel so blessed, to have so many wonderful friends all over the world, who´s there for me and supporting me throug this. I could really wish, that all people would be this blessed with great friends too, then this world would definately be a much better place to live. I´m sorry, if there´s some I didn´t got written to before I go, but things has just been absolutely crazy here the last weeks, so I hope, you´ll forgive me, if there´s anybody I haven´t got written to, if I should, and I hope, I can get throug all, when I get back home again, cause I´m unfortunately running out of time now.

I´m leaving here tomorrow morning, and I don´t know for certain, when I´ll be back again, but my youngest son Keld has promissed, he would go uphere and write an update a couple of times, while I´m gone, so those who wants can follow, what´s going on here after the surgery too. Thank you sooooo very much everyone and I hope, you´ll all have a wonderful week ahead and please take very good good care of yourself everyone okay?

Lots of love and biig warm hugs Maryann 

Unfortunately my blood pressure wasn´t good today either, thoug a tiny bit better than the other day, but still far from good, but my doctor didn´t think, we should cancel the surgery yet, so now she sent me home with a machine to ame the BP here at home, and now I shall take it every 2 hours until tomorrow noon, as she said, it could very well be because I´m a bit afraid, that they will cancel it, that makes it high, so I´m ordered to sit in a chair and do nothing except from aming my BP every 2 hours and else just sit and rest, and if it´s not better tomorrow, they have no choise but to cancel it, as they´ll nhave to treat it medically then, before they dre take any risk with the surgery, so I´m afraid, it´s not any good news today, and I´m afraid, there probably wount be any surgery monday, but I´ll let you know tomorrow.

Big hugs Maryann

Hello dear friends,

 As I´ve promissed several of you, here is finally an upddate to my crazy health situation. As many of you knows, it´s almost about time now for my third big backsurgery, and yesterday I spent all day at the hospital, where I should have all the last tests and make all the last arrangements with the doctors, before the final surgery, that is scheduled to be made on tuesday next week. So I went out there yesterday morning at 8, and I had new X-rays taken and loads of bloodtests and EKG and bloodpreasures and I was amed and weighed and all these things, they always do before a surgery. And then I went in to meet the surgeon and have the last examination there too and make the last agreements about, what we actually did and how we did everything in the best way. And we were almost done with all this, when the nurse came in and said, she needed to take my bloodpreasure again, because it for some weird reason were raised skyhigh, but it could just be because of all this running around, as it´s a really big hospital, and ofcause everything is in the complete different ends of the hospital, so there was quite a lot tunning from one place to another, and that could cause the high preasure, so she just wanted to take it again now after I had ben sitting quiert for a while now. BUT..... unfortunately it was still as high as the first time, and if it is this high, there was no way they would give me any anaesthesia, cause it could cause really troubles during the surgery then, and they wouldn´t take any risks at all, so now I have to go and see my own doctor thursday to have  my bloodpreasure taken again, and if it´s still this high, they may cancel the surgery again until they find out, what cause this high bloodpreasure. So that was just NOT exactly, what I had hoped for, I must admit, but again there´s just nothing, I can do about it at all, and I have no idea, why my bloodpreasure suddenly has raised to this skyhigh level, and I´ve never ever tryed that before, but I hope, it´s just something to do with all the stress yesterday, as I don´t feel sick or anything like that, and I think, I would do, if it was a stable conditions for a longer time, so please cross your fingers for me dear friends, that it´s just a one time thing, and not a permanent situation, so it´ll all be fine, when I get the next check here in a couple of days LOL.

But else, if the bloodpressure is fine next time, the surgery will be on for tuesdady morning and we´ve agreed, that they´ll replace all the old material, there has been used on the earlier operations too and then he was afraid, they would have to replace not just one but two more vertebras, to make sure, that they had got all the bad bone removed this time, to make sure, all that is left is all nice and fine bone. And then they have ordered some very special fake bonetissue home from the US, to put inthere too, which should prevent any further infections and help my own body to regenerate new bone tissue, so that it would heal up very fast this time too, and also make sure, that no more of my vertebras would get damaged, as it´s the absolutely final chance this time, they say, and if we don´t get a good result this time, they can´t do anymore, and I´ll have to live with the pains for the rest of my days. So I just cross everything possible, that this time, it´ll just all go smooth and perfect, so I can get my life back again LOL.

But this is how things are right now dear friends, and I just hope, it´ll go as we´ve planned now, and wount be delayed once again. And if it goes as planned, I probably wount be here much for the next while, as I have a lot, I need to make ready, before I go in on monday, as my daughter and son in law is having their common birthday celebrations here on saturday, so this week is pretty occupied now, as I have the appointment with my own doctor on thursday, and the girls will come here to stay from friday to saturday, for the last time in a very long time and sunday I have to pack for the hospital monday morning, and then I don´t know for sure, when I´ll be back home again, as it ofcause depends on, how things work out after the surgery and there wount be any complications, which I sure don´t hope. But if things goes as it use to, then I expect to get back home before next week-end, and ofcause I´ll say hi then, but in the meanwhile, my youngest son, who lives next door, has promissed, he would go uphere and write an update a couple of times, while I´m gone, to keep you all informed of what´s happening, so you can see, what is going on. I´ll try and see, if I can´t make it throug all my small notes here before I go, but if I have promissed any of you anything and don´t do it here one of the first days, then please drop me a note, as I ofcause can have forgot something in the middle of all this, so please just remind me then, if I´ve forgot something for any of you, and then I´ll do my best to get it done, before I leave monday, I promisse.

I was asking yesterday, if it was possible to go online up there on the hospital, cause then I would just bring the laptop, but they wount allow the patients to go online there, as they keep saying it can interfear with all their systems, so it´s just not allowed unfortunately, so I´ll have to wait til I get back, cause else I could have spent some of all the lazy time onhere, but unfortunately that´s not an option, but never mind, I´ll just have to bring something else to do, while I have to sit there nice and quiertly on my behind LOL.

I hope, you´ll all have a great time, while I´m gone, and please don´t do anything, that I wouldn´t have done okay? ha ha ha. So please just enjoy your time and have lots of fun and take good care of yourself everyone, til I´ll be back here again hopefully pretty soon.

Love and big warm hugs Maryann