More health stuff...

I have been having some neurological problems for a couple of weeks. Mostly pins and needles in my hands and feet, vision problems, headaches and nausea.

I had a brain MRI and the results are normal. The vision tests show that I have some abnormalities in the vessels behind my eyes. At this point the eye doctor thinks I have pseudopapilledema and possibly optic disk drusen. What this means is that I could have some vision loss at some point. There is nothing that can be done about it and it is a congenital defect. This may explain some of the vision stuff. The good thing is that it doesn't look like papilledema (meaning increased intracranial pressure). The biggest concern (and mostly why I had the MRI) was brain tumors. So, the normal MRI rules that out!! Yay!

I am still having some symptoms. Some fatigue, visual disturbances and tingling in my hands and feet. I was offered a referral to a Neurologist. One other test that might give us information is a lumbar puncture. This would show if I have too much spinal fluid. At this point I am not in a hurry to do either. If I keep having problems then I will go see a Neurologist. I am kind of hoping that I just keep feeling better.

Things to continue praying for if you feel led: That I would feel better and be back to myself!! That the problem with my eyes is completely benign and that I will not have any loss of vision down the road. That any underlying issues would just go away :)

Camping in Vedawoo

(I forgot my camera so I pulled this one off of google images)

My parents came out last weekend and we went camping in Vedawoo, Wyoming. This was Aaron's second camping trip. He enjoys camping quite a bit. This trip was particularly nice because my parents brought their camper. My mom is awesome and brought and cooked dinners.

We enjoyed hiking around the park and looking at flowers and rock formations. Aaron has become quite the little hiker. He will ride in the backpack for a little while, but soon he is ready to walk on his own! We came across a little tunnel through the rocks, he enjoyed that quite a bit.

The area we camped was very pretty. Unfortunately, John and I didn't get a chance to do a lot of rock climbing. We did enjoy walking around behind camp and bouldering on some of the rocks. A moose came pretty close to our camp on the last night. We thought it was a cow at first! It was fun, we don't see moose that often.

There were a few down sides to the trip. The first night some people (dare I say red necks?) drove back behind our site. They decided to have themselves a party until around 4:00 am. Their partying even included driving and honking through the area and walking through campsites with flash lights. None of us slept much. The mosquitoes were pretty bad. I have had some weird health stuff (more on that later).

All in all it was a great little camping trip. Vedawoo is such a unique and beautiful area. We are so glad our little guy likes camping!