Ultimate Blog Party 2011!

It is that time again and boy I could use a party ! Janice and Susan over at 5 Minutes for mom are hosting this awesome party.Be sure and join in and link up.They are giving away some awesome prizes again this year. Here is a list of prizes
Hi and Welcome !!!
I am Missie and I live in Denmark....psttt it is a long long way from south Texas where I come from.
I have 3 girls at home.Deanna is 18,Mackenzie is 7 and Makayla will be 3 on the 15th (woohoo tax day baby).
Anyhow I blog about lifes ups and downs in Denmark and with the Straarup's.
I blog about Lupus(this sucks) and immigration and well life abroad.
So stop by and leave a message.I love meeting new friends !

Wind and Rain...

I decided to take some time off....ok I didn't want to stop writing but gosh I have been beat.
Almost every day at the circus I mean hospital and trying to unpack.Crazy I tell you its crazy.
I have been folding and putting away clothes.Listening to Makayla get better at english and most of all enjoying my kidlets

I have been showing Salem the important things I do everyday besides childcare,laundry and cooking

Shopping in Germany for my favorite cereal.
And this is what we found we we got home from Germany last night

Drowning...gurgle gurgle

Do you ever feel this way ?
We lately we have.It seems we cannot catch a break E.V.E.R
First off I got a bad infection when sick people came to our house(old landlord showed it and did not respect the wear a mask request)
Second we moved with no help.We have or I should say HE has family here but no one is ever able to help(go figure).So poor Søren has been doing his best at going to work then moving until almost midnight then repeat the next day.
We are done moving but now comes the unpacking and organizing.
Next 2 steps back..because I have not been eating right and was sick and on antibiotics for 7 weeks,stress, etc my hemoglobin dropped way down and so did the iron.
The Dr's here are shall we say (and I will keep it clean) hard to deal with.They call and expect you to run right in.Thing is I don't understand most of them and they don't speak english even though the hospital claims there is always someone that does.They mis understand alot of stuff and mis communicate it to other Dr's resulting in many phone calls to me yelling at me and calling me a liar when in fact it was the Dr that made the mistake.
You will never ever ever get an apology though so don't hold your breath.
The Dr yesterday(and there is a new one every day) told me it was his job to "push me" into doing what they want even if I don't want the treatment (aka blood transfusion) when my hemo is on the way back above normal already.
Next fall of 50 zillion steps was we were going "Home" to Texas on vacation.I have not been home in 5 years and was looking forward to it.We have not had a family vacation in 4 years.It is difficult to go on one with only one salary.
But alas we had to move so no vacation for us.
It is times like this I miss my family more than ever.They want to help with the girls and help us out but they are so far away.
Neeeext is UDLST we still have NOT heard back.They said I wold get something right away when they got my new passport...well it has been 4 months and they wont even answer calls from my attorney.....sigh
I worry about Søren as he is taking it all on but he is awesome and we will make it.
The sun is out now and it is like a life saver so I hope we start swimming again as we truly need to or well I don't really know .....
I love this saying
We May Not Have it All Together but Together We have it All

I worry about Søren as he is taking it all on but he is awesome and we will make it

Amazing Treatment or NOT

So I had to go to the Dr on thursday as I have a lingering infection(thanks to little clown and his disrespect)
So my last hemoglobin was 5.2 I was not to worried as it is always low.
On thursday however my Dr (whom I just love) called less than an hour after I left very concerned as it had dropped in 2 weeks to 4.6.
He wanted me hospitalized to get scans,xrays what ever to find out the cause.If it was internal bleeding that was going unnoticed to something else more concerning.
I went to the hospital as directed on Friday morning.Go in stand and wait and wait while they all pass me by and asking little old men what they need.
Finally Søren comes up and he goes to get someone and they put me in a room with a bed from the 1920's because you know with my condition I can hand crank a bed etc.
I wait and wait and a lady from the lab comes in to take blood and do a EKG
and oxy check.EKG and OX check are fine.
A young dr comes in a examines me and makes my kidneys hurt explains they will do tests etc.
They did one unpleasant one and no bleeding.
So I am laying in this rock hard bed listening to the nurses talk about me in danish..HA they think because I dont speak danish I dont understand how they are discussing me and my case.All the while these other 2 patients are hacking away and on oxygen.
One lady even calls several friends to tell them she has pneumonia.Great.Soren went and asked and they told him it was ok for me to be there as I had a little white count...(I am on chemo and have an auto immune disease)
The nurse comes back and by this time I am furious.Everyone else gets a snack served by a nurse and I am skipped.Dammit I am hungry to..Oh Well
Anyway she comes back and says they will do another blood draw in the after noon and then monday do another one ...ummm what about tests and the weekend.Well I am to just stay there and wait..Oh no I am not.
If they are going to treat me like this no way am I staying .
Why do they have to treat people like shit there.My Dr was abviously concerned or he would not have sent me there.
I am supposed to go back there monday am but I am going to my dr first.
If I want to be treated like a door mat or piece of poo I will get out the welcome mat and plastic bags
Lupus