Furnas Family

Arkansas Back Packing Trip...march 2008

2008-04-12T23:25:00.003-05:00

March 2008

Austin, Sam Hatcliff, and Stevan went hiking on a back packing trip with Dave Furnas and John Hatcliff! They had a pretty good trip for the first 2 days then the rains came!!! They went to Arkansas and it rained about 9 inches before they got home!! What a memorable trip!!

2008-04-12T23:24:00.000-05:00

Turkey Season

2008-04-12T23:12:00.002-05:00

Well Dave took Stevan Turkey hunting last weekend and Stevan got his first Turkey. He and Dave were in a blind and it only took Stevan one shot to get him. Good Job Stevan! He was pretty excited and proud! We still haven't eaten it yet! As for me, I have no idea how to cook a wild turkey so Dave is going to have a buddy of his cook it up for us. Currently it is in the deep freeze!

We are all doing well. I am currently recovering from having another surgery about 5 weeks ago. I had to have a Laproscopic Assisted Vaginal Hysterectomy, also taking out ovaries. It turned out that I had a pretty bad case of Endometriosis and it was hurting pretty bad. It has been a much longer recovery that my previous surgeries. The doc said it would take about 6 weeks and I would continue to be pretty tired, well she was right! I have caught a bladder infection during this recovery process and still experiencing some pain off and on and been really tired. I took 3 weeks off work and then went back 1/2 days for awhile and am now back to full days. Hopefully I won't have to have anymore surgery for a long long long time!

Happy Spring everyone!! Take care!!

Leanne

Christmas 2007

2008-01-27T13:09:00.000-06:00

Dave's gift to me

2008-01-27T13:03:00.000-06:00

I think he really wanted this video..not me

Leanne's never ending health problems

2008-01-27T12:35:00.001-06:00

Hi everyone. I just wanted to give everyone an update on my gory health issues. It has been about a year now of me not feeling well. It all started last February with my first emergency surgery. I had a pretty bad gallbladder attack and ended up in the emergency room with gallbladder removal surgery. I was in the hospital for a few days with that one. Then I felt better for about 2 months but started feeling terrible again. It turned out there was still gallstones in my common bile duct so that led to a second surgery. I ended up getting sick in the hospital after that surgery with pancreatitus. So I was in the hospital for a few days with that one also. I then felt better for awhile but not completely back to normal. To make this story a little shorter, I then had another procedure/surgery to check out my colon and upper gi endoscopy. Nothing was really found out with that one. I ended up having a incisional hernia and had a surgery for that in June. I had a hernia that was the size of about a quarter and the surgeron placed a mesh patch over it to fix it(which will stay there forever). In the meantime after that I did have one more ERCP surgery to check for more gallstones, since I was still having gallstone like pain. The ERCP surgery showed no further gallstones so I was placed on a perscription medicine to help with that since the doctors determined it was more like a nerve like pain I was having. This medication has helped with that problem. Well in October I was feeling like I had another hernia so I went back and had my 6th surgery. This was a laproscopic type surgery to explore whether I did have another hernia or something else. The surgeon discovered a large adhesion that had formed over the hernia repair sight. So he removed that by cutting it out. I have a photograph he took during that surgery and it is amazing to see the size of it and to see why I was having alot of pain. So this brings us up to current time. Well guess what...I am not feeling well again! I am definitely getting worn out from all this, it is getting a little ridiculous! I have switched regular doctors and am in the process of starting to figure out what could be wrong now. I am really thinking with the pain I am having that it is another adhesion. There is a high chance I could have another adhesion since any abdominal surgery causes adhesions. My surgeon will not see me until I go to my regular doc first. Unfortunately if it is an adhesion then surgery might not be the answer this time and I may have to live with it. The regular doc is in the process of sending me to my G.Y.N. to make sure all my female stuff is ok. She has also recommended that I make a changed in my diet. So I have not had a Pepsi in 3 days and am really trying to eat more fruits and veggies, which is not like me at all. You take away my Pepsi and mac and cheese I get grumpy! The doc is trying to see if this will make a difference in the amount of pain I am having, so far no change in that. So anyway that is where I am currently at in this year long mess. I have been getting increasingly discouraged thru this whole thing and have even questioned where God is in this. I know He is here but I sometimes feel the enemy telling me otherwise. If He chooses me to go thru this longer then I really think the prayer I need right now is for my spiritual health. I will keep you all updated and thanks for your prayers.

New York City

2008-01-26T13:45:00.000-06:00

Dave got to visit the big Apple last year.

2008-01-26T13:42:00.001-06:00

Our First Blog!

2008-01-26T13:21:00.000-06:00

Hi Everyone! We are gonna give this whole blog thing a try. Never really used it before but it looks like a great way to keep in touch with family and friends! Not really much going on with us today. We are all taking it easy! I haven't really been feeling the greatest yesterday and today so I have been resting. Dave has been working on midnight shift and is currently napping before he gets ready to go to work tonight. The boys are just messing around with gaming. We are enjoying some 50 degree weather, quite a change from the single digits we saw this week. Seems almost like a heat wave!