Journal entry by linn marrero —
Hello friends,I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day 💘 celebrating the people you love.🥰 The day after I took Ariel to Urgent Care Nicholas and I went on our second outing for his birthday.We were going to drive over an hour away to go to this cafe to get these enormous cinnamon rolls,but we both decided we didn't want to drive that far so we went to Tacoma instead and got Legendary donuts. 🍩 Very large also and oh so yummy! 😘 From there we went to breakfast 🍳 and then went to look at some bookstores 📚and came home and played games.🎮
On Valentine's Day there were goodies for all.Ariel and I went to this new little Mexican market in our area.My in-laws used to make the best authentic Mexican food.They also used to get us Pan De Heuvo which is a Mexican sweet bread and so yummy,but not overly sweet like donuts tend to be.Ariel wanted to come she got herself looking super cute and was actually having a fairly good day.She told me she actually felt pretty good,something I never hear from her.She really liked the little store and we got a few things there.Well unfortunately something there that I meticulously scoured the ingredients didn't say it had red dye,but obviously did, she spit it out immediately,but that was all it took and within hours she was in a flare again.It's so very frustrating that so little can put her in flares anymore.I think having to do these shots all of the time is part of the problem.The CBD has definitely been a lifesaver as far as that goes,because it used to take one set of labs to put her in a flare,she is having to take shots twice a day and will until the beginning of April.🙁Then she will have another ultrasound and hopefully the blood clot will be gone.
We did end up getting snow ⛄❄️ the day after Valentine's Day.We got three inches and it was pretty much melted the next day,off of the roads anyway.Like I said before we actually have had pretty warm weather this winter so far.I did have to reschedule her dental appointment too much worry of another flare with work being done.She already got new lesions on her face,arms and leg.We are now staying away from sugar and anything processed.Trying to go all organic to avoid dye.It sickens me how much stuff it's in even some of her medications.💊
The guys and I have done more events.I did another Galentine's party,💕so much fun and Nicholas,Daniel and I went to a Navy concert on Sunday.It was really good all the brass from their band 🎷🎺and we also had lunch and looked around the museum.Ariel made a savings jar for our annual beach trip. 🚤 Something for her to look forward to.We want to go for two days this year and see some different sights.We've been watching videos on the coast and looking at different places.I just pray by that time she'll be done with these shots and we can go and enjoy ourselves.The Mermaid Museum🧜♀️ is always on our list of things to do.We're also looking to go to this jetty and scouring the beach for sea glass.🐚
Thank you all for your love and support
Please continue to pray for Ariel ❤️
God bless,Linn