The sad news I was told on June 24, 2009

So yesterday was a day that I will never forget. What I thought was a ordinary day turned out to be a day that will now change the rest of my life.
Woke Up: 5:15am
Got to work :6:45 am
I was going about my normal morning, I ate a bagel around 7:30am with my morning soda, since I dont drink coffee very often soda is what gives me my caffiene. At about 10:30am I started not feeling good. I felt very hot, so I turned on my little fan at my desk. Next think I know while I am on the phone with a homeowner, I feel this RUSH of tingling go from my feet to my head, and apparently after that my head tipped over onto my desk. I had passed out. My co-worker next to me but her homeowner on the line and my manager was sitting right behind me. She rushed to my desk. Once I came out of it in a matter of seconds my co-worker completed my call and my manager took me carefully to her desk. She asked if I wanted a paramedic to be called. She got me some juice and some gum to try to get sugar in me. I sat there for a little over an hour not knowing what happend but not really feeling good. I decided to have Michael come and pick me up to take me to Urgent Care.
That was when my long night started. So after running an EKG and that being normal, they did blood work and urine samples. My diagnosis was sadly found. They clearly were able to determine that I have Diabetes. I was going to be there for quite awhile. Now the Kaiser Urgent care in Lancaster has been newly built. They built almost a hospital style one on the same property as the old, but one half is all rooms for urgent care and the otherside literally is like a hospital triage unit. I had to get attached to a IV so that my body could get re hydrated. My blood sugar level when I got there at 12:00pm was at 276. Apparantly for a person who does not have Diabetes your blood sugar should be below 130 someone with type 2 Diabetes should be below 180. So with being said they did diagnos me with type 2 Diabetes. I know I will beat this with change of foods and diet. I hate that now I have to check my blood sugar levels everyday and take a baby aspirin every day for the rest of my life. I cried at first since I didnt know a lot about it. I was scared. But now that I am reading more into it I know that I will be fine, as long as I want to be fine and maintain my lifestyle in a healthy way. I thought it was all because of my weight, however the Dr. said no its not always due to weight. So wish me luck on my new chapter in life.

A Day at the Museum Part 1 "Indoors"

Yesterday was a girls day out. My mom, sister, grandma, and I took a trip down to the J. Paul Getty's Museum. Leaving the Antelope Valley were it was sooooo windy and cold and getting down to Los Angeles was wonderful. It was very overcast the entire time but was such a beautiful day. The museum was absolutely amazing. There was different time eras of paintings, sculptures, and settings of ancient time. I did take lots of pics. Here are a few that really stood out to me.

This was just a beautiful painting up close an personal. What a great Name The Fountain of Love.



I also fell in love with this one painting. The postcard setting didn't come out very well in my photos so I am unable to actually post what the painting is of but basically its of a little girl named Jeannie Kieffe from 1885 with her back against the doors, this painting looked SO real it was incredible. The details in it literally resembled that of an actual photo. The purpose of this painting was at one point to show that of a child's perception of a world scaled for grown-ups.

When I saw this next painting I felt very joyful. I wish every May Day was like this. Unfortunately its not. However it is my nephew Chris birthday on May 1st so I can just think of joy for that. The title of it was "SPRING"

There was plenty of other paintings as well. Here is some religious paintings, I didn't get the descriptions for all so I am just posting the pics. I do know the names of a few of them, there is a painting of David with the head of Goliath painted by Pietro Novelli an Italian artist from 1603-1647. The Immaculate Conception which was painted in about 1730. Another one which is described as Christ in Glory. Which appears to be of Christ reigning on high with Angels surrounding him. This painting was done by Pompeo in approx 1736-1737. And then others.

These were some of the paintings captured. Now there was another part that was really interesting, there was a section were it was showing items that were used in France in the 1800's. I captured two different photos of common bedrooms back then. One looks like a giant sofa however you could not just sit on it, it was really deep in depth so although it appears to look like a sofa it was wide and really did look like a bed. More like what is now our modern day DAYBEDS this must of been there style. The bed itself had wheels in the middle under the bed.

This next Bed was bed that was popular in Italy.Its funny my sister and I were walking around on our own in this section and we saw it and thought our grandma will probably love this style, and sure enough when she reached that room she did and wanted a picture with it.


Finally there were two sculptures that I really liked. The artwork was fantastic.



These are just some of the few beautiful things I saw while spending my day at the museum. There was so much more there that we saw. The museum has other parts as well to it in which I will piece together on my next blog.If you are here in Southern California and are looking to enjoy A Day at the Museum "Indoors" then I highly recommend the J. Paul Getty's Museum. It is FREE yes FREE to get in, you just pay $10.00 for parking. It is right off of the 405fwy, exit Getty's Dr. I hope whomever is reading has enjoyed seeing pieces of the art that I saw. Stay tuned..there is more beauty to come that was also on the grounds of the J. Paul Getty's museum.