Sunday, April 29, 2012
the Buddy list
Hey everyone!!! Here's the beta promo poster of the brand-new series, the buddy list. It's all about my friends, so keep an eye out for episode one!!!
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
J-$w@gg3r's Weekly Happenings
Hey everyone!!! After taking last week off, I'm back in action!!! Enjoy episode 10, that's right 10!!!!!
Thanks for watching!!!
Monday, April 9, 2012
From Pain To Healing (Part 2)
Before I start part 2; if you haven't read part 1, please scroll down and read part 1. That way you can understand what happened to me and what is now currently going on.
Ending of part 1: I don't remember anything after that, but throughout 2001, we went back and forth to hospital. We at one point had a Praise Party For Jesus, thanking him and believing that he would heal me. And in 2002, we got the news that I no longer had ITP. We were so happy and thanking God for healing me....but no-one expected that I would spend a lot of the next 7 years in my bed......
We had been totally relieved to know that God had healed me from ITP. And it was nice for me not to have to go to the hospital every Tuesday and get my finger pricked. But ITP was only the start of the pain. In 2002, I had started noticing that I was getting headaches, at first they weren't real bad, they were just the run-of-the-mill, annoying pains in your head type. towards the end of 2002, things took a turn for the worse. They started getting more painful and much more frequent, about 3-4 times a week. My parents had established a method of grading how bad the headaches were, from 1 (least amount of pain) to 10 (greatest amount of pain). My parents also got this sixth sense, where they could look at my face and ask if I had a headache. I would tell them and then we would go from there.
At the beginning of 2003, that's when the migraines hit. At first it was like this: regular headache 3-4 times a week with 1 maybe 2 being a migraine. Then, it suddenly changed, it turned from headaches 3-4 times a week, to 6-7 times a week. (Note: each headache last one day). The migraines went up too, from 1-2, to 3-4 times a week. And it ended up being....a migraine every day of the week. I had entered an incredibly painful state. My parents did everything they could, but the migraines kept winning. I going to give an example of one of those days: It starts out, I eat breakfast and the first headache starts. My mom asks me what number is it, I reply with a 2. But the pain increased very rapidly. From a 2 to a 10 in a matter of twenty minutes. I would move to my bedroom, close the door, barely turn on the radio, shut my blinds, and make my room as quiet and dark as I could. I would ask my mom to bring me hot/cold washcloths to put on my forehead. I would also ask for a "barf bucket". She would put a special white bell on my nightstand, to call her if I needed something. I would usually try to make it to the bathroom to vomit, but would be too tired and would not make it in time, so it would always be the barf-bucket that saved the day. I would take a scalding hot shower and pray and ask God to heal my head. I at one point looked at myself in the mirror walking very slowly from my room to the bathroom to take a shower. My face was extremely pale, my lips were chapped and cracking, my heart would race like crazy, at times my legs got very numb, where I could barely feel them, and it felt as if they had swollen up three times their size. I would feel very hot or very cold. The way I would move and the way my behavior was, and to the way I looked, you could say I was a zombie. My parents would call the Christian radio stations and The 700 Club (at Christian show my mom would watch) and ask them to pray with me. I wouldn't eat and would sip small amounts of water......
I started Tae Kwon Do when I was eight, and was still dealing with the migraines. Limiting me to what I could and could not do. Finally in 2009, my mom one day told me when I was in the kitchen, she said this: "I just realized you don't get migraines or headaches as often as you used to." And I knew she was right, I hadn't dealt with a migraine in over four months. We thanked God again for healing me.
Today, I rarely get headaches, migraines even fewer. But when I do, it's mostly because of allergies, and my sinuses getting inflamed and packed with gunk. I can sometimes get over them, but now, they are so concentrated in one part of my head, I want to do the same thing I did when I got the migraines. I still get the zombie look, but haven't had the numbness in my legs since I was younger. Over the years, my family has tried to figure out why I had so many migraines. The only reasonable answer we've been able to come up with, is that when I was being treated for ITP whatever medicine or treatment they did on me, had to have side-affects. And one of those we guess to be the migraines I went through. Our answer has never been confirmed or denied, but we know we'll most likely find out when we get to Heaven. That time in my life was difficult, but with much prayer, and faith in God to heal me, everything turned out just fine.
Ending of part 1: I don't remember anything after that, but throughout 2001, we went back and forth to hospital. We at one point had a Praise Party For Jesus, thanking him and believing that he would heal me. And in 2002, we got the news that I no longer had ITP. We were so happy and thanking God for healing me....but no-one expected that I would spend a lot of the next 7 years in my bed......
We had been totally relieved to know that God had healed me from ITP. And it was nice for me not to have to go to the hospital every Tuesday and get my finger pricked. But ITP was only the start of the pain. In 2002, I had started noticing that I was getting headaches, at first they weren't real bad, they were just the run-of-the-mill, annoying pains in your head type. towards the end of 2002, things took a turn for the worse. They started getting more painful and much more frequent, about 3-4 times a week. My parents had established a method of grading how bad the headaches were, from 1 (least amount of pain) to 10 (greatest amount of pain). My parents also got this sixth sense, where they could look at my face and ask if I had a headache. I would tell them and then we would go from there.
At the beginning of 2003, that's when the migraines hit. At first it was like this: regular headache 3-4 times a week with 1 maybe 2 being a migraine. Then, it suddenly changed, it turned from headaches 3-4 times a week, to 6-7 times a week. (Note: each headache last one day). The migraines went up too, from 1-2, to 3-4 times a week. And it ended up being....a migraine every day of the week. I had entered an incredibly painful state. My parents did everything they could, but the migraines kept winning. I going to give an example of one of those days: It starts out, I eat breakfast and the first headache starts. My mom asks me what number is it, I reply with a 2. But the pain increased very rapidly. From a 2 to a 10 in a matter of twenty minutes. I would move to my bedroom, close the door, barely turn on the radio, shut my blinds, and make my room as quiet and dark as I could. I would ask my mom to bring me hot/cold washcloths to put on my forehead. I would also ask for a "barf bucket". She would put a special white bell on my nightstand, to call her if I needed something. I would usually try to make it to the bathroom to vomit, but would be too tired and would not make it in time, so it would always be the barf-bucket that saved the day. I would take a scalding hot shower and pray and ask God to heal my head. I at one point looked at myself in the mirror walking very slowly from my room to the bathroom to take a shower. My face was extremely pale, my lips were chapped and cracking, my heart would race like crazy, at times my legs got very numb, where I could barely feel them, and it felt as if they had swollen up three times their size. I would feel very hot or very cold. The way I would move and the way my behavior was, and to the way I looked, you could say I was a zombie. My parents would call the Christian radio stations and The 700 Club (at Christian show my mom would watch) and ask them to pray with me. I wouldn't eat and would sip small amounts of water......
I started Tae Kwon Do when I was eight, and was still dealing with the migraines. Limiting me to what I could and could not do. Finally in 2009, my mom one day told me when I was in the kitchen, she said this: "I just realized you don't get migraines or headaches as often as you used to." And I knew she was right, I hadn't dealt with a migraine in over four months. We thanked God again for healing me.
Today, I rarely get headaches, migraines even fewer. But when I do, it's mostly because of allergies, and my sinuses getting inflamed and packed with gunk. I can sometimes get over them, but now, they are so concentrated in one part of my head, I want to do the same thing I did when I got the migraines. I still get the zombie look, but haven't had the numbness in my legs since I was younger. Over the years, my family has tried to figure out why I had so many migraines. The only reasonable answer we've been able to come up with, is that when I was being treated for ITP whatever medicine or treatment they did on me, had to have side-affects. And one of those we guess to be the migraines I went through. Our answer has never been confirmed or denied, but we know we'll most likely find out when we get to Heaven. That time in my life was difficult, but with much prayer, and faith in God to heal me, everything turned out just fine.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
From Pain To Healing (Part 1)
(Note: the stuff you're about to read, not all of my friends or family (I think) know about.)
Thursday the 5th of April 2012, I find myself at my Martial Arts class, it's the second our of the class, and I'm sitting in an orange chair with my head arms. I try to relax as the pain in my left eye increases: I have a headache. I can't seem to get comfortable, and finally our class is over. We go home and I get into the shower trying again to relax and open my sinuses. I does help a little bit, but I start thinking about how all this got started. I remember back 11 years ago, when I was 5.
We had just moved to our new house and we were settling in. That's when it started. My parents had noticed I was starting to bruise easily, one evening my mom was out of the house, and I was running through the hallway, when I cut my foot on a toy motorcycle. My dad went about as usual with washing the area with water, and blotting it dry, we were in the bathroom for almost an hour, and my foot hadn't stopped bleeding. My dad called my mom, and told her what was happening, and they both got concerned. I don't fully know how I was diagnosed, but I do remember finding out, I had
Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (or ITP). A blood disease, where you're blood does not clot like normal. It takes much longer than normal for the platelets in your blood to clot. I again do not remember all the details, but I remember getting signed up at OU Children's Hospital, for some sort of testing/curing program, to figure out the disease.
Every Tuesday, I would go up to the hospital, and get my blood drawn, they monitored me and some other patients, to do some experimental cures/tests. I was, still bruising, and going back and forth from the hospital. Then came that day.......I was complaining about my head hurting to my mom, she gave me some pain medication, but my headache only got worse. It later got to the point where I was in so much pain, my mom took me to the hospital where I usually get treated. My whole head was throbbing from the biggest migraine I've ever gotten. Mom pulled into the parking garage, and as soon as I step out of the car, I bend over and vomit by the car. My eyes hurt from the sun, the loud street didn't help, but hinder. We got inside, I was very pale and my lips were chapped, mom signed me in and I laid down, with my head in her lap. Right as we got called to the back, I stood up, and vomited again on the floor of the waiting room. We were ushered into the room with a hippo table, and was place on it and laid down. My mom, was discussing my problem with the doctor, when the doctor resolved to get me something for the pain. She gave me this red liquid, and seconds later, it was on the floor of the "Hippo" room. Everything is foggy until I find myself in a wheelchair, with a needle in my arm attached to a bag of fluid, still pale and in pain.
I don't remember anything after that, but throughout 2001, we went back and forth to hospital. We at one point had a Praise Party For Jesus, thanking him and believing that he would heal me. And in 2002, we got the news that I no longer had ITP. We were so happy and thanking God for healing me....but no-one expected that I would spend a lot of the next 7 years in my bed......
Thursday the 5th of April 2012, I find myself at my Martial Arts class, it's the second our of the class, and I'm sitting in an orange chair with my head arms. I try to relax as the pain in my left eye increases: I have a headache. I can't seem to get comfortable, and finally our class is over. We go home and I get into the shower trying again to relax and open my sinuses. I does help a little bit, but I start thinking about how all this got started. I remember back 11 years ago, when I was 5.
We had just moved to our new house and we were settling in. That's when it started. My parents had noticed I was starting to bruise easily, one evening my mom was out of the house, and I was running through the hallway, when I cut my foot on a toy motorcycle. My dad went about as usual with washing the area with water, and blotting it dry, we were in the bathroom for almost an hour, and my foot hadn't stopped bleeding. My dad called my mom, and told her what was happening, and they both got concerned. I don't fully know how I was diagnosed, but I do remember finding out, I had
Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (or ITP). A blood disease, where you're blood does not clot like normal. It takes much longer than normal for the platelets in your blood to clot. I again do not remember all the details, but I remember getting signed up at OU Children's Hospital, for some sort of testing/curing program, to figure out the disease.
Every Tuesday, I would go up to the hospital, and get my blood drawn, they monitored me and some other patients, to do some experimental cures/tests. I was, still bruising, and going back and forth from the hospital. Then came that day.......I was complaining about my head hurting to my mom, she gave me some pain medication, but my headache only got worse. It later got to the point where I was in so much pain, my mom took me to the hospital where I usually get treated. My whole head was throbbing from the biggest migraine I've ever gotten. Mom pulled into the parking garage, and as soon as I step out of the car, I bend over and vomit by the car. My eyes hurt from the sun, the loud street didn't help, but hinder. We got inside, I was very pale and my lips were chapped, mom signed me in and I laid down, with my head in her lap. Right as we got called to the back, I stood up, and vomited again on the floor of the waiting room. We were ushered into the room with a hippo table, and was place on it and laid down. My mom, was discussing my problem with the doctor, when the doctor resolved to get me something for the pain. She gave me this red liquid, and seconds later, it was on the floor of the "Hippo" room. Everything is foggy until I find myself in a wheelchair, with a needle in my arm attached to a bag of fluid, still pale and in pain.
I don't remember anything after that, but throughout 2001, we went back and forth to hospital. We at one point had a Praise Party For Jesus, thanking him and believing that he would heal me. And in 2002, we got the news that I no longer had ITP. We were so happy and thanking God for healing me....but no-one expected that I would spend a lot of the next 7 years in my bed......
Thursday, April 5, 2012
The Funny Stuff In Life (Part 3), And J-$w@gg3r's Weekly Happinings
So last Friday, I went with my mom to pick up a copy of the Xbox360 game: Portal 2. After hanging around Target for a little while, we head for home. I jump out of the car, walk to the front door, rip it open and AAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I scream and leap back from the front door. My dad stands right beside our big wooden door (I was opening our glass door) with a creepy smile on his face.
J-$w@gg3r's Weekly Happenings
Hope you all enjoy this special edition of my weekly video series!!!!
P.S. Don't forget to visit my website at: http://jswagg3rtv.webs.com/
J-$w@gg3r's Weekly Happenings
Hope you all enjoy this special edition of my weekly video series!!!!
P.S. Don't forget to visit my website at: http://jswagg3rtv.webs.com/
Monday, April 2, 2012
Bungie=Halo, No More.....Plus Weekly Vid Update
The Month: March.
The Day: 31st.
The Year: 2012
Well, as of the date above, the video game company known as "Bungie", is no longer receiving or updating: Halo 2/Halo 3/Halo ODST/ Halo Reach stats. Halo's founding company has said their final good-byes to Halo, and have officially turned the Halo stats, franchise, and anything else Halo related, over to 343 Industries. It was a day of sadness and happiness to Halo fans everywhere. From 2001, when Bungie released Halo (Combat Evolved), to Halo Reach in 2010, it's been an awesome experience.
But with Bungie moving forward to another project, that leaves 343i to pick up where Bungie left off. Good luck to you 343i, and as Bungie always says: See you starside!!!
(Note: to view the incredible Halo status of all collected data from Bungie since they first released Halo, please follow this link:
www.bungie.net/stats/reach/online.aspx)
J-$w@gg3r's Weekly Happenings
I will be uploading my new video on Wednesday, instead of today. Simply because of the special interview with another good friend of mine. Look forward to seeing yall on Wednesday!!!
The Day: 31st.
The Year: 2012
Well, as of the date above, the video game company known as "Bungie", is no longer receiving or updating: Halo 2/Halo 3/Halo ODST/ Halo Reach stats. Halo's founding company has said their final good-byes to Halo, and have officially turned the Halo stats, franchise, and anything else Halo related, over to 343 Industries. It was a day of sadness and happiness to Halo fans everywhere. From 2001, when Bungie released Halo (Combat Evolved), to Halo Reach in 2010, it's been an awesome experience.
But with Bungie moving forward to another project, that leaves 343i to pick up where Bungie left off. Good luck to you 343i, and as Bungie always says: See you starside!!!
(Note: to view the incredible Halo status of all collected data from Bungie since they first released Halo, please follow this link:
www.bungie.net/stats/reach/online.aspx)
J-$w@gg3r's Weekly Happenings
I will be uploading my new video on Wednesday, instead of today. Simply because of the special interview with another good friend of mine. Look forward to seeing yall on Wednesday!!!
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