Beach Time

Nothing like a little beach time to help you feel better.  Been drinking water, eating grilled seafood and playing games.  Today I saw both the pool and the ocean.  We have the best view from our condo on the calmer end of the coast.  It has been chilly but today was close to perfect.  Erynn has been happy to be able to get in the water and roll around in the sand.  I love being here.  Will be hard to head back home.

CT Scan

Friday I got to have a CT Scan to check for the kidney stones.  At least the stuff you drink is not hideous but it did take some work to get down.  Then they put me in nurses scrubs and laid me on a table.  I got an injection that made me  feel like I was wetting myself and then pushed me back and forth in the machine while I held my breath.  The tech was one I had before with an MRI.  He was very professional and sociable. Now will see what comes from these tests.  But I am at the beach so I will eat carefully and get some rest.

More Tests

Gastroenterologist visit yesterday.  While I was sitting in his office I got a call from my regular doctor.  My prior test say I have a fatty liver and I might have kidney stones.  So from that I get a CT scan.  The gastroenterologist also wants to do a scope down my throat.  The joy continues.  

My hope is that my trip to the beach upcoming will not be filled with pain and horror!  

I keep sending healing thoughts to my body. I appreciate any that you can have sent my way too.

Learning

It makes you appreciate what you have when you have a medical condition.   I thought the knee pain, the neuropathy the other stuff was bad enough.  However I am now learning that there are worse things you can have and that I should have been a little more accepting and moving forward with the other conditions.  So I am looking forward to finding a resolution to this current problem.  However I am still losing weight which is a good thing.  My only hope is that this condition is not worse than I think it is.  Off to another doctor tomorrow.

NutriBullet

Got the Nutribullet back out. This blend has spinach, cucumber and watermelon.  Not too bad!  It is amazing what some pain will cause you to try again!  Go to the gastroenterologist on Wednesday.  Hoping for good news!

Headaches

So for three days in a row I had some kind of moderate to severe headache.  Not sure if it is the new medicine, the problem I am dealing with now or the complete lack of caffeine.  So I stopped the meds and added a bit of caffeine to see if it helps.  I am still at the wall and hoping that I can continue to make this a lifestyle change.  I want to be better overall!  Hoping for a headache free day.  

Another Issue

I guess you have noticed that I just stopped updating one day.  Well the joys of Infertility continue after you move past it.  I have my beautiful daughter but as you have read other things followed. Basically my body had gone crazy on me.  I had to have my gallbladder removed and after that we found that I developed peripheral neuropathy for no apparent reason.  

Well now, it appears something else in the gastric system is acting up.  I am being tested but basically many times after eating I have pain and discomfort throughout my body.  Not good!  What it has done has put me back on a better eating path.  I am only drinking water for the most part with occassionally juice or caffeine free Sprite.  It appears that caffeine (tea and chocolate), certain sweets and anything fried is not good.  So a greater power is telling me get your dietary habits in order or we are going to cause you problems. I suppose this is the wall I must hit.  Bang!  The wall has also helped me lose weight which I needed to do anyway.  

So I am going to be positive about this issue, find a resolution but use it as chance to make a change! I have been mediating daily for well over a year but I need to get back in the yoga groove too.  I want to be here for the daughter that I worked so hard to get here.  So if you see me with fried chicken, chocolate or anything else not health, give me that ugly look!  

Will try to keep this more updated but you know how that goes!  

BTW, Erynn is now 8 years old and has had to get glasses like her parents.  She is such a beautiful thing to me!  My joy!