Just a little catch up

Hi all!  Hope everyone had a good thanksgiving and found some outstanding 
sales on black Friday & cyber Monday! My thanksgiving was typical for us 
only this time it involved a frozen turkey. Yep, a frozen bird! Luckily I 
showed up with a sweet potato and my own unfrozen turkey. What the hell 
you ask?!?! I had convinced the family that we would deep fry the turkey 
this year and I lugged my own so I could have it to eat and not share.
Which totally didn't happen :(
OH! And I lost my credit card so no shopping for me DOUBLE SAD FACE!!! 
Also on thanksgiving morning I ran/walked my first 5k in months.   
It felt pretty great even though I was in a lot of pain and had an 
asthma attack halfway through. I was so thankful that my girlfriend was 
there to help me and coach through it!

I wanted to give some updates on somethings.  I got the injections in my foot. 
Painful as hell only worked for about 3 days, then the pain came back tenfold. 
So still not rocking and to die for shoes! I also had to stop the Enbrel 
injection because it caused pulmonary fibrosis (irreversible scare tissue 
in the lungs making it difficult to breathe).  Also got more results
back from my upper GI - Barrett’s esophagus- that shit sounds all 
made up! I'm still learning what it is but I do know that it’s a complication 
of GERD and if it’s not treated can turn into esophageal cancer. 
Ugh!  What the hell?!?!

Still finding my om with RA…………..

Peace, Love and Light to all!

I stumbled across one of my favorite poems to end my yoga class after shavasana and wanted to share it with you...

May I be well
May I be happy and content
May I be free from danger and suffering
May I be filled with loving-kindness

May you be well
May you be happy and content
May you be free from danger and suffering
May you be filled with loving-kindness

 
May all beings be well
May all beings be happy and content
May all beings be free from danger and suffering
May all beings be filled with loving-kindness

Happy Thanksgiving!

I’m off to Maryland to spend time with my dad and brother thanks to my daughter who got us roped in. Bless her heart! (She wasn’t there last year to witness the extreme chaos and to see her momma on the verge of starving to death and pillaging in my purse for a leftover cashew or crumb! My fam never really remembers that I can’t eat like them.)  If you’re like ME and blessed with a family that may drive you a little batty and cause you to shake like a Chihuahua just breathe and try to embrace it!  HA!  Who am I kidding?!?!?!?  Try embracing it with a drink in your hand and crushing up some melatonin and sprinkling it on their food! 

All kidding aside, I love my family and I wouldn’t be here without them. So I am very thankful for their craziness!

Also, I want to mention that this is the start of sadness and depression for some who may be feeling lonely. Maybe you’re missing love ones that are no longer here on earth. Or maybe you’re missing someone who isn’t in your life anymore. Try not to dwell on their absence, but be thankful for your memories, the good times, the laughter, the smiles, the hugs and kisses.  XOXOXOXO

Please be safe while traveling!

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Still finding my om with RA…………..

Peace, Love and Light to all!

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Bet my week was more FUN than yours!

So my week was very awesome last week! Last Tuesday was my birthday, I turned 240 years old! DAMN! I look good! Lol ~ It was the Marine Corps birthday. Yep, the girl who’s afraid of spiders, bugs, black birds, dirt and a whole slew of other things once a Marine once upon a time ago! Wednesday was Veterans Day so another day of celebrating. How was I celebrating?!?!?

By cleaning out my whole digestive system. I gotta 2for deal! Cha-Ching! Not only was I so lucky to get an upper endoscopy procedure, but I was also gifted with a colonoscopy. Oh, lucky me! I’ll spare you the deets of how I really spent my Tuesday and Wednesday gearing up for Thursday! I get all my care at the VA hospital (thanks to the military, it’s not the best, but at least it's something) and If you have never been to one then you really never want to have to go there! It’s a cross of a men’s nursing home/ shelter & the saddest place ever!!! I’m always the token gal in there….. (It breaks my heart how these older veterans are treated!)

Finally Thursday comes and of course I had an afternoon appointment so by the time I arrived and checked in I basically turned into a pathetic being. When it came time to insert the iv I was so dehydrated the nurse poked my one hand couldn’t get the vein so on to the next she went she got it in just barely tho! (For days I had huge purple bruises on each hand!) I couldn’t wait to get that damn nap that they had promised me when I signed on for this! We finally get back to the procedure room and I thought here comes the nap…… NOPE the damn computer froze and couldn’t get started! Only me does this stuff happen to! I was demanding by this point that I wasn’t going to go through the prep to get these tests done again so they better figure something out!!! 20 minutes later and a new computer I finally got that fuckin nap! LOL  

I've always heard that the prep for the procedure was the worstist then the procedure itself and I'm here to say yeppers they were righto on that!

The testing was prompted because for years I’ve had digestive issues.  I have celiac disease and am also have a sever sensitivities to dairy, wheat, corn, soy and whey.  Bet you’re wondering what the hell I eat! A whole lota sushi, nuts, fruits and veggies…. It’s been a struggle! And yep, I’m hungry! But now my body is not digesting the nutrients nor the RA meds. I did end up walking out of the hospital with a dx of diverticulitis, gastritis and GERD.   

GRRRRRR…………….  Still am waiting on the results of the biopsy’s to get a more definite answer as to what’s going on.

And so the struggle continues ~ damn you RA

Still finding my om with RA…………..

Peace, Love and Light to all!

HAPPY SATURDAY EVERYONE! 

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