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Thursday, July 10th 2014
Received pretty good news from my doctors yesterday. The Gastroenterologist (Dr. "K" ) said she didn't want to do the colonoscopy right away; instead, she's having me do a magnesium citrate cleanse followed by medicine for a weeks to see if it provides some relief. She thinks I have IDS (irritable digestive syndrome) NOT IBS and wants to see how the medicine works for a few weeks and will probably do the colonoscopy on a month or so. Now of course there are only TWO prescriptions in ...Choosing my attitude
Wednesday, July 9th 2014
Happy Hump Day! Today is the Gastroenterologist and then to see Dr, Ted, my Chiropractor. I havent heard back from the GYN about my bone density test, thankfully I had a copy sent to Dr.Ted and hopefully he can give me the results today. I would really like to go to the gym and ride the stationary bike after dinner but I do have quite a bit to do at home. It sucks not being able to get there more than twice a week lately I have to a lot going on at the house trying to purge to make room for m...Mixed bag
Tuesday, July 8th 2014
My week is all messed up; training (normally Tuesday's) was last night, tonight is my hair appointment (need a little T/U), tomorrow is the Gastroenterologist followed by the Chiropractor, Thursday is Training and Friday is a ME day...maybe a movie or a walk on the beach after work.Training was very slow, we had to try everything to see what I can or can't do now without my back seizing up again and had to modify or find alternatives for more than I liked. In the end I had a great workou...
Food for thought
Sunday, July 6th 2014
Sunday came way to fast! Yesterday was my family BBQ at my sister's house, so happy to see my big brother, I hugged him and didn't want to let go... I can't believe we almost lost him too! He looked good, still very overweight but he is trying and working with his doctor, he lost a few pounds and managed to quit smoking so kudos to him
I come from a family of BIG people with very poor eating habits. I was in dangerous territory with food and I felt the need to pull my sister D aside to t...
Mixed emotions
Saturday, July 5th 2014
The weather didn't cooperate, the fireworks were postponed until tonight but we are going to see my brother. I was thinking a lot about family yesterday, and remembered at nieces party overhearing her tell a friend when describing my eldest sister "L" that "she was the SKINNY one", and well, I used to be the skinny one!My entire family is BIG, yes even the skinny one is still a little fluffy, my other older sister "D" is also overweight, thankfully she rece...