So the doctor's office called yesterday. I had left out in my last post that I didn't have to have blood tests for 3 months and don't have to go back and see him for 6 months. So now, he got to say I told you so a little too. My hemoglobin and my hemocrit is low. I don't really know what that means, I feel fine so I don't really think I'm worried for right now but I DO have to have another bloodtest in two weeks......here we go again.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Dr. Day
Monday May 20th, 2013, 12:20 p.m. My 3 month doctor visit. Dr. Peterson is so predictable, yesterday I posted this on fb:
Guess what he wants to do? I even TOLD him, I posted it on fb. He laughed. The thing is, he walked in the room and asked how I was, and I said, "Fantastic" and he said he knew I would say that. Then he asked, how I REALLY was, and still I told him I was fantastic. He asked how many bowel movements a day was fantastic? I said 5, and seriously people, 5 isn't bad at all. Two before work, one in the morning, one in the afternoon and then one of an evening. I am perfectly happy with that. He asked how many good days to bad, I said 10 to 1. He said we can do better. I feel like I kid who got an A+ on the test but missed the bonus question. He did say something really cute though, he said, "you are kinda like a locomotive, you steam right through life on fire even though a lot of the time, you are pretty sick". I finally convinced him that I was fantastic though, after my physical exam he finally said, yes, you are doing really well. Told ya' so!
I also told him I am planning on walking my first 5K a week from Saturday and next year, I plan on running the same 5K. He said that wasn't a good idea. I asked why. His answer is running is hard on your joints, cycle it's easier on you. I told him I have been fat all my life and I am not planning on running a marathon but I AM planning on running that 5K. He told me not to cry to him when I hurt myself. Oh he is something.....
I really do owe him so much though, I felt like he took the time to research things and got my life back for me.
So, back to work today, CRAZY day. I don't see it letting up anytime soon. And then the monitor comes the first week in June. Yep, crazy life, but I'm lovin' every minute of it!
Happy Tuesday!
Guess what he wants to do? I even TOLD him, I posted it on fb. He laughed. The thing is, he walked in the room and asked how I was, and I said, "Fantastic" and he said he knew I would say that. Then he asked, how I REALLY was, and still I told him I was fantastic. He asked how many bowel movements a day was fantastic? I said 5, and seriously people, 5 isn't bad at all. Two before work, one in the morning, one in the afternoon and then one of an evening. I am perfectly happy with that. He asked how many good days to bad, I said 10 to 1. He said we can do better. I feel like I kid who got an A+ on the test but missed the bonus question. He did say something really cute though, he said, "you are kinda like a locomotive, you steam right through life on fire even though a lot of the time, you are pretty sick". I finally convinced him that I was fantastic though, after my physical exam he finally said, yes, you are doing really well. Told ya' so!
I also told him I am planning on walking my first 5K a week from Saturday and next year, I plan on running the same 5K. He said that wasn't a good idea. I asked why. His answer is running is hard on your joints, cycle it's easier on you. I told him I have been fat all my life and I am not planning on running a marathon but I AM planning on running that 5K. He told me not to cry to him when I hurt myself. Oh he is something.....
I really do owe him so much though, I felt like he took the time to research things and got my life back for me.
So, back to work today, CRAZY day. I don't see it letting up anytime soon. And then the monitor comes the first week in June. Yep, crazy life, but I'm lovin' every minute of it!
Happy Tuesday!
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Good Morning World!
Life is good, so very, very good. Last night found me three more lbs down. I am now at 43.8 down. Less than 2 lbs to 45! My first 5K is in 18 days, so many exciting things going on in my weight-loss life. I have a doctor's appt next Monday so I won't make it to WW so I am shooting for a goal of 46 lbs for Memorial Day.
Life is also so very, very good here at home. We are back in a routine with Andrew's new job and I absolutely love leaving my clean house of a morning, knowing I am coming home to a clean house that evening. I love him dearly but trying to have a clean house with Andrew home 24/7 was like trying to shovel snow in a blizzard. He helped out but my idea of clean and his are two seperate things. We both agree, he was meant to get up every morning and go to work at least for 20 more years we hope!
Robert has also been busy working at the farm. He has started cleaning up the scrap so he is keeping busy. He is wanting to wait until after his best friend Adam gets home, goes back and Robert goes to get his car before he seriously starts the job hunt. He really has plenty to do at the farm until then anyway so I figure he has his job at parklanes to pay his expenses so we are good.
I am starting to get back to schedules of things that need done here at the house too, I wanted to redo flower beds but we are looking really strongly into new siding and a roof so I am thinking the flowers around the house will probably take a beating if we do that. Next year may be the year for new flower beds.
I did get outdoors stuff for Mother's Day. Robert broke my gazing ball a couple of years ago with the mower, so he bought me a new one. Andrew bought me a weeping willow for the front yard and two new blue spruce trees to replace the one that fell a few years ago. I also bought a bird bath and bird feeders. Several things that need done outside... Hopefully I will start on that tonight.
So, bottom line, life is good. Oh AND I celebrate my 13th year with ERBA tomorrow!
Life is also so very, very good here at home. We are back in a routine with Andrew's new job and I absolutely love leaving my clean house of a morning, knowing I am coming home to a clean house that evening. I love him dearly but trying to have a clean house with Andrew home 24/7 was like trying to shovel snow in a blizzard. He helped out but my idea of clean and his are two seperate things. We both agree, he was meant to get up every morning and go to work at least for 20 more years we hope!
Robert has also been busy working at the farm. He has started cleaning up the scrap so he is keeping busy. He is wanting to wait until after his best friend Adam gets home, goes back and Robert goes to get his car before he seriously starts the job hunt. He really has plenty to do at the farm until then anyway so I figure he has his job at parklanes to pay his expenses so we are good.
I am starting to get back to schedules of things that need done here at the house too, I wanted to redo flower beds but we are looking really strongly into new siding and a roof so I am thinking the flowers around the house will probably take a beating if we do that. Next year may be the year for new flower beds.
I did get outdoors stuff for Mother's Day. Robert broke my gazing ball a couple of years ago with the mower, so he bought me a new one. Andrew bought me a weeping willow for the front yard and two new blue spruce trees to replace the one that fell a few years ago. I also bought a bird bath and bird feeders. Several things that need done outside... Hopefully I will start on that tonight.
So, bottom line, life is good. Oh AND I celebrate my 13th year with ERBA tomorrow!
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Another Milestone in the Books
May10th, 2013; the day the first member of our household graduated from college. I made the statement yesterday that he finally gets the piece of paper that says he knows how to do what he has been doing since he was 5. He know has a degree in Automotive Technology. When he was 5, unbeknownst to us, he took my mom's riding mower apart. Amazingly, he put it back together and it still ran. My dad was also a mechanic and I had that really eerie feeling, that eventhough I don't believe in reincarnation, he had to have something "built in" to make him be able to do that especially since my dad died 12 years before Robert was born.
There is a lot going on in his world. He is still working at Parklanes, on call to work at Napa and he has a trip coming up. He is flying to Seattle to bring his "brother" Adam's car home while Adam goes to Afghanistan. That should happen right around the first of June. He is also spending lots of time at the farm, trying to clean the place up and helping his Nana with her garden there. He probably is not going to get hot and heavy on looking for a mechanic's job until he gets through all of this.
Congratulations Robert, you have no idea how proud your dad and I are.
There is a lot going on in his world. He is still working at Parklanes, on call to work at Napa and he has a trip coming up. He is flying to Seattle to bring his "brother" Adam's car home while Adam goes to Afghanistan. That should happen right around the first of June. He is also spending lots of time at the farm, trying to clean the place up and helping his Nana with her garden there. He probably is not going to get hot and heavy on looking for a mechanic's job until he gets through all of this.
Congratulations Robert, you have no idea how proud your dad and I are.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Saturday again
and what a week it has been. It seems like the only thing in this house that is constant is change. I didn't post about my WW this week and I really meant to. This week we were supposed to take pictures of our anchors--the things that keep us wanting to keep going on this journey. I took three pictures, one of my mom, one of the car I want and one of Robert's kayak.
The story of my mom and the car are in previous posts, she basically told me I would look silly in a convertible at the size I was. The one of the kayak is a new goal. Robert got a kayak for Christmas, it has a weight limit. At Christmas, I was over that limit. Now I am not. I want to lose a little more before I buy a kayak, but I am still wanting one and may buy it even before I hit that goal. After all, it would be a great form of exercise in itself.
The biggest thing that happened though is Gina, our leader, told me she knows this time is my time. I have been in and out of her meetings for years, and she knew me even before that but she has been a WW leader for 20+ years and she says she knows when the person has the right focus, and I'm there. I do believe she is right. It's not a race, it's a journey and I will take it one day at a time. I have now came to far to let it go. I can do this and I will do it and I AM doing it.
I did over 2 miles a couple of mornings this week and then I started having some minor UC problems. I don't want to go into to detail but it is one of those weeks in my life that it doesn't concern me because it will go away. I go back to the doctor two weeks from Monday. I think he will be happy with my progress but it won't surprise me if he doesn't decide to go up one more dose on the azathioprine.
So, for the changes. Robert has moved home this week, kinda odd since he never moved away but his El Camino had been at school for over a year, as his spare time project, he has redone a lot and bought a new engine but it is still not road ready, so it came home on a trailer. He brought his tool box home Thursday along with the other engine out the El Camino, which needs cleaned, tuned and sold. He is working on his finals, most of which are papers or stuff due outside of class. He graduates Friday. Between school, the two jobs, his responsibilities at church and working with Nana at the farm, I know he is very ready for some downtime.
Today he goes to work at Napa, he loves that job and is praying hard that it might turn into something permanent. When he gets home, he and I are going to study for his Sociology final and then later this evening, he took off work so he could go watch his other brother, Trygve get his Black Belt.
I don't know what Andrew's plans are for the day, he starts back to work Monday so this is probably his last Saturday off for a while, hope he makes it productive.
My day seems a little insane. We are leaving in a few minutes for breakfast at Parklanes, I have to go to CVS and pick up medicines, then be in Effingham at 10 for a hair appointment, come home and help Robert study, go tan at 3:30 (my hives this winter left me speckled, I am just tanning to try to even that out); go to Tryg's Black Belt ceremony and sometime today I need to pack and straighten up the house. Yep, gonna be a long one.
I SO want to work in my yard, but it is raining again so at least I can't feel guilty about not doing that. Maybe next week.
Tomorrow, I go to church and then meet the rest of the gang heading to Springfield at 11:15 to head that direction. Tomorrow night is the Family of Distinction dinner, my favorite night of the year. Also, Andrew has to be in Springfield at 9 on Monday morning so he is coming up and spending the night with me at the Hilton. He comes home Monday evening so it is just one night, but it will be fun to share my favorite hotel in Springfield with him. Now if I just get a good room with a view of the Capitol, I will be a happy camper--I'll be a happy camper anyway but that would just be great.
So, onward to the busy day!
Happy Saturday!
The story of my mom and the car are in previous posts, she basically told me I would look silly in a convertible at the size I was. The one of the kayak is a new goal. Robert got a kayak for Christmas, it has a weight limit. At Christmas, I was over that limit. Now I am not. I want to lose a little more before I buy a kayak, but I am still wanting one and may buy it even before I hit that goal. After all, it would be a great form of exercise in itself.
The biggest thing that happened though is Gina, our leader, told me she knows this time is my time. I have been in and out of her meetings for years, and she knew me even before that but she has been a WW leader for 20+ years and she says she knows when the person has the right focus, and I'm there. I do believe she is right. It's not a race, it's a journey and I will take it one day at a time. I have now came to far to let it go. I can do this and I will do it and I AM doing it.
I did over 2 miles a couple of mornings this week and then I started having some minor UC problems. I don't want to go into to detail but it is one of those weeks in my life that it doesn't concern me because it will go away. I go back to the doctor two weeks from Monday. I think he will be happy with my progress but it won't surprise me if he doesn't decide to go up one more dose on the azathioprine.
So, for the changes. Robert has moved home this week, kinda odd since he never moved away but his El Camino had been at school for over a year, as his spare time project, he has redone a lot and bought a new engine but it is still not road ready, so it came home on a trailer. He brought his tool box home Thursday along with the other engine out the El Camino, which needs cleaned, tuned and sold. He is working on his finals, most of which are papers or stuff due outside of class. He graduates Friday. Between school, the two jobs, his responsibilities at church and working with Nana at the farm, I know he is very ready for some downtime.
Today he goes to work at Napa, he loves that job and is praying hard that it might turn into something permanent. When he gets home, he and I are going to study for his Sociology final and then later this evening, he took off work so he could go watch his other brother, Trygve get his Black Belt.
I don't know what Andrew's plans are for the day, he starts back to work Monday so this is probably his last Saturday off for a while, hope he makes it productive.
My day seems a little insane. We are leaving in a few minutes for breakfast at Parklanes, I have to go to CVS and pick up medicines, then be in Effingham at 10 for a hair appointment, come home and help Robert study, go tan at 3:30 (my hives this winter left me speckled, I am just tanning to try to even that out); go to Tryg's Black Belt ceremony and sometime today I need to pack and straighten up the house. Yep, gonna be a long one.
I SO want to work in my yard, but it is raining again so at least I can't feel guilty about not doing that. Maybe next week.
Tomorrow, I go to church and then meet the rest of the gang heading to Springfield at 11:15 to head that direction. Tomorrow night is the Family of Distinction dinner, my favorite night of the year. Also, Andrew has to be in Springfield at 9 on Monday morning so he is coming up and spending the night with me at the Hilton. He comes home Monday evening so it is just one night, but it will be fun to share my favorite hotel in Springfield with him. Now if I just get a good room with a view of the Capitol, I will be a happy camper--I'll be a happy camper anyway but that would just be great.
So, onward to the busy day!
Happy Saturday!
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Ahhh......
It has been an exciting, crazy two weeks at our house. We love having company and have made a marathon event of it. So, as much as I love company and my family, I am looking forward to a little down time.
My sis and her hubby was here on the 13th and 14th, that visit seemed so short, but it was good to see them. My father-in-law and his girlfriend came on the 17th and just left the country yesterday morning. When they come they stay out at the state park in their motor home, so they come and go. Unfortunate to the timing was the fact I had a big meeting yesterday so I worked late on several evenings that they were visiting. We still had a good visit which included dinner out last Friday night, Breakfast Saturday morning, lunch Saturday, a trip to the outlet mall at Tuscola and several homecooked meals from us and from them. It was a good visit.
Now to settle back into the thick of things here at home. I wanted to play in the dirt today and get flowers set out and my yard to looking better. I have so many plans this year and I want to get started. One of the ladies at work yesterday saw that we have freeze warnings again for late next week...not good, so my flowers wait AGAIN, I did actually go buy a new rose arbor last night and I hope to get the old dilapidated one out and the new one in as well as clean up my roses, tulips, iris, and peonies patches. I also need to bag up the pea gravel in my long bed and get ready to replant it. That will be a start.
We bought a new tiller so I am ready to get the other ones going, and next Saturday is already booked so now I am shooting for two weeks from today to finish the beds.
So, this morning I still get to play in the dirt a little, this afternoon we need to go to Terre Haute, Andrew is wanting a new pair of boots for his new job.
Wednesday he got to meet the staff and just seems to think they are all remarkable. He has finished all the paperwork and is now waiting on the drug screen and background checks to be done. We know he's good there so it is just a matter of waiting.
Funny thing is, when he was hired, he was told he would probably have to go to Springfield for a few days of training first. On Wednesday, they said they were shooting for May 6th to be his first day of work. Neat thing is, I am leaving for the IACAA conference on May 5th, in Springfield. So, if he has to go to Springfield for a few days, we will actually be in the same time. Yep, I have already asked permission to have a man in my room :-).
That Friday, the 10th, my baby boy graduates from OCC with an associates in applied science and his Automotive Tech certificate. He is hoping to find a job in his field from there so this is probably his last of college. Of course, he is PRAYING he gets to keep his job at NAPA. He loves it over there and it is a job that uses his knowledge. He could do that daily and work on friends and family's cars of an evening, which would just be a great balance for him. He took the El Camino to school and of course, it will be coming home in a couple of weeks too, hopefully with all the wiring redone. He has done a lot to it but has a ways to go.
So, as we look into May, seems we have a lot of bright futures here at the Browning house. I thank the Lord every morning for this awesome life and truly can't believe He has given it to us.
Have a wonderful, blessed, Saturday!
My sis and her hubby was here on the 13th and 14th, that visit seemed so short, but it was good to see them. My father-in-law and his girlfriend came on the 17th and just left the country yesterday morning. When they come they stay out at the state park in their motor home, so they come and go. Unfortunate to the timing was the fact I had a big meeting yesterday so I worked late on several evenings that they were visiting. We still had a good visit which included dinner out last Friday night, Breakfast Saturday morning, lunch Saturday, a trip to the outlet mall at Tuscola and several homecooked meals from us and from them. It was a good visit.
Now to settle back into the thick of things here at home. I wanted to play in the dirt today and get flowers set out and my yard to looking better. I have so many plans this year and I want to get started. One of the ladies at work yesterday saw that we have freeze warnings again for late next week...not good, so my flowers wait AGAIN, I did actually go buy a new rose arbor last night and I hope to get the old dilapidated one out and the new one in as well as clean up my roses, tulips, iris, and peonies patches. I also need to bag up the pea gravel in my long bed and get ready to replant it. That will be a start.
We bought a new tiller so I am ready to get the other ones going, and next Saturday is already booked so now I am shooting for two weeks from today to finish the beds.
So, this morning I still get to play in the dirt a little, this afternoon we need to go to Terre Haute, Andrew is wanting a new pair of boots for his new job.
Wednesday he got to meet the staff and just seems to think they are all remarkable. He has finished all the paperwork and is now waiting on the drug screen and background checks to be done. We know he's good there so it is just a matter of waiting.
Funny thing is, when he was hired, he was told he would probably have to go to Springfield for a few days of training first. On Wednesday, they said they were shooting for May 6th to be his first day of work. Neat thing is, I am leaving for the IACAA conference on May 5th, in Springfield. So, if he has to go to Springfield for a few days, we will actually be in the same time. Yep, I have already asked permission to have a man in my room :-).
That Friday, the 10th, my baby boy graduates from OCC with an associates in applied science and his Automotive Tech certificate. He is hoping to find a job in his field from there so this is probably his last of college. Of course, he is PRAYING he gets to keep his job at NAPA. He loves it over there and it is a job that uses his knowledge. He could do that daily and work on friends and family's cars of an evening, which would just be a great balance for him. He took the El Camino to school and of course, it will be coming home in a couple of weeks too, hopefully with all the wiring redone. He has done a lot to it but has a ways to go.
So, as we look into May, seems we have a lot of bright futures here at the Browning house. I thank the Lord every morning for this awesome life and truly can't believe He has given it to us.
Have a wonderful, blessed, Saturday!
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The moment that made my day
FINALLY!!! After 12 weeks, I got the scales to really move! As many of you know I started my Weight Watchers journey back in July. By Christmas I had lost 35 lbs and I hit 40 lbs in January. Then I went to the hospital, and I have struggled to get back to actually loosing weight. Part of me is proud of the fact that I was at least able to not gain a bunch and I even had my doctor trying to explain to me why now that I am "better", I couldn't get the weight to start coming off again. I had been on the prednisone before I went to the hospital and was losing so what made this so different? My body was healing, getting healthier than it had been forever and it (according to Doc Peterson) needed to hold on to every bit of food it was getting because it was rebuilding. He promised me that if I stayed on task that when my body really started liking where I was at, medically, I would start losing again. I went off prednisone three weeks ago, the first week, I lost .4 lbs, the next .6. knowing I have close to 100 lbs to lose yet made the prospects of half a pound a week seem unattainable. it would take me 4 years to lose the 100 lbs. I knew I had a good week, but the last two weeks, Monday mornings looked a lot better than Monday evenings. So last night when Janet said I was down 2.4 lbs, it made my day, heck, it made my year!
This morning I get up and I am down again! Yep, life is falling back into place and my doctor, once again, proved himself right because I knew I was doing everything exactly like I was supposed to and thank the Lord, I didn't give up on myself or my body.
Next week, we are supposed to have show and tell at Weight Watchers. We are supposed to take a picture of our anchor. Of course, my anchor this time is my Chrysler 200, it is still up in the air if it is a convertible or not but it is what I am taking.
I am back to sitting goals of 5 lbs every 2 weeks, that is more than a lb a week but less than 2 lbs, before Christmas, I was making the 5 lbs most of the time in 2 weeks but I don't want to get over zealous. I know there will come a time when I will go back to the 1/2 pound a week, as long as it doesn't happen until I am less than 50 lbs from my goal, I will be fine with that because honestly at that time, I should be looking decent anyway,
So, here's to the next goal of 45 lbs by May 13th.....bring it on!
This morning I get up and I am down again! Yep, life is falling back into place and my doctor, once again, proved himself right because I knew I was doing everything exactly like I was supposed to and thank the Lord, I didn't give up on myself or my body.
Next week, we are supposed to have show and tell at Weight Watchers. We are supposed to take a picture of our anchor. Of course, my anchor this time is my Chrysler 200, it is still up in the air if it is a convertible or not but it is what I am taking.
I am back to sitting goals of 5 lbs every 2 weeks, that is more than a lb a week but less than 2 lbs, before Christmas, I was making the 5 lbs most of the time in 2 weeks but I don't want to get over zealous. I know there will come a time when I will go back to the 1/2 pound a week, as long as it doesn't happen until I am less than 50 lbs from my goal, I will be fine with that because honestly at that time, I should be looking decent anyway,
So, here's to the next goal of 45 lbs by May 13th.....bring it on!
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