Vacation time

I'm busy getting ready for our vacation. It's our 5th anniversary tomorrow and we are headed to one of our favorite places for 6 days. I'm so happy to get away and relax at the beach and I dont even care if it rains. But really...the only thing that changes is our location. We rent a cabin and that comes with cooking, cleaning, and laundry...hey..just like home!

Yesterday I went shopping and bought some new jeans....and I'm happy to say that I bought a size 9.

I also had my post op appointment and was very happy to hear that I am healing extremely well.

I T-tapp every day. It helps so much in keeping my neck glands free of swelling. My energy is up higher than it has been in a long time.

Still havent heard anything from the T-tapp January Jumpstart as to who won. I got my notice that everything was entered correctly so I'm happy with that. I'm happy to say I lost over 18 inches during the contest and almost 21 inches when I measured yesterday! Will post more about my experience during the contest when I get back..including some interesting dreams!

Thursday Morning

I'm anxious this morning. In for surgery today..at 8am.

I'm doing well though. Doing my workouts as best I can and resting as much as possible. Most of the swelling in my glands has gone and that's really saying a lot. I had some huge swollen glands in my neck. Paying close attention to form while doing T-Tapp has really sped up my recovery time and I'm soooo grateful. Another huge plus of doing T-Tapp is having my blood pressure reduced from 149/96 three weeks ago ..to 111/65 yesterday! I'm thinking I'm going to do pretty well today.

Today is just the beginning of repairing my jaw. It wont be pretty but at the end of it all I should come out with nice looking teeth. I'll keep my T-tapp schedule to speed up recovery, help pump out toxins and get my immune system back on track.

The contest has been a blessing. I made a commitment to finish this contest no matter what this time. No crisis was to stop the process. Funny how a huge crisis came crashing in and I find T-Tapp to be pretty much life saving for me.

And I haven't even talked about inch loss yet! But that will have to wait until Monday when I measure..

I'm determined to finish

Well here it is Friday early morning. I slept good even though it's 3am now. I was pretty beat yesterday.

I woke up yesterday morning and noticed it. It's been awhile since my Alopecia has flared up but there it was. A dime shaped bald spot right in the front. Sigh..It usually means more is to come. Depressing. I had let my hair grow and had stopped using color almost 2 years ago and now it appears I will be losing much of it again.

Then I went to my appointment at 8:30. Not good news. Seems my immune system has shut down. My bone loss is pretty severe and the infection in the bone is not subsiding. I will be looking at reconstructive surgery.

Enough about that. I don't want to focus on bad news. I'm glad I've been T-Tapping through all this. It's keeping me calm through all this.. As a matter of fact it's probably the best thing I could be doing at this time. Really helping me pump my lymph system. The swollen lumps in my neck reduce after every T-Tapp session and I love how it makes me sweat.

It took me two weeks to get through a TWO from front to finish but I did it! It's really true that your body does remember the workout.

I'm determined to finish this contest. Even if my inch loss isn't that great it's helped me in so many ways throughout these trying times and I'm grateful for that.

Working out

A week before the challenge was to begin I had a toothache. I had ate way too many nuts during the holidays and at one time thought I had broke something in a back tooth. And now I was sure I had. And now.... I was in trouble. Once again putting every one's needs before mine. A toothache quickly turned into an all out infection...an all out fever...blood pressure soaring...pain unbearable.....mind delirious...My husband rushed me to the dentist where I was given pain medication and antibiotics and told to be back first thing in the morning. Still with fever the next morning and still lack of sleep due to pain...I went back. I was in some serious condition...I thought I might die.

Three days before the contest began I was having emergency surgery. Bone infection...bone loss...bone grafts in my future....

Big sigh...

But still...I was determined to join the challenge. My health has been sinking this past year...I was fat and out of shape. I cant think as clearly as I once had and family and parenting obligations were stressing me to my limit.

So I'm happy to say that even though I wasn't able to start working out until Monday..on that Friday I joined the challenge. And I'm determined to finish it.