Fat and Swollen

Is how my left foot looks. I don't know what I did to my foot honestly. Last week when I was dumb and forgot my hiking shoes and did the 9 mile hike in my flip-flops the only side effect was killer shin splints afterwards. Now the left foot is swollen, and I can't bend my big toe. Hmm this is not cool. I haven't been able to run all week and that is driving me CRAZY! Luckily I'm still lifting my weights and that feels good, but I'm missing my cardio big time. What the heck did I do!? I'm no stranger to broken bones and had a few broken feet, and wrists from sports when I was little. Honestly this toe/foot thing reminds me of that a little bit. With the exception of not having a blatant injury. I'm taking Motrin and going to put ice on it. I sure hope it feels better soon. I can't wait to get back to running and biking.

Well I'm off to pack, we're going camping for the weekend. I'm very excited to be in the wilderness and just relax in the outdoors. And depending on the foot sitution I'd love to hike this weekend. I promise to be smart and wear my tennis shoes. Luckily I have a permanent pair that never leaves our pop-up camper ;)

Resemblance

Is it just me or does anyone else out there see the resemblance between Robert Smith (The Cure) whom I've loved since I was about 13, and Robert Pattinson (Twilight series). Maybe it's the crazy hair. Maybe it's the name. Maybe it's the darkness of their personalities/character. Maybe it's the British accent. Maybe it's the jaw. Maybe it's that I find them both super cute :)

Chill

The last 3 days have definitely caught up to me for sure. All the hiking, sports, ripping out the deck, etc. I have to say it felt great to do everything, but I'm one tired person today, especially after a busy day at work. So I've dedicated this lovely Monday to doing a whole lot of nothing.

I did however make a yummy taco dinner tonight. One of my most favorite things in the world to do is cook. So yes tacos may seem easy, but I made the shells and everything from scratch. Can you say yum!? So good!! :) It was so relaxing and therapeutic to me to just cook and listen to my music. Ahhh.

So yes, me and my shin splints which makes me walk like I'm 80 years old are taking a night off, LOL. Here's to continuing my addiction, ahem I mean my Twilight series of books. I'm on to Eclipse now and am loving every second of it.

I forgot to mention yesterday how saddened I was about Steve McNair's death. We sure loved him here in Baltimore when he was a Raven. So saddening. What's up with all the deaths lately? Very scary.

Anyway a very boring post I know, but it sure feels good to prop up these tired feet.....well legs, arms, head etc. Ha ha ha ;)

Weekend Tidbits

We had a great 4th of July. We went over my brother and sister in laws house for the annual party. We also celebrated my nephews 4th birthday this weekend. We ate tons of food, saw great fireworks, had great weather, and just a nice time with family. We must have played badminton for hours last night. My legs aren't too happy with me today after my brainiac incident of flip flop hiking since I forgot my shoes and then playing hours last night. Shin spints are here to visit today unfortunately. Oh well it was totally worth it :)

This morning we started the day bright and early at Home Depot....well after coffee that is. Our lawn mower decided to die this week. We've wanted to get a riding mower since we have a very big acre yard, and now we had a reason too, yay. We also decided to build a new deck too. When I say "we" I mean Scott, and I'll be happily watching. Ha ha ;) No I do help, but I'm more of the "runner" or the clean up person. So we left Home Depot with a new tractor mower, and a ton of lumber for the deck. We spent the day working on the house mostly. I caught up on everything that hadn't been done all week long. And we also ripped out part of where the old deck and staircase were. So now we have tons and tons of kinling for our outdoor fire pit campfires :)

Overall it was a wonderful weekend and I'm so grateful that I felt back to normal to enjoy it! From our friends getting engaged to being super productive today I'd say it's a good start to a week. I'm determined to make July a good month! I'm officially putting May and June behind me and all the baggage they brought. Granted they just made me stronger, but I'm ready for a new month :)

Hope everyone had a great Holiday weekend!!

Rocky Gap Resort

We had a lovely over night get away to Rocky Gap Resort. We actually went as accomplices to our friend Mike to help him pull off the best secret ever....proposing to his now Fiance. It was awesome! She said YES! :)

I was so nervous Thursday night because after a ton of my lovely Golytely nothing was happening so I was afraid I still had an obstruction. I started to panic at the thought of "what if's" like if we had to cancel, going to the ER again, etc. Luckily everything ended up working out and I could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

The drive to Rocky Gap was just as nice. Scott and I love roadtrips. And we both love to drive with the windows down and the music UP! The scenery was beautiful, mountains, hills, the sky, the cool air. It was perfect, and we rocked out to THE CURE and U2 during and drive up and back. Awesome!

The resort was beautiful! We did a long hike around the resort which ended up being about 8 or 9 miles. Dummy that I am, didn't realize I'd need tennis shoes, so I hiked this in flip-flops. So needless to say I have major shin splints today ;) Oh well it was totally worth it. I can only imagine how beautiful the resort is in the Fall, which is my favorite time of year.

I must say it was a perfect mini-over night get away.

Golytely

Bleck this stuff is gross! So my nurse called to tell me that overall my Xray looked ok. And they found I have a kidney stone hanging around. That's beside the point. However there was still some stuff hanging around the colon and they want me to drink the Golytely. I haven't had to drink this stuff in over 3 years. Funny how just looking at the container made me shudder, ew. They were supposed to call me in the unflavored stuff, but somehow I got lucky and received Pineapple, mmmm (insert sarcasm here) ;) So it's just me, my book, and a gigantic container of Golytely tonight. I know, this is quite an exciting evening!

*Fingers crossed for good results!*

And it continues

I decided to stay home from work today. It hit me last night around 9:30 pm. Scott and I were outside on the screened deck enjoying the rain falling. Every muscle in me ached and throbbed. I know I pulled a ton of muscles with all the vomiting I'd done over the last several hours in the ER. I also broke down and just started to cry about everything. I called my boss and she just said for me to take care of myself and do what I needed to do. I agree that I can be too hard on myself, but working makes me feel "normal." I can't stand it when something holds me back from that. But in reality I needed to take a day to relax since my body has been through hell the last few days.

So this morning I called Hopkins to fill them in the events going on. They decided to send me for a follow up Abdominal X-ray today. I had that done around 5pm. I'll get those results back tomorrow. If they aren't as they'd like them to be then it's time for Golytely :/ My fingers are crossed that my intestines decide to behave and we can bypass the Golytely. We shall see. My CF nurse also told me today that she'd like me to have a colonoscopy in the future. I'm not afraid of the colonoscopy since I'm a GI Nurse, it's what I deal with all the time. I just hate that it's even happening. So tomorrow I'm going to talk to the chief GI doc that I work for and have him give me a recommendation. Obviously I'm not going to the guys that I work for, for something like this. They were concerned about the "intussusception of the ascending colon." They said that a lot of pediatric CF patients have this but not adults. It means one of a few things. Either I have scar tissue or adhesions from previous abdominal surgeries, still am obstructed, or have a polyp? Who knows.

I did meet Scott for lunch today which was nice. I'll admit I was terrified to eat, but I was so hungry! I then decided to relax some more on my day off. I love Starbucks so I got a coffee, and I actually sat outside for a while at Starbucks and read my book New Moon. It was very relaxing and something that I felt really good doing.

I'm hoping that July is much nicer and more positive around here. May was awful with the miscarriage and all. That was foremost in my mind during my ER visit unfortunately. Reason #1 was that I was back at the ER again where I just had been for the miscarriage. Reason #2, they put me in the exact same room as I was in for all the miscarriage stuff. How's that even possible I wondered? The ER is huge what were the chances of me being in that same exact room again?
:( So all those painful memories came pouring back yet again....on top of the bowel obstruction. June has now been filled with yet another obstruction in my history book. I want a fresh start. I want to clear my head and have these things simply behind me. I want to move forward....