Cane to 5k

Well here we are again... the middle of the night, I can't sleep and I am planning on walking in the am! I am so happy at where I am in life right now! I thought I needed people to be there for me... but I realize now that I am the only thing that I need! I have great family, friends, coworkers, students, and student-parents that I DON'T need people who were only kind of here for me in the beginning.


So today I am starting to track my life and change everything! I need to be who I am instead of being afraid to have my life, I need to LIVE my life, and not be afraid to wear my heart on my sleeve and create a new life!

 

Well today October 22, 2013 I am going to share a little bit of my life with you, I am going to be as honest as I can be, and I am going to tell you just the small details because I share my life with many who are close to me not millions I don't know or who don't really even care. If I can somehow encourage, motivate, or inspire people along the way I don't want credit I just want it to be paid forward. I am a human and I make more mistakes then anyone, god made me this way and I am encouraged through his love and selfishness to share with others and be here for them.

 

 

 

 

A friend showed this to me and it makes me feel amazing, but not what I have ever strived for! I have only tried to be the best me I can be, I try to be the best daughter, sister, cousin, niece, granddaughter, teacher, friend, coworker, girlfriend, and partner in crime I can be! If others find inspiration or motivation then more power to you and thank you for the words of encouragement!

 

 

 

So I'm here to give you so insight;

 

Currently I am:

 

Dating a cute/ funny/ sweet guy

Knee bends to 60 degrees with quite a bit of pain--ankle and foot swollen

 

Weight: 160lbs--40lbs of that is loose skin... yuck

 

Disease: I have gastroparesis, lupus, hashimotos, hypothyroid, RSD type 2, RND, and full body systemic RSD, and now possible PAD... yikes right! I live in 24/7 pain in my stomach, leg, back, arms... whole body! But I work my butt off to pretend it doesn't effect me or others around me it is the easiest way for me to function in today's society! :)

 

Age: 27

 

Cane to 5k: Walked the Sacks of Love 5k without a cane! And in 54 minutes

 

Workout Plan: Walking 4-5 5k's a week or longer, crunches 100, push-ups 50, planks 50 and now doing online trainers program

 

Diet: I am still currently working on my diet some days I want to eat others I can't even stomach water... Gastroparesis kinda sucks because sometimes I am all in for eating and others nada. I currently have trouble keeping solids down still!

 

 

GOALS

 

Diet Goal: 1000-1200 calories by Christmas! Healthy GOOD eating, advocare 24 day challenge and growing my own garden. 

 

5k Goal: Run the Foam 5k July 2014, Jog the Hot Chocolate 5k/ or walk the 15k, RUN Mustache the Dache 2014!

 

Life Goal: Show my students how to live and be present in life! Start my national boards this summer, stable relationship, Love with all my heart!!

 

Weight Goal: 125lbs and tone by my 28th birthday!

 

Skin Goal: Retain so of the elasticity to my abdominal skin, look good in Anna's wedding and look GREAT by Brittany's wedding August 2nd.

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are some helpful sayings!

 

 

My goal is to go from wanting this to cut off my leg... Jawsaw in the picture below.

 

 

 

To become this person in ALLLLL aspects of my life (pictured below.)

 

 

My student's wrote the saying above and that is me with my neck tattoo!! It is my daily reminder that I can do anything and everything that I put my mind to! That is all for today! Going to sleep a few hours walk a few miles teach a few kiddos and start the first day of the rest of my life! Thank you everyone for your support and love through this!

 

And last but not least I always plug in my disease to make sure people are understanding what is going on in life! SO please if you can ever help support research and medical findings in RSD and Gastroparesis!

 

 

 

Where it all started....

So here I am just days... well nevermind it's 2 am. Here I am a day and a night away from my MPFL reconstruction surgery and I am still looking up information... I am sooo tired and frustrated and stressed....

To give you some background to my predicament...

August 11, 2012

I was standing on my friends Jetski at the best place in the world... Crescent Bar if you haven't been there you can't talk.. :) And then I went to simply get off the back of the jetski and just standing there talking to my friends my knee gave out and dislocated I fell into the water and it relocated... It felt like I was under the water for hours... that's when it hit me I totally blacked out if even for a second. I had friends who helped me get to the car and get in it and then made the trek to the hospital where I tried to go without pain medication but failed greatly. Then I saw a new pcp doctor who then sent me to get an MRI and then see a specialist. My specialist sent me to a surgeon who didn't correctly diagnose me so for months I was going through physiotherapy and dislocating my knee everyday for months and on medication for pain, nerve issues, sleep problems, infection and so on... It all changed when I got a nerve block to stop the nerve issues but ended in more pain then I started with so went to Harborview Hospital and they had a neurologist come to see me and talk to my doctors. She told me to get another opinion because something is not working right if I am still in this much actual knee not nerve pain. Through it all I kept thinking....

So November 5, 2012 Almost a full 3 months after the accident I meet my new doctor who after 10 minutes of looking at my most recent x-ray (I have been in the hospital over 5 times since the first issue was found) he found bone fragments and a frozen knee. So I had another MRI and found that I have bone marrow edema and a torn mpfl. So surgery it is and was suppose to be December 12, 2012... well surgery was rescheduled due to an active infection in my body and they needed me to do more blood work and try to get better first because with cadaver ligaments you don't want to get a infection. Now surgery December 28, 2012 8:15 am it is.

After a good month still icing it!!

 After almost two months of PT and doctors appointments STILL icing it!!! Because so swollen.



I am so frustrated by all the sources available on the subject I never knew that I would be getting a surgery that has little wide known knowledge and is rare I guess it goes with my luck these last 4 months... :) So I want to post a blog about being positive through it all and that will help me to get better faster and get back to my life and a healthier life. I can't wait and I hope I can help those who have questions about it as well. So here are a few photos to start it off...

 

Even with this issue I have kept my humor and sarcasm why leave those behind and become depressed.