Health Updates

We're back from Maui- back to reality and my real life.  I woke up with a headache today...yep, that's my real life.  UGH.

Jacob has his follow-up derm appt this Wednesday.  But so far the results are most consistent with psoriasis.  I'm happy it's not one of the other auto-immune diseases, but it still sucks for an 8 year old to have this.  Psoriasis is an inflammatory condition, and there has been a lot of talk about inflammation and the damaging effects on the body.  People with psoriasis have a higher incidence of heart disease.  And lymphoma.  :(    I don't want the kids at school to make fun of him for the way his hands look.  The elbows, knees and feet are easier to cover up, especially in the winter.  Last night he was fighting me on putting on the cream, and I said I didn't want the kids to make fun of him.  His response?  "The kids won't make fun of me!"   Gah, he's such a love bug and so sweet and would never imagine the other kids would make fun of him.  Oy.  He's pretty popular at school, has lots of friends and has not been subjected to cruelty by other kids yet.  The sea salt tropical air and beach helped his skin out.  His poor hands and feet looked so terrible and painful- red, cracking, peeling....ouch.  8 years old having to deal with this...probably forever.

In other news, I think my husband's sister-in-law's brain tumor (GB.M) is back.  I don't know for sure, though because she deleted me from Facebook!  She is, however, still FB friends with my BFF (nice, huh?!) and posted some cryptic post about receiving bad news, and I know she was recently at MD And.erson for a check-up.  We are always the last to find out anything from them, they hardly ever call us or call us back, so I guess we'll wait to hear the news thru the grapevine.  In May I had told her we had been distracted because of my ovarian mass, and I was scared that I had ovarian cancer with 4 little kids and that I was having surgery on May 30th.  I figured as a cancer survivor, that she would understand my worries and situation.  She never replied back to acknowledge that I was having a health scare and was having surgery, never checked on me and apparently never told my husband's brother that I was having surgery either.   And if her cancer is back, she'll never have to answer the hard questions....why she treats me like shit....why she is a hypocrite....blah blah blah...because I would look like the bad guy then for putting her in the hot seat with these questions when she has cancer.   Karma is a bitch.  I'm not gonna mess with karma!  I guess it doesn't really matter why she treats me the way she does.  Right?  It doesn't matter why she didn't acknowledge that I had a daugther for almost 3 months.  It doesn't matter why she deleted me from FB for not wishing her a happy birthday when she didn't wish me happy birthday 4 months earlier!  It doesn't matter why she she didn't delete my husband from FB when he didn't wish her a happy birthday either.  I've asked her the questions, and she didn't answer them.  Oh well.

How many of you have ever had a so-called family member delete you on FB?  It's so silly, really.  When there are bigger things to worry about, like cancer.

Dave has been reading a lot on auto-immune disease and dietary changes.  We are considering doing a version of the Paleo diet to see if it helps with Jacob's skin.
In an effort to get healthy again myself, I have made a few changes in my life.  I recently signed up for the Disney.land Tink.erbell 1/2 marathon in January.  Holy cannoli, what have I done?!  haha!  I am going to run it with my BFF from medical school.  I have 6 months to train.  I better get runnin'.
I have also signed up for a Cross.Fit class thru the local community college.  Yep, that's right...this doctor is now a college student again!  They have childcare there too.  The instructor is my personal trainer, and a bunch of my friends did this class last year and they kept asking me to go too.  I had sprained my ankle really badly, then Cambria arrived, then Dave had gall bladder surgery, then I had mono, then I had pneumonia, then I had a hysterectomy, then I had blah blah blah...you get the picture!  So the time is now to do it.  Class starts in a month.  And she teaches a BO.SU class once a week that I've been to also.  So between Cross.Fit, Bo.su, and running, I should be skinny again by January.  Believe it or not, I used to be skinny and be 115 lbs before I moved to this town.  Even after I had my first child, I was back down to 122. 

I have a million things to do to play catch-up since I just got home from Maui.  Oh, I almost forgot to mention...a few hours after I got home from Hawaii, my college roommate texted and said they were on their way to my town, her daughter was playing in a softball tournament at the fields 8 minutes from my house!  No way!  So I took a few hour nap, and made myself somewhat presentable, and went and met her at the game.  It was so nice to see her and her family again, and I forgot how much I used to laugh when I was around her.  I took the kids to the softball field yesterday, and she got to meet my kids.  Fun times!

Tomorrow I take my first-born child to his middle school orientation.  Again, holy cannoli!  Middle school already!  How did this happen?  I have to take him this week for his 11-12 year old immunizations.  Yeah, he's not too happy about that.  While we were in Hawaii, his All-Star team went to state, and lost.  :(     So sad.

Joshie starts kindergarten in 2 weeks.  I think I am more nervous than he is!

I am going to go feed Cambria her bottle and snuggle with her.