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Well to make matters worse Mike got some test results in this morning that aren't great. He either has a prostate infection or a slim chance of prostate cancer. The Dr put him on 2 more weeks of antibiotics and flomax which I guess help shrink the prostate. Mike has been having troubles urinating and come to find out this is why. The Dr informed him that if he goes 4 hrs with out being able to go we need to go to the emergency room so they can insert a catheter so that his bladder doesn't explode. This is a pretty serious situation. In fact kidney stones comes in second to this. They can't really do any further testing until they get the infection under control and Mike is healthy. Who knows how long that will be. I know this is the last thing I should be worried about but our trip to Mexico is in 4 weeks. I'm feeling kinda down wondering why this has to be happening now. Or why is this happening at all?

My poor guy

So I mentioned that Mike woke up Saturday night with a fever. I assumed it was from the same flu bug both Michaella and I seemed to have and figured it was just kitting him longer. Mike thought it was an urinary tract infection. But neither of as really knew. Well the fever continued on Sunday and Monday and he was still noticing the symptoms of a UTI. Tuesday was another horrible day for him. That night he started getting pain in his back and he finally decided it was time to go into the Doctor.
Well all he could go to was an Urgent care clinic so the amount of tests they could do were limited. They gave him 3 different meds and made an appointment for first thing in the morning. But at this time we knew it was serious. They had him on an antibiotic a pain med and a med that turned his pee orange (I don't know don't ask me). So all Tuesday night I worried and fretted. I was really concerned about him and I knew he was in a lot of pain.
Yesterday morning he went in and found out he had not only a UTI but also a kidney infection. The Doctor wanted to find out what was causing them because it isn't normal for men to get these kind of infections and this is Mike's 4th infection at least in about 9 years. So he scheduled a CT Scan that same day, an appointment the next morning (today) to go over results and check up on him and then also with a urologist to do a scope on Friday.
Last night was another one of those excruciating nights. Mike was so weak and sick and he was throwing up all the time because his body was infected. Cancer or some other terrible fate was going through my head, I was terrified.
This morning at his appointment he found out he had 6 kidney stones. All about 2-3m in size. I guess your body can pass up to 5mm so they aren't going in to zap them or anything. So in a way that is a blessing because it wasn't anything worse but I feel SO bad for him. He doesn't handle pain well. So needless to say it is going to be almost as tough on me...okay not really but there will be pain involved on my end too.

The yuckies

Well we all got sick this weekend. I left work early on Friday and then went home ans slept the rest of the day. That night I had a fever of 101. Saturday we got up and got ready for Ballet and I felt okay. On the drive to dance lessons Michaella fell asleep which is odd considering she'd only been up about 2 1/2 hours. When we got to dance lessons she got really clingy when I finally was able to pry her off of me She just sat in the middle of the room and cried. SO I picked her up and went home. We got home and took a nap. That is all it took for Michaella but then I started running a fever again. So with the sore throat, the aches, the chills and the fever I thought for sure I had strep. So I decided to go to the Doctor.
Now I've had strep many times in my life and I have yet to be wrong once when I thought it was strep. There's always a first though! I didn't have strep. I actually would have rather had it then I could get the antibiotics and feel better pretty quickly. So I was disappointed. Along with that I also got weighed at the Doctors office...my damn scale at home is off by 4 lbs and not in the right way!! I was so mad. But I am trying to remind myself of how good I feel and that I AM buying smaller clothes. So I just need to keep going.
Well Saturday night Mike woke up in the middle of the night with a fever. So he was sick all day yesterday also and I had sympathy for him because I knew how it felt. Then this morning the full effects of time change hit and ALL of us are really struggling to get back in the groove. Michaella had such a hard time waking up this morning she even asked if she could go back to sleep in the car. We are only a mile from the Babysitters house. Oh well at least it stays lighter later and I feel like I can get so much more done at night.

The Basement

Okay Michael has decided it is time to finish the basement. We have been talking about it for quite awhile and he wants that to be his big project this year. We have discussed bringing in a GC and then also kind of discussed doing as much of it as we could.

Well last night Mike comes in the back door, informs me he has bought a miter saw and HE is going to finish the basement. I was very hesitant. That is a lot to think about. I love my husband and he can do anything he puts his mind to, but all the permits that need to be pulled and comprehending what is needed for inspections really scares me. Mike the next morning also came to that same conclusion that inspectors and fines really scared him. So we now have 4 people coming in for quotes the next few days and we will keep the miter saw and the wood to do other projects. If anyone has any tips or thoughts let me know so that we don't have the wool pulled over our eyes.

I will freely admit I don't have a clue on this stuff and I'm not going to even pretend that I do.

Me and my lifetime relationship with the scale

I'm 5'3" and right now I weigh about mid 130s. This seems to be my plateau weight. I've been up and down since high school. I danced my whole childhood until I moved to Utah when I was 14. Then I played sports in school and had been fairly active. But I was never really dedicated or all that good at sports, I did it mostly for social reasons not for health reasons.

When I first got married and got on the depo shot I gained 30 lbs. That was the first time in my life I started to take exercise seriously. I took metabolife responsibly and started going to the gym 4 nights a week. I got down to about 134 and then honestly I stopped really exercising after that and just sat at about 140 for the next couple years.

Then along came the bambino. During pregnancy I gained about 55 lbs. I had this mind set of "Oh I'm pregnant eat what I want don't worry yourself, I've lost the weight before I can do it again". After Michaella was born I continued the same eating habits as before and I weighed about 150-155 for the next 18 months. Then we moved to Idaho from Utah and the stress began.

I slightly changed my eating habits by not eating out for lunch. With in a year I had dropped down to 143. I contribute most of the weight loss to stress.

Then about a year ago I visited my mother and found out that she was on oxygen when she exerted herself at all. My mother is obese. I love her with all my heart and wish I could do something to help her. I have tried to set an example and I have mentioned weight loss surgery. But I can't make her do anything. I can however change myself.

So I began running and eating very healthy. I do the 5 small meals a day. More like 3 snacks and 2 meals. But all last summer running 3 miles 3x a week plus yoga on the off days really didn't shed any weight. I kept it up though because I felt good.

Then I had a personal crisis and I stopped running. Mostly because there were other things that were more important for me to do and people that it was more important to spend time with. But things started to smooth out and I found out I was going to Mexico in April. SO... here I go again!!!

I'm doing a boot camp class Mondays and Kickboxing on Thursday night. I just added a Tuesday night Kickboxing too because I really like the teacher. I have also been doing weights at home. And hopefully with this little tease of spring weather I can start running at home again.

I don't really have a goal weight. I think if I just saw 120 something I would be ecstatic! I don't think I've weighed in the 120s since Junior High. In fact in a physical to play volleyball in 9th grade I was about 135 and the Dr informed me that I weighed a bit more than most girls my age. As you can imagine that was a hit on my psyche. I do have very muscular dancers legs. I honestly wished I had chicken legs, but that's not what god gave me. So I try to keep that in mind when I compare myself to others and what I think I should weigh. I have some lingering middle body fat and of course hips and thighs. So 129 is probably not asking too much is it???

5k last summer

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Is my daughter gifted?

The other night Michaella and I were watching Dance War...she loves it. She loves to sing and dance. She is most often making up her own songs. On TV they were doing a recap of the season. They gave about 5 seconds of a song that was done the first episode 5 weeks earlier and then moved on to another song. Michaella continued to sing that first song. I know for certain she has only heard this song ONCE 5 weeks earlier! This is not the first time she has done this. She will hear a song and she will be able to even tell you who she heard it with. They are Mommy's songs or Daddy's songs. Michael listens to some non popular songs (I call them wierd and annoying he calls them music ) it's nothing you would hear on the radio. And she is able to recite lines from them after only hearing it once. Is this normal? She seems about the same skill level as all the other kids at both dance lessons and tumbling. The only difference I see there is that she has no inhibitions and no stage fright. Kaella has also been coloring in the lines for 6 months. At her 3 year appointment she was able to draw a square which the Dr said was a 4 year old skill. Are these signs of her being gifted? Anyone else with kids her age have any thoughts....please?