Well...I'm back! I know...I know...this isn't going to happen until I get my act together. I feel like I am coming out from under this funk that I have been dealing with the last could of months. Between all this medicine I have to take every day that makes me feel blah and the cold weather that makes me blah...I have just been blah!
But now it's spring! That is really helping :) I don't want to come straight home from work and put on pjs and do nothing (most days anyway)...I am totally trying to get it together finally. I am starting a challenge tomorrow...1800MinuteChallenge. I read a blog called Living in Yellow and she and a couple other bloggers have started this challenge...from April 1 to May 31, I am going to exercise 1800 minutes...that works out to 30 minutes a day. I got a little headstart today (because I am OCD and I have to start new things on a Monday, not a Tuesday). I walked for 14 minutes outside (slathered in sunscreen...stepped in a mudhole and almost had to deal with a dog...it didn't really go very smoothly, but I did it!) and then came home and did 10 minutes on my elliptical...yay me! I am hiding my scale...I was weighed at the doctor this morning and I have another checkup in a month...I am just focusing on eating well and exercising and not stressing about the weight.
I had a checkup at my Greenville doctor today. I have been a bit anxious about this checkup...the last week or so I have been SO TIRED every day and there's been a little blood in my tissue after blowing my nose in the mornings. This may not seem like much to most people, but remember when I was first diagnosed, I had a rash and my gums bled when I brushed my teeth, so I have been a touch stressed about that! Dr. Fanning completely made my day today. After feeling anxious last week and getting perfect blood work results today, she told me that research has really been showing that 3 years is the new 5 years with post-transplant acute leukemia patients...meaning that in 4 months, the possibility of relapse is just about zero. I just about started crying in her office, but I held it together. What a FANTASTIC thing to hear! She also helped me realize that it's not the end of the world that I am still on steroids...most people post transplant stay on some sort of medicine for the rest of their lives...and I am on track to get rid of a lot of my meds in the near future. So anyway...that made me feel much much better.
The plan for tomorrow is to walk around the park with Katherine to kick off this challenge...wish us luck!
Have a great day!!
