As I started writing everything down for my doctors appointment, I realized that I (we) have been through the ringer in the last four years.  As things have come up along the way, I justified them in my head by telling myself things like ‘well, I am older now…’ and ‘I weigh more now then I ever have, so it’s normal to have days that the foot pain is so bad I can’t walk…’ or how about ‘what mom of two kids couldn’t sleep for 18 hours in a day?’

To actually put it on paper, and say it out loud is mind boggling.  How on Earth did I think these things were normal!?

Thank God I saw the endocrinologist when I did.  She did two wonderful things: (more…)

I know I’ve been so bad about blogging, but this time I have an actual reason.  This post is going to be a little over-run with details, and a tad boring, but I am still ‘blogging it all out’ in my head.

Here goes…

I was relaxing with Daddy last Thursday (yes – we were playing World of Warcraft) and all of the sudden my arms started itching.  I looked down and in record time my chest, arms, back and stomach were covered in hives!  I ran and took a shower in an effort to calm my skin down and just blew it off as some sort of reaction to something.  I didn’t really know what hives were caused by, so I looked them up online and here’s the definition:

1. Raised, often red, welts on the surface of the skin.
2. A container for housing honeybees.
3. A place swarming with activity.
4. Move together. ie. “The bee swarms are hiving” (more…)