After months of feeling sick, experiencing excruicating pain, numerous tests that got no where, doctor and hospital visits, and a physcian telling me to wait out and see what happens and go back on BC, I finally have a diagnosis for what's been going on. Thankfully, after a great recommendation from our realtor friend, I went and saw a Doctor in the area for my problematic cycle and pain and got diagnosed with PCOS, polycystic ovary syndrome. It turns out all my symptoms fit this syndrome to a T and now after getting my cycle medically induced, I will start a medication called Metformin to help regulate my body's hormone and insulin levels to combat the cysts that have developed all over my ovaries. The hospital visit turned out was after I had a cyst rupture (even though my other doctor never once mentioned I had cysts). I'm glad to finally had a diagnosis and a future plan to take care of this illness so I stop feeling so miserable and in pain. Hopefully the medicine doesn't have too bad of side effects. In terms of our future plans for a family and such, this medication will also help in planning that someday. If I had listened to my old doctor (after meeting the first one and getting her diagnosis I quickly cancelled all further appts. with the original one), I would continue to not ovulate causing greater issues later on. We are not planning to have children at the moment, rather taking it one day at a time and seeing what happens and when it happens on its own. Besides I already feel like I have 3 babies in my house with 3 dogs we have...all the whining they do :). I know some people reading this are interested in how the PCOS and Met go, so I will keep you'll posted via here as well.
Weekend recap: Amazing Gator game...Kentucky got whomped BAD! tons of scrapbooking and continuing to scrapbook like crazy since it's getting cooler and I still don't feel well. Hoping to get back to running soon,but may not happen with the cold weather and all creeping in. Halloween is Friday...looks like it'll be a quiet night home, scrapping and relaxing with the puppies. The dogs have costumes (L-prisoner, R- policewoman, S-lobster) to wear, but Mike and I are not getting into it. We'll just hand our candy to the local kids and relax. Bowling has been eventful lately. Lots of people getting all uptight about stuff...but oh well, whatever. I bowled a 149, 138 and 180 (avg is only a 116). Guess the new bowl really is working out great. It's a quiet Tuesday at work, hence all the blogging today, and I refuse to finish the exam making. I forgot to mention I also teach now at the local college (still working at the lab doing mosquito ecology and infectious diseases, now also teaching biology labs in my spare time at the local college). Time to head home for burrito night with Michael and the rest of the guys. Hope everyone else is well.
10.28.2008
Just a 2 year recap...
Since I haven't really blogged continuously in the last couple years I figured one of my first blogs should be my "update". So let's see where to start? After a lot of soul searching and restless nights of thinking and trying to fit the pieces of my life together in 2005, I took a risk. I had been having issues finding myself and during the summer realized I wasn't happy with my life or where it was going or who I was becoming and so as I began the move back to college (my final year), I spaced myself from my then boyfriend (for many reasons which will go unmentioned) and started my college semester a bit upset, a bit excited for what the future would hold for me and ever busy with my classes and activities. As one door closed, another unexpectedly opened and I met someone new. We had met previously during freshman year due to some of our mutual friends but we were both in different places in our lives and had our baggage and so nothing progressed then. I guess Senior year was the time for things to progress since he became the man of my life. What started out as occasional bumping into each other at friend's events turned into nights of watching movies (sometimes cheesy, sometimes awesome), late night drives to Steak and Shake for milkshakes and cheese fries and eventually a relationship. I felt like the center of his world; a feeling I never felt before. With him, I could be myself and I knew if and when I poured my heart out to him he was there to listen and comfort me. My baggage was heavy that year and the real test of the strength of our relationship came around Christmas when we were apart and I felt like my glass world was about to shatter. My dad had been having medical problems and when I came home he was being released from a rehabilitation hospital after numerous skin grafts and surgeries. Even though I'd seen my dad in worse conditions it was tough to be festive and upbeat about Christmas. I knew time was short with my dad and it became even more evident when he went back to the hospital right before Christmas with complications. The phone calls back and forth over that holiday break between Greene and I were my life line to sanity. For Christmas, Greene sent me flowers and they were the most beautiful roses one could ever imagine; pretty pinks and white. As soon as I got them I quickly called him to thank him for the roses and he got quiet knowing he didn't order roses (my favorite flowers are carnations). Not caring that he had sent me roses, I thought the gesture was amazingly beautiful, and he on the otherhand was pissed at the florist and made them send me the correct arrangement (needless to say I will never get flowers via online/teleflora again), which they still got wrong but this time were closer to the ideal bouquet of wild flowers, gerber daisies and bright pinks and purples...cheerful and happy.
After Christmas I went back to school and Greene and I spent the few days before classes started together when he wasn't busy with RA training. What should have been an exciting point in my life; a fresh start and outlook on myself and life, my last undergrad semester, became the lowest point in my life that January. After many consultations with my dad's doctors my mom (and I; even though I was already back in FL) made the decision to move my dad into hospice and make the last moments of his life as comfortable as possible. The doctors weren't sure what was going on with him; if the brain cancer was back, if a new cancer had developed, etc. and so the first week of classes I planned my trip back to NY; not knowing how long I'd miss school for. My friends and most of my professors were very understanding of the situation; except for one professor. This professor (which many of my college friends know) told me I had to choose between finishing my college career (and not going home) or going home (and giving up my last semester and not graduating). I of course chose to go home and fought him tooth and nail to graduate on time (his class was really the only class I needed to graduate and so I made it a point to get the notes from my friends and do all the work. So here I was trying to decide where Greene's and my relationship would stand and he was already booking plane tickets for himself so he could go with me. He switched shifts with people for his RA job, called out his other job and told his teachers he would be out of school for a little while due to a family emergency. So that Saturday we were on our way to my home...his first trip to NY, his first meeting with my family and friends. It was that day I realized I'd met my soulmate. It was a tough few weeks and having him there made things all so much better. I'm sure it was a rough situation for him to be there while I went through that but he never showed it. Eventually, he went back to school and I stayed to be with my parents. It was within the next 2 days of Greene's departure that my dad quietly passed in his sleep. I believe my dad finally felt confident I'd found my other half and he could finally let go. The funeral and seeing all the extended family was rough alone, but every night I knew I could call someone and never be judged. I returned to school soon after the funeral and felt no desire to deal with my rude professor, but through the various meetings I was forced to have with him, Greene supported me, sat outside the office to make sure I got all my questions answered and he was never rude to me.
The semester continued, Greene's and my relationship continued to grow and become stronger. We worked together on Homecoming stuff, I met his family for the first time during Spring Break, and then we hit our next roadblock; what happens after Graduation? I hadn't really had time to look to grad schools and after the emotional stress I'd endured with the unnamed professor I had no desire to continue my education at the moment, so I decided I would follow Greene wherever he was going and take each day one at a time; another change in my life. In May we graduated, our families met for the first time and the pieces fell into place beautifully. We decided to stay around our college town; continue working our jobs and look for new career jobs. I went back to college after much pushing by Greene to get my second BS degree since I was only 1 class short. Greene landed his career job not too long into the summer and for once in my life I was able to breath and was comfortable with my life; an entirely new feeling for me. We made another trip to NY, where we helped my mom pack up the house and prepare to move to SC (it was her time for a fresh start). Since Greene had never been to NY before, we took a day out to show him NYC and played tourists for the day.
During the summer Greene and I talked about what we wanted to do in the future in our lives and we realized our lives were becoming more and more entwined and the discussion of marriage came up. Since we really hadn't been dating long (and yet gone through so much together already), I said I wanted to marry him someday if he asked but would want a long engagement. We casually shopped around for the perfect ring (yes ,I had an idea what my rings looked like before I got them) and our daily lives continued. In October, after a romantic dinner at The Melting Pot and a night stroll on the beach (and numerous other funny moments which I will not recap here), Greene proposed to me under a beautiful night sky and I said yes. We revelled in the feeling of being engaged awhile and around Thanksgiving (2006), we decided a March 2008 wedding would be in the cards next. At Christmas time of that year, Greene got the chance to take me to IA (not for a happy occasion though; his great-grandmom had passed away) and I met his entire family. From the moment I walked in, I felt welcomed and loved and knew I'd made the right decision to marry him. 2007 was busy with work, wedding planning and spending time together whenever Greene wasn't travelling. We bought our first house in May of '07 and quickly settled in. In November of '07 Greene injured his shoulder while surfing and in December he had the surgery right before the Christmas holiday. We had a family wedding in OK and spent New Year's in a Holiday Inn in OK. Thankfully we were surrounded with family, but it was a tough weekend.
On March 1st, 2008 Greene and I tied the knot surrounded my all of our closest family and friends. It was a beautiful wedding and joining of two familes. I tell everyone I married my best friend. After all the planning and designing that went into making our wedding ours, Greene and I celebrated with all of our friends and had a great time. I'm still trying to catch-up on the scrapbooking, but there are just so many pictures to incorporate. We attended a few more weddings for our friends and saw some other locations. We opted to take our Honeymoon another time since we had such a tight schedule with other prior engagements. The way I look at it is that we travel and see and do so many great things together and we've had many small honeymoons instead of just 1 big one. We got scuba certified in June and had a blast scuba diving in West Palm.
So that pretty much brings us up to current time. We have a zoo of animals still; 3 dogs (2 chihuahuas-Reese & Snowball, 1 Parson's Russell Terrier-Lucky which we adopted from the local pound in July), 6 turtles, 1 gerbil, and a saltwater tank and cichlid fish in our freshwater tank. Life is grand in our house. We have been tackling home improvement projects little by little and just enjoying our time together. Our future is still being shaped but I'm learning to take it one day at a time and loving the new adventures Greene and I are experiencing.
After Christmas I went back to school and Greene and I spent the few days before classes started together when he wasn't busy with RA training. What should have been an exciting point in my life; a fresh start and outlook on myself and life, my last undergrad semester, became the lowest point in my life that January. After many consultations with my dad's doctors my mom (and I; even though I was already back in FL) made the decision to move my dad into hospice and make the last moments of his life as comfortable as possible. The doctors weren't sure what was going on with him; if the brain cancer was back, if a new cancer had developed, etc. and so the first week of classes I planned my trip back to NY; not knowing how long I'd miss school for. My friends and most of my professors were very understanding of the situation; except for one professor. This professor (which many of my college friends know) told me I had to choose between finishing my college career (and not going home) or going home (and giving up my last semester and not graduating). I of course chose to go home and fought him tooth and nail to graduate on time (his class was really the only class I needed to graduate and so I made it a point to get the notes from my friends and do all the work. So here I was trying to decide where Greene's and my relationship would stand and he was already booking plane tickets for himself so he could go with me. He switched shifts with people for his RA job, called out his other job and told his teachers he would be out of school for a little while due to a family emergency. So that Saturday we were on our way to my home...his first trip to NY, his first meeting with my family and friends. It was that day I realized I'd met my soulmate. It was a tough few weeks and having him there made things all so much better. I'm sure it was a rough situation for him to be there while I went through that but he never showed it. Eventually, he went back to school and I stayed to be with my parents. It was within the next 2 days of Greene's departure that my dad quietly passed in his sleep. I believe my dad finally felt confident I'd found my other half and he could finally let go. The funeral and seeing all the extended family was rough alone, but every night I knew I could call someone and never be judged. I returned to school soon after the funeral and felt no desire to deal with my rude professor, but through the various meetings I was forced to have with him, Greene supported me, sat outside the office to make sure I got all my questions answered and he was never rude to me.
The semester continued, Greene's and my relationship continued to grow and become stronger. We worked together on Homecoming stuff, I met his family for the first time during Spring Break, and then we hit our next roadblock; what happens after Graduation? I hadn't really had time to look to grad schools and after the emotional stress I'd endured with the unnamed professor I had no desire to continue my education at the moment, so I decided I would follow Greene wherever he was going and take each day one at a time; another change in my life. In May we graduated, our families met for the first time and the pieces fell into place beautifully. We decided to stay around our college town; continue working our jobs and look for new career jobs. I went back to college after much pushing by Greene to get my second BS degree since I was only 1 class short. Greene landed his career job not too long into the summer and for once in my life I was able to breath and was comfortable with my life; an entirely new feeling for me. We made another trip to NY, where we helped my mom pack up the house and prepare to move to SC (it was her time for a fresh start). Since Greene had never been to NY before, we took a day out to show him NYC and played tourists for the day.
During the summer Greene and I talked about what we wanted to do in the future in our lives and we realized our lives were becoming more and more entwined and the discussion of marriage came up. Since we really hadn't been dating long (and yet gone through so much together already), I said I wanted to marry him someday if he asked but would want a long engagement. We casually shopped around for the perfect ring (yes ,I had an idea what my rings looked like before I got them) and our daily lives continued. In October, after a romantic dinner at The Melting Pot and a night stroll on the beach (and numerous other funny moments which I will not recap here), Greene proposed to me under a beautiful night sky and I said yes. We revelled in the feeling of being engaged awhile and around Thanksgiving (2006), we decided a March 2008 wedding would be in the cards next. At Christmas time of that year, Greene got the chance to take me to IA (not for a happy occasion though; his great-grandmom had passed away) and I met his entire family. From the moment I walked in, I felt welcomed and loved and knew I'd made the right decision to marry him. 2007 was busy with work, wedding planning and spending time together whenever Greene wasn't travelling. We bought our first house in May of '07 and quickly settled in. In November of '07 Greene injured his shoulder while surfing and in December he had the surgery right before the Christmas holiday. We had a family wedding in OK and spent New Year's in a Holiday Inn in OK. Thankfully we were surrounded with family, but it was a tough weekend.
On March 1st, 2008 Greene and I tied the knot surrounded my all of our closest family and friends. It was a beautiful wedding and joining of two familes. I tell everyone I married my best friend. After all the planning and designing that went into making our wedding ours, Greene and I celebrated with all of our friends and had a great time. I'm still trying to catch-up on the scrapbooking, but there are just so many pictures to incorporate. We attended a few more weddings for our friends and saw some other locations. We opted to take our Honeymoon another time since we had such a tight schedule with other prior engagements. The way I look at it is that we travel and see and do so many great things together and we've had many small honeymoons instead of just 1 big one. We got scuba certified in June and had a blast scuba diving in West Palm.
So that pretty much brings us up to current time. We have a zoo of animals still; 3 dogs (2 chihuahuas-Reese & Snowball, 1 Parson's Russell Terrier-Lucky which we adopted from the local pound in July), 6 turtles, 1 gerbil, and a saltwater tank and cichlid fish in our freshwater tank. Life is grand in our house. We have been tackling home improvement projects little by little and just enjoying our time together. Our future is still being shaped but I'm learning to take it one day at a time and loving the new adventures Greene and I are experiencing.
10.25.2008
A Fresh Start
After many failed attempts at keeping a blog going on other sites. I am trying this site and seeing how successful it is. This my attempt at a new beginning therefore I will fill in the gaps of our lives in the past year in a later post.
Since it's Gator Homecoming, it's a quiet Saturday of Gator football (Gators chomped Kentucky) and scrapbooking (Krystle-Wedding Album; Michael-Puppy dog Album). Still feeling sick; but there is vast improvement from my earlier ailments. Not too much else exciting going on; hoping to feel better tomorrow for league and all.
Since it's Gator Homecoming, it's a quiet Saturday of Gator football (Gators chomped Kentucky) and scrapbooking (Krystle-Wedding Album; Michael-Puppy dog Album). Still feeling sick; but there is vast improvement from my earlier ailments. Not too much else exciting going on; hoping to feel better tomorrow for league and all.
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