Thought I would pop in

It's been crazy around here since Thanksgiving.  The day after Thanksgiving I was having chest pain that I thought was from trying to lift a king matteress by myself.  I remember my whole chest feel like it was about ready to explode.  So as I went into the walk in clinic, I said my chest was having pains and the top part of my back hurt.  Instantly they thought heart attack...etc.  They sent me to ER .  Make a long story short I was in ER for six hours getting ekg's, xrays, labwork, ect.  I was poked forTHREE hours getting lab work done.  I have no viens, and what I do got are extremely tiny and hidden.  I guess I went through the best people at PRovidence with no luck.  It was awful, I'm black and blue everywhere.  Even my feet!   All of this to find out that yep....I pulled something when I lifted the matteress.jeeeesh!!  I just wanted some pain pills to help me sleep!ha    Should be interesting to see how much that bills gonna cost me.   

Then we got home and fell alseep and got woken up by a phone call.  My oldest son passed out at work and the paremedics were there.  Again, make a long story short he has passed out before. His old cardiologist said it was a teen thing.  I took him to ER and they said this isn't normal.  Whenever he excerts himself  he faints and isn't well for a few hours even after that.  THis time he ran to work which is like no more than a mile away (I'm sure less).  He's 18 and not over weight, and in descent shape.    So back to another cardiologist and they are doing all kinds of tests on him.   He siad this isn't right and we need to figure out what it is.  THank GOd finally a doctor that knows what he is doing.  He thought he heard something in his neck so we are waiting on the results of his last test.  He thinks his blood flow in his neck runs very slow, and that would cause him to faint if he excerts himself.  So we will soon find out if this is what has been causing this!  I'm hoping he calls today.

Then in the middle of all of this of course I'm not eating well.  Plus I haven't been taking my asthma meds like I should be.  I have this issue with myself that I beleive I don't have it.  I was just diagnosed with it about a year ago and I refuse to accept it.  Soooo, I stopped taking my flovent inhaler for the past few days.  Well Saturday I totally freaked,, can't breath, massive tension headache (addicted to it?!?! not sure why I got this), and massive panic attack.  It was awful.  Yesterday I could barely move, laying down made me breath better so I just stayed there all day.  Today I'm almost back to normal thank God.  So back on flovent it is I guess.

During all of this I havne't counted my points at all.  I have such a hard time counting points when things around me aren't going right.  So today I'm going to clear my house and start on core and see if that is any better for myself.  I've tried it once before, but only for a week.  I had a hard time finding things to eat on it.  I think it will just take some time getting use too.  I have two kids that are over weight, and my dh, so this will help them out in the long run also.  They will be on a diet without even realizing it! :)  So I will try this for a few weeks.

So that's been my week!

What a week!

For a minute there I thought you were going to tell us you had a heart attack!  Thank goodness you are ok.  Also, I am glad that your son is seeing a DR that is helpful, sure thing - something is wrong - I just hope it is something easy ;) take care and get back to counting.  I really think that failure does not come for a day or two off the wagon... it come from not getting back on right away.. and fwiw, get your men-folk to lift things for you!

Did the doc rule out mitrovalve prolapse?  The symptoms remind me of a friend of mine's experience.

whew, you've had a rough time of it lately. **hugs** ^^ sometimes you just need a bit of that hope things get back on track for you soon.