THANK YOU TO MY ANN ...

First let me say Hello to you all . It has been sometime since I posted. A lot has been going on with me . And I have literally crawled into a hole . I have been pretty ill the past couple of weeks. I have ingnored my body and here I am trying to mend once again . I have not posted nor have I contacted anyone . I just really did not see worrying anyone or complaining . But Ann has opened my eyes again , to see how much you all do mean to me . I do know I cannot do this alone and nor should I .

I have been on an extensive amount of cortisone. Much like prednisone this medication has caused me to go into severe depression along with a water weight gain of 15 pounds . There has been no way I was showing this fat chubby face to anyone . Andn ot to mention my Vitaligo has really spread on my face and makeup is not helping .. so this has really taken over my life .

I ended up taking my Kids back to Disney this past week . Very sick , I did it anyway . I ended up back in the hospital Sunday with more Kidney stones and another adrenal crisis, not to mention I showed up at the hospital severely dehydrated and my sugar had dropped to 50 . They paniced on me and where forcing me to eat and drink just so they could treat me  . So more cortisone and no true answers other than waiting on these nasty stones to pass .

Everything I have been doing has been put on hold . I am back to trying to figure out the what's when and whys of my illnesses . I am not on any anti depression meds , as I hate them and hate the way they make me feel . But after my email today from Ann , I have an appointment to see my Endo today to see what he can do to bring me out of this terrible funk. 
I pride myself on being strong . Strong for you all and strong for me . But this time , I am feeling totally defeated . I am just at a loss , loss of energy .. will and the weight gain has been hard.
The water weight is coming off , just not as fast as I would like , but it will come off .
I just felt like I did not want to share this , as I did not feel as if I should even bother .
Ann has showed me that I am worthy of sharing and worthy of the love this board has for one another. Just please understand that I have never gone through this and not sure how to handle all the emotions. And I know that dropping off the face of the planet is not the answer . I feel like I have missed a lot .. and hopefully will be back to my old self soon. But for now , I am at the mercy of the doctors and trying to figure out why I am not getting any better .

I hope everyone is having a great summer and enjoying life . I have truly missed you all .
Ann , thank you so much for your azzz whopping ( LOL ) and my Reality Check .. you have made my entire month and I love you dearly for it .

Take care all ,

Tink

Oh dear, sweet Natalie; I have missed you! I was just wondering how you were doing and praying that all is well with you. Although I am saddened that you have to go through all of this, I am glad that you have the support you need to get through it all. Please take good care of yourself and I will continue to pray for the healing you need and for the people caring for you.

 

Love you, sweet lady!

 

Dawn

Hi Tink,

I hope you feel better soon. So sorry you are going through so much. But remember...this too shall pass. I'll say a prayer for you.

Penny

My dear, sweet Tink!  How I have missed you and your posts.  I was looking thru "my friends" and noticed you changed your avitar so I looked at your profile and saw some of what had been going on, but I really had no idea.  You and your family remain in my prayers.  Hopefully they can get it all figured out soon.  You have been dearly missed.  You can always come here (or to me personally) and I will always be here.  Try and be strong and remember that He only gives us what we can handle, physically, mentaly and emotionally.  He is our rock and we must trust in what He has in store for us.  I saw that you were taking the grandbabies to Disney and I just assumed you were busy with them.  Did you have fun?  Did you get that Armani Tink bag?  I wanna see pics!  If you feel like it, we are having a get together in Richmond this Sunday.  It would be great for you to come.  It is a pool party/meet and greet and we have several newbies coming.  I have missed talking to you and we need to catch up.  I am always here if you need me.  Call, e mail or pm me.  Miss you!

Love,
Tammy

Guess she's been busy "whacking" everyone out of it....THANKS ANN!!!!

Hope you get to feeling better.............

Baby girl, so sorry to hear about all of this but know that we are hear for you in any way that you need us to be.  You may feel like you are losing this battle but you are not gonna lose the damn war!!  We won't let you. 

I am spreading the wand of well wishes from Tinkerbell and you will be better in no time. 

Love you!!

Sounds like you have been going through a lot.  We are here for you & you are not alone!  Hope the doctors can help you out & get you back on track.

I am glad you came back.  Thanks Ann!  I know I missed reading your inspirational posts!!  I hope you feel better and the doctor can find out why you are having the problems you are!  Please stick around and lean on us, we are here for each other.

You have no idea how proud I am of you.  And I'm gonna do something that I don't usually do...

I TOLD YOU SO!!!! 

I'll just leave it at that cuz you know what I'm talking about.  Just embrace that outpouring of love & know that you are on your way to healing.

Welcome home, Tink!

Tink,
I am so glad to see you back on here. You were the first person to welcome me to the VA board and you were so kind to me. You gave me great advice and just sad to here you have been going through so much. You can always come on here and let us know whats going on. I was wondering if you stayed in Disney and were the new Tinkerbell! Let us know if there is anything you need!
Mom to alex- Brooke (switched my name up)