Quick biopsy update and new plans

Just had my 1 month follow from the LEEP and I am currently cervical dysplasia free!!  Yipee!  Next pap smear in 6 months.

At this appointment we also talked more seriously (we have been talking about it before now but the cervical stuff took precidence) about my iron deficiency and it’s symptoms etc (see this post) and how difficult life has gotten since having it.  So the planning has started for me to have a uterine cryoablation done.  I am one of those people who bleed very heavily every month so no matter how much iron I eat or take I just don’t make it up.  I’m in the middle of my 3 months of perscription therapy but not feeling any better yet.  The way this has to be planned I won’t be able to have it done until my 3 months of iron is done and my levels are rechecked anyway but he is confident that I won’t be any higher.  He feels this is my best option to a)get better and b) prevent it from happening again.

I’ll update more as it gets closer.

Not Me Monday

                        

This past week I:

 

Didn’t accept an offer to have a friend at work be my personal trainer and then only take the stairs, as per his suggestion to get into better shape, when he was there and I knew I may run into him and take the elevators when he wasn’t.  Not me, I would always listen to such advice and follow it to a T.

 

I didn’t deny to a pulmonolgist (lung doctor) that was trying to help me that I may have asthma.  He was only trying to help me to feel better and stop coughing all the time which I have done for years.  I didn’t stand there and state that I DO NOT HAVE ASTHMA AND THAT IS ALL THERE IS TO IT to him.  Not me, I would always listen to what the doctor says and make an appointment with him just as he suggests.

 

I didn’t borrow a piece of equipment from a friend and not return it yet.  Not me, I always return things as soon as I am done with them.

 

And I didn’t get to my nap late today (work nights) so that I could get this up on my blog since I didn’t participate last week.  Not me, I always get enough sleep because I know taking care of myself is very important.

 

For more Not Me Monday posts visit McMama’s blog.

Blog award

  I was given this award by my dear blog friend Kirsten and I thank her immensely.  When blogging first started I wondered why anyone would want to read about anyone else’s life and thought it was the  stupidest thing I had ever heard of.  But now that I am blogging myself I understand it and I have found such a support system of blogging friends out there and don’t know where I’d be emotionally without them.  I would give the award back to her as I think she deserves it too for blogging about life as a woman with a neo-bladder but someone already did so I’ll pass it on to 5 others who deserve it too.

First is to my dear friend Carla aka Mastomama.  She and her two children live daily with a disease called mastocytosis.  I will not try and tell you what that is as I couldn’t do nearly the job she does.  Though I have learned so much about it from her.  She is also the one who helped me really find our Lord when I thought I knew him….thanks Carla!

Second is to Pete Wilson at Without Wax.  He preaches weekly in Nashville, TN and yet is not afraid to keep it real.  He constantly inspires me to be a better Christian in profiling his life as a man of Christ. a husband and a father.  To get a taste of what I mean read his post  Let me go first today.

Third is to Braden at 10 out of 20.  He’s a fairly new ER nurse and is still learning the ropes (though I think he’s learned them pretty well by now!!)  He cares about his patients, shows empathy and makes me laugh.  He shows me that I’m not the only one who feels the way I do about patients sometimes and that that is ok.

Forth is to Brandi at Brandi & boys.  She is actually Pete’s wife.  I don’t get to read her blog as often as I’d like to as I just run out of time.  But when I do I leave filled with joy.  She and Pete are such a great couple and are such great parents.  Her entries just put the biggest smile on my face.  I should really make more time for her.

And the fifth and last is to Angie at Bring the Rain.  She has been through so much in her life and yet she reaches out to touch so many.  I cried my eyes out the first time I read her blog & her whole story.  Oh and Angie…….I’m totally jealous that you know Brandi and Pete!!!  :)