Doctor's Appointments, Last Hoorah

Time For an Oil Change and some Break Pads!

I actually have a busy, fun, relaxing, recovery week left and I know that it is going to be hard to get into the rhythm of working again!I have had a nice day and today was the first time that I actually slept in past 8 in the morning since I got home from the hospital. I am hurting tonight and I am trying to just do things a little at a time, so in the next month I will be full speed at work! I love the support that I have been getting, and I love the fact that the people close to me are really taking it seriously. Just because the surgery is over does not mean that my recovery done as well. The surgery was only the beginning and right now I am on so many steroids that it's like I still have a tumor. I will be on the same amount for at least the next 6 weeks and then hopefully it will help my pituitary gland start producing the right amount on it's own. Before the surgery I learned so much about what has been going on with my body for the past 5-10 years and I made a plan. Surgery and getting the tumor out is giving me a huge second chance to get my health in order. I want to resolve all of these medical problems that I have been having and removing the tumor was only one big step into doing that. Exercise, healthy diet, sleep, taking personal time for myself, and not always placing everything and everyone before me! If I don't take control or manage me better I will not be able to get up to 100% at work and I will not be going to Orlando for work. Of course I am sure that my family would be happier if I didn't move to Orlando but it's not about them!
I started looking at what I can do to get more in shape to help with my recovery and loose weight quicker and I think I have combined some exercises together to make a great workout for me. I am going to do a different routine each week so I don't hit a wall! I have lost 4 pounds in the last 2 weeks and all I did was sit around and eat in recovery. I have been keeping my sugar better under control and I am really proud of myself! It is hard and it is always a struggle but I can do it and keep myself healthy. The real challenge is incorporating what I have been doing into my really busy life and work! It can get really hard when you are just busy and convenience blocks your vision of healthier decisions! I have had a lot of time to think and today was one of them. I am going to start bringing my lunch or items to make my meals at work healthier.
I don't think that I have ever had so much time to concentrate on my health and my life. I am so thankful that I am doing so well after the surgery. So many things could have gone wrong, and I have had so much support from my friends and family. I am so thankful and blessed to have all of them in my life.

Gettin My Nail Polish On...!

I am starting to think that I could seriously write a book about all of the family drama in my life. One of my family members in particular would be great to write about, and of course I would have to change the names but I could see it working. I am so glad to just get away from some of the people who are stressing and emotionally draining me. I have hated being out of my comfort zone and the last time that I was in my own space was the weekend before the surgery. It has been 15 days since I have been home and slept in my bed, and as much as I love my family I am so fucking happy to be home. 15 days might not seem like a long time but it is for me! I usually don't spend that much time at home, I am working, out with friends, visiting family oh and did I mention working!!! Tonight I am sitting on the couch across from Alison and Kellyn and I could not be happier, it is so nice to just feel home. After next week I will start work again and I am ready to go back in some ways and in other ways I am not.
When I first got home today I just felt like I didn't belong and it took me a few hours to feeling like I was home. Staying up late is not the best thing for me, especially since I need to be up early in the morning to have one of my last blood tests for a while. I am ready to get the rest of this week over and I am so thankful that I have been feeling very well.

Early Morning News Session.

I have been waking up to a countdown in my head and updating it on our chalkboard fridge. Now it's only 7 days until things will change for a while and life will start to get better. I started to think would I really have been able to deal with this 2 or 3 years ago?
It has been 2 years since mom has been cancer free, and if anyone has learned anything from that horrible experience I believe that I have. It has made our family closer and I have become so much more closer to my mom than I ever thought I could become. Besides that I feel like I am a stronger person who can deal with a little more stress and deal with life situations that I never thought would occur. Not only did my diagnosis of diabetes help me find he real source of all of my health problems,

If the years were different

I am completely beyond being unhappy with the situation with my mother, and we ended up fighting on the phone tonight while I was at work. We do not get along on a regular basis and I have spent so much time trying to distance myself from her, mainly because she hurts me all of the time. I found out my surgery date about a week or two ago and I wanted to be able to see my family and I called her and let her know what was going on. I have told her what was going on with the tumor that is in my brain since October. She didn't really listen to me and she ended up calling me overweight a couple of times when I first told her what was going on with me.

Couldn't be more high that I am right now (natural one that is!)

Since last Thursday (surgery date was set) my mind has been going 20 millionn miles a minute. I feel totally turned on all of the time, and not in a bad way. I have so much that I have to get done, but I am not feeling too overwhelmed...YET! Work is just plugging along and I am really trying hard to get all of my ducks in a row! This is a really big step

The Crazy Storm of My Life

So it's that time again...it's time to get things done and back in order. I can't please everyone and knowing what is more important in life can be very key!!! I will first state that I love my friends, family, and my job. Saying that this has been a long few weeks and situations keep getting more difficult. Knowing that how you come across and the way you handle situations can be the most important way to deal with complications has been very key in the past few months.
Today I have to go into work with a different attitude and get back into the normal swing of things. I will not be able to stay at my store all of next week and I have a lot of work that has been getting delayed. Yesterday at work I found myself very aggravated and I felt like progress with one of my managers had gone backwards. I had to stop myself and bite my tongue more than 5 times yesterday alone and I saw a couple of things that I just wanted to bitch about. To be honest I don't feel like I have been doing very well at my job at all. I have been late about 6 times in the past 2 months, I have not been able to actively pay attention to my store, I have been working at another store that I feel does not care if I help them, I have neglected my family, and I have let my emotions get the best of me and become extremely stressed out.
I am finally finishing this blog....It's Tuesday night after work NOW!!!
I can feel my body starting to get sick again, I think it's another kidney stone and all I can think is that I do not need this right now I have too many hours to work this week for this shit.
Tonight it was nice to be able to catch up with my boss again and let him know how things were going on at the store. We were able to talk for 20-25 minutes and he re-assured me about some of the problems that I have been having. Sometimes it's nice to know that you are doing well at what you do when you are in the middle of the battle!! (I hope that made sense!) If I was feeling better tonight I would have felt like work would have gone better, but things were not bad and we had no complaints. Nick is doing well and I really want to spend as much time as I can with him while training. He is doing such a great job and next week I am going to use him as a float manager and make sure that he is ready to move up in the next couple of weeks. I might be trying to do too many things at once and I really wanted to be able to get Lama going but it is a work in progress. I have not been able to set aside time to concentrate on my to do list for Lama. I want to be able to finish the cards for Valentines on Thursday but, I can already see work will run late tomorrow and Wednesday will be shot by the time I get home at 7pm. So I am hoping to shove so many things into tomorrow and then run over to my store after work at the bell store. Rush home and get all my shit done and organized. After Thursday I have 3 doubles in a row...or at least Saturday will be a double shift if one of my managers does not show up. It's going to suck loosing her if she decides to be stupid but I am not sure what to tell her and both of my boss's know what I have to do on Saturday if she does not show up. I did the payroll today and I have 90 hours in the past two weeks, and that is going to be a nice pay check! It's been a while since I have had a pay check like that and I can't wait to get paid on Tuesday! So I'm just going to concentrate on what needs to be done and get work together. I can't drop the ball right now because I want the Orlando store and I want to keep my sales up at my store.