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More medical tests – how fun!

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It seems to be that time of year again when I end up getting a bunch of tests done at the hospital. I’m due for my six month recheck on a lump in my right breast. Yeah – kind of scary but my doctor wasn’t too worried with the first test results.


The only real problem is that as I said, this is my 6 month retest and the first mammogram and ultrasound was in June of 2011 … and guess when my new ultrasound is scheduled? At the beginning of June this year! I don’t even know when the mammogram is scheduled yet – they haven’t contacted me with an appointment as of yet. Usually it doesn’t take that long to get a mammogram appointment though so I’ll probably have that one within a month and since the result will be odd my ultrasound will probably get bumped up.

Then later in the year I need to have a biopsy on my thyroid. That’s becoming a regular yearly thing as well since I have a tumor in my right thyroid as well. Hmmm … everything’s on the right side it seems. I’ve always had a Thyroid imbalance but I’ve also had growths on my thyroid as well. I ended up having my left thyroid removed several years ago and now it looks like I might end up having the right side taken out sometime in the near future too. I guess I’ll just have to keep hoping that the test and biopsy results turn out ok.

No appetite lately

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I don’t know what’s hit me this month, it’s like I have no appetite at all. Or well … just about no appetite. I don’t know why I’m feeling this way, usually I have a decent appetite, but it just dropped off all of a sudden.

Perhaps it’s because my Crohn’s has been acting up more in the last two months or so as well. It’s almost as if I took one of the top 10 appetite suppressants or something though. I sure hope this feeling goes away soon.

I certainly don’t mind one of the side effects … I think I’ve lost a few pounds!

Time to hit the bike trails

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Now that September has arrived it’s really cooled off dramatically! I can’t believe how cool it’s getting at night. We actually turned our furnace on for the first time this season this evening. It was just too cool in our house.

One thing I do like about the cooler weather is that it’s nice to get out and either take long walks or go for bike rides. Working out or being active is important year round, but I find it much easier in the spring and fall when the temperature outside is much more moderate to cool. I just get too hot in the summer if I really exert myself and well, sometimes here in the winter it’s just too cold to go outside for a long time.

Perhaps tomorrow if the weather is nice we’ll get out the thule bike rack and load up the bikes and go to a bike trail for a nice long ride.

Do you enjoy doing outdoor activities like biking, walking and running year round, or are you like me and prefer to do some of those activities when the weather is slightly cooler like during the Spring and Fall?

Noisy Neighbor Syndrome

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I feel like I’ve barely been getting any sleep over the last few months. Actually I don’t just feel like I haven’t been getting much sleep, I know I haven’t been. I have noisy neighbor syndrome.

What’s noisy neighbor syndrome you ask? Well I’d imagine that you can guess what it is if you try. We live in a semi detached house so our neighbors house is attached to ours – just on the other side of ours. In other words there is a common wall between our two homes and likely due to the fact that our neighbors have hardwood floors we can hear all the jumping and running around that their two year old daughter does every single day from 7 in the morning until sometimes as late as midnight.

I have chronic pain due to Crohn’s Disease and other illnesses so I don’t sleep well to begin with and lately it seems that whenever I am just about to fall asleep my neighbors daughter starts up with her noise. So yeah … noisy neighbor syndrome … Anyone know how to remove dark circles ’cause unless I start getting a good sleep I think the dark circles under my eyes are going to become permanent.

My silly leash pulling dog

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I was just saying on one of my other blogs that my dog gave me a real work out today. I discovered that if I only used her leash on her rather than her prong collar as well as leash that I get a massive workout.

Of course … along with a workout I’m sure if I did this all the time I’d probably have more than a few injuries since I also have a bad back and bad knees. LOL But I’m guess I wouldn’t need to use something like Lipofuze as I have a feeling that with all that pulling on the leash that my dog does when she doesn’t have her prong collar on I must burn double the calories!

We were out talking with our neighbors and our dog Midnight was over excited and wanting to explored their yard and it was all I could do to just hold on to the leash! She’s crazy when she’s showing off in front of people she likes. Silly dog!

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