End of September?!?!?

The Light the Night Walk was this last Saturday. The weather was great and the turnout was awesome! Thank you everyone that was able to make it and that donated to the team. Our team has raised $2,782 - 70% of our goal of $5,000! If you did not get a chance to donate and you still wanted to you have until the end of the year to help us reach our goal. It was hard to get decent pictures. We also didn't get a team picture this year; I am kind of bummed about that. We did get some pictures when we went to Varlamos Pizza.
Here are some pictures.
















Today I went in and had a Bone density scan done. Not to exciting. We will find out what the results mean tomorrow when we meet with Dr. M.

I called Dr. C office today because of my breathing. I thought and was hoping that I had a cold but I am now thinking that it is my breathing. It started acting up again when I started working out not sure if it has anything to do with it or not. When I run on the treadmill my heart rate is going pretty high 160-180, when I was just walking on the treadmill today my heart rate was up to about 140 and that was for 5 minutes. So needless to say Dr. C wants to see me tomorrow after my appointment with Dr. M.

Well I am going to watch the rest of the game and get to bed. I will post after my appointment tomorrow.

Blog post #100 and 2.5mg!

Well this is my 100th post!

I talked to Nurse A today and I to decrease to 2.5mg of prednisone in the morning!

I see Dr. C again on October 12. My agenda for the day is
245- CT
315- PFT
315- Dr. C but he is never on time... so maybe more like 345....

Not too much to report on. I haven't lost any weight... I had lost 5 pounds but it all came back... We upped Vince YMCA membership so that we can all go, including the kids, and I have gone 3 times and I have been eating less and still nothing. Vince says to just have patience..... Well it is getting late and now it is time for bed.

5!!!!!

I talked to Nurse A yesterday and she said that my blood work lookeds good and I could drop to 5mg of prednisone today! Dr. C doesn't need to see me again for a month! Finally feels like we are getting somewhere!



Just wanted to also send a reminder about the Light the Night walk that is being held on September 26th at Green Lake. I would love it if you all could come and walk with us You can visit our team page to get register at the link below. if you are unable to walk but would like to donate just click on the link below and you will go to our team page and click on "donate now" We are at 39% -$1565.00 for our team goal of $4,000. if you are able to help in anyway we would appreciate it, every little bit helps! http://pages.lightthenight.org/wa/SeattleL09/MelissaPowell

4 pokes in 1 day...

I finally made it in to have my blood test done. So the girls and I checked in and they did the first blood draw. Than I walked over to meet up with Nurse A to get my injection, that was the worst shot that I have ever gotten it hurt so bad! Than we had to wait 30 mins than I got another blood draw, and than 30 mins later I got another blood draw and it was over. Now we just have to wait and get the results to find out if we can lower the prednisone any further.

The YMCA up here by our house is starting a cancer survivor work out group; I think that I am going to join it. It will be 2 days a week for an hour or 2 can’t remember.

Well that is all I have for tonight!

Let the games begin!

Vince and I have a little competition going. We are going to see who can lose the most weight in 2 months. This started August 31st and will end October 31st. whoever wins will get 1$ per pound lost. We both have about 30-40 pounds that we want to lose!

So I saw Dr. M today. Things are looking good. I talked to him about my hands cramping and you guessed it another side effect of the prednisone. All that this means is that I need to take some vitamin D. prednisone also causes bone weakness so he wants me to start taking Calcium pills or TUMS. I go in for a bone density scan on September 29 and then I will see Dr. M again on September 30. Dr. M. asked me today if I have lost weight, I have lost maybe 3 pounds but he said that my face looks thinner.

For my birthday Vince and the girls got me a gift card to Michaels. Even the cat brought home a present…. A half dead mouse, left it on my front porch. Melanie and I made Vince open the side door to the house because I would not go near the front door.