Behind The Scenes

There has been some things going on "behind the scenes" of all the day-to-day fun, vacation and busyness of work. I haven't talked about it here, not because it's a secret. It's just the main reason I have gotten behind on the blog and have just been trying to catch up!!

Last April I shared about being exhausted and having joint problems. I continued to have some soreness and tiredness until the summer. I still rested every afternoon even while we were packing, but wasn't feeling as sore. In September, when it started raining regularly, I started having the episods again where every joint hurts and I was really tired. That episode lasted about 5 days, which was depressing by the end. After that episode I felt more joint pain at different times without the episodes. In the States I felt quite a bit of joint pain when I would stand for a long period of time or when the weather changed. All of that continued into February while Jacob was gone for 15 days. I had 16 days that I didn't feel well out of the 28 days in February. In the beginning of March I finally went to a rheumatologist. My doctor in the States suggested it but I couldn't get into one while we were in the States. This was the third time we had done blood tests and again everything showed normal. He like all of the doctors say that I am a very healthy person. He said that it looked like the pain was not from inflammation and so we just need to try to deal with the symptoms. He gave me some medicine that has really helped, though I still have to take it easy. If I try to do to the level that I think I should, then I it adds up a couple weeks later where I have to rest a lot a day or two. When I'm not feeling very well I don't want to do anything but rest. Even just sitting on the bed or couch and doing computer work isn't something I feel like I can do. Thus why I got so behind!!

Everyone seems to be doing well in spite of all of this. Keely prays every night that I will feel better and gets excited when I go to the doctor in hope that he'll find some miracle. Jacob has to help out a lot more when I'm not feeling well. Of course all of this makes me feel bad that I can't be the mom and wife that I want to be.

It's been nice to have some relief, but I have started hurting again and have had a headache for 48 hours so the pain medicine may be losing its' effectiveness. Before this headache started I had decided to go on an elimination diet and then gradually add things back in to see if any of those is food related. I started yesterday and I learned that I do rely on food. When I don't feel good I had a lot of carbs and sweets and that was so hard yesterday. I wanted the relief of the sugar so bad!! And I'm not a big slab of meat girl -- so eating steak for breakfast is not my idea of an exciting thing!!

So that's what has been going on here "behind the scenes." And that's why there may be some lags in the blog :-)