Whole Bunch of This and That

I spend so much time writing blog and twitter posts in my head but they just never make it to the big screen. Here's a smattering of what's going on in my head and in my life...

First up - my son came down with Lyme Disease. We wasted time and money with a trip to our local Medi-Quik and the doctor diagnosed it as NOT Lyme Disease. He gave us an Rx for an antibiotic and sent us on our way. The NEXT morning he wakes up with a huge bullseye where once there was only redness. We took a trip to our trusted pediatrician group and it was obviously Lyme Disease. They put him on doxycycline for 21 days and that was it. I think we caught it soon enough because he hasn't had any of the flu-like symptoms or achy joints. Some people never get the bullseye so we were doubly lucky. Until....

My son broke his hand. In a fight. At a concert. The very next weekend. He calls me into his room the following Sunday and says "I have something to tell you" which of course would make any mother's heart sink! He brought his hand out from under the covers and it was VERY LARGE. After the previous weekend, and knowing the emergency room where I'd have to take him I told him he would have to wait until Monday. The ER would have us wait for at least 6 hours, take an x-ray, tell us it was broken and for us to call our doctor in the morning. Which is what I did on Monday morning. We couldn't get an appointment until Tuesday but the nurse said it wouldn't start healing on it's own.

Tuesday's x-ray showed us a broken bone in the hand below the pinky. The doctor gave him a shot and set it and casted it and HOPED it would set. In fact, he set it a second time when he didn't like the results the first time. Follow up today and the bone separated. It's pins for his hand. We've got our fingers crossed that they are able to squeeze it in tomorrow - whatever time, 6 at night we don't care! - because Monday the football team starts practice and he's one of the head managers. I haven't heard from the hospital yet but I'm keeping my hopes up!

I have been doing really well in my quest to take care of myself physically and mentally. I have started running again, really putting effort into my workouts and keeping a journal of my food and my moods. With all my efforts, since the 14th of July, I've lost a whopping .6 pounds. I didn't stutter -- SIX TENTHS OF A POUND. How is that possible you ask? Well, when I started it was at 126.6. The following week 124.8 (yay!), the following week 128.8 (Gasp!). That's when I begin to question what I'm eating, my workouts, me. I mean come on! 4 pounds?! I only went to a wedding and a party after. I don't think 3 vodka cranberries, 3 jello shots, and some eggplant parm are gonna add four pounds are they? So I start weighing myself on Thursdays too. That brought me to 128.2, to 125.6 on Tuesday and now to 126.4 on Thursday. This I know: I'm 49 years old, I'm 4'10 3/4", I have 1/2 a thyroid so I take levoxyl, I'm perimenopausal and I'm obsessed with THE NUMBER ON THE SCALE.

But through it all, I have not wavered. I didn't storm into the pantry after gaining four pounds and eat whatever I could get my hands on, I went out for a kick ass run. My muscles are sore and I feel good. My shorts are fitting a little better. I had a pair of capris that I had to shimmy into this morning that still looked good by this evening. So with the negatives so far, come the positives.

Next Thursday my husband and I are heading into New York to see JOHN LEGEND at Madison Square Garden!! When I saw he was going to be there I decided I had to see him. I turned my husband into a fan too with his latest album so he agreed to go with me (I would have gone alone). We are going to stay overnight and come home the next morning. I checked out the tickets at Ticket Master but I didn't like the seats that were coming up randomly so my cousin told me to try StubHub. I found two tickets in Section 209, Row A, Seats 1 and 2. AISLE SEATS! Check them out! My husband loves aisle seats so I went for it. I Can't Wait!

Oh I feel so much better now! Really, the thoughts DO roll around in my head!