YAY!

The spot finally went away, after 5 appointments. No biopsy needed! I just need to follow-up in a month. :)

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Well, its been awhile. Life's great. Married and back in school! Awesomeness...

As far as my mouth "situation", well I'm officially gained like 20 lbs. so not the master plan.. but I'm trying to find the balance. I have a spot in my mouth which hasn't gone away, it has been about three weeks. They said that I have a week for it to go away otherwise they will biopsy it and because of its size that means taken it all out. As far as I feel... well bummed. I am supposed to be celebrating my birthday in a week. Plus I am in school now. It wasn't supposed to be so soon to start worrying about this crap AGAIN! What if... naw I can't go there.

Here's hoping this goes away and is nothing.

Healthy and Happy

Doing so much better! I have come leaps and bounds with my physical therapy, still going 3 times a week. I'm on my 3rd week of working out at the gym at least 3 times a week. So happy! It helps so much with my mood and energy level. I've gained about 6 lbs. in the last month... not too sure how I feel about that. Trying to eat healthier. I am so much stronger though I move around so much easier, up off ground even. I am using the elliptical machine at gym, which I enjoy. Sore arms and legs!

Belen's Birthday

Here is her celebration at Red Robin. She had a blast and good ol daddy made her a cake.

Belen's Birthday is tomorrow!

Yeah! We are so excited! B is getting her some riding gear and I think I'm doing IMAX tickets to see Alice and Wonderland. She is going to be 8! Wow, I'm old. We are doing Red Robin tomorrow and her big sleepover is Saturday. It's a masquerade theme so we bought Mardi Gras masks at party store, they are awesome. She is so excited. She has her clothes set out for tomorrow already. Yesi is so happy because I got her a little mask too. It's a gold mask.

I am back at work, loving it. It's so fun and time flies. My body gets stronger and stronger everyday. My legs are sore almost everyday meaning I am doing something right. My back is doing so good I don't need a heating pad anymore. Sores are still in my mouth on left side. They make it tough to eat. I hurt myself eating some sauce, tomatoes are so acidic they burn my sores. I got some sauce stuck in my mouth and my mouth swelled for about an hour. Ouch. Just a friendly reminder I still need to be careful. Still happy to be eating though!!

Sore

My body has been hurting, I think it has to do with all the lifting I did this weekend. Being more independent is tougher on me than I thought. Still on Monday at physical therapy I worked out my legs, although they were sore. I figure how else am I going to be able to build muscle? Last night my back was killing me, I had to take some ibuprofen. I think that was because of cleaning house, grocery shopping, making dinner, and then cleaning up. I can't wait to be stronger again.

Stronger every day

I am so happy to be doing so well. I can almost eat anything, except spice. Salsa is tough and chile no way! I am taking the stairs now with no rail, so that's a big sign I am getting stronger. I can get up off the floor a bit easier. I weigh 120 now. I have physical therapy 3 times a week, it's helping out so much. My face is pretty swollen lately and I have sores still. I think the swelling is from all the eating and the poke.

Belen is in karate and brazilian jujitsu. So cool. I love the discipline they teach and confidence. It will take her 36 months to get her black belt, but she wants to do it. YAY! This weekend was fun we went to Tri-Cities and spent friday drinking margaritas and watching movies. Saturday we went to Gabby's Baptism. Sunday church and awesome chinese food, a little shopping and time to head home. Went to see Shutter Island, it was good! A little long for a night movie, but the plot was ORIGINAL and who doesn't love Leonardo DiCaprio?

BESTEST WEEKEND EVER!!

We went to Portland!! It was a blast! Shopping, monster trucks, The Chinese Garden's New Year Celebration (where we saw dancers and kids made masks), Chinatown(yummy food), and Oregon City Museum. Our RV resort had a pool and hot tub. Kids loved it! We rented a car so we could leave RV and maneuver easier downtown, a Toyota Camry very nice ride. Belen and I saw Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief a really cool 3-d screen movie based on greek mythology. It was awesome, the 3-d was so different only the screen looked 3-d but we had no glasses! I think it's part of the new technology.

As far as my health goes I messed up my mouth this weekend so my face is pretty swollen. I poked myself in the mouth (FYI finger in mouth and snacking while driving not a good idea) plus I was eating spicy things. My back feels great though. My body is only a little sore no pain though. I am sick, taking some Tylenol Cold. Still I had an absolutely great weekend :)

BEST WEEKEND EVER!!!

I had the best time this weekend. Shopping, my mom's birthday, and the Superbowl! Fun, fun, FUN. I needed it badly. Friday I fell in the street! Talk about the dumbest thing to do!!! I fell because I started to run! Talk about embarrassing, foolish, you name it! On top of everything else it was raining!! And the worst part (drum roll mister) ... was I could not pick myself up!! Seriously? I need a first alert necklace? Come on. Anyway it was awful I started crying later than laughing... kinda crazy. Anyway it upset me so much I really couldn't do my physical therapy appointment... eh... I fell on "Main" street in the middle of Spokane running across the street to get my mom's gift at Nordstrom's...

:)

Owee! Right now my tummy "muscles" hurt so bad! I have laughed more than ever before today. So tired it should not be this hard to fall asleep! Grrr....

Hungry...ate ate ate.

Long day. Yesi's first day of pre-shool! She said, "Today was the best day of my life!" So FUNNY!

Her day was so fantastic she said too. She did puzzles, painted a person(which she said she didn't do such a good job) read a story , played with these wood paper dolls, and marched with music instruments. I was in tears she is so cute. On the way to school she fell, I'm ok mom it didn't hurt she says. She falls so much!

Wednesday ...

Breakfast? Cereal to the rescue... fruity pebbles for Belen and mom. Yesi says I want Chocolate Chex sure! Yummy. Started to clean kitchen, dinner yesterday was a kitchen nightmare, I made some linguini with mussels, clams, and jumbo shrimp. It sounds better than it was, it was ok. Ended up getting really tired, almost sick in the morning. I got irritated it so tedious, my energy mood and health. Frustrates me so much to be so weak. I took a shower and went to IV therapy it made me feel so much stronger which also makes me irritated cause I wan to get off the medications. Especially the darn steroid...

Slept well last night!

I got some a new sleeping pill, Ambien. Works like a charm! Slept from 10:30 to 7am straight! Thanks goodness! I felt like a loca last night being awake for so long...

Sleepless night...

Not a wink of sleep... going to be a long day.

AWESOME WEEKEND!

Went home so nice! Relaxed ate great food! Dad always makes it special! I even was able to get my hair done, talk about getting pampered! It was so SUPER relaxing! My mom also got me the cutest glasses and Belen got some too. She got some transitional glasses which will be perfect for her sports. B got to see my sister's house finally he loved it! What a nice weekend I didn't even have to go to hospital. I waited until Monday instead. It felt good to have the strength to make that choice not to go and be ok.