Sunday, April 9, 2023

Medical Update

 Oh my goodness y'all it has been a minute since I blogged, and I have been busy working on second and third-round interviews with two notable companies. We also hosted family last week and I am still recovering from that. Let me get you caught up on everything. Let's jump back to when I first started keto and saw my obstetric dr for the first time last September. I had been on intermittent fasting and keto for a few weeks. I had lost 10 pounds around that time which was huge because I hadn't seen the scale move in a minute. Dr. Erica is great and being that I was 49 when I needed to have my mammogram. Which was scheduled a few weeks later. In that time frame my position was eliminated and they found something in my left breast. Now I would have to have an ultrasound and another mammogram right around the holidays at an 800-dollar price tag. I contemplated this decision and even though it was scary not knowing God had other priorities for me to focus on at that time.

My daughter was finishing up a swim practice on December 16, 2022. She dove off the blocks and came up screaming. Unfortunately, I knew that screaming cry. Her knee was dislocated for the third time and her leg was on the other side. I was like a deer in headlights in my reactions and am so grateful for the swim parents that were with me because they were amazing. Ultimately the ambulance was called, arrived, and so did Craig. He put her knee back into place and we made it home. Those were some long days because a couple of nights before this Craig woke up in pain with not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 kidney stones. December was a rough month. I dealt with the stress of it all by hitting the gym and staying on Keto. For the first time in a long time, I didn't have holiday weight gain or regret. Now that the new year was upon us my dr was on me about the mammogram. My family is on the mend so I ended up going to get my annual physical, mammogram, and ultrasound scheduled on the same day. 

I went to an annual physical first thing in the morning and the weigh-in revealed that I have lost 40 pounds with a BMI of 24. When I started this journey I weighed 155 and had a BMI of over 27. I couldn't believe that I hit my high school weight of 115, and brings tears to my eyes. I was riding that high when I had my mammogram and they did show me the super scary mass. I have been praying for months about this. Could I have cancer? My father n law battled it and won. Was I going to face the same war, and had hoped that my weight loss would make this thing disappear,  Here I was with the lady conducting my ultrasound zooming in on the mass that was very real and present. The doctor came in to evaluate all the data and within 2 minutes she told me that she knew that it was a cyst. When I got out of there I cried and cried. I called Craig & sent out some emotional texts to the family.

I am accepting my weight loss and hitting my target. So with that comes a set of new goals mentally, physically, and with my career. It looks like I may be shifting into another industry and my heart goes out to all of my banking colleagues that are in the throws of whatever we want to call the industry shifts currently going on. My fitness goals are now focused on continuing to reduce my BMI and do not plan to weigh myself until my keto anniversary. I am going to continue on my path and finally found a substitute for potatoes. Jicima in the air fryer works for me so now my substitutions are complete. I also got my bloodwork back and everything is great except for my slightly inflamed liver, and I know what I need to do for that, and I am on it. Stay healthy until the next blog amigos.


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