New and Improved

Wow, it's been awhile since I've blogged...I forget a lot that I have one :)

We are still at an in-between stage right now, living with my parents until we close on our house. It can be very stressful and it's made me really start to take inventory of my body and what's going on with it.

I've been experiencing a lot of symptoms since my youngest was born almost 2 years ago. They have progressively gotten worse, but they have really been effecting my every day life since we moved in with my parents. This leads me to believe that my stress and anxiety is making them worse.

Aside from OB visits for having kids, I haven't had a checkup in years. I guess you worry so much about your kids that you forget that in order to care for them, you must also take care of yourself. SO, I decided it was time to schedule an appointment and try to get myself back in working order :) The night before my appointment, I decided to type out a list of my regular symptoms to make things easier for the doctor and to make sure I didn't forget to mention any. Boy, did I feel like a hypocondriac! I believe there were 14 regular symptoms that I experience on an almost daily basis...why, did I wait so long to have a regular checkup?!

After seeing the doctor, he assured me that he didn't think any of them was life threatening. I had to confess to him that I'd been doing some internet research on some of my symptoms and had myself believing I had cancer...he told me a lot of people do that and I wasn't a crazy person :)

I'm going in for blood work some time this week and hopefully we can get to the bottom of whatever is causing me to be so out of whack. I am definitely going to start taking better care of myself so that this doesn't happen again though. I want to start finding more natural products and I'm really into making things at home like laundry soap, deoderant, all natural candles, etc. We are even going to make our own compost for our plants when we get into our new house!

Bottom line, TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF! Otherwise, you aren't going to be able to take care of those you love :)