Diary of a Woman Learning

I requested prayer last week for my knees from you all and from my church choir family. Guess what?! Since Thursday I have had no more pain . I can run up stairs - I get winded still! :) - but without pain entirely! I can get up from a seated position with no pain. I can walk with no pain...ahhh! God is SO good! I praised Him before for granting me the strength to get through 30 minutes of exercise when it was a huge struggle - but we are together persisting and in the last week (with no changes to my diet except trying to be more aware of my portions) I am down ONE POUND ! Gotta love that exercise! :) Friends, I am so excited! These are some struggles I can not remember ever NOT having. And God is seeing me through them now. It often frustrates me that I was not told sooner, by a different doctor, about the severity of my condition. However, I am also reminded that God's timing is perfect and I was likely not ready to hear it...or not ready to do anything about it. He is surround...

Well, I have always had joint pain - especially in my knees - as far back as I can remember. However, I am not letting it get me down. Rather, I am not letting it stop me from exercising. And believe me, it downright hurts. Almost all the time - but especially sitting down and standing up. Oh, and walking...that really hurts, too. (On a serious note, I could really use some prayer that this knee pain will let up. Thank you so much prayer warriors!) Oddly enough, cycling on my recumbent actually does not hurt. How weird is that? ;o) I have exercised for 30 minutes every day but Sunday (Hubby made me take the day off so that my knee might recover, but alas it was not meant to be. :o) I range anywhere from 4.3 miles to 5.2 miles in that time and I love that exercise bike. The design of it keeps the tension out of my achy joints and lower back and allows me to build my stamina. And by listening to my fave radio station - K-Love (88.9 FM here) - I get encouraged while I worship. In fact, ye...

Here is the update. I won't go into much detail here, but I have had several concerning symptoms the last few months and recently an extreme lack of energy has been added to that. This is severe lethargy and like nothing I've ever dealt with before, so I thought it best to switch doctors. I have thoroughly enjoyed going to a D.O. that is now our Family Physician, so I thought I would try an Ob/Gyn that was also a D.O. And she is B-L-U-N-T... and I love her! :) When I went in today, I took my results from my latest rash of tests - the ones that I called my last doctor up in July for and told her to find out what in the world was going on. (I was tired of asking...) Guess what? They are all normal . There is nothing wrong with any of my levels - but my new doc did draw for a B-12 check just to be safe, so hopefully we'll hear back about that pretty soon. Anyway...you wanna hear why I'm tired and can't get pregnant? I'm fat. Yep. Not a newsflash or anything, but s...

I promise that I'm around and making it here! It's been pretty crazy what with starting school and becoming a leader in our homeschool support group. (In my defense, I didn't realize that was what I was doing. I thought I was going to coordinate the holiday parties...turns out when you only have one active officer, said officer reserves the right to make you a leader in that group. Hmm. The things you learn. :) School is going okay...or should I be more specific? Social studies, Language Arts and Science are going okay...mathematics? Not so great. We have determined that Hooked on Math is NOT a good match for my child. He gets SO frustrated he winds up in tears within seconds of the MENTION of "Hooked on Math". (While I must admit that a portion of this is due to his processing issues and I want him to learn to be more flexible, I NEVER want him to be THIS stressed out. Therefore we are searching for a new math program/curriculum. I am very interested in Math-U-Se...