Soo.....

Soo... I have never really been the type to put every bit of my business out to the public on Facebook...I usually just tell the people who need to know or ask and leave it at that. But since people have been curious and asking questions I thought it would just be easier to just try to answer all the questions in one place.
  Recently I went to my normal GYN appointment and had my normal exam, with the normal blood work drawn and everything looked normal. Later I got a phone call from my midwife....(want to be honest, my heart skipped a beat and I almost didn't answer it because I think I would have been in a state of shock if she were to tell me I was pregnant, even though I knew there was a slim chance of this being true) she told me that everything was normal, I was not pregnant(sigh) but that my platelets were low. My first thought was not really a big deal right now, it's just low platelets.  But she went on to tell me it may not be a problem now, but it would be a problem when I did decide to get pregnant. Just for thoughs who dont know, a normal level is 150, mine at this time were 86. She suggested I get a redraw in a month or so with a primary doc (which I had still failed to find a primary doc after leaving Martin Army), mentioned the fact that I might have ITP, ideopathic thrombocytopenia purpura. Basically for one reason or another my body destroys my platelets. Finally went and saw a primary physician, went through any other possible signs and symptoms, drew some more labs, called me back a week later and told me my platelets were up, but still low at 107, and that they were going to refer me to an oncologist/hemtologist at John B. Amos.
 That brings us to yesterday. I knew I would be having several blood test done so I brought Eric with me because I don't handle my own blood very well (crazy thing is I deal with others blood all the time and it never bothers me) When we went and talked to the doctor, he basically explained the diagnosis of ITP, that is is a excluding disease basically you rule out every other cause for low platelets, then you come the the diagnosis of ITP. Another issue they are looking at is if my blooding clotting properly, and if not then why. The main things that could be the cause would be Leukemia, or lupus, along with some other things. I AM NOT showing ANY signs of any of this, nor does the doctor think this is the cause, but like I said, to rule it out as a cause. I have been tested for this in 2008 and tested negative for all of this. I don't want anyone to think I have this. Is it a possibility, I guess, but the doctor says there is a 5% chance. I am not worried about it, so therefore I don't want anyone else to either. In my opinion there is no reason to worry about something that I don't think I have to begin with. If something secondary comes up will deal and treat what needs to be treated.
 I think when the doctor mentioned the secondary causes, it freaked Eric out a little. It's a little scary when a doctor says they are testing you for cancer, but reassuring when they say there is a small (very small.....like VERY SMALL) chance.  Anyways, 3 hrs and 12 tubes of blood later, I have to go back in 3 weeks for a follow up and find out the results. The great news is my levels are not so low that's have to be put on steroid treatment. He said I would even be safe enough to go into surgery if I needed it. So as long as there is no other underlying cause, I will be fine. We will deal with the issue during pregnancy when the time comes. I want to be as healthy as possible before getting pregnant, which is the main reason I wanted to get checked now. I appreciate all the concern and prayers. It seems as if we scared some people, which was not our intention at all, just asking for prayers. If we scared you, because you had no idea, we do apologize. We are of course praying that all of the test will come back negative as we expect them too. I feel great, I am still running every week ( even if it is a walk/run), and feel completely normal.
Like I said thank you to all who have thought about me and prayed for us. I'm truly blessed to have this many people think of me!

Just a little randomness....

Haven't written in a while so I figured I would throw on out there for ya, you know for all those readers out there that are just sitting at their computers waiting to read the profound thoughts I have running through me.

• I am struggling with my addiction to coke....it's bad. I see one, I want one. I hear someone open one, I want one. I eat pizza, popcorn, pretty much anything....and I want one. I have only had 1 in 8 days after the hellacious 5k on Friday night and that point I felt so bad that water would have just not been enough, and since I dont drink I indulged in a coke. 
• I want Chill....like EVERYDAY!!! 
• I am craving chocolate all the time. I even resorted to melting the chocolate syrup (that had been in my fridge probably since we got married) and put it on my strawberries for desert tonight...not the healthiest thing in the world....but its cheeper then driving all the way to chill, paying for chill, and driving all the way home. If I were rich I would install my own personal frozen yogurt machine in our house...true story. 
• Speaking of our house we just celebrated a year in our home. YAY us! The financial obligation of a home is more the I expected but worth it at the same time. It makes Eric and I talk about the finances, which I think is essential in a marriage.
• I have been saying that I needed to find a summer camp for Eric to go to this summer to occupy his time....well he found it, golf. He seems to always to go for expensive hobbies....started off with his car when we first started dating...then it was hunting, photography, computers, now golf....whatever! Atleast he has something to do!
• I like the show Sister Wives. I find it interesting, although I could never have a sister wife or be a sister wife. 
• I love our youth at our church. I love our church in general, but I love our youth. Mostly because I have changed the diapers of about 4 of them. They are more committed, and helpful, and generous then I have seen our youth in a long time. I watched them serve the neighborhood around our church so unselfishly. If you dont know anything about my church, it is located on 2nd ave, and in a low income, high crime area. Alot of the people are not necessarily clean, fed or up kept. But they put themselves aside and served these people who had a need. I wish I could have been that open to serve at that age. I was just not up for it at that age. I also realized looking around that this was alot of my patient population at my job. People dont realize that most of the women that our having children are not married, and already living under the poverty level. Lots of opportunity to serve!
• Knox is obsessed with Eric....this morning he wouldn't even eat his breakfast till Eric got out of bed...
• Eric just asked if we had any chocolate... a man after my own heart!!
• Had a platelet issue lately that has concerned me...they have been really low. Had to go and get a redraw last Monday and they were up to 107!! PTL! YAY! Still waiting to see if my doctor wants me to see a specialist but I am happy its not so low I am in true danger at the moment.
• BTW I post my runs on FB not so you can see it and know I am exercising, or to get attention (although the encouraging comments are welcome =) I am doing for my own motivation...dont hate. If it annoys you then hide me...its ok. It's not like I will know anyways. Plus I find it funny that the same people that say it annoys them post the same kind of stuff too.

Hope everyone has a good week!! Glad I dont have to get up early in the am, even though I have to work Monday night. Looking forward to my lunch with my Korean mom Tuesday!

Day 732!!!

732.....thats how many days we have been married!! 2 years ago today,  after 3 years of planning and 5 years together, I walked down the aisle to my handsome, CRYING groom. =) He will never live that crying thing down.... it was sweet though and part of our day that I will never forget.
Take it from someone who watch all of her friends have boyfriend after boyfriend, while I couldn't even get one guy to like me, thought I would be 30 before I got married....To get married at 22 and have my husband cry at the sight of me walking down the aisle was priceless. Not to mention it made all of my friends jealous....in a good way.
In our second year of marriage we bought our house, got our precious dog Knox(who decided this week that along with the tv remotes and shoes that the couch cushion sounded like a good thing to chew up at the time.....we still love him though) learned a few lessons about money, and a few other life lessons. Eric settled into a job he loves and got some cool recognition along the way.

In the next we have some exciting things planned!! I am doing my first half marathon in November. Hoping to also go on another trip or 2.....and go sky diving....you read that right. I am calling it my mid20's crisis!! (you know instead of a midlife crisis??) I dont even know if a mid20s crisis exist but everyone keeps telling me that I should do a few exciting things before children...these are just a few of the things I would like to do .... if I am going to jump out of a plane my mother said I needed to before I have kids.....I think I will listen to her... Happy Annaversary Eric!! I love you Pookie Bears!!! To many more!

I am married to the BEST New Teacher of the Year!!

A couple of months ago Eric came home and told me that his peers had nominated him for New Teacher of the Year. He came home a few weeks ago and told me that he had been nominated to the top 4! I didn't even know this award existed! Last night he was chosen out of the top 4 for the award! We were so proud! He worked so hard!

 I can't even believe he is done with his first year! I feel like yesterday we were just hoping he would get a job after several weeks of nothing, even being brushed off by one principle that told him she didn't hire new teachers at her school. Well, last night when we got his award, the lady's signature was on his award. Touche! She apparently had no idea who she let walk out her door.
I knew Eric would be a great teacher, I mean lets face it, Eric is a child himself. But more then just that. I rarely hear teachers talk about their students the way Eric does (no offense to any of my teacher friends, I guess I am a little particle). Every where we go he tells people about his students. He genuinely loves those kids and wants them to succeed not to make him look good, but to make them better. Most of all he defends them, and I have never heard him say anything bad or mean about them. I think every child deserves to have a teacher that loves them, defends them, see potential in them, and believes in them.
  He had six kids leave, six more new kids come. He has had a few with some challenges and one that could barley speak english when she started. When he came home and told me all of this at the beginning of the year I thought he was in over his head, that this was going to be a rough year. But I underestimated him. He embraced it and took it in stride and that child who could barely speak english at the beginning of the year is now reading on almost a 3rd grade reading level. He did the impossible and made reading FUN!! I hated reading until I was in high school. These kids are in the first grade and reading chapter books!! I didn't pick up a chapter book till I was in the 4th grade!! He got 16 iPod touches, and 6 iPads funded for his classroom, as well as hundreds of books, along with some of our own money to make sure the kids had the books they needed for the year. He also had almost every child in his class pass their CRCT.
Overall I believe that he deserved this award. I didn't know the other teachers that were nominated, but I am sure they were great teachers mostly because they were nominated.
I am so proud of him! I still can't believe its almost summer break! I am still accepting any ideas for summer activities for Eric!! =) He is going to be terrible bored. I am afraid one day I will wake up and my house will be some crazy color, or my kitchen table painted black, or a new animal in my house. Who knows! We will start in a few weeks preparing his classroom for the next year.
Thanks to everyone who congratulated Eric and supported us in our careers. We could have done it without the support of our parents through out our college years!
Way to go Eric! I love you pookie!!

Fill in the Blank Friday!

Yay!!! It's Friday!! Which means nothing to me btw. When you work in a 24/7 operation TGIF means NOTHING!! But for those of you that is does, here are some cheerful blanks!

1.  Something that is very near and dear to my heart is,   marriage. No offense to my parents or grandparents, but my family doesn't have a good reputation when it comes to marriage. I am bound and determined to make mine work,  no matter what it takes! 

2.      Today.   is good cause to celebrate . Tonight is Relay for Life where we are going to celebrate LIFE after cancer and remember the ones we lost. Its a great time to fellowship and get together!

3.  The most fun I ever had was     its hard to say, but recently it was our Honeymoon and going to Disney World .

4.  True friends are   the ones where no topic is off-limits and you can always pick up where you left off even if there's a time lapse between visits  .

5. Something that makes me terribly happy is      Going anywhere out of town with Eric, either new or somewhere we have been before . I just like going places!

6. A good way to spend a sunny day is     with an ice drink out by a pool or lake. I wished I lived near a lake. 

7.  My favorite celebratory food is   cake! I love cake! Anything with cake is a good reason to celebrate. I can never pass up cake.

Blanks and picture from Lauren

I just got back from a cruise with my mom and sister. It was fun, but I did miss my husband! He told me on the way home that he had some surprises for me....that he moved some stuff around and got some things changed (he had a habit of doing things like this when he gets bored!) I came home and he had a bow on my car tire. He had when out and got me some much needed new tires (i was told i needed some about a month ago) and came in and he had gotten the carpets cleaned (which was much needed too!) and kept the house clean while I was gone! I knew I picked a good one! He even told me that he made the bed everyday and he enjoyed it!! He should have never told me that, because now I am going to hold him to that. Hehe! For now though I am up to my ears in my own laundry and  I have to go back to work on Saturday after being off for 10 days....Booo. Se what I mean....TGIF....I dont know what that means anymore. What I do know is that when all for you have to get up on Monday morning I get to stay in bed!! =)

Happy weekend!

Going on vacation.....if they let me on the boat!!

So I am excited about going on this cruise. But since last week things keep working against me. Started last week when I decided out of the blue to look for my passport...Its kinda gone all down hill from there.

• Last Tuesday....realized my passport was not where I usually keep it. Eric and I looked for 2 hrs tearing apart the house looking for it. No where to be found. I am usually smart about these things. I was sick to my stomach for 2 days coming to the realization that I wasn't going to find it. So I am going to show up tomorrow with my other documents and hope they let me on!!! Not to mention let me come back!!!
• I sick!!! Some kind of sinus junk....just what I need getting on a cramp boat breathing everyone else's air....yay. 
• I decided, like a dummy, to go to body pump after not going for 2 weeks. Now I am sore all over. 
• Knox chewed up my ipod holder and my headphones yesterday. I think he was jealous because I have gone for "walks" without him. 

I am still going though....passport or no passport. What stinks most about the whole passport thing is that I am going to have to pay to replace it. Booo! This is also the longest time I will have spent away from Eric without any contact. ;(

In other news I have decided to start training this summer for a half marathon. I know...who would have thought?? Just incase you dont know a half marathon is 13.1 miles. Its like me running from my house in Ellerslie to my mom's house on Moon Rd!!!! I am scared. Mostly of failing. But I have a knack of accomplishing things I want to do when I put my mind to it, even when people tell me I can't, or its hard, or stupid. I guess I just like proving people wrong. The only thing is it cost more money then I ever thought it would. Once you buy the shoes, the clothes, then pay for the races....it cost. Not to mention the training. A patient asked me a while back what I did for fun, or if I had any hobbies....the sad thing is I couldn't give her an answer!!! Sad! I realized outside of work I really didn't have anything to do!! I mean I paint, and sew, but not as a part of a group or anything. I just taught myself and when I feel up to it I do it. And Eric has his photography, which I can tell you, is way more expensive then some running shoes!
The half marathon I plan on running is the week before Thanksgiving and is called The Solider Marathon.   Not sure what exactly it benefits, but its kinda cool because you pick a fallen solider and run in honor of them. I have an idea who I am going to run in honor of, but I haven't asked yet. I want to run in honor of someone I have some kind of connection to. Anyways, I'm excited. I know its going to be hard, and its going to push me to physical and mental limits that I have never been to before. But if I could get through nursing school while planning a wedding, mentally I feel like I can do anything! Plus I feel like it will prepare me for other things I want in life.....
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! Go and love on your mamma!!

Fill in the Blank Friday

This weeks blanks are health related. Kinda fitting since it is Nurses Appreciation Week :)

1.  On a scale from 1-10 the frequency with which I get sick is,   a one. Even as a child I was never really sick, I usually have one bad cold a year....infant last year I dont think I had something that lasted more then a day. Working in a hospital, even though i dont typically work with sick patients, I am constantly washing my hands....maybe that has something to do with it. 

2.   The last time I felt sick was   today.Of course days before I leave on vacation I get sick....could have been last week. 

3.  The worst part about being sick is     the lack of energy you have       because   I still have to what I would normally (Go to work, school when I was in school, clean house, whatever)

4. When I am sick I like to be taken care of by   Left to lay in bed. 

5. Something I do to keep myself healthy is    nothing really. I mean I wash my hands regularly just because of my job. Other then that I really dont take any supplements or anything....I should be taking a multivitamin though but they tend to make me sick more then do anything good for me. 

6. A secret remedy that I use when I'm sick is to    depends on the sickness. If I have a cold I drink hot tea with honey and lemon, nauseous I drink ginger ale or sprite. I also usually take something to help me sleep...sleep is very important. 

7.  One thing that always makes me feel better when I'm sick is   a sprite, chicken noodle soup and a movie.