(Sorry I haven't been blogging as much, but for some reason I can't pick up WiFi at home, so my internet access right now is very intermittent).
These year Phil and I are going to be participating in the 2008 Phoenix Arthritis Walk on May 3rd, at the Phoenix Zoo. Thousands of people across the nation are joining together this Spring in a quest for a cure. The Arthritis Walk will be led by inspirational men, women and children who have arthritis. They'll be leading the way wearing special blue honoree hats to show that they are taking control of their arthritis.
I have had Juvenile Rheumatoid arthritis since I was two. It has been something that has changed my life in so many ways. There have been so many struggles and medicines and therapies I have been apart of over the years, and it seems each year my arthritis has gotten more and more debiliating, to the point where I have been unable to walk for the past three years and now use a powerchair. Through it all though I have always kept a positive attidude and am so glad for the opprotunity to be able to give back to the Arthritis Foundation and raise money for new medicines, and hopefully, a cure.
Phil and I have started a team called "Kimbo's Commando's". We would love to get more people to join our team and walk with us. The walk in one-mile around the Phoenix Zoo, and will be a fun -filled day of fun, food, festivites, health information, and the best...a free day at the zoo!!
If you would like to join our team, please follow the link at the bottom of this blog and click on Join Our Team. You can also email me for more information.
If you are not able to walk, but wish to donate to our cause, you can click on the website and donate. We are trying to raise at least $100.
Thank you so much for your support!!
Kimbo's Commando's 2008 Phoenix Arthritis Walk Team Site:
https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=248730&supid=205514693
For Event Information:
http://phoenixarthritiswalk.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=248730&lis=1&kntae248730=0BE6CC65D6AC48FCA1E0FE6A56B895F3&login=t
My email:
PhxCoyotesFan38@aol.com
About Me
- Kimbo Central
- San Tan Valley, AZ, United States
- A wife and mommy to a beautiful three year old son, blogging about being a mommy, and taking care of my family.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Puppy Loves
When the chips are down, your struggling through life, your down on your luck, and all you want to do is curl up in bed, there is nothing better and nothing that will brighten your day and make everything your going through worthwhile then seeing the happy wag of a puppy tail as she comes over for loves.
Friday, February 1, 2008
The medical troubles continue
Looks like I just can't win when it comes to trying to get better.
I know I haven't been blogging as much as I used to, and it's not because I don't want to, but because I have just been dealing with so much around here that at the end of the day I forgot about coming on here and updating everyone on what's going on.
So last time I wrote I told you how my doctor did a CT scan and found that my kidney was no longer swollen and looked back to normal, and he thought I wouldn't have any more problems with the infection coming back. Fast forward to a few days ago, and I am calling the doctor again because I started getting pain and tenderness in my right side, and something just told me to get it checked out. I went in and did a urine analysis (I have peed in a cup some many times these past few months it is ridicoulous), and he said the infection is definitely back. So he put me back on the antibiotics and gave me a referral to see a urologist. He said it is not normal to have recurring UTI's like this, and it is baffling because I drink nothing but water during the day, maybe a soda or two a day and that's it, and there is nothing else I am doing that would cause this to keep coming back, unless it is just my low immune system from my arthritis not being able to fight this. So I go in March to the urologist and they will put a camera in my bladder (sounds fun, eh?) and see if they can find a reason why it won't go away.
I alo went two days ago and say my gyno, to get my newest round of my Depo birth control shot, and get the results of my pap smear. She said she found abnormal cells, which most likely could be pre-cancerous cells, and in a few weeks I go back to have done a colposcopy, which is where she will put in a camera and check my cervix and take a bioposy and send it to a pathologist, where they will determine what is going on, and from there I might also need what is called a LEEP procedure, where they will cut out the part of my cervix where the lesion is. So not very good news there, but I have talked to a few people now who have gone through it, including my best friend, and they are all fine, so I have good thoughts.
Things have been crazy around here aside from all this medical drama. Phil's dad has been staying with us the past few weeks while he tries to get settled down here in the Valley again. Money issues never seem to go away. But despite all these, Phil and I are just trying to get by as best we can. We've been talking about getting married soon, we have been a little hesitant because the last two times we picked a day, I ended up in the hospital. But I have a great doctor now and these meds I am seem to be helping, so I don't think I will need to be rushed to the hospital again anytime soon.
So wish me luck on getting better soon, I feel so run down from all of this, it takes a lot of out you. But I am not as sick as I was and that is something to be grateful for. I also promise to write on here more now that I have more time again to do so.
I know I haven't been blogging as much as I used to, and it's not because I don't want to, but because I have just been dealing with so much around here that at the end of the day I forgot about coming on here and updating everyone on what's going on.
So last time I wrote I told you how my doctor did a CT scan and found that my kidney was no longer swollen and looked back to normal, and he thought I wouldn't have any more problems with the infection coming back. Fast forward to a few days ago, and I am calling the doctor again because I started getting pain and tenderness in my right side, and something just told me to get it checked out. I went in and did a urine analysis (I have peed in a cup some many times these past few months it is ridicoulous), and he said the infection is definitely back. So he put me back on the antibiotics and gave me a referral to see a urologist. He said it is not normal to have recurring UTI's like this, and it is baffling because I drink nothing but water during the day, maybe a soda or two a day and that's it, and there is nothing else I am doing that would cause this to keep coming back, unless it is just my low immune system from my arthritis not being able to fight this. So I go in March to the urologist and they will put a camera in my bladder (sounds fun, eh?) and see if they can find a reason why it won't go away.
I alo went two days ago and say my gyno, to get my newest round of my Depo birth control shot, and get the results of my pap smear. She said she found abnormal cells, which most likely could be pre-cancerous cells, and in a few weeks I go back to have done a colposcopy, which is where she will put in a camera and check my cervix and take a bioposy and send it to a pathologist, where they will determine what is going on, and from there I might also need what is called a LEEP procedure, where they will cut out the part of my cervix where the lesion is. So not very good news there, but I have talked to a few people now who have gone through it, including my best friend, and they are all fine, so I have good thoughts.
Things have been crazy around here aside from all this medical drama. Phil's dad has been staying with us the past few weeks while he tries to get settled down here in the Valley again. Money issues never seem to go away. But despite all these, Phil and I are just trying to get by as best we can. We've been talking about getting married soon, we have been a little hesitant because the last two times we picked a day, I ended up in the hospital. But I have a great doctor now and these meds I am seem to be helping, so I don't think I will need to be rushed to the hospital again anytime soon.
So wish me luck on getting better soon, I feel so run down from all of this, it takes a lot of out you. But I am not as sick as I was and that is something to be grateful for. I also promise to write on here more now that I have more time again to do so.
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